Zoom axis

Never posted on here before, sorry if its the wrong category etc.
Im struggling to bind the zoom axis correctly for use with helicopters, i have it set to mousewheel but its extremely slow i have to scroll my wheel like 20x to get full zoom, and yes i know theres a keybind for full zoom but when the max zoom can be upwards of 80x… i dont need a telescope from nasa… i want variable zoom. i saw another thread someone mentioned editing the wtcontrols.blk file which in this case would be the “mouseZMultHelicopter:r=1” i tried to make it above 1 like they did but it had no affect when i imported it and tested it, as if it caps out at 1 and editing the file does nothing, if i could have it above 1 that would fix all my problems.
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ive tried to use keyboard for the zoom axis - i know, disable head tracking, enable relative control, but it has no impact on mouse wheel and if i use it with keyboard then it for some reason impacts 3rd person zoom and its non linear unlike mouse wheel

any help would be appreciated

And I’m stuck with being unable to zoom back out with right click after setting mouse zoom lol

Imma wait with you for some solutions together