Hardware & Technical Thrustmaster Setup for Yaw

[Chrisard]

I'm not sporting the best of the best in hardware here but I'm making do with a Thrustmaster T-FLIGHT HOTAS X V.2

My dilemma comes with the placement of Yaw and my Thrusters.

Currently I have Yaw set to my joystick twist left and right, and the paddles on my throttle set to thrust up and down.
However the paddles on the throttle feel very much like foot pedals to me (like the rudder on an aircraft) and I've been thinking of changing the paddles to Yaw. My second reasoning for this is I often find myself twisting the joystick when i'm simply trying to move it left or right, especial while nosing up or down.

So my question is how does everyone else bind Yaw. And if you bind Yaw to anything other than the joystick twist, do you leave the joystick twist unbound?

 

[Riverside]

Most seem to bind yaw to the twist, lateral thrusters to the throttle paddles & vertical thrust to the hat.

Personally like you I'm not keen on the throttle twist so I locked it off, I use the paddles for yaw (seems what it was intended for) and the hat does all thrusters. I'd like another hat for target selection (next/previous target, next/previous module) but I could assign a shift button if I really wanted to (I use the keyboard for targeting instead).

Thrusters would really benefit from analogue control but the HOTAS-X doesn't have enough axies so whatever you choose will be a compromise. ED will accept inputs from multiple controllers though so you could cannibalise an old joypad for an analogue hat.

 

[Chrisard]

I think I may go the way of the "shift" key and just shift all my hat stuff to thrusters. Though I use to have the twist as roll and the X-axis as yaw. I kept rolling while trying to pitch or dive. I guess I could try to set up some dead space.