FSX doesn't recognize Autopilot Panel

The first thing to do is, in the FSX controls setup screen, select the BBI-32 device and delete all the assignments for it. If you have functions assigned in FSX and LINDA you will have problems. Next, did you actually program the switches in LINDA? Just having the library won't do anything unless you program the switches to link them to the library functions.

This part isn't about LINDA or the autopilot panel. If all your devices have stopped working you have obviously deleted the wrong things. (If things are going wrong it's always a good idea to restart FSX first to see if they have fixed themselves.) What steps did you take to delete the assignments? You should do this:

(1) Go to settings/controls in the main menu.
(2) Click the buttons/keys tab.
(3) Select 'Button Box Interface' in the 'controller type' list.
(4) Select 'all events' in the 'event category list.
(5) Scroll down the list of events and wherever you see anything in the 'joystick' column, select that event and click 'delete joystick assignment'. Be careful with this screen, it is an ergonomic nightmare. You need to be careful that you do not accidentally change the selected controller or you will be deleting the wrong things.
(6) If you use slew mode, you will need to click 'flight mode' to 'slew' and repeat steps 4 and 5.
(7) Click OK.

If you do this correctly it should have no effect on the other controllers. You should not have deleted any of the keyboard assignments, you are only interested in button clicks.


I don't know what you mean by this. The BBI-32 has nothing to do with the joystick or keyboard. Windows sees it as just another joystick. You can program it independently of any other joystick you have connected.


NO. You are thinking of this backwards. What you are trying to do is get the AP switches to make the appropriate FSX autopilot events to happen. It doesn't matter if other buttons on other joysticks also make these events happen. (Well obviously it does matter, but it will not prevent the AP switch from working.) There is no rule in FSX that an event can only be bound to one device - any number of devices can control the same events. You will almost certainly have the autopilot events bound to keystrokes as well because FSX has a bunch of default key mappings. It doesn't matter - it has no effect on whether the AP buttons work.


Does LINDA work at all? i.e. can you successfully program any button on any joystick to invoke any LINDA function and have something happen in FSX? Can we assume you have correctly installed LINDA for FSX SE? If you have the boxed edition as well you may be programming the wrong LINDA.

It is worth remembering that you are trying to do two different things here. First, you want the AP switches to invoke the appropriate FSX autopilot events. That part needs LINDA. And second, you want to prevent any other FSX events being invoked by the AP switches. That part requires that you delete any button assignments FSX has 'helpfully' created when you plugged the BBI-32 in. For experimental purposes it is worth going to the FSX controls screen and unchecking the 'use controllers' box.

Oops! Did you figure out how to get it to run automatically with FSX?