realistic joystick

[Feuerfalke]

You won't note a difference on normal flight or with minimal input, but in a dogfight, recovering from stalls and flying your plane at the edge, you'll easily notice the difference.

Rightclick you profiler-icon in the task-bar to the lower right and click the calibration-window. I don't know what it's called in English - in German it's "Steuerleiste", directly above close. Now you can see the movement and function of all buttons. If you move the stick in a full circle at maximum angle, it the little cross will either move into the corner or describe a more diamond-shaped path. If the later is true, you can see that pulling your stick full back and to the side, only half of your input actually moves your aircraft.

Besides that the mechanics of the original mechanism allow the stick to be moved almost a centimeter, measured from the top of the stick, without moving the magnet-holder enough for the Hall-sensors to notice.

In the thread I posted, there are a lot of good informations how to do the modification. It's not difficult, but finding the right spot for the magnet takes a little time. I fixed my magnets with double-sided tape on a piece of a CD I cut in pieces. That got me the right distance between the sensor and the magnet.

Feel free to drop me a PM if you need further instructions or help.