Hello, everyone,

I use the FS2020 with the Saitek X52 controller. In principle everything works fine, but the trimming is really strange. There are two buttons for this (up and down) as standard. In FSX I always put the trimming on the X-axis. Since this axis had a zero point, it was always very easy to control. The zero point was then always neutral and then I could trim in the respective directions.

When I use the X-Rotation axis on FS2020, I always have to move the axis in one direction till its end until the controller gives the signal. As long as the axis remains on the limit, the trimming will be increased or decreased. When I bring the axis back to zero, it just means that it will not trim any further.

Have I missed anything about how to configure this? Since I'm not really that familiar with flying, but in the cockpit trimming looks like a throttle control with one axis (and not two knobs), my approach should be correct, shouldn't it?

Many greetings,

Hauke

I am in the same boat as you; using the Saitek throttle quadrant elevator trim axis is utterly unmanageable in FS2020 as the axis used to send escalating deltas to the trim wheel and not place trim wheel in a static position within the range of movement.

I think I am going to have to switch the trim to buttons until the developer offers another trim control method.

P.S. I am also bugged there is no flaps axis.

 

 

Edited August 26, 20205 yr by shepnorfleet

I use the throttle hat switch forward and back positions to control pitch up and down trim buttons.  I use one of the main stick toggles for extend/retract flaps one increment.  Actually been using it like this since FS2004 when I bought the X52 and it just always worked for me.  I never actually realized you could get those wheels to affect the trims and mine have these massive deadzones anyway since it's the original version.  They weren't that great even a year or so after getting it, but they haven't degraded much since then.