I'm readty to thorugh this damn game in the trash!!!

[BlueMax4195]

Gents,

I've been "trying" (in vain it seems) to understand how to set the joystick inputs up for beginners, such as myself, and simply CANNOT figure it out!!!

I've NEVER has this much trouble with any other flight sim game! That includes I-L2 Strumovik, as well as Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1 & 2! This is literally maddening! I can't even get through the training mode with a successful solo flight!

I'm using a Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 joystick, and all the inputs for axes controls are working. HOWEVER - they seem to be OVERLY sensitive to the slightest input on the joystick!!! I can't even get off the damn ground in a solo training flight! The aircraft is ALL (and I DO mean ALL) OVER the runway (from left to right) and even the tiniest input to the joystick causes the game to overreact to that input, and I find myself having to do a corrective input to "try" and stop the first! And it only seems to escalate from there! By the time I'm lifting the tail, I'm so "involved" with rudder inputs that before I know it, the aircraft has nosed over! And that's the end of that try!

I can taxi all day long, but SOMETHING has GOT to be amiss for these over-the-top inputs?!

PLEASE! Can ANYONE explain this to me, or how I should set the joystick axes inputs (at the bottom left of the screen once you click on rudder, aileron, or elevator)! For whatever reason, I feel like this may be the possible source my problem. Otherwise I am now at a total loss as to what to do to make this game work !

MANY THANKS!!