Tune the feel: Realistic Response and the sliders

The Plan & response tab sets how quickly HeavyPro's shaped stick follows yours, on every route, REAL1 included. Every change applies at once, so tune it in flight.

Realistic Response (default 40)

One slider for the whole feel. 0 is the heaviest, 100 the quickest. It scales how long each axis takes to travel, while each aircraft keeps its own character: a 777 always stays heavier than a Cessna.

To give you an idea: at the default, a firm pitch input on a PMDG 777 at 200 knots reaches 90 % of its target in about 1.3 seconds; on a C172 in about 0.4 seconds.

Per axis

• Pitch, Roll and Yaw responsiveness (default 50, neutral): make one axis quicker or slower. These now change small corrections too, not only big inputs, and each axis stays independent.
• Input smoothing (default 35): how long a control's rate takes to build up. Higher feels more like moving real mass.

Reset to defaults brings everything back; Save settings keeps your tuning for the next start.

The aircraft is part of the feel

HeavyPro also listens to the aircraft itself:

• Weight: a fully loaded jet answers slower than an empty one.
• Centre of gravity: an aft CG gives a lighter pitch, like in the real aircraft.
• Nosewheel steering at taxi speed makes yaw quicker on the ground.

No weight from the sim? Your SimBrief plan fills in, if it is for the same aircraft type.

The jet rudder limiter

On a 747, the rudder ratio changer allows about 30 degrees of rudder at low speed and only about 5 near 500 knots. HeavyPro does the same for jets: full rudder throw at 160 knots, shrinking to a fifth by 320 knots. Aircraft that model this themselves (PMDG, Fenix, iniBuilds, FlyByWire) are left alone, and you can turn it off in Setup.

Tip: start at the defaults for a few flights. Most pilots who change things end up only nudging Realistic Response by 10 or 20.