anton the gamepad guys need help
 

we need the ability to map the flight controls to the right stick

Too many people are used to flying that way , be it video games , or RC plane trainers.

IMO the current setup is going to scare away customers if they cannot choose

so there should be an option in the final game to map the flight controls to the right stick and the rudder and throttle to the left

I think that would be smart.
Maybe the new game Battlefield 1943 (it has some focus on planes) will draw som people over to try Birds of Prey - but they will not find it easy to flip the controls.
Its like writing with you wrong hand, it works but looks and feel like s**t

I'm dedicated to this and getting a joystick so I'm okay, but guiltyspark has a point. For people that are used to roll/pitch on right stick it is next to impossible to play BoP.

I've always played with plane controls on left, head movement on right. The games I've played were naturally set up like that as well.

I agree, after years of flying RC aircraft, I'm struggling with having to reverse what I know on the sticks. Need to be able to swap them over please.

thats nice , but everyone else doesnt

i was so happy to see this on xbox live this morning ,great game but its hard for me as i fly mode 2 rc planes and i cant risk playing this game how it is and then crash a expensive model because ive got wrong handed playing this great game ,please please make it so you can swap the sticks round ,otherwise i might be tempted to take my controller apart and switch the wires

my first post but i like the game ,so i had to join and just say a lot of us rc flyers fly mode 2 and its setup as mode 1 at the moment and would be a easy addition to the game hopfully

There is something else I see that Anton should fix. The head movement with the right stick. It is a pain for my fingers I have to hold the right stick to moving the view around, it kills the situational awareness because you can´t look around quickly and easily. I would fix it or let people to map their own controls.

To me, look around the cockpit is 60% of the combat and flying and if you can´t do this fast enough...

its the opposite for me im so used to using left stick for pitch and roll when i bought bf1943 it seemed odd to fly but i learned it

Actually, that's not a bad idea. I've got an extra wired controller sitting around, may give it a shot.

Perhaps an easy fix would be to allow toggle of look around mode rather than having to hold it down.

e.g. click the stick to enter look around mode, click again to leave.