I haven't been back to Flight since development was cancelled.  But I'm glad to return to see many of the same folks around here. I reinstalled Flight in my computer and now I'm ready to roll again!

 

I tried to follow my own instructions on how to enable the auto rudder in my joystick but got a bit messed up during the process. So I re wrote it to make it simpler. 

 

 

"I really enjoy playing Microsoft Flight with my old Sidewinder Joystick which only has X and Y axis. The problem with this, as some of you may know, is that you must press the A and D keys for rudder control that makes taxing in airports annoying. Now this really bothers me because I can't taxi using only my joystick as I did with FSX (auto rudder).

 

So I found a way to go around this issue. The goal is to make Flight think that your Joystick is the mouse (because there is auto rudder when you fly with the mouse). Doing this will require simple changes in the standard.xml file which has all of the control configurations. I'll explain the procedure: "

 

1. Backup your standard.xml file. You can find it under C:\Users\youruser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Flight\Players\SomeLettersAndNumbers\Career\Controls. 

 

2. Now open the standard.xml file with Notepad and look for the following code and make the changes in bold:

...

 

<MapName> 

 NameOfYourJoystick{846A2670-2423-11E1-8001-444553540000}.{45AAD43A-A9BC-40E0-96BA-A3E3577BBE53} 

</MapName> 

<MapVersion>8</MapVersion> 

 

<Axis> 

<AxName>XAxis</AxName> 

<Index>0</Index> 

<EventName>FlightControls.AileronSetAxis</EventName>     change this to FlightControls.MouseSetXAxis 

<AxScale>1.000000</AxScale> 

<AxNull>0.100000</AxNull> 

<NonLinear>True</NonLinear> 

</Axis> 

 

<Axis> 

<AxName>YAxis</AxName> 

<Index>1</Index> 

<EventName>FlightControls.ElevatorSetAxis</EventName>     change this to FlightControls.MouseSetYAxis

<AxScale>1.000000</AxScale> 

<AxNull>0.100000</AxNull> 

<NonLinear>True</NonLinear> 

</Axis> 

<Axis> 

...

 

Now save and start MS Flight. Now your joystick will work as if it were the mouse controller. Remember, I you want to revert, simply delete this file and replace it with your backup.

 

That's all it takes. Now you have auto rudder and you can taxi through the runway with your joystick and fly! 

This is good info for those that don't have a twist type joystick or a yoke and pedals.  Thanks for posting.

yes that can be done. I was and still am using my old twist grip Saitek ST290 Pro stick. But when Flight came out I disabled the twist and got some good pedals with toe brakes. No going back for me.

 

Steve

I won't need it, since I have a twist joystick... and I'd rather not fool around with the coding. But thanks anyway!