Landman

Has anyone used the Saitek X52 joystick and throttle, Saitek Pro Flight rudder pedals, and the Belkin N52TE (or its successor the Razer Nostromo) gaming keypad simultaneously with FSX? If so, did they all work together smoothly or did they interfere with each other? I have the Saitek X52 and the rudder pedals and I am thinking of buying the Razer Nostromo gaming keypad to use it to open various 2-D pop up panels and program some of the keys to use for ATC responses and a few other functions so I wont be stretching my fingers all over the keyboard while trying to fly.

I have noticed that some helicopters can accelerate to a what is almost their full forward speed while the pitch remains within a few degrees of being level while others require a very large downward pitch to maintain any decent forward speed. Examples would be the Nemeth Designs EC135 and the Flight One Huey which I can fly at high forward speeds with only a few degrees of nose down pitch while the Nemeth Designs AS332 Super Puma requires almost 45 degrees of nose down to maintain high forward speed. Why the difference? What parameters in the aircraft.cfg file or the air file can I tweak so that I can fly the Super Puma at a speed over 100 knots with little downward pitch?