Nice discussion. Let me explain the whole “why”.
ok, all my purpose is to get rid of keyboard and mouse, so my hands don’t even need to leave the stick.
In VR, DCS offers a dot point in the center of the view. So with only four keys on the stick / throttle (as mouse left / right / scroll up and down), I can easily look at and turn any switch and knob in the aircraft with very natural head move . It’s a virtual mouse without touching the real mouse. I love it. It makes the game even more real.
and with this, we don’t need to force ourselves to config or recall any bindings.
and because of this powerful wheel I go to X56 throttle (not the other more popular brand although I played A10C a lot) BTW I am using VKB stick which is also great.
So really I don’t need too many “shift “ functions because I prefer to simply look at the switch then click or turn it.
your recommendation does help as now I set one or two shift with this wheel for the most needed “precise course setting”.
while main function of this wheel is still the “as mouse scroll up and down” . And it works wonderfully when I just look at those tens even hundreds scrolling knobs including “internal and external lights” “TACAN” “radio” “volume “ “brightness “....