Hey guys,
Wow! this game is unforgiving! I have an old Gravis Eliminator Precision Pro joystick and do not think it is behaving properly. The plane forever wants to drift and it will not fly straight and level without constant stick movement. I mean a lot of movement.
Can some answer 2 questions for me, please?
1. How do I use the Input setup in the game? In essence what do all the vertical bars mean and how do I setup to use them?
I have installed the Gravis software for XP but it does not seem to allow me to change anything on the joystick.
2. Is there a good inexpensive joystick better than one I am trying to use?
Thanks for any help you guys can provide.
And I have yet to takeoff properly thus far. I do not need any help in knowing how to crash. I have that part of the game down pat! :o)

The sliders are basically input sensitivity settings. The closer to 100 they are, the more the stick responds. Lowering the leftmost ones should help cure the drift (as would recalibrating the stick in windows if you've not done that in a while)
These are the settings that Oleg Maddox (the main developer) uses, basically an exponential curve where it's near dead at the middle and fully sensitive if you push the stick all the way:
X & Y: 0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100
Z: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Personally I find thats still a bit too touchy so I usually drop one of the middle numbers (say 25) and have an additional 0 in the second place. Those settings let you get a lot of fine control with only a little push of the stick but you can still get those fun radical wing tearing off turns if you yank the stick around like a lunatic
Hopefully it'll help
As for a new stick, I'd recommend a Logitech Wingman, had one of those going strong for close to a decade now and it set me back less than the cost of a new game

I am still a bit confused.
In the Hardware Setup it is not X, Y, & Z axis.
Instead it is Pitch, Roll, & Yaw.
What do these correspond to?
Thanks

ahh bugger, forgot that,
X is Roll
Y is Pitch
Z is yaw

I am still a bit confused. I went in to change the settings and you list 11 sets of numbers and there are only 10 slots to change.
Also, when you say you change the second setting to zero "0," do you mean the second from the left?
Thanks

Thanks for the help. Although it did not solve it all it did move it in a positive direction.
Now if I only knew how to set and follow way points.