How to make the Saitek Cessna trim wheel work with Prepar 3D v3?

[BrettT 63]

Thanks Jean Marc,

 

I will have to see if it is playing well on my end too.

[BrettT 63]

Checked last night.  The same mouse related error persists if the trim wheel is unplugged for me

[supersym 52]

I leave it plugged when I start or shutdown  my PC, and no issue to use it ... I did'nt need to reinstall it after updated Windows 10.

Sorry You still have the problem =(

[supersym 52]

No yesteday I had the same issue : nothing new in fact,  sorry for this wrong news... I d'ont understand because it worked at the first start but it does'nt now.

[motoadve 49]

Disconnected the Cessna trim wheel for a year almost.

Re connected it.

It works in Aerofly 2

IL2 BOS

IL2 COD

Prepar 3D , computer freezes, and still doesnt work.

 

I bought this Cessna trim wheel specifically for Prepar 3D and ironically its the only simulator that doesnt support it.

 

I shouldnt have to disconnect reconnect and do all sort of aerobatics to make it work.

 

Is there a fix now ? 

[onebob 125]

Is there a fix now ?

not yet, as I know of.

If you go to start menu, Devices and printers,right click on Pro flight Cessna trim wheel, select game Controller Setting.

Click on the Cessna pro flight trim wheel, click propertise and then spin the wheel. it then disapears, repeat to check it works.

 

bob

edit.. you need to carry this out every time you start your computer.

[motoadve 49]

So if I do that the PC wont crash?

[onebob 125]

So if I do that the PC wont crash?

its not crashed for me using this method, just to check we are talking about the Saitek cessna trim wheel and not the trim wheel on the Saitek yoke.

 

bob

[motoadve 49]

Its the Cessna trim wheel

[stufer 30]

I just have to spin it before starting the sim and then it works perfectly. If I forget and then spin it while the sim is loaded, it freezes up so badly that I have to reboot my PC - nothing else will solve it. But yes, with that one minor thing to remember, it works flawlessly otherwise.

[onebob 125]

I just have to spin it before starting the sim and then it works perfectly. If I forget and then spin it while the sim is loaded, it freezes up so badly that I have to reboot my PC - nothing else will solve it. But yes, with that one minor thing to remember, it works flawlessly otherwise.

Yes that works for me also, I'm sure i've tried that before, anyways it works now so thanks for that.

 

bob

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

I just have to spin it before starting the sim and then it works perfectly. If I forget and then spin it while the sim is loaded, it freezes up so badly that I have to reboot my PC - nothing else will solve it. But yes, with that one minor thing to remember, it works flawlessly otherwise.

 

Interesting - thanks for heads up to bad I dumped it - wish I knew this before I parted ways with it 

[angeli662 43]

On the other side of the coin I have never, at least to my memory, had it directly freeze or crash my system.  I have had it not correctly been recognized whereby I go into FSUIPC and give the wheel a few spins until FSUIPC catches then... then no issue.   But as of late with P3Dv3 I have not even had to do that.

 

Just pointing out the above issues do not affect everyone.  Good luck on solving your issues.

 

Clutch

Same here, never had a freeze or crash,  it doesn't start with windows boot, I just have to  spin a little to have windows recognizes.

[Noel 4,501]

Same here, never had a freeze or crash,  it doesn't start with windows boot, I just have to  spin a little to have windows recognizes.

 

The Cessna Trimwheel has something defective in its firmware so that it needs to be actuated before Win this.  I contacted their customer support and opened a ticket on it to no avail.   If someone can manually spin the wheel to make it recognizable that is something that should have been programmed into its firmware.  Good to know there might be a workaround mine's been parked for over a year and I really like it w/ FSX.  I did however have the Saitek driver installed, and since then rebuilt the system so maybe I'll be good.