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I originally used one for playing flight sims in my laptop on business trips, but now keep an XB1 controller on hand on my primary rig too - I find controlling the aircraft on the ground in both XP10 and 11 to be so unrealistic that I prefer not to use flight controls at all once I touch down lol. Now they're not as good as a joystick obviously, but with a bit of configuration you can get a very usable setup that's much better than keyboard and mouse. Let me show you how to assign keys to control. If you have an Xbox 360 or Xbox one controller they work out of the box too (I'd image other controllers also work. This is version 11.50 of the manual to the home and professional versions of XPlane (X-Plane 11 and XPlane 11 for Professional Use, respectively). If you want to Fly X Plane 11 with a keyboard and Mouse because you dont have a yoke or joystick yet you can. Of course you'll still use the keyboard and mouse as Draco says - you basically have to build a home cockpit to get beyond that - but it becomes quite natural pretty quickly! There is no built in solution to save or export settings profiles, even if it would be really appreciated. Don't worry about how expensive they can get, a Logitech 3D Pro is sufficient for anyone starting out and they've been around like 15 years, so they're $35 new, can be got for less than $10 used - well worth it. What you will be able to do is bind keys to control the aircrafts control surfaces. Hi, in this folder .X-Plane 11Outputpreferences You have 3 files : X-Plane Calibration.prf X-Plane Joystick Settings.prf X-Plane Keys.prf You could try and copy them on your second computer, I have never tried it myself though. It really is worth getting even a cheap one if you get into the game (if you don't already have it, go to and download the demo). I used keyboard and mouse only on PC up until sometime during MSFS 98, when I got a cheapo joystick and never looked back. answered by jroberts (19.3k points) You can try resetting default preferences to see if that helps. You can do it, but it becomes increasingly annoying over time when you want basic flying to become easier so you can focus on other things. Hello Good Afternoon The keyboard keys are not working anymore, Ive removed everything from the xplane 11 plugins, but can you help me in the same way. Basically planes primary flight controls and so many other systems are analogue, that it's a bit tricky to do everything with just the two axis of the mouse and one of the scroll wheel. 6 open the copy for flight and mouse over area where you dropped the knob (it wont show up) when you get arrow, left click and observe course indicator. For example, you can search for: SHFIT + CTRL + ,/. Try using the search function to filter the list. There you may find the command 'toggle yoke visibility' and besides it the actual key or button which it it assigned. For the Arrow, I suggest loading the plane then going to the settings/keyboard and searching for the word 'yoke' on the proper search field. You ddfinitely can fly with keyboard and mouse, like all flight sims before this, but it isn't recommended. I have complied a complete set of keyboard commands for X-Plane. Everyone here where in your position once.