Such a game changer (pun unintended, but appreciated).
Good lord, I’ve been struggling with adjusting knobs via mouse movement for over a year. Now I find out you can move then with the mouse wheel?
I take back 70% of my bad feelings about the ATR autopilot.
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I’ve found myself going the other way – using the mouse wheel is very unreliable when using a TrackIR head tracker, because the mouse doesn’t move along with your head (and thus, the knobs).
Click-and-drag seems a lot more reliable, in that I can move the mouse back and forth to “dial in” the desired value without losing the connection to the knob.
This is especially so on the G1000 dual knobs, where a movement of a few pixels means you’re moving the wrong knob with the scroll wheel. 
If you press shift you scroll even faster!
Ha. I’m 90% VR, so… finding shift is kinda tricky.
I honestly wish they had the VR mouse in TrackIR mode, so it wouldn’t be so funky when making subtle head movements. 
With cockpit interaction, including in VR, you can effectively select a knob to adjust, look away probably at display of what you’re setting it to, and use the scroll wheel to do the adjustment.
Normally the mouse pointer would follow your gaze, but using this method effectively keeps your virtual hand on the knob, allowing you to adjust it without constantly having to look at it. Especially useful in the ATR when selecting an altitude, for example.
I’ve used that trick for the MV-22 engine startup knobs for a long time. Adding the mouse wheel has made the ATR significantly less frustrating dealing with the autopilot.
You can, but if you miss that rotary by a tiny amount you end up zooming in, and out instead, and in a bouncy cockpit with headtracking that is a proper nightmare.
Which reminds me, I really should have another look at the non-legacy mod again where you latch on to things. I hated it at first, and reverted to Legacy, but perhaps its got better…or I’ve become more tolerant to different things, in the meantime. 
Note you can disable the scrollwheel zoom in the cockpit by unbinding zoom from the scroll buttons in mouse control settings.
I should probably do that as I have a Tobii 5, but sometimes its handy to zoom if I’m trying to pick out a landing site in the distance. Decisions, decisions.