[d.burnette]

Ok so this morning I go in and take a look at the controls mapping.
Originally my intent was to create a new joystick file for my Cougar, thereby giving me access to all the combination of buttons/axis on this great HOTAS.

But no, once I got in there I thought wth, I will just assign some buttons/axis directly from within the game. Thought maybe I could do it the easy way to at least get me in the air.

LOL, by the time I got to a training flight - the solo flight - I pretty much forgot most of what I assigned. Took me forever to figure out how to start the dang engine.
Trying to taxi that plane it gives you for that flight - Spit maybe? - man it veered to the left so bad, even holding in full right rudder. So ok I wil see if I can just take off from the grass - huge mistake, never made it off the ground lol.

But holy cow, the sound on my Klipsch 5.1 sound system - cranked up high - wow, love it!

At this point think it may be best, I just sit down for a couple of hours, write out a plan for control mapping using a Cougar profile - and get it done - assign the keys and write macros in the Cougar profile for them, then assign to proper buttons/axis. Then I will be done with it, and I can print out a diagram of my stick and throttle for quick reference by my side until I get all the controls on my HOTAS as related to CLoD basically memorized...

I thought maybe I could use my older 1946 profile as a baseline, appears many default key commands have changed though along with some nomenclature and obviusly more commands available to map...

Going to start from scratch and get as good and extensive a joystick profile created for this game as I can... might be a late night tonight.

Btw, any way to reload the default key assignments? Not sure I saw that option whilst I was in there.

But wow, that sound of those engines - I think I am hooked!
Btw, did I mention the sound??