Five aircraft categories:
- Small Aircraft (single engine, fixed pitch propeller),
- Complex Small (single engine including turboprop, variable pitch propeller),
- Complex Twin (all two engine aircraft),
- Complex 2 Jet (all two engine jet aircraft and airliners including the 787),
- Complex 4 Engine (747 and DC-6)
Of course if you only fly one aircraft, only one profile is needed saving a lot of time. I fly aircraft in all of these profiles. Keybindings were assigned to all buttons, switches, knobs, and levers (including the autopilot) except for the different number of throttle, propeller, and mixture controls.
The time I spent configuring the Bravo included Windows calibration, watching various YouTube videos, downloading and installing AFC_bridge, verifying that everything was working correctly, and documenting all the profiles for backup and restore purposes. Once the configurations were finished, these profiles worked very well.The only problem I have is human error. I usually forget to change the configuration when using a different aircraft type. When SU5 scrambled the profiles, my documentation had the info to fix the profiles in about 15 minutes.