VPC MongoosT-50CM2 - Tomcat profile?

[GunSlingerAUS]

Hey folks, just received this absolute behemoth of a throttle, and it's blown my already high expectations outta the water. Wow, so many buttons, knobs, dials, hat switches, etc.

 

Is anybody using this with the Tomcat, and has suggestions of how to map it? Note I'm using the VFX Tomcat grip, TrackIR, and MFG Crossfire pedals.

[HC_Official]

SUggestion: Use joystick gremlin for handling mapping of stuff for DCS, I use button press to keyboard press mapping inside gremlin (as I like to do things the easy way)

[GunSlingerAUS]

SUggestion: Use joystick gremlin for handling mapping of stuff for DCS, I use button press to keyboard press mapping inside gremlin (as I like to do things the easy way)

 

Hmmm, I prefer to keep it all in-sim where possible (though I did use JG to map the Warthog throttle's joystick to buttons). Any benefits of using JG with this throttle that I can't do in-game or via the Virpil software?

[HC_Official]

Benefits of JG for using button press on device to keyboard press:

example: you fly a bunch of different aircraft from different vendors

DCS will auto assign a device button to a function eg flaps

so for A-10C that maybe button #2

for M-2000C that might be button #4

for Mig-21 tha might be button #5

 

So I have to remember a different button to do the exact same function depending on which aircraft I am flying ...

or bind the same button in DCS to that function for each aircraft (PITA)

 

The smart way, I use joystick gremlin to create a profile that handles this better

eg I assign button #2 on my throttle to send keyboard press F to windows

 

Now I know that button #2 does flaps toggle for pretty much every DCS aircraft

 

Does this make it any clearer, I only bind axis for DCS in game JG does the rest

[GunSlingerAUS]

ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining. I'm sticking to one aircraft though, the Tomcat, so for now I think I'll just use in-game controls, but when I start flying the Thunderbolt I'll look into your suggestion.