Joystick xplane how to#

Electronically control-loading hardware should watch the datarefs sim/cockpit2/controls/torque_tube_split_roll and sim/cockpit2/controls/torque_tube_split_pitch to know whether the control deflections between both sides should be synced.

This means that both mechanically linked hardware, as well as electronically linked control-loading hardware will work.

For linked (“Boeing”) flight controls, the greater deflection wins.

The copilot flight control hardware should be assigned the axes “Copilot Roll”, “Copilot Pitch” and “Copilot Yaw”. The default axes, named “Roll”, “Pitch” and “Yaw” should be assigned for the flight control hardware installed on the pilot’s side. X-Plane supports assignment of joystick hardware axes to roll, pitch and yaw controls for both the pilot and the copilot side. If in doubt, you can use the X-Plane flight model output (Ctrl+M) to visualize the control forces and then make sure the physics model matches your animations when the flight controls are split.

Joystick xplane how to#

Please refer to the article on wings on how to animate flight control surfaces. See below for commands for the priority pushbuttons.įor animating the flight control surfaces on the wings and tail, it is imperative that the correct animation datarefs are used on each wing, and not simply animations mirrored between right and left or keyframed for differential deflections. X-Plane will ensure the control inputs are added or filtered as needed and also not deflect the sticks with the autopilot. The co-pilot side stick should be animated using sim/cockpit2/controls/yoke_pitch_ratio_copilot and sim/cockpit2/controls/yoke_roll_ratio_copilot. For independent (“Airbus”) flight controls, the pilot side stick should be animated with sim/cockpit2/controls/yoke_pitch_ratio and sim/cockpit2/controls/yoke_roll_ratio.X-Plane will ensure the controls move together based on flight control linkage, and with autopilot input.

The co-pilot side yoke/stick should use sim/cockpit2/controls/total_pitch_ratio_copilot and sim/cockpit2/controls/total_roll_ratio_copilot. For linked (“Boeing”) flight controls, the pilot side yoke/stick should be animated with sim/cockpit2/controls/total_pitch_ratio and sim/cockpit2/controls/total_roll_ratio.To animate the cockpit controls correctly the following datarefs should be used: First, aircraft designers must tell X-Plane whether the cockpit flight controls are linked (most small aircraft, Boeing aircraft, older non-FBW Airbus aircraft) or are electronically added (new Airbus and other FBW aircraft with stick input).