Logitech / Saitek X56 key mapping recommendations?

I changed a few things on mine. Most of those changes are on the throttle and it’s all controls (mostly AP-related) that are a pain in the ■■■■ to use on screen with a mouse due to the plane moving around so much. Still experimenting with it, as I only got my X56 a little over a week ago, but this is the meat of it for the time being.

Throttle:

  • Top wheel controls trim. It’s click function toggles the AP ALT mode
  • Pinky “clicky” wheel adjusts heading bug
  • Bottom wheel is currently unused, but the clicky selects AP HDG mode
  • Switch 1 - down = parking brake toggle, up is spoiler toggle.
  • Switch 2 - gear up / down
  • Switch 3 - flaps up / down
  • Knob 1 - Mixture (Throttle is “split” by default, but it’s uncomfortable using it like that, so unmapped mixture from second throttle axis and mapped to the knob axis)
  • Knob 2 - Prop
  • Switch 4 - FLC / VS mode
  • Switch 5 - VS up / down
  • Switch 6 - FLC speed up / down
  • Switch 7 - AP Altitude up / down
  • Top hat switch - directions show / hide VFR Map, ATC, Nav Log, Checklist panels.
  • Thumb button by analog stick - Pause
  • Analog stick - drone control in showcase camera view
  • Front button 1 - toggle AP NAV mode
  • Front button 2 - toggle AP APR mode

Stick: Haven’t changed much from the default mapping here for the most part.

  • Pinky ‘paddle’ switch - toggle cockpit / external view
  • small pinky button - brakes (not really used now that I got new pedals)
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