I learned today that what they say is true: If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, the A-Team is the way to go for all your keybinding problems.
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The irony here of B.A. being into flight simulators given his fear of flying…
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The A Team wouldn’t be nuthin’ without THE B TEAM feeding them problems to solve😂
A.B(ug), B Team Leader.
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Since we’re on such a roll here, maybe you can explain this behavior to me:
I have a profile that I set up for one plane that I’m using for another plane. When I try to add a binding, it gives me a “duplicate binding” dialog box which tells me to come up with a name for a “new input profile”. How do I make a change to the input profile I already have without it asking me to duplicate it again?
Hmm… look closer. I think you might be missing that the thing you are adding is from a different CATEGORY and it is that category that you need to make a new name for.
What are you adding, and what profile do you THINK you are editing (‘Airplanes’ controls?)??
The ‘duplicates’ are allowed to be saved in a profile if you wish so I think this is not actually what you are describing (as in, the same button doing 2 things – this is shown with a little number in a circle next to the actual bind in the 2 cells on each row that show if something is assigned to that command).
You can then click that number and it will list what OTHER commands are using that button. You can then delete one if you want but this is all contained in the profile. Sometimes you WANT the same button for 2 things. And often you NEED it because the button does something different in the menus or in drone camera mode etc, so this is not the problem you are seeing.
I suspect the thing you are adding is actually belonging in the GENERAL category. You can see what category the things belong in with the word in the white outline box on each row, and whether it is an axis (analogue) or button/switch (digital).
So I reckon you are adding a General item, and for that device you have not yet set up a custom General profile, and as you are NOT allowed to edit the default ones the game ships with, it is asking you to give a new name. So call it “Throttle General” (or whatever) and boom. Then the pain is you need to set that on ALL other aircraft you want that to apply to. You COULD now use the Apply To All (that is EXACTLY what this is for) but hope you don’t get the same CTD I get!
Set As Default works… so any NEW additions will use that General profile in this example.
Yeah it’s strange. I’ve been using a custom profile on my throttle quadrant for weeks now. I know it’s custom because it’s got my name in the profile name. Actually it’s two profiles with my name in them, one for general and one for airplane. I selected the profiles when I made them and put “set as default” and “apply to all aircraft”. I recently started flying the PC-12, and these profiles with my name on it (both general and airplane) were already populated.
Today I wanted to add a button on my quadrant to toggle the EFB, which I believe is a general-digital setting. Nothing was bound to that function in this profile that had my name in the title, and I clicked the empty field next to the binding and clicked the button I wanted to bind. When I clicked the button, a dialogue box came up and said I needed to make a new profile. The duplicate it wanted to make was a duplicate profile, not a duplicate binding. I double checked that the profile I was already on was the one I was using (the one with my name in it) and then came on here for help.
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Tomorrow I will go into the plane where I originally made these profiles and try to bind the EFB button. Then I’ll come back to the PC-12 and see if that button is added.
This is actually the second or third time the game has asked me to make a new profile when I was already making changes to a custom profile. Each time it was on a plane that wasn’t the plane where I originally made the profile.
At this point I’m playing the settings game more than the game game but at least it’s fun too. I wonder if some of my problems are because my main plane where I make all the profiles is the DA42, which is not a 2024 native plane (the version from the marketplace isn’t even the most up to date one). Don’t know what that would have to do with it but maybe it’s related?
I’m gonna have to go in my workshop and see if I can rustle up an armoured tank out of a few bits of rusty corrugated sheet metal and rubber pipes to crack this one…
It shouldn’t do that. Anyone else got any ideas?! 
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Hi all and thanks for all the tips!!! Allow me to surface something I am puzzled with, and could not find a discussion opened already.
It seems that G1000/GNS430/530 bindings are available for SOME aircraft (C172), but not other even if using the WT G1000. Shouldn’t this be standard as long as the plane’s using WT?
Also on those bindings, they are set as “specific” which prevent them being available for other planes. What a pity! I can spend time configuring a “G1000” profile, but cannot use it as standard for other planes. I feel that’s a big miss of the potential on this profile config…
I had posted this here G1000 key bindings not available in all planes, I 'll create a bug report when necessary.
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It is possible this could be a factor.
While not an exact example of your issue, I did notice this:
The 307 Stratoliner has some extra liveries that Aeroplane Heaven has for free on their website.
I added those liveries and now I have an additional “Variant” for the 307. When I clicked that and loaded into the aircraft, I noted that my default “Single Engine Fixed Pitch” control profile was set and not the “Multi-Engine Propeller” profile that I normally have set for the 307.
What is going on here is, now that I have an additional “Variant” of the 307, it gets its own set of control profiles set to it. These can differ from the other 307 variant.
I believe if I try to modify the control profile by adding some new function that it might ask me to duplicate it, but I haven’t tried this, so I don’t know for certain.
There is definitely some oddities with how 2020 aircraft, their variants and liveries are processed by the interface and you could be onto something.
I noted this, too. That seems like a big miss for the usability of the sim. It looks like Asobo managed to code in Garmin-specific control profile options, but only for that aircraft.
You can see this also with the specialized turboprop controls in the 208 that aren’t there for other turboprops.
I kind of shutter at this break from standardization. I can already see where this is going to lead and it is going to be messy.
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Yeah that is what conclusion I came to as well. It’s what I was trying to say above. I guess it is how they are defined in the layout file (or airplane.cfg, or wherever that structure is held) as to how they appear in the aircraft selection screens, but each one at a certain level has its own control sets.
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I want to delete my controler profiles to start from scratch. Got some nasty ctd when altering my profiles. I deleted them and got the warning are you sure.
Next day my old deleted profiles where back from the cloud.
Is there a way to delete the profiles in the cloud? For me the way the controlers are presented is not logic. Does anyone have an good and simple YouTube video that explains the differenths between the 3 profile categories
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Hi @JOEDANCEN ,
See:
How to delete a cloud save to fix some loading or crashing issues (Crashing on the identity screen, spawning inside buildings,…) – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support
But note the warning:
Warning: Deleting the cloud save will wipe your logbook permanently as well as custom control profiles and settings. You will not lose the achievements already unlocked on this profile, but progression towards achievements and the logbook information cannot be recovered.
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Thanks..what a shame that there is no other option then to reset your complete account.
A button “delete controler profiles” would be much more user friendly
Why it has to reset your logbook is mystery to me.
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Trying to get started with MSFS 2024, and this control setup UI has got to be the most convoluted and non user friendly system I have ever seen. As I understand it, I have to click on EACH peripheral, and then EACH of the 3 control settings in order to set up EACH aircraft! Go look at xplane and just copy what they do. Problem solved.
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No, you can set it up once, click the cog icon and apply to all aircraft or set as default.
With SU2 released. I am no longer able to bind a control config to an aircraft.
If I ‘set as default’ to my A350, the same config will be applied across all aircraft (PMDG, Fenix, etc.). In SU1 and SU2 beta, ‘set as default’ bound the config to only the current aircraft.
If I ‘apply to airplanes’, the simulator crashes to desktop. Good job Asobo keep this up and fix it until FS2028 releases.
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How do you map a 3-way switch? Extend flaps, retract flaps and what else? Flaps 1? Flaps 2? I assume you would want to map it to flaps 10 or 15 degrees, but how do you set it in MSFS 2024?
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‘extend flaps’ and ‘retract flaps’ is all I have mapped. Then I just hit the button x amount of times to get the desired flap setting
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