electro stick model for clearview flight simulator

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I spare you further details of the production mishaps. Umm – I should be switching it to student mode?

I finally found out what I was doing wrong all along, in an utterly insignificant little blue-green forum comment in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western forumsphere of the internet:

ELECTRO STICK MODEL FOR CLEARVIEW FLIGHT SIMULATOR HOW TO

more hours of reading and resarching how to get this freaking connection going….

another 3.5 mm audio cable being cut in halves and split up.

my two cats being severely scolded for chasing various tools and cables.

hopeless fidgeting with two bare wires which I had to hold steadily connected to the various cavities of the trainer port, while balancing the transmitter in my lap and simultaneously twiddling throttle, yaw, roll, pitch, etc.

a perfectly fine S-VHS cable which got slain and mutilated for – as it turned out later – no reason at all.

My then extensive work of getting everything up and running resultet in:

ELECTRO STICK MODEL FOR CLEARVIEW FLIGHT SIMULATOR PC

The basics are simple: the transmitter emits a PPM signal via the trainer port. There are different ways to hook up that signal with your PC, but the most practical way to me, was to connect it to the soundcard’s input (just like you would connect a microphone) and use a nifty little programm called SmartPropoPlus to take that “noise” (it actually is noise – you will hear it over your speakers if you don’t configure your PC to mute it) and turn it back into the control inputs from the sticks and switches on your TX.

ELECTRO STICK MODEL FOR CLEARVIEW FLIGHT SIMULATOR MANUAL

So there I was: googling for a howto or manual or any kind of instructions which would tell me, how to hook up my FlySky i6 (which by the way is not really a FlySky i6 but actually the rebranded Eachine i6) to my computer which would run the FPV drone simulator.

Amongst other things, he strongly proposes to put in some hours with a simulator while using one’s actual transmitter (to build up “muscle memory” as he says). Joshua Bardwell’s video “ Top Six FPV Drone Racing Beginner Mistakes” caught my interest (yes, this is a way of saying: “You should watch it too.”). I also read up on the technical (I might want to build my own drone sometime later) and “howto fly” side of things.

It’s an Eachine QX95 which I like a lot and modified a little. I am trying to build up my multicopter skills step by step, before jumping all in into high speed FPV flying and crashing my first expensive drone. For that reason I currently practice with my micro FPV indoors. Instead if building a specialized cable, my DIY guide will explain how this can be done achieved by adding an audio jack directly to the transmitter, so you can use a standard audio cable (which you might already have). Most instructions explain how to do this by soldering a cable with a trainer port (S-VHS) to 3.5 mm audio connection. So the whole exercise is pointless.Wouldn’t it be good, if you could train FPV flight with a flight simulator on your compuer, using your actual transmitter (in this case the FlySky i6) as controls? But then there are no 'buttons' to press to confirm each range - flipping any given switch on the TX doesn't count as pressing a button. So I move each stick methodically both ways (up/down then left/right) in turn until the utterly confusing graphic on the calibration screen registers a change or indicates a range of some sort. It tells me to 'move the x-axis control then press a button, the y-axis control then press a button, the z-axis etc'.

ELECTRO STICK MODEL FOR CLEARVIEW FLIGHT SIMULATOR SOFTWARE

The problem is that the PC's standard controller calibration software assumes I'm using some completely different (gameboy type?) controller to a standard RC transmitter. The only way to deal with this is to first pre-calibrate the TX then go back to the simulator calibration.

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This works fine when carefully and properly done, except that the full range for the pitch stick is already achieved when its only half-way up from neutral - any more physical movement makes no change whatsoever. roll, pitch, yaw and throttle, and calibrate each stick to its full range. The simulator software allows me to then allocate a control to each stick input, i.e. What you've described is exactly what I've done.

Electro stick model for clearview flight simulator