Hi All,

An Update to Thank you for your help and encouragement (or not 🙂  )   thus far:

The Download went less painfully than I anticipated, as did the install to my SSD. I have made rudimentary settings in an attempt to get a flight under my belt.

Unfortunately, although I can get an aircraft on the Thresh hold of my local field and have set up my joystick, it is just too erratic to allow control so I'm now trawling this sight and others for information. (End of Update)

As you might imagine I have a host of questions that I'm trying to find answers to, one at a time. To this end - and so as not to confuse everyone (including myself !) I shall pose my queries, if I may, by separate Posts to this Forum - hoping you may share your expertise with this Computer Numpty 🙂

Many Thanks again,

Blue.

6 hours ago, Bluescaster said:

Unfortunately, although I can get an aircraft on the Thresh hold of my local field and have set up my joystick, it is just too erratic to allow control so I'm now trawling this sight and others for information. (End of Update)

If your joystick/yoke/whatever doesn't come with a preconfigured profile (and a number of quite abundant devices like all my Saitek Cessna gear don't) you may want to re-check the controller settings. Your description sounds like a potentially wrong assignment, which is well possible given designations of the control assignments are not overly clear. Most important, make sure axes like elevation etc are actually assigned to axes. Wrong assignment is a frequent error by beginners (which I initially made myself).

Of course there are more potential issues.

Kind regards, Michael

19 minutes ago, pmb said:

If your joystick/yoke/whatever doesn't come with a preconfigured profile (and a number of quite abundant devices like all my Saitek Cessna gear don't) you may want to re-check the controller settings. Your description sounds like a potentially wrong assignment, which is well possible given designations of the control assignments are not overly clear. Most important, make sure axes like elevation etc are actually assigned to axes. Wrong assignment is a frequent error by beginners (which I initially made myself).

Of course there are more potential issues.

Kind regards, Michael

Hello Michael, thanks for taking the trouble to respond to my plight. As it is I have just this evening fixed the issue with my Joystick set-up. I'm very pleased I persisted as I've had that joystick a very long time and am rather fond of it. It has served me well over so many Flight Sims. I've long been an advocate of NOT replacing things just because there is something NEW out there. I like things to work and if they do I tend to stay with them 🙂

Thanks again.

Blue

Hello again All,

Just to Update this Post once more, this time with Good News!

I cracked the problem with the Joystick Set-up. I was able to glean sufficient evidence to suggest it was likely to be something simple and did a little reading and mostly head scratching!  It was indeed a simple fix - I really am a Computer Numpty as I didn't understand the new Sims way of doing things. Once I cottoned on it was ME that was not switched 'On' - as opposed to the Sim. I sorted it.

I have to report that I've just completed a circuit of my local field in the Cub! A super experience as many of you suggested.

Thanks again for your help and enthusiasm. I shall now need to do lots of fine tuning and a lot more familiarization with the new Sim! It certainly does look super and I'm already planning on doing a lot of things I didn't think would be possible from my Desktop 😉

Thanks again All.

 

Regards,

Blue