DCS F-16C FLY-BY-WIRE and TRIM Explained 

I’m calling it right now, if you keep these videos up then people in Hoggit sub are going to use “Gaffer” as a household name like RedKite when it comes to recommending DCS videos. Great as always, I always learn something new.

That was such an essential concept that needs to be shared about fly-by-wire systems being design to seek 1G!!! I have been flying in DCS since it came out (still not that good at it all), and somehow missed that along the way. I havent done multi and really only fly solo, probably why i am so far behind. That was one of those head explode moments where I am like, "ahhhhh, now I get it!" Thank you for sharing mate! Now I can quit fighting my jet and start flying it.

Great explanation. Little addition to the trim. One very useful pitch trim is on strafe runs. 0.5G for strafes works like a charm. After that trim back to 1.0G. Give it a try ;)

Thanks for the research and the demo. I appreciated the aerodynamic video with CAS/TAS explained from the air molecule’s perspective

This is such an in depth video. Thanks, I feel like I understand trim way better now.

Thanks for that critical piece of information. I started flying the su-27 which you need to constantly trim out, as there is no advanced FLCS. So I was constantly trying to trim the Viper manually and asking myself why I'm so bad at keeping straight and level flight

Wow, you've explained this so well. This is really good stuff, thank you

Holy hell this is amazing. I always wondered what trim did in a FBW plane, and in particular the viper. My only constructive feedback is that it would have been somewhat nice to have the controls indicator up for the demonstrations. Otherwise though, this completely changes how I think about flight in the viper.

great channel! outstanding!

Great videos. I've fine tuned my F16 skills because of your videos. Thanks.

You're a brilliant teacher mate, simple explanations with visual demonstrations immediately, thank you! I look forward to ALL of the next content hopefully to come soon.

it all clicked in my head the moment you said you're commanding Gs

I am new to DCS and I got the F-16 as a first fighter jet even thought I really wanted the F-14... I figure this one is the best first jet. Thanks for these tutorials they are very helpful.

Excellent 👍🏻 I have learned a lot 😊 Thank you very much for this video about the FBW and the TRIM of the F-16C 😃

Very nice, thanks! Loved the non-landing demonstrations. It explains why I couldn't practice some landing concepts with my gear up :) So to be sure, when gear is down, pitch commands AoA and thus you go into the classic mode of pitch for speed (as a higher commanded AoA necessarily means lower speed all things equal) and throttle for altitude (moving the FPM). So then despite FBW it behaves like a Cessna :) Other thing is on landing viper pilots don't pitch (AoA) trim, right? Contrary to say an A10c that you trim for AoA on approach. That was just a demonstration here.

And again. I fly the F-16 since release and still learn some new stuff. I was ever afraid to trim this aircraft. But today i understand it and will use it as a tool. Thx so much.

That seeking 1g is incredible, automatic level flying angle where ever you leave the stick no nose drop downs I'm trying to program this into a fighter jet

Don’t know how I didn’t get recommended this video, pretty amazing

This is the best explanation of these topics I’ve ever seen. Thank you!

Good job on these F-16 tutorials you are spinning out. I see the relevance of trimming also during turns on final when doing overhead break. Constantly fighting the nose pitching down state with massive throttle adjustment and this tends to make me get the runway alignment wrong. I now see where a 2 click trim will help smooth out things at this stage. Huge fan of you videos. Cheers.

This is gold. Thank you for explaining such basic stuff which I obviously missed and wondering why this f... Plane does not hold pitch in a turn. Now it all makes sense!

Another awesome video!

Matt Wagner has four videos flagged as a 'favourite' on his almost 15 year old RU-vid account. This is one of those four videos.

Bro learning the 16 and i was wondering (besides it being a different plane) that the 14 and 16 felt so different. Cheers!

Brilliant work!

Amazing how many videos you've been uploading the past few days.

Nice tutorial, thank you!

Great content, well delivered, thanks a lot.

You're the man, this is something which took me a long time to figure out. I wish I had this video back in the day hahh

Just curious, why do you want to be at the top of the AOA bracket and not in the middle of it?

Awesome info! 😀

very informative!

Cool videos with a lot of explanations. Enjoying it. Just a reminder though, you don't trim F16 for landing. Using throttle for AoA adjustment is the correct way. That's from a real F16 pilot. Thanks for the videos.

Very informative, thank you for sharing!

Strangely flying the F16 made a lot more sense to me after learning to fly an Airbus A320

BEAUUUUUUTIFUL Landing

good job thx :)

nice tutorial about fbw system on f16

Subscribed... Thanks!

This is a great video :)

Good vid, man.

You definitely wanna roll-trim after firing munitions. F-16's quite light and the munitions have a very big aerodynamic impact. Granted I don't know if DCS does this correctly enough for it to matter. Drop 2000lb'ers one at a time and you'll see what I mean.

Fantastic!

Nice explanation, but there are many situations where trimming the aircraft would be required other than holding pitch in a turn lol.

Is the bore sight cross basically the same as FA 18 waterline?

How do you handle roll trim when carrying a TGP or HTS or other asymmetric loadout? It's hard to trim for roll caused by the TGP. I use yaw trim to center the ball on the ADI. It's hard to get it just right and it usually takes some fine tuning. Is there a better way?

I must’ve missed the part in the manual about adding pitch trim to reach 11AOA on approach. Flying in Falcon BMS I think that’s achievable without trimming… can’t recall for sure

This is just Angular rate limiting fbw it seems.

From an Air Force Aircraft Mechanic standpoint, that’s not what Fly By Wire means. It literally means the flight controls are electronically controlled, where as traditional flight controls get their input via cables.

How does the hornet's fly by wire differs from the f16?