A poll of sorts!

[halcyon]

Originally posted by Yeager
views?  I just look forward, and fly in circles to see whats behind me.

I really doubt this.

[MotorOil1]

Use to use the keypad when I was running the old MS stick.  Now I've converted to the hat on the Saitek.

[scot12b]

JB21 and Creton had me map my X52 with their View set up wow  I never touch the key Board:O

[Spikes]

Originally posted by scot12b
JB21 and Creton had me map my X52 with their View set up wow  I never touch the key Board:O

just your views? I'll have to find them...

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by Stang
Q and W for flaps, numpad to look around, P for wep.  Throttle's on the left side of the base of my CH stick though.

Bout the same for me.  Hat switches for views but keyboard for wep, gear and flaps...Not that my 38G has wep, but on those occasions where I'm in a J

[scottydawg]

Originally posted by thndregg
Although Saitek makes great game gear, they seem to overlook short fingers, even after adjustments.
 

...Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.

[Pawz]

I have everything on my throttle and stick. I use microstick for rudders my legs are to long for the pedals. All my views are on my stick and my look up is on throttle.

[Brooke]

I have always and do now use my keyboard for views.  A hat doesn't have all the perturbations by itself, and I use my hat switch for toggling zoom on and off and for zooming in and out (hat up for toggle zoom, left for zoom out, right for zoom in).

[715]

Stick for simple views, check six, local radio, and WEP.  Keyboard for everything else, including many views.

I never use the buttons on the base of my MS FF2.  I can never remember what they are mapped to, and it's inconvenient to move my left hand from the keyboard over to the stick to use them anyway.

[Platano]

Hat Switch

[SHawk]

Man you guys really need to move into the 21st century. I suppose you guys are still using rotary dial telephones too. I use the Joystick for everything imaginable. I can show many of you how to setup an X52 for optimum Keyboardless fighting. Of course for everything else I use a command pad (also saitek) and of course CH rudder pedals. There is almost nothing in the game I don't have setup to some sort of one button control. Salvo's, speeds, autopilots ect. ect.
If you want me to elaborate, just ask.

[jaxxo]

I bet you have a mic button on the stik to quickly yell at everyone fer gettin near "your" kill after they save you...rofl..Woooooooooooooowo ooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[eh]

Between my Saitek gamer's keypad (27 programmable functions) and a MSFFPro stick with all its buttons, I have been using hat switches for views since I first started playing years ago. I never thought of using the Saitek gamer's keyboard pad for programming views, and then using the hatswitch for other functions, but I may have to. My last MSFFPro stick's hat switch (right position) is deteriorating fast ... hitting it with a hammer to get it to work for a sortie or two is a little extreme, but it works! So far.

I'm impressed by all the great sticks who use the numpad keys for views. I think I will have to try it, or a TrackIR.

[eh]

Originally posted by jaxxo
I bet you have a mic button on the stik to quickly yell at everyone fer gettin near "your" kill after they save you...rofl..Woooooooooooooowo ooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nope, we never save SHawk! We wait until he dies and THEN we steal his kill! It's a lot easier that way.

[killnu]

all this talk of sticks?!  I use a touch pad for controls and the numbers across the top of my 13 inch laptop to play....