I have recently bought a Saitek X52. The variety of controls is amazing. One of the control wheels, what I call the E control wheel, is set to Elevator Trim. It makes it easier to set trim for takeoff, but when I set the autopilot and altitude hold, the plane continues to pitch up. I check on the elevator trim and it is stuck at 5 degrees. Anyone know how to fix this?

The first thing I'd suggest is to make sure you have the sensitivity on the E control wheel maxed out in the FSX controller configuration.  

 

Instead of using an axis wheel for the trim, I have the elevator trim up (Num 1 by default) and elevator trim down (Num 7 by default) mapped to the hat switch on the throttle.  I've found this gives me much more precise control over the trim and allows the autopilot to adjust the trim as it needs to without any interference.

 

I've also got the rudder trim mapped to the left and right buttons on the same hat, so all of the necessary trim controls are under one finger.

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