Boeing 737-600 Msfs

[Claribel Szwaja]

Basedon your feedback yesterday, I purchased the PMDG 737-600 and am loving it. Does anyone know why the trim wheel mapped to elevator trim axis -100 to +100 in the sim does not move the wheel in the aircraft? The axis works in the "sensitivity" window, so I know that it's recognized by msfs. If I map a button, the trim wheel works fine. It's programming the axis that seems odd. thanks.

Because it's there and a trim wheel axis works on other default aircraft included with MSFS. I would expect a "study level" airplane from PMDG to have this working. Here's another really good reason from the PMDG description of their 737-700:

(1) It would require a hardware trim wheel that can continuously rotate to emulate how the actual 737 trim wheel works. Most hardware trim wheels have upper and lower physical limits and a limited range on the potentiometer between max nose down and max nose up. The only kind of hardware trim wheel that would work correctly is one that was specifically designed for a 737 simulation (with reduction gearing) like this one:

if you think the trim axis works with the mouse , you can do the same with elevator trim up and down like you do on the yoke, i did a test assign the same elvator trim up and down to a rotary encoder each step was approx 36deg 10 pulses on the encoder 1rev

I'm sure here are others, too, but all I have is the 737 and CRJs. On those two aircraft I use buttons, one for nose down, one for nose up which works fine for the limited time you hand fly those planes. It's just sometimes you have to find the answer no matter how trivial

Trying to trim any airliner using a mechanical trim wheel is not remotely realistic. They all use yoke-mounted rocker switches. Perhaps you do not have a yoke with trim switches but have to use other buttons, so I understand that might not be the ideal option either.

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