[Vikesrock]

Creating a deadzone should be fairly easy. I would use a select VI. To feed the selector I would run the input through an absolute value then a "greater than" VI. For the True part of the Select VI you would have the unaltered input value and for the False you would feed 0.

I will suggest an alternative however. Depending on the joystick behavior, you may want to trim it instead of make a deadzone. If it has a constant or near constant offset, you can add or subtract the appropriate value before using the input to correct for the drift.

EDIT: Alternative suggestion removed due to Chris' post below.