Setting up flight controls is such a chore

[CaffeineHero]

I am trying to set up my controls in MSFS 2024, and yes, I agree it is tedious and frustrating and I want to tell Microsoft how I really feel about their product. For some reason now after I have been struggling to set up even one aircraft properly in 2024, when I go back to 2020 again, my Velocity One flight stick has decided that none of the controls there work either. I am very tired of this.

[Jimrh1993]

@FLIGHTJOX

I had to make some adjustments to my flight controls in X-Plane 12. It was so easy compared to FS2020. Maybe time for someone who does the programing in FS2020 to look at other flight simulators and see how easy it should be…just a suggestion

In my earliest posts about MSFS 2020, (pre-2024 era), I mentioned how absolutely cumbersome the configuration process was. X-Plane’s controller setup is a cake-walk by comparison.

It hasn’t changed.

To be perfectly honest, especially in the FS-24 environment, I often do not know what configuration my controllers will be in when I return. Mostly, it’s OK, but sometimes it gets scrambled somehow.

And now, with the current state of FS-24, I am lucky if I can actually get to FLY something.
[pounding head against wall]

@FLIGHTJOX

I love the program and the scenery but I just want to fly and not be a computer geek and have to “program” the joysticks. Has anyone from the developers had someone with no computer skills actually try and program the various peripherals? I am pretty computer savvy and took FORTRAN in college and do the maintenance on all our work computers, both PC and Mac, so I am comfortable around computers but this setting up my joysticks is pure torture.

True.

I am no shrinking violet either, (Want copies of the latest IBM JCL guides), and I’ve been around the block a few times.

Though the books next to me were on WATFIV FORTRAN and PL/I.

I’ve also dealt with more recent technology.

Bottom line, I’m no wall-flower.

X-Plane: It took a few iterations to get things tweaked the way I like them.
MSFS: It’s an ongoing engineering project, to the point that, after calibrating the joysticks within Windows, I had to modify the calibration settings in the registry itself to get the controllers to center properly. This is absolute nonsense.

What say ye?

[BegottenPoet228]

As difficult as it is to master SPAD.NeXt, it’s a cakewalk compared to the sim’s own Controls UI.
I feel for console players who are stuck having to use the latter tool.

[FlyerOneZero]

Agreed. I map almost everything through Spad.neXt and over time I plan to remove pretty much everything other than keyboard mappings from the sim. With the new camera API available in Simconnect, I should probably be able to.

Speaking of calibration tools etc for hardware, everyone should have a copy of DIView. This will let you do stuff that the Windows control panel just won’t.

[GloomyLake935]

Hello Flyer. Add me, I can assist you with controls.

Rich