Hello,

I have FSX Deluxe. CH Eclipse Yoke and CH Pedals. I am not very good at it, but I keep trying.

My question concerns the CH Eclipse. The question is basic and dumb. The left Hat Switch I use for pan viewing up, down and around, in and outside aircraft, fine. To the; question. Can someone suggest what most, a lot, or some people use the right Hat switch for ?  I cannot think of anything in particular. It seems like a waist to have it there and not to use it.

 

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated ?

Thank you so much,

Wayne

4 hours ago, waynerr said:

I am not very good at it, but I keep trying.

Welcome to AVSIM my friend!  You are in good company, because each one of us started right exactly where you are!  Keep at it, it's worth it!  I've been a part of the flight sim community for 36+ years and I still learn new things each and every day.

4 hours ago, waynerr said:

Can someone suggest what most, a lot, or some people use the right Hat switch for ?

I don't believe there is a lot you can really do with a second hate switch, at least not in FSX/P3D. But if you use Chaseplane (excellent application) then you could assign the second hat switch for a number of functions, I would use it for moving the eye point forward, back, left and right.

I've never thought about using a Yoke with DCS, but if you did then you could use the second hat switch for the TDC (to move the radar cursor and select targets).

I hope this has been helpful to you!

Best wishes!

 

 

You could assign trim functions to it. A number of real aircraft use hat switches for aileron and elevator trim.

Or map it to some systems you want to control in cockpit for example GPS pages.