Naval Aircraft and Flying the Skyhawk in Simulator

Greetings, I am new to the forum and a new simulator player. I came to simulator out of desire to fly from and land on the carrier in a match. I always loved trying to land different planes on the carrier in test flight and I wanted the challenge of doing in during gameplay so now I am hooked. Taking off from your carrier, destroying the enemy carrier and then coming back to land on your carrier is an extremely satisfying feeling, especially if you can get a trap first time with no bolter. I just wish the carrier had a larger role in the game, maybe it is too challenging but that is why I like it. Anyways the plane I have the most trouble with is the Skyhawk. Now, I believe it was designed to be so unstable in flight for a reason I cannot remember now but does anyone have any tips on flying this plane especially when it comes to landing on the carrier and keeping it stable when targeting using the walleye guided bomb?

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Use damping at least

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I usually tell people to expand thier deadzone a tad so things aren’t twitchy as much.

not sure what you mean … guess im still a bit of a noob

Whatever you do, save your control profile before messing with things, and make them incrementally named so you can rollback to a last known good state.

Always save settings.

Set up switch flight controll mode or smth like that in settings
And one of modes will be damping

Well, idk, when I was flying with a mouse-joystick, I just reset the values when needed

But remember, the A-4B doesn’t have it. Damping is only in later models including the squadron variand and all Israeli variants.

Ah, maybe
Then just fly, with experience will be fine

Don’t tell about damping. Let newbies learn to fly like a man.