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Originally Posted by cumbo

its not a fly by wire F/A-18!!

That's exactly the problem though, it kind of is. Whereas in a real aircraft as you know you can easily make very small adjustments to the controls. Playing this on a pad on full sensitivity makes it far more difficult to make those almost imperceptible adjustments and consequently far easier to make control movements so large that the plane is knocked right out of flying trim.

It's exactly the same reason that when playing racing sims with a pad it's actually far harder to position the car precisely than it is when driving a real car. A steering wheel can help as can turning down the sensitivity of the controls. No different here.