My axis controls stopped working

[John_The_Bodge]

Hullo Chaps

 

When I started flying BoS et al, I assigned some dials on my X56 throttle to the various analogue control axes.

 

Water & oil radiators, rpm and mixture.

 

To start with all worked fine, but since a few weeks, I have been unable to control these axes. I know the controls on the throttle are fine, as I use them daily in other sims - just in IL-2 they are not working any more.

 

I just checked the assignments in the options and all is okay, so I'm baffled as to why they aren't working while flying. I'm flying mostly the Yak-1 (both), but it was the same in the IL-2, La-5 and LaGG-3.

 

Any suggestions?

[Willy__]

Have you tried re-assign them ? Sometimes when you plug the joystick on different usb port the game thinks its another device and the old assignments wont work....

[John_The_Bodge]

Yes, I did that just now, before my last flight.

[-TBC-AeroAce]

Are you flying on a normal server or in normal mode for the sp? If you are in normal mode the Ai will control your rads and rpm for you.

[Willy__]

If you are playing on normal difficulty the prop pitch, rads and mixture are automated, but you can disable the auto mode and mannually control it yourself, iirc the default buttons to toggle between auto/manual is Shift+R, Shift+N and Shif+M for rads, prop pithc and mixture, respectively.

[John_The_Bodge]

Yes, I did wonder if it was somehow running in auto mode. I was wondering how it had changed since my previous flights, but you are right - all my initial flights were on servers, though the first one where I realised it wasn't working was also online (the checksix server) - but maybe it got switched somehow while I wasn't used to the new HOTAS layout.

 

I'll give it a try, anyway - thanks for your replies.

Edited December 25, 2017 by Brixmis

[John_The_Bodge]

Yes, all sorted now that I have set it to expert - much more fun, too!

 

Thanks.