I'm developing a simulator model for a custom aircraft and need to add more channels to the flight control system. I've configured the joystick file to use all of the available channels under /controls/flight/ including rudder, elevator, aileron and their -trim variables. Is it possible to add custom channel names to the /controls/flight/ variable category? It also seems that the flight control variables are also automatically duplicated to the JSBIM variables. If I were to add a flight control channel, how would I also make this visible to the JSBSIM flight control model?
Ideally I would create a new variable called /controls/flight/channel-x1 that is controlled by one of the joystick inputs and the input would be transparent to JSBSIM, perhaps linked by a variable called /fdm/jsbsim/fcs/channel-x1-cmd-norm, so that it can influence either the propulsion or aerodynamics models.
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance,
Nick