Separate aircraft settings?

Question

I had setup the Joystick & keyboard for one type of aircraft (Columbia 400).

Then I setup the joystick again for another type of aircraft (helicopter AS350), the setup is obviously different since we need to control the collective, not the propeller, and so on.

But when I loaded back the Columbia 400, the settings for the propeller were still set to "collective" instead. So changing the settings for the AS350 overwrote those of the Columbia.

Is that a known bug? How can I have separate settings for completely different types of aircraft?

Answer 1

There is no easy way to do this at this time.

The workaround I can think of would be to have separate preferences files for each aircraft or for the different settings arrangements you want for the stick. All joystick settings are saved in Output > Preferences > X-Plane Joystick Settings.prf. You would rename the file (perhaps X-Plane Joystick Settings Columbia.prf for example) to save those settings, then make your adjustments. You'd have to go back to the default name (X-Plane Joystick Settings.prf) for X-Plane to switch to those settings.

Comments

OK, thanks for the suggestions!

Answer 2

There is a plugin called x-assign that can save up to three setups per aircraft:

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/50039-x-assign-save-assignments-per-aircraft/