Having problems trimming planes (mainly nose trim)

[Raven Morpheus]

Hello

Been playing IL2 1946 on and off for a few years now, I'm not particularly good though, but one thing that really bothers me is the way planes climb all the time, especially the F4 Corsair and also the Hurricane, and thus require trimming on the nose to achieve a level flight. I spend the majority of my time trying to trim the nose up or down or just not bothering and trying to maintain a level flight with my joystick.

For my main flight controls I use a Thrustmaster T Flight Hotas X joystick.


Most of the problem is that I cannot find a device to trim the nose with properly.

I have tried using my mouse wheel but that never gives me a neutral trim (i.e. the plane flies dead level) it's always either slightly up or slightly down.

I've also tried connecting a PS3 pad via the MotionInJoy drivers and setting one of the analog sticks (as an axis towards the bottom of the list of controls in-game) to set the nose trim but upon trying it I found that the trim would work but as soon as I let go of the analog stick the trim always reset itself, so essentially I had to keep the analog stick held in the same way as I would the joystick I fly with.


Is there any way with either the mouse wheel or a PS3 pad analog stick that I can get the nose trim control to work properly?

Any tips or help on this would be greatly appreciated, I'd rather not have to spend money on buying a separate trim control panel (I'm thinking of the GoFlight panel) or building one myself.

Many thanks.