This gives you a warning that you have dual assignments in X-Plane, but that’s OK. To find my axes and button assignment numbers I first went into X-Plane’s joystick configuration screen and assigned the axes of BOTH yokes to pitch and yaw. TXT file called “initial_assignments.txt” in its plugin folder that shows initial joystick and button assignments. Fortunately every time you launch X-Plane FlyWithLua puts a little. Getting the code to work meant finding out which axis numbers X-Plane was associating with each of the yokes. He said I should be able to write a script for one of the buttons on my yoke where if I flip the button to the left the left controls are live, and if I flip it to the right the right controls are live. He even volunteered possible code. I had posted on the forums that I was hoping the final release version of X-Plane 11 would allow multiple sets of controls, and one of the very helpful folks in that community - Teddii - responded that a Lua script might be the answer.

X-Plane is very easy to integrate with Lua thanks to the FlyWithLua plugin. Lua scripts are like little apps you can run to get things done that the sim software won’t do itself. Lots of simmers and cockpit builders use Lua to write little bits of computer code, called “scripts,” that allow them to execute unique commands (like having the buttons they installed in their panel turn on the cabin lights). Lua is designed to be a lightweight embeddable scripting language and is used for all sorts of applications from games to web applications and image processing. Lua is a powerful and fast programming language that is easy to learn and use and to embed into your application. There is an answer, though, and it turns out it is Lua. is a big part of what I enjoy about the Basement Sim. (This is not the case with FSX or P3D, which simply read whichever control provides the most recent or largest input.) Only one set of working controls is a real problem for me, as being able to fly with family, friends, etc. It seems that in X-Plane if roll/pitch/yaw are assigned to more than one controller, only one will work and X-Plane disregards the other.

The one lingering barrier to my complete switch to X-Plane was the inability to use both sets of the Basement Sim’s controls. * NOTE: I updated this post on 1/16/17 to clarify how you find the initial assignments of axes and buttons.

X plane 11 joystick