I am using X52, and I have my hat mapped to the four direction arrow pad for views. (My stickies views would not return to looking front.) When I "Look" right or left, it adds roll, even though I am keeping stick level, so I can't look around and stay wings level.
Thanks

Keypad Number Lock on?

A little more detail:

Which "four direction arrow pad" do you mean? One of the two hat switches on the stick or the 4 arrows on the keyboard?

If you use the ones on the keyboard, they will react based upon their programming in your controls file. The Default setting is this:

PITCH_UP=DOWNARROW
PITCH_DOWN=UPARROW
ROLL_RIGHT=RIGHTARROW
ROLL_LEFT=LEFTARROW

In my own personal settings, they read:

PITCH_UP=
PITCH_DOWN=
ROLL_RIGHT=RIGHTARROW
ROLL_LEFT=LEFTARROW

I don't program the left or right arrows since I use the stick to do the rolling. The pitch is instrumental in several other functions, like:

THRUST_VECTOR_UP=UPARROW
THRUST_VECTOR_DOWN=DOWNARROW

And those are the controls for Thrust Reversal on the multi-engines, Collective on the helicopters and Refueling on the fighters.

So you need to program your stick a little differently. With an X52, you can split the refueling and the collective and refuel an HH-53 in flight (in a mission we had to kill because it was X52 only). If you look in the Controls folder on the original YAP CD, there is a Saitek set of controls. Try those.

I was using the four arrow keys on keyboard, my fault for not realizing they default to roll, pitch. And number lock on. Opened the default X52 from YAP CD. I thought you might have been simulating the tendency for a pilot to roll his plane in the direction he's looking.
Thanks

We're not that good.