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I recently bought a T.16000M HOTAS. This was because I can't fly at all using keyboard and mouse. Well, not very well. I can take off but landing is just slow and tedius, not to mention risky. I've been trying this HOTAS and ran into a few issues. The throttle for one. I know it is supposed to simulate a real throttle, so in the middle or 0 is just neutral. The problem is this throttle doesn't have a middle mark, so have to guess where the damn thing is. I also can't figure out how to fly using the joystick. If i want to make a sharp turn, do I tilt the joystick only? Tilt and twist? Twist in the opposite of the tilt? I will admit, this is depressing me, as I spent all this money on this setup and I fly worse now than I did with the keyboard. I know practice helps, but the controls don't feel right, the throttle doesn't feel right. Do I fly with the advanced mode on? Or off? Any advice, tips, tricks and bindings would be really useful.

Thanks both. I've run into another issue, which may effect my heli flying. If I use the pedal (which I originally bound to Q and E) I can turn the heli a full 180 degrees within about 5 seconds. If I then bind the same pedals to the twist of my HOTAS, it goes much slower. Over double the time to turn 180 degrees. I can't figure out why. Surely the twist (like any axis) is -100/0/+100? So at +100 it should be full speed right? This doesn't happen with this. The settings show that I am going to +100 when I twist, so I'm baffled.