Using a spare joystick for Drone camera?

[antonvs 76]

As some are using an x-box controller for the drone camera (showcase), it occurred to me that in addition to using a H.O.T.A.S. I might be able to plug in an old Logitech Pro 3D joystick to use for the drone camera. I will experiment with this but thought I would ask if anyone has done this already.

In the meantime I will have a go and report back. 

[antonvs 76]

Good new is that this works, so now instead of this old controller sitting in a back cupboard it is now my Drone controller. 

• All you have to do is plug it in, start a flight, press pause, go to controls.
• The stick is there in the list of controllers. You first have to goto profile manage and click on creat new profile (if you use the default it will duplicate all your control surfaces).
• I named the new profile X3D Drone stick
• One by one I selected the control mapping
• I set one button to switch from cockpit to drone view

I will come back here and post screen shots of the finished setup

 

[RudyB24 296]

Nice ... that answers my earlier question. Very interested to hear more. Can't experiment myself yet since I haven't got MFS yet, waiting for new HW.

 

[RudyB24 296]

Could be an idea to post your findings in the 'Tips and Tricks' section at the top, makes it easier to find it back later.

[David Roch 1,984]

Folks, you really don't need an additional device.
Just map your joystick's axis and buttons for the different cameras.
Same button or axis can be used differently depending on the chosen camera.

[antonvs 76]

I found that if I tried to do that, even though it was a different camera I got a message that the control was already mapped to a different setting. But maybe you can just ignore the warning

[norman_99 209]

Yeah, you can ignore those warnings and map multiple items to any button. Be careful though, it's easy to make a mess of this and have multiple things going on at once, like the gear lowering every time I disconnect the autopilot...

[Slides 1,552]

What about the mouse? Can you use the mouse to look around in Drone mode? And then use the WASD keys to move in that direction? That seems so much more intuitive to me. I get that they had to map this for the X-box, but what about the age old tradition of WASD and mouse look on PCs? We need that option too.