Hello all, I am looking for some advice on trim control. It seems this plane is all over the place. I go to adjust the trim and it rolls like crazy. What am I doing wrong? Any and all help is appreciated.

Thanks

Is your plane missing a wing?

The warthog is quite stable - so much so that unless you're missing control surfaces, it's pretty hard to get it to lose control.

Did you go through the correct startup procedure and enable the pitch & yaw SAS channels (pg 148 or so)? Also this usually isn't a problem (in the Sim) but did you make sure to press the Take Off Trim button until it lit, before taking off?

If you're using multiple controllers, some axes might be badly mapped and you'll have to sort that out in the controls options. For example when I first connected my Warthog stick, it made some very odd assignments (like assigning pitch up/down to rudder left/right). This might also happen if you have, say, an xbox controller connected as well. In some cases, two different controllers might be fighting for the same control axis which could only cause bad things.

If you press RightCtrl+Enter, a little overlay pops up of what it thinks your controls are set to, and where your trim settings are at. Try moving one control axis at a time and make sure it matches what you see on the graphic.

In terms of in-flight trim control, you should be using taps of the trim hat switch on the stick (or whatever you've got it mapped to). Normally you shouldn't need to mess with the trim knobs on the left panel, and you shouldn't mess with any sort of trim wheels on your joystick.

First, no I am not missing a wing, thank you Mikado, I will check what you suggested and no I didn't press the take off trim button, I am sure that is what I am doing wrong. Thank you for posting something useful.

Ok, I pulled of the overlay everything looks ok there. Not sure what the issue is. I load the instant action and as soon as it starts the plain starts rolling to the right. I give a few taps on my trim hat and now I am rolling to the left, very hard to line up or do anything. I have read the section on trim and everything seems to be set right. Any help would be nice. Thanks in advance.

That could just be how the airplane is. Neutral trim will roll toward station 10 if the TGP is loaded there. It's usually not possible to set a perfect perfect hands off trim setting. If it rolls violently one way that is weird but a gentle roll is normal. For long term wings level that's hands on or autopilot.

Post a pic of your A-10c controls - HOTAS, Flight controsl and axis sommads pages.

I have no issues like the ones you describe, and my pages look like this: