LonoB

I've had ARMA 3 since early release on Steam but never really put much time into until recently. With my new found addiction I wanted to add more precision to my flying. With a large sense of excitement my new flight stick was delivered today. After plugging it in and making sure everything was working properly, that it was calibrated, and I was familiar with how it all worked I loaded up ARMA. Game loads, I quickly hit escape and went to the configure tab and sure enough there is my controller showing up in game. I race to the helo in excitement, climb in and jam on the throttle.... Nothing. Ok, maybe I need to tweak some settings. ... Where did the controller go? After an hour of trying to plug it back in, checking my usb power checks, windows says it's working properly, all buttons and functions of the flight stick work properly in the controllers property test, and seen the controller in game options every time I loaded the game only for it to disappear seconds later. Now I'm trolling (not to be confused with the monsters under bridges or "trolls" of the interwebs) through the forums looking for a solution. This thread was started a long time ago (in today's world at least) and hasn't been addressed in any way. My hopes and wallet have taken a punch to the stomach...