Anybody noticed that the elevator trim is swapped compared to other planes? On my throttle quadrant I have mapped an axis for elevator trim and the behavior (nose down/nose up) is quite consistent for most (if not all) planes but the PC6 (Asobo) 
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Yes, I have my Bravo elevator trim wheel setup as a virtual axis via AuthentiKit and wheel forward is nose up and wheel back is nose down in the PC-6.
I experience this in another (3rd party) plane, too, but I can’t recall which (Milviz 310, maybe?).
I don’t really understand why this occurs.
If I use my yoke’s elevator trim switch, it works as you would expect — down on switch nose up, up on switch nose down.
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It’s like this for a lot of planes, because apparently most people prefer to use trim up and down button pushes instead of an axis, and thus there was never a strong push for a consensus or standard on how the axis should work (or it’s ignored if there is one). So it’s kind of random on which way it goes, and I have different controller profiles just for this reason. I always preferred having an axis bound to trim though as I’m used to trim wheels and levers in real life.
The axis has even flipped between updates. But again not many seem to notice.
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Also Junkers Ju-52 has “inverted” elevator trim axis. Using Velocity One and this is little irritating but easy to fix by using invert axis option in controller settings.
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I don’t see what the issue is here. The convention with pitch trim and autopilot controls affecting the pitch of the aircraft is to provide a similar action to the flight control. So forward or up for nose down. The bindings I have set for every other aircraft work the same in the PC-6 as they do with others. I don’t understand why others are supposedly getting different results.
I do not understand this either and I’ve not taken the time to figure it out, but it is absolutely a “thing” since I got a Bravo and used AuthentiKit to setup the trim wheel as an axis rather than button presses by default.
In most cases it is fine, but the making it an axis seems to either require the axis is normal or the axis is reversed in some aircraft. It’s the latter (reversed) that seems to be the outlier case.
Again, if I use button presses to alter trim, then they behave as expected.
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So perhaps the axis is swapped in this aircraft but the UP/DN binds are not. That would explain it.
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Yes, I believe that is what is happening. The developer of the aircraft has, either on purpose or erroneously, set the axis to reverse for the elevator trim.
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It must be erroneously because regardless of using an axis or the up/dn binds the direction should absolutely be consistent. It’s a bug in my mind and should be flagged as such.
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Perhaps, but fighting a dev to fix a bug is far more mentally taxing than simply reversing the axis in Options > Controls Options and being on my way.
Oh sure. It doesn’t affect me either but a bug nonetheless.
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At least in 2024 you can configure bindings per-aircraft, so this should help! 
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