PS3 Joysticks

[redtiger02]

Originally Posted by PF_Lizard

And if you're banked over, turning nicely on your target and you just want the tiniest feather of rudder to put lift/lower your nose, and Bam!, you've violently yawed 20 degrees and sprung back, slapping about in the air like a salmon.

I need an analogue rudder!

I had that problem with the Ace Edge, I just had to learn to be very lenient on the rudder. It's one of the few semi-unrealistic aspects of the game. The reality of rudders is that we use them all the time, and doing a hard rudder will very seldom put you into a flat spin. Maybe if you are already close to stall speed, but even then there's a little ruddering involved. When you get a commercial pilots license, you have to be able to enter and recover a spin. It's been a few years since I got mine, but I can't imagine them taking that out of the curriculum. The rocker switch on the Ace Edge seems to work ok with an exception: the rudder snaps back to center a little fast so you have to feed it back slowly, otherwise the plane jerks around a lot. However, I do have a question regarding stick use.
Why am I being outrun by a 190 in a P-51D. The 190 has better acceleration, but lower top speed. I have even marked my throttle to keep it out of the overheat range, but I still am not getting enough speed. It's close to stall during almost every single turn. I even jettisoned all of my rockets to see if that factored in. It gave me a few extra knots, but not enough. Is there something I am doing wrong with the Ace Edge that is not letting me get up to speed? You do lose a little speed in a real-life turn, but you don't lose 50% of it.