If you are having trouble with the Throttle, make sure you select the prefered device as the Thurstmaster Combined AFTER running the script.

This will make sure the games sees first the Combined joystick.

@Doggie I tried this a few days ago and i got it working on my laptop but i do not have a joystick. Is there any way to map the flight controls to the keyboard or am i stuck with looking at the sim?

@Duvstep as far as I remember that was my reason to buy my first joystick in 1998. Today however you can install JoyToKey and it will create a virtual joystick then you can map its axis to keys. Haven't tried it myself but I guess its doable.

Update: when I plug my PS4 controller in via usb; the game picks it up quite fine but the right stick is set to the throttle and rudder and I want to use the left and right shoulder buttons to do each but even when i remap it, the throttle doesn't work and i have no idea how to remap it using joytokey. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks much