Hola PMDG Afficiandos!
I have strange problem that just began two weeks ago - I have Saitek X52 joystick and throttle, and the NGX A/T is 'disconnecting' after 3-5 seconds into my takeoff roll. And it just started doing this a couple of weeks ago - for 1 year+ I've had the NGX it had not been problem.
I searched and serched the forums, and I found a few posts with similar issue. But, many times the poster had a very complicated joystick/throttle/yoke setup (2 throttles, etc.), so I don't know if the suggested solutions would even work. I tried anyway, but they did not work for me.
Here is what I have tried so far:
1) reinstalling device driver for Saitek X52. No joy.
2) carefully trying ALL the different choices (permutations?) on the NGX setup pages as to AP, A/T, etc.. No joy.
3) read tutorial again and flew it EXACTLY as written - same issue crops up, no joy.
4) rebuilt fsx.cfg from scratch. No joy.
Now, one solution often mentioned on these threads is to "calibrate joystick/throttle from WITHIN FSX." Ok. I go to that setup page within FSX, click on Controls, hit 'calibrate'...and it takes me immediately to the Saitek driver calibrate box. So I don't really know what I am supposed to do on the FSX Control/Joystick/Calibrate page. Many settings on that page I do not understand, such as "Null zones", "Axes", etc. But again, for over a year, I've had no issue with the throttle and A/T behavior, so I've never had to mess with that before.
Do any of you kind amigis have a solution to this maddening problem? It's been a couple of weeks and it is driving me loco!
Gracias!
Jose Enrique Gaviota
My system: OC'd i7-920 (3.8 Ghz), 6GB Ram, GeForce GTX250 1MB video card, Win 7 64 Ultimate.