MSFS 2024 Setting your controls. Enough to get you started.

In this tutorial, I offer an honest appraisal of the MSFS 2024 control settings—a feature that, in my view, suffers from unclear instructions and occasional inconsistencies. While some parts of the controls feel broken or counterintuitive, there’s enough here to help you get the basics set up and working.

If you have seen my previous video - 10 tips to save you time - you will have seen the crucial help on how to remove drift from your axes on any controller, if this is causing a problem and making things unplayable. I have included this because I think it is so important, but those of you who have seen it may want to skip to 5 mins in.

I’ll guide you through the layout, explain the logic behind the approach and cover essential tips to make navigating the controls easier. Whether you’re struggling with mapping functions or adjusting sensitivity, this tutorial is designed to get you flying with confidence. That is, when the sensitivity settings changes actually work in the sim - one day.

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[stefti]

I applaud your patience and nerves. Peace be with you!

[Essjay]

Will come back to this and look at it again... I too have found this aspect of 2024 frustrating... one major thing for me was how in 2020 the ease if using my hat switch to cycle through a planes default instrument views. It still does it but ONLY if I select an instrument view using my keyboard views assignment 1st arrrggghhh! But I guess it will all get there eventually.

As a casual simmer with limited time I just want all aircraft to work the same out of the box... although I appreciate ornothopter helicopter Harrier and Osprey require some extra assignments 😂🙂

Thanks for the video.

[kapf]

I've got the X56 too and have the same issue on MSFS 2020 with the view stick drifting and eliminated that like you with the deadzone. It wasn't always like that and assumed it was my X56.

[darnedghost]

Nice video, anyhow it´s not that big of a difference from 2020 and you can now bind custom views to anything you like.

[bsndaralhammori]

Quick question, every time I start the game i lose all my control settings and camera views, why is that ?

[benjones]

the choppers are unusable in flightsim 2024 now. It used to be the throttle up and down on my stick allowed you to gain or lose altitude. Now, because I don't really understand the terminology, I have no clue which one to assign to allow me to go up and down. All so irritating.
Update: Asked Grok, it told me to change the collective axis to the stick control. Why did they change this.

[davidmustaine]

man 2020 was way easier to set up with a Joystick than this game its crazy, Dunno what Asobo&MS were thinking.

[mikeattewell]

As of yesterdays update my stick rudder twist axis now turns the nose wheel hardly any degrees. Setting now in cloud and wont change... for the amount of fixes and bugs I cant believe they didnt fix many them b4 release.

[andrewbutler]

I have the same HOTAS, though I have no pre-assigned settings for either Throttle or Joystick. Worse, I CANNOT get the throttle to move in aircraft. When I scan and move the throttle left and right it correctly picks up Joystick LAXIS X & Y but no joy in the aircraft. Also, when I go into Hardware, there is no axis movement picked up from either the throttle or joystick. Throttle movement picked up fine in DCS. Anyone here have any ideas? What should the binding be for LAXIS X and Y? Thanks for your help.

[donfrith]

Will this solution work for the trim wheel also? I moves slightly on its own.

[KwillATL]

Question, soon as I taxi and start giving it some throttle it just turns off eventually. I don’t have too many keybinds yet and I don’t have certain buttons linked to the same thing.

[brunogt]

Can you export your controller configuration??

[jayteeaitch]

just 2 things - I have the same 2 x56 controllers you have - as well as the alpha bravo pair. Because of your video of the 125
I just bought it -with 2024 in mind - and - as you did for the 145 - any chance you can give us a simple guide to the settings you use
for the 125 - on either 2020 and or 2024? - and I notice that 2020 settings where it shows the controller - it also
shows the numbering system - which is obviously helpful - but Asobo have not done that with the settings in 2024
which is a shame and unhelpful in the midst of all its other problems

[KwillATL]

I can fly prop planes no problem, I just moved to jet’s and when I give it throttle it’s turns off 🤦🏽‍♂️

[paizonryker]

Trim does not work in this heli correct? They need to fix it.

[carpless]

any idea how to get flight panels to work?

[TheKsipiora]

Yeah the difference is literally massive and so so so hard to understand. 2020 was simple, easy to know what was changing what, and I’m on Xbox so keys are limited.

2024 takes that, and it’s now only understandable to astrophysics who have an IQ of 500.
There are so many, and again being on Xbox you have massive differences in binding options. And I find it very difficult to know which is what, and what should be and is essential. For example
In throttle there’s like 10 options, and an additional 10 with throttle to 10, throttle to 20, etc.
Like…. Huh? Am I supposed to increase my hotas at 10 percent intervals and map them? That’s one of like 60, there are so so so many with controls that I think are the same or are just have no clue what is what. I’ve literally spent hours, yes hours, trying to make sense of it and bind and it always ends with me saying what?!!? Forget it, and I give up