Hi there! A friend of mine has just given me his old steering wheel, and I thought, with a little ingenuity, I can use it in flight sim.The rig I thought of was to have the pedals, as rudder pedals, which works well in theory - as the drivers can map both pedals onto one axis, and use the steering wheel as a trim wheel, while using the joystick on the desk up top. In theory, this would work really well for me.I encountered one problem though - When mapping the controls in FS2004, the game only finds a set of 3 axis, X, Y, and Z. When I move the steering wheel it moves the yoke, and the joystick does too.Is there any way I can seperate the steering wheel and pedals from the axis configuration of the joystick - and have 6 axis all together?FS2004 only seems to find one device at any one time, so I don't know what to do. I've tried using a USB hub but it didn't seem to work.I've seen people with 4 throttles, Yoke, rudder prop and mixture and was wondering how it's done.Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've waited a fair while to be able to upgrade my peripherals!!!Thanks

You need to buy a registered copy of FSUIPC to do that. Worth every penny as I have five separate devices all connected and configured for the various aircraft I use. The ability to have control profiles for each individual aircraft makes it worth the money alone, and there's so much more you can do with it.

You need to buy a registered copy of FSUIPC to do that. Worth every penny as I have five separate devices all connected and configured for the various aircraft I use. The ability to have control profiles for each individual aircraft makes it worth the money alone, and there's so much more you can do with it.

That's champion. Thanks for the advice my good man!

You need to buy a registered copy of FSUIPC to do that. Worth every penny as I have five separate devices all connected and configured for the various aircraft I use. The ability to have control profiles for each individual aircraft makes it worth the money alone, and there's so much more you can do with it.

Hi, I'm still having trouble with it after getting FSUIPC.I try to set the rudder and trim axis - but when I move the wheel, it still registers it as the same axis as my joystick... Any ideas?

Hmm, I've seen that happen a few times myself. It can be a little funny occasionally but i've found if you set up one axis then click 'OK' to come back out of FSUIPC, then go back in and press 'rescan' a couple of times, it will pick up the second axis correctly. I think you need to save them one at a time as FSUIPC needs to write them to the .iniIf you're still having trouble just ask over at the FSUIPC forum and Pete will sort you out in no time.

Also try posting in these forums: http://forum.avsim.net/forum/325-hardware-discussions/