Has anyone got a good profile for the Saitek X52 in FS2004?

The one available from Saitek does not seem very logical and it does not use the rotary or slide switches at all.

I thought I had read that you can use the rotarys and slider for things like rudder/elevator trim and the slider for prop speed and mixture control.

The advantage of the above would mean that you could check trim/speed/pitch/mixture state from the controller control position without looking for gauges or opening mini panels within the sim.

I tried programming a rotary switch with bands to control rudder trim. but the resulting profile crashed both the sim and the controller programming software ! ( I obviousely have not fully got the hang of this profiling yet).

An X45 expert may be able to help with the principles involved, even though I know that the profile layouts are different .

Yes exactly, the trim is on the buttons on the rotary switches , but the variable rotary switches themselves do not appear to be used , neither is the slider switch. I suspect that the X52 variable controls are not compatable with FS9 if the Saitek one seems about the best?

I suppose that's my  basic problem .

Trying to figure out how to programme the rotarys and slider to do what I want. I have tried without success to follow the Saitek manual and have had no joy from the Saitek help team.

I wondered if anyone in the Sim community had solved this issue

Yes did that , but they were not much help , other than to say " for FS9 programme them from within the game rather than use profiles". I had been trying to do that.

However , by experimenting I stumbled upon the solution to the problem. It may be of interst to others.

You can assign the rotarys and slider to a new Joystick axis ( eg elevator trim ) within Assignments ( as I had tried ) but they did not work. However if you assigned one of the main joystick movements ( eg fore and aft of joystick ie main Y axis ) to elevator trim for example it would work.

It seems that when you assign a new axis FS9 defaults the sensitivity to zero, so while the main joystick axis will operate the new  function the rotary switches and slider do not put out a strong enough signal to operate them.

The solution is to, once having created a new axis, go into "Sensitivities" and turn them up. Then they will work.