Collective stick help!

[Evilducky]

Im sorry, but I'm having a seriously annoying problem with the collective stick. This was happening to me when I first got the game, and learned to finally get the heli started, but when I press the num+ nothing would happen... THe blade would not pitch or rotate so I could take off.. I tried everything and nothing seemed to work.. So in confusement I went through and watched the 2 take off tutorails and he took off just fine and when I finished the second tutorial and took control, that button magically worked.. It worked fine there on out, until last night, when I tried the quick mission and I got shot down. I recovered, and not that stupid button wont work again.. I cant take off because of it at all. Whats weird is its trying to work, I can watch the needle on the guage sometimes bounce up and down like it wasnt to pitch the blades, but its like its stuck on 0 pitch most of the time. Its seriously getting on my nerves and hopefully someone can help me out.

[Groove]

Are you 100% sure your joystick is okay ? Did you tried the Windows Calibration Tool ?

[Evilducky]

Yeah, cause it wont even work with the keyboard button presses..

[Ulrich]

Please make sure you have no other joystick (or steering wheel i.e.) that is also set to collective.

[Evilducky]

I got nothing there, I even tried flipping the keys in the options around, and it still doesnt want to work :( I only have a joystick also, so there is nothing else interfering with it.

[Evilducky]

Doh, I'm sorry.. I feel really stupid now. I didn't realize that that There was the axis part of the control setup and I guess the slider on my joystick was set to the collective by default. :( I got it all sorted out now.