silvereagle

Thanks to all who tried to help .I gave in and contacted Laminar tech suport and it turns out it was as easy as deleting the preferences directory from the Xplane11/output directory......and then re-building them of course! I guess I maybe had mutiple assignments for the throttle and speedbrake.

Things just got a bit more comlicated. Till now it has seemed that it was only all the 737s where i had this problem but I just bought he Inibuilds A320 in the Black Friday sale and that has exactly the same problem. I think this is one now for the X-Plane forum or even Laminar.

Bolova: Thanks for the help. I did as instructed but no improvement. If you see my reply to Jan you will see that I am not seeking the luxury of throttles even, just trying to move controls at the most basic level, ie with the mouse or function keys.

Jan: Thanks for the hint. I suspect the Honeycomb too, but I have disconnected it and following Bulva's suggestion deleted the dll files from the joystick directory but still no improvement. In order to eliminate as many variables as possible I have gone back to moving the controls with the mouse and/or function keys. The confusing thing is that other aircraft and airliners work fine but it is the 737s that give problems. I just wonder if there is something in the 737 that I am completely missing eg autothrottle or something?

Cameron. Thanks for the hint. I restored Gizmo64 but no improvement I am afraid. Log file attached Log.txt

Jan: thanks for the help. Actually I should have made clear that I did actually physically remove all plugins from the resources/plugins folder, not just disabled them in the plug-in manager. My problem is not necessarily with the joystick as the throttle and speed brake etc will not move with the mouse or keyboard. Interestingly I have X-Plane 11 on an old Mac mini and on there the Laminar 737 works fine, even with a plugged in joystick. So I copied the aircraft Laminar 737 files from my Mac Mini to the PC and they did not work! This is very frustrating.

On my IXEG 737 the throttles and speedbrake are not operative. I have tried going through the cold dark start routine as well the Ready to Fly option but they do not work in either situation. Other controls such as engine cut-off and trim do work. This is the case for my Honeycomb Bravo, using the mouse and the keyboard shortcuts eg F1 and F2 for throttle operation. I have the latest version of C++ installed and I have disabled all plugins but this makes no difference. Interestingly I had exactly the same problem with the default Laminar 737 and the Zibo version. I purchased the IXEG version hoping that I could finally get a working 737. I fly lots of GA aircraft and other airliners all of which work perfectly. I am very frustrated with this and would appreciate advice.