USB Xbox 360 Controller Right Shoulder Button can't control either elevator trim command

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Yes. Well, all my community addons. There’s no easy way to remove addons purchased from the Marketplace. But I don’t have any weird ones, I don’t buy much from the store. Just a couple of sceneries, a few Microsoft addon planes, and I think one other plane.

Brief description of the issue:

I’m unable to assign a wired Xbox 360 Controller Right Shoulder button to control either the up or down elevator trim controls. It used to work fine in FSX. I can assign either of the elevator trim commands to the Left Shoulder button.

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Set either the elevator trim up (nose up) or elevator trim down (nose down) trim controls to the right shoulder button on a wired Xbox 360 controller. Make sure to remove or change other assignments already attached to this button. The elevator trim control will not activate. The button works fine for other assignments, just not either elevator trim commands. The Left Shoulder button works fine with both of the elevator trim commands.

PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:

Windows 11, Lenovo 16" Legion Pro 7i 16IRX8H Gaming Laptop (Onyx Gray), USB Xbox 360 Controller,

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I’m not sure when the issue started, it was before the current 1.38.2.0 version.

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I cannot repro. I added the assignments:

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and checked that they worked correctly in the Cessna Grand Caravan (which was my current active aircraft), which they did.

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Ok, thanks so much! Xbox 360 Controller?
It’s funny, I can assign other commands to it, just not the trim commands. I wonder why?
Well, I can assign it, it just doesn’t work.

I wonder if I need to redo a driver for it or something?
I have two of them, and both act the same.

Oh, I don’t think I checked on my desktop, I’ve only tried it on this computer, I’ll try that, too.

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Yes, it is an Xbox 360 controller:

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I’m at my home PC today, I’ll check it out on it, too, see if it’s a controller issue or PC issue, or MSFS Controller definition issue. Hopefully not a driver issue.

The laptop computer is Windows 11 btw. My desktop is Win10.