Hi, PMSoares and welcome to the 707 club.  
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I think this is true as the plane only has a powered rudder while the rest is up to the arrangement of the arms and levers driven by the pilot's inputs.

The only thing one can reproduce in the sim is the actual distance needed to deflect some Ailerons or Elevator. The whole aspect of the centring forces or the ones which are to overcome on each movement are done via the spring in your yoke or joystick. Flying a joystick also enables you to be much quicker on the flight control movement, the distance to e. g. bank the plane is much less than on a yoke.
So this artificial hardware setup on a PC may contribute to your impression of too sporty reactions. Those centring forces and springs may be too weak to reflect some large rw yoke plus metres of cable until the actual flight control is reached.

If you really feel that the plane behaves too sporty, you could do some things though.
Edit the FSX control settings, this would affect all planes though.
Edit the aircraft.cfg, this would need a lot of trial and error I think.
Edit the way the flight control movement gets interpreted by FSX, this is done via FSUIPC (registered) and can be assigned plane specific. You could enable a progressive input curve there, requiring more distance around the centre and then progressing more or less steeply.

Or you could use some force feedback hardware and maybe addon software. I've set up a large damping force there for the 707 and also some friction, so while the joystick of mine would allow a fast movement, the forces stop me from being too fast.
I think this solution may be the most expensive one, but also allows a nice tweaking of the actual feel of the plane. With the mentioned setup, it feels like a heavy and 'no power steering' one. Very enjoyable.

I don't find mine too sensitive. I more often use the pitch trim wheel on the 2D A/P panel so maybe that is the difference.

LOU wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 7:49pm:



Hello Captain! First of all, it's a pleasure to talk with such an experienced aviator like you!

What I feel is that the plane , under manual control (autopilot OFF) is quite sensitive to pitch inputs. It seems that the trim is way too effective. Under pitch control by the autopilot, it behaves in a fine way, but very little trim inputs (eg. one click on the trim button) causes a quite large pitch change...

I'm using AP ON just afetr takeoff in order to acheive a nice pitch control,but  would like to fly the initial climbout and IFR approaches with AP OFF. Is it possible to edit the CFG in order to make the pitch trim less sensitive under manual flight?

Thanks for the help!

LOU wrote on Feb 8^th, 2012 at 3:37pm:

I do it the same as Lou. Small taps on the buttons for up and down trim.

As for my fix in the FSX config file. I reduced the sensitivity of the buttons for trim up and trim down (see attached image). You could reduce them from the settings that I use, but I find it way too slow at the lowest setting.

Mark

very sensitive, trim I hope the next patch fix that

We'll I've finally come across the solution for the sensitive pitch! You must have a registered version of FSUIPC. Check 'Fix control acceleration' and all will be good.  Now I have to re-learn my hand flying!

Thank you  Lou , Markoz, FSXPaul and windplayer. I've made some adjustments and it's flying better now.