I'm kinda in the same same situation, I'll be buying the game as soon as it comes out on Steam or when my joystick arrives, whichever comes first.
I was planning on using this profile http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=58484&highlight=X52+profile
with pov as the primary of POV3 (moving CMS to alt-POV3) and one of the unused rotaries as a zoom.
Now the fact that its an old profile dosent bother me because I was going to assign all the buttons myself in order to learn the joysticks software but looking at the keyboard command list Im at a loss about the right buttons to pick for POV.
thers so many of them, view left, view left slow, camera view left, camera view left slow, Cockpit camera view left. all that just for moving left. What do they all do? whats the difference? Is there a guide somewhere that explains button assignments? the manual just deals with the actual plane.
I know its a 6dof cockpit so there should be controls for moving the camera itself (cockpit Camera view maybe) and others to turn the head around but that still leaves alot of then unnacounted for.
Im hoping to move the pinky switch assignment somewhere else in that profile so that I can use the mode button, and maybe make one mode which is mostly camera and mouse controls for looking around and pressing cockpit buttons.
Oh well, whatever happens this should be interesting considering i'm pretty sure this is my first flight sim since microsoft combat flight simulator (1).