Hi Pete & John,
Thank you for the time and efforts in responding to my request.
I do apologize for posting it on FAQ instead of the forum. not sure what happened.
now let me start fresh so you could have a better picture.
Saitek (Logitech) do have the following:
1- Yoke
2- Throttles
3- Rudder pedals.
4- Flight Switch panel: contains the landing gear, engines start/stop, lights switches, and other switches
5- Flight multi panel: contains the Auto Pilot switches and LCD screen
6- Radio panel: contains radios
7- Cessna Trim Wheel
around 2012, I got my first flight sim setup using FSX & FSUIPC4 and had items 1-6 above.
they all worked fine on Win XP and i could configure item 5 using FSUIPC4 if my memory serves me well.
in 2014 had to sell everything.
4 months ago, i purchased new set of a new set of items 1-3 only , then purchased item 4 last week.
currently using Windows 10 home 64 bits , and FSX is running in Windows Vista mode.
Windows 10 can see all items and I have downloaded the latest drivers for all from Logitech,
i have also checked them using Saitek/logitch test software. all functions are OK . which means there is no problem with windows 10 .
while FSX & FSUIPC4 can see all items, they can not see item 5 (switch panel). therefore i am unable to use it.
What i noticed though is when i check the HID's in the device manager , only the Yoke and the throttles shows up as an HID, the switch panel is shown as a USB input device.
I have installed the SPAD (free) but nothing has changed.
I might be forced to purchase the SPAD.next now f this is not resolved.
Regards
Nigel