Automatic Selection of Profiles based on Aircraft

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I have a Thrustmaster T.1600M joystick, TWCS throttle, TCA Airbus T.A320 joystick, TCA Throttle with Flaps/Spoiler.

In MSFS I have one aircraft named profile (FBW A320, Fenix A320, PMDG 737) needed for each of these 4 devices, so a total of 12 profiles.

I constantly switch between these aircraft and have to switch the 4 profiles to match the aircraft.

Is there any way in MSFS or with addon software to automatically switch profiles based on aircraft selected ?

I do have the registered FSUIPC7, but this can’t do it.

Any help is appreciated.

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No I don’t believe there is any method to achieve this at this time.

There is a wish list item for it if you search for it.

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Thank you team for the advice. I have voted at the wish list, but with 495 votes dating back two years, it doesn’t seem to be a priority for MSFS.

I was hoping there might be an SDK or similar which might allow an after market software tool to switch profiles…

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Yes, it’s possible, with SPAD.neXt. The program changes automatically every time you
pick a new plane, and of course a ton more things.

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Also with AAO

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Hi all,

can’t find or how to create joystick profile for exact plane (glider) and automatic change when change another plane or heli for example??
Is this even possible in MSFS?

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Sorry you can’t, you have to do it manually

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Unless you dump the internal joystick profile configs and use something like SPAD.neXt in stead.

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It can be done. This is for the Honeycomb Alpha, but the different assignments can be made with any joystick.

5 configurations for Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant in MSFS 2020. - YouTube

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Of course, but the OP wants the sim to switch the profiles automatically when changing plane. A reasonable request, but currently not possible.

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you can use fsuipc for this, i guess:)

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Use SpadNext or FSUIPC or AXIS and OHS. problem solved.

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This was a great feature in X-Plane. Sadly, I have not seen any evidence it may be implemented in MSFS. It’s a pain to keep changing the profile when choosing different planes in my virtual hangar.

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It’s not only one joystick. I use LeoBodnar card with my DIY panel, Winwing, Saitek, my copy of Trustmaster rudder. In DCS this works perfect. Flying Condor2 to a lot

tnx

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Thank you for your replies. I am trialling SPAD.neXt, and would appreciate some help from you Spad.neXt experts.

I have working MSFS Control profiles for each aircraft (FBW A320, Fenix A320, PMDG 737).

I have created a SPAD.neXt profile for each aircraft, and I see SPAD.neXt switches to this as I change aircraft . How do I ensure each profile invokes the matching MSFS Control profile as I change aircraft? Can this be done?

Or am I required to implement all device controls in SPAD.neXt ?

Any help is appreciated

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can you please share the profiles?

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This reply is probably coming too late given when you originally posted but the idea when using spad.next is that you should have a single “minimal” MSFS profile for each device that never changes. That way spad.next is switching between it’s own profiles as you change aircraft and the MSFS profiles remain constant. I have made and shared many spad.next profiles (look for profiles and snippets by DiscoStu) for the Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo and they are pretty popular. What makes mine somewhat unique I think is that I purposely tried to maintain consistent mappings across all of the profiles so you only really need to learn one mapping. My MSFS Bravo profile is totally empty and my Alpha profile has only a few camera operations and braking/parking brake because I don’t have the Honeycomb Charlie pedal yet :wink: