I’m having trouble understanding the three different categories for peripheral configurations in MSFS 2024. Can anyone explain how they work and share best practices for setting up profiles for different aircraft categories as well as specific aircraft? The UI is quite confusing to me.
Take a look here he mentions that at some point in the video.
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We just updated our article to cover what they mean here:
https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/16459737949980-Controller-Settings-FAQ
The Three Main Presets
Below the controller list, you can see “General Controls”, “Airplane Controls” and “Specific selected plane name controls”
With each of the settings, you can select automatically created profiles or select a custom profile you have created by pressing the arrows to switch between different profiles.
You can determine which commands are which from their label in the UI.
General controls: these keybinds apply to all aircraft in all scenarios.
Aircraft type controls: these keybinds apply anytime you are flying an aircraft that shares a common type (e.g. all airplanes, all helicopter, all gliders., etc)
Specific aircraft model controls (e.g. Cessna 172, Boeing 737 Max, Robinson R66): these keybinds apply only when flying that specific aircraft model and no others. For example, you can have different keybinds for a Guimbal Cabri G2 and Airbus H126 even though both are helicopters.
Each of these profiles can be duplicated, renamed, cleared or deleted by pressing the wheel next to the profile names
Mapping Conflicts
If you are looking to determine if your mappings have any conflicts, look for a number next to it as shown below:
To see the specific commands the mapping conflicts with, click on the Gear icon. On the screen that follows, you’ll see the other commands the button / key / switch is mapped to.
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So does the set as default apply as a default to the selected aircraft or an overall default ? My assumption was that it was for the selected aircraft and it seems to be that way for most senarios but not when doing the activities, training or world photos. It seems hit and miss sometimes the controller will default for the aircraft correctly but the keyboard setting doesnt. Cant even log a bug because I dont know how it’s meant to work. Offical documentation seems thin on the ground for such a complex sim.
Moved to User Support Hub that is more appropriate.
Not sure why Asobo went this route, on 2020 once I had all the options on a joystick controller I could just use it on all planes universally for the most part, just the extra functions like propeller pitch would just not do anything on a fixed pitch plane like Cessna 172.
Because people asked for the ability to set different controller assignments to different aircraft.
It is the same for FS2024.
For your joystick, for each of the 3 Presets:
duplicate each Preset
and name each your Joystick name.
Click the “Apply to all Airplanes” box.
Save it
Why do the controller profiles switch when you get in a new plane?
The video above explains fairly well 
how to organize it. I got lucky the first time with mashing the “Apply to all” button. I recommend watching it.
Going back in, I noticed that I had Assigned mappings for General functions (filter set to Assigned), but General had None showing or no default available. I guess it saw General mappings in the old profiles, but since there was no default, they got lost.
If there was a profile there called “My general profile”, or you see an unresolved error, or you see a profile that disappears and only None will show afterwards, then those mappings will be invalid and you will have to redo them. Deleting and recreating the profiles as indicated in the video above should clear that up.
Not really. What most people wanted was for the game to automatically activate a certain profile based on what plane was selected. In other words we wanted to set a profile for GA planes and have it activate whenever we flew certain planes that we specified.
What they created is just wow.
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Theoretically, it should work. It’s still a bit unclear on the aircraft specific profile. If I have a Virpil throttle with a single lever assignment for all GA planes, I could use that in any airliner with throttle calibration. But, if I have one throttle lever assigned in my Virpil GA profile, and I want separate throttle levers assigned in my Seneca aircraft, will that ignore the entire Virpil GA profile, or just replace the throttle assignments?
Umm, yes, that is what I said.
FS2024 Controls an be configured to work for a type of aircraft.
For the General Aviation set of Airplanes and selected
Device, Joystick A:
- Use one, like the C172 Basic.
- For each of the 3 Presets , duplicate and name each
Generic
GA-Joystick A
Airplane
GA-Joystick A
Specific
GA-Joystick A - Configure each of the above Presets as you desire.
- Save and Back.
For each GA airplane, select the above 3 Presets and save.
FS2024 will remember and use these 3 Presets each time you
select a GA airplane.
Any controls mapped in the 3 Presets above that are not defined for an airplane are ignored.
For example, Joystick A has 3 throttles.
- C172
Throttle Axis mapped to JOYSTICK X AXIS - Longitude
Throttle Axis mapped to JOYSTICK X AXIS
Throttle Axis 1 mapped to JOYSTICK Y AXIS
Throttle Axis 2 mapped to JOYSTICK Z AXIS
Toggle Spoilers mapped to Button X
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Thanks for the time you spent on this.
The fact that you had to type that, just to attempt to explain how to use the new bindings UI, speaks volumes.
Whoever designed this mess deserves an award.
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I probably need a flowchart…
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I have one Flight Stick, VKB Gladiator NXT EVO.
I spent around 2 weeks trying to configure the mappings for it.
Trying to learn the FS2024 Controls program.
I never understood when the program would display the box,
“You need to create a new Preset”. WTF?
I new that I didn’t want to have many Presets that I would have to keep up with and what was mapped to each Preset.
In the end, I now have 3 Presets:
Generic - VKB Gladiator NXT
Airplane - VKB Gladiator NXT
Specific - VLB Gladiator NXT
And , I assign these to every plane.
So, I’m still in FS2020 mode.
For anyone new coming to this task, here is my findings on the Controls program.
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You get a medal for that.
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I think it’s critical to Duplicate, give it a new name like AirplanesWarBRD, tick “apply to all planes” and “set as default” in the Duplicate dialog, and save. They seem to be sticking for me now.
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