Yawman Arrow Controller & X-Plane 12
Multifunction Controls with the Yawman Arrow Controller and X-Plane 12
My XPlane 12 FlyWithLua Scripts for Multifunction Yawman Arrow Controls can provide your finger tips access to more cockpit functionality from the Yawman Arrow without reaching for your keyboard and mouse.
These scripts were inspired by Yawman’s official PMDG 777 mappings but there are notable differences. The scripts vary per aircraft but they all generally provide easy access to autopilot functions and views to avoid using the keyboard or mouse use.
See each script’s GitHub page for bindings. See Yawman’s discord for community chat and to find more Yawman goodies plus announcements.
These are Lua scripts and they are hosted on Github. Generally, each aircraft requires its own script. The scripts indicate if they’re for a specific aircraft by developers such as Toliss or Flight Factor. They probably won’t work with other developer’s aircraft. The scripts currently do not care who the developer is but only the airframe’s ICAO code.
Requirements
- X-Plane 12 only
- The Relevant Aircraft
- Yawman Arrow Controller
- FlyWithLua 2.8 for X-Plane 12
Installation
Note that most scripts do not modify your axes. You’ll need to set up your Yawman Arrow’s axes as you like. Spoilers and engine reversers tend to be the systems that need to be reversed depending on the developer’s preferences.
After FlyWithLua is successfully installed into X-Plane 12, save *Yawman Multipress.lua to /X-Plane 12/Resources/plugins/FlyWithLua/Scripts
All the Scripts (Github Downloads)
- Toliss A340-600 (A346) - updated 2024/12/25
- Toliss A321 and A321 Neo/A21N - updated 2024/12/22
- Toliss A320 - updated 2024/12/15
- Laminar 737–800
- Laminar Cessna 172 w/G1000
- Felis 747–200
- Flight Factor 777–200 v2
- XCrafts E–175 for XP12
TODO
- Radio tuning
- Push To Talk (PTT)
- Refactor B77L, B742, C172, and E175 to match with Toliss scripts (these use Lua tables instead of straight variables)
Example Button Assignments for the Toliss Airbus A321
Sixpack 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are referred to as SP1, SP2, SP3 etc. These are the two rows of three buttons, where the upper-most left button is 1 and the lower-most right button is 6.
Some Yawman documentation refer to these as MF 1L (SP1), MF 1C (SP2), MF 1R (SP3), MF 2L (SP4), MF 2C (SP5), MF 2R (SP6)
Assignments
The following assignments are not completely documented at this time. It’s best to review the script for assignments until the coder gets his house in order.
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DPAD Left = Zoom Out
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DPAD Right = Zoom In
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DPAD Center = Chase or Aircraft’s Default View
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Stick, Center Click = Brakes
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POV Up = Pitch Trim Up
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POV Down = Pitch Trim Down
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POV Left = Glance Left
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POV Right = Glance Right
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Right Bumper = Auto Pilot 1 Engage (On/Off)
- SP1 plus
- DPAD Up = Speed Up
- DPAD Down = Speed Down
- DPAD Right = Speed Knob Pull
- DPAD Left = Speed Knob Push
- Right Bumper = Auto Throttle Button
- SP 2 plus
- DPAD Down = Approach Button
- DPAD Left = Localizer Button (I think)
- DPAD Up = Pull Alt Knob (Dupe; need to reassign)
- DPAD Right = Pull Hdg Knob (Dupe; need to reassign)
- Right Bumper = Flight Director 1
- SP5 = Red Flash Light
- SP3 plus
- DPAD Up = AP Alt Select Up
- DPAD Down = AP Alt Select Down
- DPAD Left = Push Alt Knob
- DPAD Right = Pull Alt Knob
- Right Bumper = VNAV Button
- SP6 = Landing Lights Toggle
- SP5 plus
- DPAD Up = Hdg up
- DPAD Down = Hdg Down
- DPAD Left = Push Hdg Knob
- DPAD Right = Pull Hdg Knob
- Right Bumper = Push Hdg Knob (Dupe; need to reassign)
- SP6 plus
- DPAD Up = VS Down
- DPAD Down = VS Up
- DPAD Left = Barometric Down
- DPAD Right = Barometric Up
- DPAD Center = Barometric Standard
- Right Bumper = Push VS Knob
- LEFT Bumper then
- Wheel Up/Down = Brakes Max (Parking Brake)
- SP1 = View, Overhead Panel
- SP2 = View, Radios, Transponder
- SP3 = View, EFB
- SP4 = View, Glarshield
- SP5 = View, FMS
- SP6 = Pilot’s view of throttles
- DPAD Up plus
- Wheel Up = Flaps Up
- Wheel Down = Flaps Down
- POV Left = Glance Left
- POV Right = Glance Right
- POV Up = Straight Up
- POV Down = Straight Down
- DPAD Left = View, Pilot’s View
- DPAD Right = View, Co-Pilot’s View
- Right Bumper = Auto-Throttle Button?
- DPAD Down plus
- Right Bumper = AP 1 Disconnect (Side stick)