2DOF DCS Motion Pit

Thanks! I will take a video when someone holds the camera

Still no video but a quick feedback after the first longer flight and some tweaking:

Regarding speed - I have had to turn down the power dramatically for flying, the hard g force Shakes doesn't give me a good feedback of what happened around me, it was just brutal and thrown me around on my seat, now it's much smoother and I can feel my banking (not in a turn) , positive g when pulling up or acceleration when pushing the throttle to the firewall.
This helps me a lot in recognizing my attitude, especially in head down time for observing the radar or mfcd , for formation flying or in bad weather.

So all in all , the bigger angel/less speed approach was the right for me.

For driving I will need a faster shorter setting, that is right. But for flying this was what i wanted

Remark: helicopter flying with rift and simpit is just pervert- 10 minutes till puke

Sounds good, thanks for the update!

So what maximum angles do you have on both of your axis? (I measured mine with a standard smartphone app.)

About "turning down power": I don't know how exactly you did this, but SimTools has this "smoothing" setting. I am using this one especially for flight simulations for making the movements softer. But it seems you already found a way.

The maximum angle is 15° in each direction, so 30° total - but moving 30° with full force is not a pleasure.
Reducing power isn't the best term for it, but i turned my P parameter down and increased D to factor 4 to P in smc3, this gives me a slower less excessive movement. I have smoothing in simtools set to 20 on the heave function, it was necessary because by pushing down to negativ g after a pull up was way to hard. this surely would be better manageable on a real 3DOF platform .

Hard maneuvers are still impressive but i do not fly acrobatics all the time. Surely, if i only had 4° which gave me the feeling of acceleration in a direction, i would miss the feeling of the attitude for precision flying.

Little update:

Tidy up a little, changed sabertooth communication to packet serial, building box for the electronics, mount camera on platform- still much to do but it's absolutely usable at the moment

Little video
As you can see in the end, the right motor was pushed to the end limit and smc3 shutting it off, so the axis rotated back and down . But this little problem was solved by increasing the limits



Edit- the movement was reduced for racing- but for flying you need way more, in DCS I use the whole 15° in each direction