iPhone touch controls joysticks

how can the 3rd person controllers included with unity iphone the camera relative script and joystick be used to navigate a ship in space any help I have tried everything I can think of. I want to control a ship with the left joystick but the when the joystick is in the up position the the ship goes up(higher) not forward and down not back but using the 3rd person perspective. if anyone have any ideas please help thanks. its for iphone game.

wow no one answers?

Do you have the right axis? It could be that the 3d model pivot is not being translated from the 3d program to unity correctly. So axis X from 3D program translates as axis Y in unity.

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