I have been flying MSFS every day since it was released With no problem. Loaded MSFS 2020 today. Startup was normal. Chose an aircraft and chose a departure airport. All that loaded fine. Discovered the yoke and keyboard did not control the aircraft. With the aircraft on the departure runway, it started it’s takeoff roll all by itself and the yoke and keyboard had no control…It was like they weren’t hooked up.
Has anyone experienced this before and is there is there a fix.
Also, in the event I need to re-install MSFS 2020, how is that done. Are there any written instructions.
I have a USB Thrustmaster 1600 yoke and a standard USB AZIO keyboard.
Thank you…Malcolm Arnot
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This happened to me several times too. My USB keyboard becomes unresponsive at some random point and I have to close the game by opening the task manager and selecting “End task”. I do not experience the issue every time I use MSFS and I do not know how to trigger the issue so it’s difficult to troubleshoot.
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My Honeycomb yoke does not work at all. The switches panel too it dead. It works on other FS software so I know it’s not the hardware.
A bit more of an explanation might help??
Can you see the yoke in Controls?
Can you see it in Windows Game Controllers?
What does this mean…“The switches panel too it dead”
I have a Thrustmaster 1600 joystick not yoke. I rebooted the computer a couple of times and the keyboard and joystick are still unresponsive. When I go to Controllers Section in the Flight Simulator set up and push various buttons on the joystick and keyboard that are mapped to a particular action, the associated number in the controller page lights up indicating that the number button on the joystick and keyboard is responding in the simulator. But when I load a flight, the keyboard and joystick do not work.
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Hi !!
You have to calibrate your joystick in Windows before starting the game.
Just clic on “execute” menu in left windows bar and type joy.clp
JP from FS-Creation.be
Hi,
try to switch the autopilot on/off for the flightcontrols.
Have the same issue sometimes.
Honeycomb Alpha Yoke is not working in any aircraft. None of the switches, or yoke axis are working. The yoke is recognized, and appears in list of peripherals available for control. A set of default assignments appears, but the simulator does not respond to inputs from the yoke. Other peripherals (e.g. Logitech G Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant) work fine. The Windows Device Manager, shows no problems. It is plugged directly into a motherboard USB 3.0 port, I have also tried a 2.0 port. (Asus Z97-Pro, i7-4790K, GTX-1060 3GB, 32GB Kingston HyperX.) The Alpha Yoke works fine in X-Plane 11 Demo.
Yes, I can see the yoke in Controls. - It appears with correct default assignments.
Yes, I can see it in Windows Game Controllers - Windows does not indicate any problem.
Sorry bad typo about switches. What I should have written was that not only the yoke movements are not recognized; but also the switch panel for lights does not work. As I said before, all defaults in “Control” appear correctly.
I want to thank everyone who submitted suggestions on how to fix the issue; and, I did update my peripheral device drivers, but that did not fix it.
I have discovered why my flight stick and keyboard did not work and these peripherals did not provide any input to control the aircraft.
As you are all aware, there is a drop-down menu that will allow you to view various things or change settings on-the-fly. One of these is AI Control. One of the settings allows you to turn ON “AI Control Aircraft.” I must have turned this on accidentally. When this is ON, you cannot control the aircraft and the co-pilot controls the aircraft. Not only can yo not control the aircraft, but the AI co-pilot will start the aircraft, taxi to the take-off runway and take off even when you don’t want it to.
I hope this helps anyone that has the same problem that I had.
Thanks…Malcolm
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I didn’t know that option existed. That’s pretty interesting. I guess the game is so beautiful that the developers thought you’d want to take a scenic flight–an Uber Pilot. I can’t knock them for that.