I am fairly new to X-Plane after many years of MSFS, and am enjoying it. I would like to try helicopters, but they are impossible to fly (and quite unnatural) with my yoke and pedal setup. I tried installing my joystick (Logitech) but had to reconfigure all my settings to the new controller (expected) and, when I re-installed the yoke, I had to start all over again with the settings (unexpected). In MSFS, it would detect the controller and use the saved settings.

 

Am I missing something?

 

Thanks for any help.

It is a current limitation in teh program that is to be fixed with the next update.

 

Basically, when the program starts, it gets a list of the hardware and how to talk to it at the start, but never re-checks as it goes through startup or running. Unplug a controller and the program loses the ability to connect to it unless you plug it back in and the operating system defines the same path to the hardware as was present at startup. Since the program doesn't know any hardware you have not yet plugged in after startup, any new hardware you've changed to will not be usable until you restart the program.

 

This will be fixed as they are not only rewriting the hardware interfaces employed by the software and allow plug-and-play capability as should have been all along, but they are also changing the UI in some manner as to befit the new changes to how the background programming changes can make things easier or more intricate.

 

For now, just make sure all are connected at startup and you'll be fine. You can define multiple axes to the same control (Joy1 Axis 2 = Pitch Joy3 Axis 1 = Pitch) as long as both aren't moved at the same time, doesn't usually cause much if any conflict at the same time. I have my joysticks attached for helos and fighters and a yoke for ga/airliners.

Thanks for the information. I had not connected and left multiple controllers attached. I might just wait for the update before trying again.. Hopefully soon.

I am finally ready to be upgraded from XP 9, so I just bought a copy of XP 10 and it will arrive at my home in about a week or so. I have both a joystick and a yoke setup as well. I hope 10.10 and the new user interface shows up around the same time. :Praying: