Yesterday, I got the Trim Wheel Pro from Flight Velocity, which I am planning to replace the Saitek Cessna Trim Wheel which has been in service for many years.
A unique feature that distincts it from the Saitek one is an adjustable control knob on the unit, thru which users can vary and finetune the elevator trimming pitch during a flight.
After Logitech chopped the production of Saitek Cessna Trim Wheel since its acquisition, there aren’t similar trim wheels on the market one can find for a long time.
Is this Trim Wheel Pro a good replacement ?
How does it perform ?
Is the adjustable knob useful ?
Stay tuned. I will write a review of it in the coming week or the week after when I get familiar with it.
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I bought the original FV trim wheel about a month before the new one was introduced (DANG IT!!!!!). I’m very happy with it and after some research and playing around, it works pretty well for me. I will admit I never had a physical trim wheel prior to this, so have no reference to the Saitek (always just used the keyboard shortcuts for trim). Interested in hearing your experience with this trim wheel.
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Hi Jenny, I saw that too. Since the new one was coming and I got the Saitek one, I just waited for the new one, hoping that it works better for me. Will see how it goes.
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I have both trim wheels, and do prefer the Saitek. To me, it has a better feel. (It was more expensive, and sadly discontinued.)
The sensitivity knob on the Trim Wheel Pro does work, but I found after finding the “sweet spot” that worked best for me, I didn’t touch it again — just put a piece of tape to mark that position. (In your testing, please check if you can forego the control dial and adjust the sensitivity settings on the simulators you are using. I found I had to do a little tweaking of both to make the trim responsive yet smooth.)
That said, one common problem I have…
For those of us with G1000 hardware cockpits, part of the pre-flight is the setting of the trim wheel to sync up with the simulator. This is a pain since we have to switch to the cockpit view, sync up the trim, then return to the non-instrument view. For my C172 “steam” gauges, you have a trim readout on the tachometer FIP gauge, and is easy to do in pre-flight. But for my C172 G1000 cockpit I only have “backup” auxiliary FIPs for airspeed, attitude, altitude and wet compass. (If you have a G1000 setup, try putting your trim readout on the C172 altitude FIP and see if you like it.)
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Thanks Jim. You are right that the Saitek one is more robust. Anyway, will see how it goes.
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