Installation so far so good but tried for a few hours and still unable to add Saitek’s FIPs to the P3D system. 
Appreciate suggestions from anyone who has installed FIPs successfully with P3D.
Update 1:
Was wondering where to put those Saitek drivrs. Now I see the exe.xml file doesn’t exist by default and I have to create it or copy it from FSX manually. Big thanks to John, Dave and HBE66 for your quick advices. Will do it and try it later.
Update 2:
Just copied the exe.xml file from FSX and the FIPs now work in P3D.
FS Times 
Hey Tom,
Could you send me a copy of your exe.xml from you controls folder.
that includes the FIP as I only have Prepar3d on my system now.
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Hi Dave,
Just sent to you. Check your mailbox.
Tom
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Hi Dave, yould you kindly send me your XML.exe? Thanks very much, Christoph
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Hi,
Do you have an e mail address?
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I did copy the exe.xml file from FSX and FIP’s worked ok, thanks for the info!!!
Mario
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No problems using SPAD drivers for radio and switches. Needed to update FSUIPC though as exe.xml made P3D crash.
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Thanks for the note, Joseph. Have downloaded the latest version already.
Tom
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Hey guys, did you notice any performance drop when using the FIPs?
I don’t know why I have this, in FSX they don’t have any impact on my config.
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Hi Niko, not sure yet as I am still installing and reinstalling these few days. But I do see that FIPs running a bit sluggish than in FSX.
Tom
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Thanks John, Dave and HBE66. Was wondering where to put those Saitek drivers. Now I see that the exe.xml doesn’t exist by default.
Will add it manually and try again later.
Tom
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hi tom
i found the solution in the C:\Users\enigma\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\ directories
copy the “exe.xml” from the v1.* to the v2 directory and the FIPs work ^^
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PS: in case the exe.xml is missing, here is what it contains:
Launch
exe.xml
False
False
ProFlight Plugin
False
C:\Program Files (x86)\Saitek\ProFlightPlugin\ProFlightPlugin.exe
SPAD
False
C:\Program Files (x86)\SPAD\Spad.exe
Saitek DirectOutput RadioStack
False
C:\Program Files (x86)\Saitek\DirectOutput\SaiFlightSimX.exe
-run
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Tom, Copy the exe .xml file from your FSX controls folder in to the same folder in Prepar3d v 2 and you should be good to go…Mine are working.
Dave
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I left out the xml part (exe.xml).
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Hi Tom
The FIP’s are working fine for me. I of course had to add the \Direct Output\SaiFlightSimX.exe to the exe. file for P3D V2.
John
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