My Learjet 35A key bindings (including yaw damper)

Now that I have logged almost 100 hours in my Learjet 35A for MSFS 2024 and I am starting to feel comfortable, I would like to share my personal experience and opinion regarding bindings:

1. Flysimware's Hardware Binding Software seems a good idea at first, but misses one essential binding: yaw damper. At the extremely busy and stressful moment of takeoff (engaging the yaw damper it's the second element in the after takeoff checklist, second only to raising the landing gear), not having a yaw damper binding key requires changing the view and losing track of instruments and spacial awareness at that crucial moment. What I had to do during my first flights was to delay the yaw damper engagement until after the aircraft was clearly in control.

But because I have a licensed version of FSUIPC, I decided to generate my own yaw damper key binding:

i) I created a file titled myevents.txt inside FSUIPC7 installation folder.

ii) I added the following line:

LEAR_YAW_PRI_TOGGLE#(L:GENERIC_LEAR_YAW_PRI_ENG, Number) ! (>L:GENERIC_LEAR_YAW_PRI_ENG, Number)

After that, the preset LEAR_YAW_PRI_TOGGLE is available in the "Select for Preset" list of FSUIPC "Button & Switch Assigments".

2. For other bindings, and using the linked post as a reference, I use the following:

Source: https://discord.com/channels/1142238375919747143/1369785550470516827/1369785550470516827

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MANUV BUTTON (top button at the right side of the yoke)

Bound to: SMOKE ON (ON PRESS)

Bound to: SMOKE OFF (ON RELEASE)

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MSW (CONTROL WHEEL MASTER SWITCH) - Red button on the left side of the yoke

Bound to: G LIMITER ON (ON PRESS)

Bound to: G LIMITER OFF (ON RELEASE)

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PITCH SYNC BUTTON (Lower button in the right side of the yoke)

Bound to: FLIGHT DIRECTOR PITCH SYNC

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CONTROL WHEEL TRIM SWITCH WITHOUT THE ARMING SWITCH - Upper wheel in the left side of the yoke

When used ALONE (without combining it with the "ARMING SWITCH" in the middle) moving the wheel in any direction (UP, DOWN, LFW or RWD) it just disengages the autopilot. Because one function can only be assigned to two different buttons in MSFS, I decided to bind the autopilot disengage function to UP and DOWN.

Bound UP, DOWN, LFW and RWD to: SET AUTOPILOT DISENGAGE

I also add some info from the original post that I have not tried myself: If you happen to use an app like Spad.Next, AAO or FSUIPC, you can just write to the Lvar AP_PITCH_REF which also animates the barrel on the yoke. Write a 1 for AP Pitch Ref Up, -1 for AP Pitch Ref Down, and 0 for AP Pitch Ref off.

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CONTROL WHEEL TRIM SWITCH WITH THE ARMING SWITCH - Upper wheel in the left side of the yoke

UP Bound to: DECREASE AP PITCH HOLD REFERENCE

DOWN Bound to: DECREASE AP PITCH HOLD REFERENCE

LFW Bound to: AILERON TRIM LEFT

RWD Bound to: AILERON TRIM RIGHT

For this binding, I use a COMBINATION of the POV button of my yoke AND another button.

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STEER LOCK BUTTON

In the Discord post I used as a reference, the user Al-ColoSpgs mentions this:

Bound to: TOGGLE TAIL HOOK HANDLE

However, that binding did not work for me, so I added the following line to my FSUIPC myevents.txt file:

LEAR_STEER_ON#(STEER_ON_NODE, Number) ! (>L:STEER_ON_NODE, Number)

After that, the preset LEAR_STEER_ON_NODE is available in the "Select for Preset" list of FSUIPC "Button & Switch Assigments".

3. With these bindings, I no longer need to use Flysimware's Hardware Binding Software. Hopefully, it will add the yaw damper setting in future versions to make our lives easier.

Regards,

Edited August 18Aug 18 by Ramón Cutanda