Flaps lever design

This is a draw of a flaps lever used on Cessna. The principle is very easy.

The lever is fixed by screws at the main gear, when the lever moves, the main gear meshes the secondary gear connected to a rotary encoder. This last one gives a position signal to Arduino.
The rotary encoder is also used as axis for the secondary gear.
The Cessna lever needs working in two axis , vertical axis and horizontal axis.
For the horizontal axis a spring is used to keep a pressure on the lever.

A possible improvement is to add a servo with an index to give the flaps positions.
This servo should be considered like a control system process.
The signal will be given by FSX and not a direct position of the lever.