Vaas Montenegro

.. and then make a backup of the working one! :)

He may have, as he has been using the existing components, but having lots of problems, hence his earlier posting on Avsim http://forum.avsim.net/topic/381125-flight-controls-gone-haywire/ - but it didn't come up in the conversation, and my experience with serial ports has been solely using laptops to connect to servers in a past life... I'm not aware of any serial driver interface to FSX, as everything nowadays uses USB2 or 3.

Hi Pete: Alan has one USB device hooked to X & Y yoke axes, but as we went along it became plain that all other connectivity was either direct serial, or USB through one of the mickey-mouse serial-usb converters (which don't work). He's building up what will be a fairly complex airliner-style flight deck ( not there yet), and some of our time was spent moving from the pretty "Windows 7 for Dummies" interface over to an XP-style interface, where he could access the .ini, fsx.cfg and the standard.xml files, etc. The serial/USB issues only cropped up after we successfully recognised the USB X & Y axes and then ploughed into a serial rudder and throttle. There's a second controller setup (for heli's) that we looked at, but it has a "converter" on it, and, although lots of "in-out" activity - it wouldn't work either, so we abandoned the endeavour altogether, and Alan is now waiting for his new GoFlight unit to arrive. We did, however cover the processes of profile creation, axes input and calibration, and buttons/swithes inputs, so he should be all set for when the new http://www.goflighti...-ultimate-pilot arrives. I was pretty sure that serial interface was not supported, Pete, but whether FSX or FSUIPC - I wasn't sure - only remembering something about serial not working some eight years ago, but now being too old to go back that far.... :) Thanks, pj

Pete - I've been simming since '86, an IT (Solaris/True64) SysAdmin for darn' near fifteen years, same age as you, and I just had to pop in here and tell you just how much I appreciate your product and your dedicated and superbly patient support of it. I've been a "do-it-your-selfer" for years, having built my own controllers and cockpit using a number of differing USB panels, and I can't think of a single more valuable addition to the sim that I have purchased, and you might chuckle, but prior to Jahman finally persuading me to "just run everything through FSUIPC" a few months back - I used stupid dos script after dos script to control just about everything that talked to the sim (still have one or two kicking around)... Now it's fully the reverse.. your product controls and calibrates everything. Unbelievable!! Thank You, All the very Best, Paul J. Ontario, Canada.