Grabbing the stick in a way that the index finger presses the red one in the front might not be a bad idea, considering that the stick would be just a bit too small if I hadn't removed the pinie switch cap.
Though mapping in that way i think i'd rather put the primary guns on the small red and the cannons on trigger.
I have aux0 mapped to select engine one, aux1 to select both engines and aux2 to select engine 2. works nice, just the latest config too can't do that (can't map aux0 to report as joystick button aux0...). The mode switch I don't use at all - I can't get the profiler to set it to send joystick buttons, only keyboard strokes, which is crap ihmo, they might end up in the chat bar and I can't press more than 3 buttons at the same time.