Typical troubles with sticks?

[schaalman]

I bought a Cyborg FLY 5 and am pretty happy with it considering the price.....however, not long after I installed an FSX profile from Saitek/Madcatz for this stick, a few of the buttons do not respond, most notably the #3 button on the thumb panel that's supposed to retract flaps.....but the profile test tells me it is working. What might be going on here?

Another button tells me in the profiler that it engaged/disengages lights but instead it toggles aircraft views....am I missing some esoteric knowledge of this stuff?

[Fozzer]

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I bought a Cyborg FLY 5 and am pretty happy with it considering the price.....however, not long after I installed an FSX profile from Saitek/Madcatz for this stick, a few of the buttons do not respond, most notably the #3 button on the thumb panel that's supposed to retract flaps.....but the profile test tells me it is working. What might be going on here?

Another button tells me in the profiler that it engaged/disengages lights but instead it toggles aircraft views....am I missing some esoteric knowledge of this stuff?

I would think its much safer to scroll through the Flight Sim drop-down Menu, button "Assignments", and set the button assignments on the Joystick to your preference...
..that's what I do... ...!

Saitek Cyborg Evo Force.

Paul... 8-)...!

[Steve M]

As Paul said make your own profiles. I also made my own diagrams of each profile I made so I don't forget my own button assignments. (FSX tubes, FSX props, FS9, CFS 2, IL2, and others.) And don't forget to turn on the profile before you fire up the sim or the stick will only operate on its default settings if at all.

[Club508]

I remember having big troubles with my joystick.
had the upper half of my throttle being rudder left, my right aileron be throttle to 50%, my left aileron being elevator, and I'm pretty sure I had my elevators as my ailerons and I couldn't figure out how the heck to fix it.  I checked everything and it was registerign correctly, but it didn't fix.
I eventually figured out how to reset it back to factory default settings, which fixed everything. Try factory settings if it's able to do that.  Also make sure you have it plugged in before you start FS.

Hope that helps!

[Fozzer]

[quote]I remember having big troubles with my joystick.
had the upper half of my throttle being rudder left, my right aileron be throttle to 50%, my left aileron being elevator, and I'm pretty sure I had my elevators as my ailerons and I couldn't figure out how the heck to fix it.

[Club508]

[quote][quote]I remember having big troubles with my joystick.
had the upper half of my throttle being rudder left, my right aileron be throttle to 50%, my left aileron being elevator, and I'm pretty sure I had my elevators as my ailerons and I couldn't figure out how the heck to fix it.

[Fozzer]

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Ummm....