The only way I know of is to set the axis up as keystrokes and set bands, I would like to avoid this as it makes the stick less accurate.
You don’t want to do that on the pitch axis, I think. Very odd. Never heard of this on any Saitek controllers before.
Is there an axis setting the registry that can be ‘reversed’? Along the lines of the entries in this post (which is about making the mouse cursor an axis): https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?11428-how-to-set-the-mouse-on-throttle-to-work&p=151158&viewfull=1#post151158