Both. I’ve flown with the original wireless Xbox controller as well as a wired third-party, the behaviour is the same. As soon as you get the cursor on screen, the AI takes over and redirects the plane. There’s no two ways around describing it.
This bug now thankfully appears to be fixed for me for the last week or so! Thankfully. It’s been incredibly frustrating but all appears well now. I’ve tried everything from heavy airliners to turboprops and I now get no interference whatsoever when enabling cursor mode
Are you using the live version of the sim or the SU5 beta?
I just tried and nah, it’s the same. The bug is still there. There was no game update so it couldn’t have been fixed.
Are you in the beta programme? Which version do you use? Have you changed your setup in any way? (Peripherals, etc.)