What Keys should I map to the Joysticks and controls?

[SEE]

I tend to set my X52 to enable the commands that are essential for combat and management of flight. The Fuel cock, Engine Start, Mirrors, Net Stats, Map, etc, I access from the keyboard or mouse as these tend to be one off or rarely used.

Trim, Flaps, weapons, Radiator, prop pitch, mixture, gun-sight adjustments, etc are all mapped to the stick. The view controls depend on whether you have Head-tracking or not and controls such as Padlock depend your difficulty settings.

The Mode switch when used with the SST software (or similar Joystick UTILITY) can be rotated to three positions and each position gives you the ability to map every switch and button to do something entirely different. Assigning a shift function to any key (such as the 'pinkie') is also done using the SST software and this, along with the mode switch, gives you up to six possible alternatives for every button - that's a lot of buttons.........

[PotNoodles]

Thanks for the replies, but I'm still not sure what the pinkie does. Does it act as a shift key and how does it do three different commands for one switch? I can see why the mode button acts as three commands, but i'm still confused about the pinkie.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Yes its a shift key. You have to set it up in the softweare for the stick.

All the buttons times by the 3 dial times by 2 (pinkie shift) = lots of confusing buttons!

[SEE]

The 'pinkie' is just another switch and can be used for anything you want - it is not dedicated to a 'shift' function as such. Any button can be used as a shift function using the SST software if you prefer.

[JG26_EZ]

If I may add ...You can use almost any button in a two-button combination like mentioned above, and the pinky button can be mapped as a single button like any other. I just mentioned the pinky button because it is easily accessable for "doubling up your buttons".

S~


*Edit* lol "SEE" just beat me to it :/

[zahnartz62]

I asked in another thread if SST modes are recognized by CoD. I assumed they are not so use Mode 1 as above and then keyboard. I would rather use all 3 modes..many thanks for advice and any tips you may offer.

[FS~Phat]

Cod uses 3 modes just fine. You would normally configure different keys for each mode. I use mode 1 for ground ops/landing/takeoff, mode 2 for combat and mode 3 for bombing. Some keys are common across all 3 modes.

[zahnartz62]

tHANKS fs...So..I can use SST 3 mode profile and leave the ingame settings as they are including the range of motion for flaps, rudder etc? Things are looking up!!