Strange Contoller Issues since latest patch

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Do you have any add-ons in your Community folder? If yes, please remove and retest before posting.
Just Flightbeam Studios KDEN Denver Airport, though not involved in the flights mentioned here

Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
No

Brief description of the issue:
After latest Patch, found a new XBox controller that was causing issues, and still having problems when resuming flight after hitting ESC to view Options settings

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:Tried a couple of times to upload a video of the issue, but it failed to upload each time…perhaps due to size?

Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

  1. Take off on a flight (I normally use the Cessna 152)
  2. Hit ESC to bring up the OPTIONS selections
  3. Go review any option (I normally go into the keyboard controller, as I’m usually trying to remember some obscure keyboard command)
  4. Select “Go Back” to return to the main OPTIONS screen
  5. Select “Resume” to leave the OPTIONS screen and return to the flight
  6. At this point, the engine on my plane shuts down, every time

PC specs for those who want to assist (if not entered in your profile)

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
1.17.3.0

Are you on the Steam or Microsoft Store version?
Microsoft Store

`Did you submit this to Zendesk? If so, what is your ticket #?
Yes, request #110830

I haven’t played the sim for about a month, so when I started it today, it downloaded the latest 1.17.3.0 patch. I started one of my normal flights from Erie Municipal in Colorado, and noticed something strange immediately, as I couldn’t get the parking brake toggled off with the usual “ctrl + Num Del” command. But then the assist window popped onscreen telling me to toggle it off using Y (in a circle?) + B (in a circle?) I had no idea what it was asking for, though I tried pressing Y, B, and Y + B on the keyboard, to no avail. I went into the controller settings and saw a new controller listed there, an XBox game controller?!? This was weird, as I have never owned an XBox or XBox controller, nor every plugged one into my system. But I could see that’s where the assist warning of pressing “Y + B”, both in circles, was coming from, as these were buttons on that type of controller. Still with no clue how or why an XBox controller suddenly showed up in my settings, I cleared the parking brake control bindings out of that controller profile, saved the changes, and restarted the flight. Sure enough, I could now toggle off the parking brake using my normal keyboard command of “ctrl + Num Del”, so removing that particular command binding from the mysterious new XBox controller profile seemed to fix that issue. I flew for awhile, and then needed to look up another keyboard command I’d forgotten (having not flown for a month or so), and so in mid-flight, I hit ESC to bring up the OPTIONS tabs, so that I could take a look at the keyboard controller options to refresh my memory of the command I had forgotten. As soon as I looked up what I needed, I clicked RESUME to go back into the flight, but immediately upon doing so, the engine on the Cessna shut down! I was able to restart it in the air and keep flying, but then tried this same sequence again…hit ESC to get the OPTIONS tabs, select controller options, look through a few, and then go back to the flight. And sure enough, each time I resumed the flight the engine would just shut down. I’ve done this same process hundreds of times in the past, as I often need to look up a particular keyboard command while in flight, and I have never had any issue resuming the flight after looking up the command before…it would simply bring me back into the flight with everything active just like when I left it. But now every time I do this, the engine on the plane just shuts down, and I have to restart it in the air. So this, coupled with the sudden appearance of an Xbox controller profile I never should have makes me think this latest patch is causing these issues. Note that I actually went through and removed every binding one at a time from the XBox controller profile, just in case something else in there was causing my engine shutdown issue. But the problem is still there…if I’m in flight, hit ESC to bring up the options tabs, as soon as I resume the flight the engine shuts down.

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Un-Expected engine shutdown during flight try our new product Gunk !!! rofl but seriously, check to see if that button isnt bound to fuel mixture as well if it is it could be that its thining the mixture and the engine stalls. Was happening on my joystick (heard some other having the same problem) and that is what it was.

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Topic moved into #bugs-and-issues:hardware for controller / peripheral question.

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Never mind…reading through BubbaBlitz7348’s response got me to thinking what was really happening, and I figured out the issue, though it still seemed to be caused by controller bindings that were somehow changed with this latest update.

He mentioned having a similar issue where fuel mixture command had been somehow bound to a new key combo. I started searching for this, and discovered that somehow the latest patch had added both fuel mixture and prop bindings to a couple of levers on my CH Products Flight Sim Yoke. I have never used those bindings at all before, so it never even occurred to me that they could somehow now be active. Indeed, they were bound to the levers on my yoke that would normally be assigned to them, even though as I said I had never bound them myself or used them before.

So what appeared to be happening was, when I would start a flight, the mixture and prop settings were defaulted to a normal engine running config, and even though I never used those levers on the yoke, it would run fine and take off fine. But for some reason, whenever I then hit the ESC key to go into the options screen, and then returned back to the flight, it would realize that both of those levers were basically in the off position (since as I said, I never use them), and that would cause the engine to stall out shortly thereafter.

Why the flight would begin without issue, and continue without issue, up until I would hit ESC for some reason, I cannot tell. Again, the levers are normally off for me, as I simply don’t use them. So you’d think that having them both set to off when the flight started should have immediately caused problems. But it didn’t…it only seemed to read the actual position of the levers at the point I would hit ESC and then come back into the flight.

Once I figured this out, it was easy enough to just remove those bindings from the controller profile so that it looked like it did previous to the patch install, and I no longer had the issue.

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