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[Arkbird]

As title says, I got my PS3's controller working on my laptop and in IL-2. I tried about a year ago, just to see if it worked, with no success. Now I managed it, and so far it is fun. Advantages I have found is it being smaller than flight sticks and the small design allowing me to need minimal space to use it. The setbacks I found are there not enough buttons for everything, but enough for most of the required things. The throttle also returns to 55% when I let go of the stick, but Birds of Prey does something similar. The driver I use for this is also compatible with the PSMove and Nav controller. I have Move, but am not going to try it on here. Thought I would just share this.

[Chupacabras84]

there are not enough buttons for everything

16 buttons and 4 axis i still think its more than most sticks have.

The throttle also returns to 55% when I let go of the stick

Doing it wrong:

Some time ago i was flying on PS2 pad and you might try this layout was pretty comfortable for me at least.

Left stick - elevators and ailerons
Right stick - rudder (Aiming is much easier also "y axis" left unused to avoid accidental input)

Dpad:
left   - wide view
up    - normal view
right - zoom
down - ironisight (Shift+F1)

L1 - Weapon 1
L2 - Weapon 4
R1 - Weapon 2
R2 - weapon 3

[ ] - Flaps down
/\ - Flaps up
O - Throttle  +  (most of the time used kb but during battles fast taping get me from 0 to 100% in split of a second  )
X - Thorottle -

Select - brakes (With ruder on the right stick made taxiing, takeoffs and landings easier)
Start - airbrake

L3 - dont remember
R3 - dont remember

That was b4 i get myself a saitek cyborg 

What didnt fit on the pad was left on keyboard and layout on keyboard was made with grouping in mind, and what i mean by this.
For example numpad is one square panel so it was used like this

nl / * -| - autopilot, manual gears control
7 8 9 +| - Jetison tank, Jetison weapon, Jetison attachment 
4 5 6 n| - fire extinguisher, prop feather, wing fold
1 2 3 t |- wheel lock, chocks, hook
ins del | - open cockpit, raise seat

insert,  home pgup  -  reticle, mirrors, smoke
delete, end   pgdown - cockpit, nav, landing lights

Basically everything was divided into groups (Such a wankery when i think about it now but still since it was divided by logic i didnt have anything to remember since i pretty much knew where to search for something because it was placed on the kb with some kind of pattern.)

[Arkbird]

Thanks. I'll try that layout in a little bit.

[Moggy Cattermole]

I always use a 360 controller. It's not bad, got a decent mapping for the sorts of aircraft (fighters and dive bombers mainly) I flew when I played IL2. Triggers for rudder, left bumper for air brakes, right for rockets. Y for bombs, X + A for guns and cannon, B for gear (I think), d-pad (not thumbstick) left and right for throttle and up and down for flaps. Only issue was I couldn't map the right thumbstick to look around with, which would have been handy.

[Chupacabras84]

Only issue was I couldn't map the right thumbstick to look around with, which would have been handy.

[Moggy Cattermole]

*sighs* If only near my university... Would open so many pointless spending opportunities.