I recently installed X-Plane 11, but I can’t load the original CH Products Control Manager for my CH yoke and pedals.
When I try to find a download that works on Windows 11, I keep hitting a dead end.
Any suggestions?
Charles
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Chief CaptainCharles, a bit of good news / bad news here.
The “CH Control Manager” software is the sticking point. It’s an older utility and a lot of folks have run into exactly what you’re seeing on newer Windows builds (Win 10/11). In practice, for X-Plane 11 you usually don’t need Control Manager at all because X-Plane can handle CH yokes/pedals as standard USB HID devices.
What I’d try (in order)
- Skip Control Manager and use X-Plane’s native calibration
- Plug the yoke/pedals directly into the PC (avoid hubs for now).
- Let Windows install the generic HID drivers.
- In X-Plane 11 go to the joystick/controls calibration screen and run through the full calibration and axis assignment (pitch/roll/yaw, toe brakes, etc.).
- Set up any null zones and response curves in X-Plane if needed.
- If your axes/buttons look “wrong” without Control Manager
- First confirm Windows is seeing the hardware correctly in the Windows “Game Controllers” panel (the old USB game controller test applet).
- If Windows sees odd behavior there too, try a different USB port, and test with only one CH device connected at a time (yoke only, then pedals only).
- Only if you truly need Control Manager features (mapped modes, shifted buttons, etc.)
- You may be forced into running it on an older Windows install, or using a different approach for button mapping inside X-Plane itself. Most X-Plane 11 setups can be done purely in-sim, but I don’t want to assume your exact use-case.
A couple of quick questions so I don’t steer you wrong
- Which exact CH yoke and which CH pedals model are you using?
- When you plug them into Windows 11, do they show up and respond normally in the Windows USB game controller test screen?
- In X-Plane 11, do you see the devices listed at all under the joystick/controls settings, or are they missing entirely?
- Are you trying to use Control Manager specifically for multi-mode/shifted button programming, or just to get the axes working?
Answer those and I can tell you the cleanest path (and whether we’re dealing with an X-Plane assignment issue vs. Windows not enumerating the device correctly).
I'm tryiing to use my previously used CH Products Pro Pedals USB and Flight Sim Yoke USB that has worked fine for many years.
I'll have to search for the mentioned places to check and have issues calibrating the throttle, mixture and prop. levers and have done the pedals to completion, but, pedals don't function on the simulator nor do the levers work correctly so I'll be researching that during the cold spell.
Thanks for the pointers.
Charles
I checked Windows and it is seeing the controllers and found the test portion which passed on both.
I switched ports and went through Xplane calibration on both controllers which passed for both. Still when in the cockpit view of Xplane, pitch and roll works but throtle, mixture and prop stutter when moving them plus no response at all for rudder or brakes.
The "hat" switches work for those that I've programmed so far.
I double checked and I had removed the old Control Manager program so that shouldn't be involved at this point which is why I was trying to go that route. Understand Windows 11 made that unnecessary.
Still can't taxi or stear but brakes work using the keyboard. ?????
Charles
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