I’m doing tutorial #3 and I constantly have to switch camera views to look at the left side instruments and right side instruments. I’m using an Xbox controller so I manipulate the view with the d-pad. I tried making a quick custom camera view with Ctrl +shift+# but it doesn’t seem to work in tutorial mode. Is there any way to better manage the views? I keep taking my eyes off of the outside view for too long. Thanks in advance for your help. I will probably eventually get a hotas if I find myself liking the game.
Please let me know if I’m using the camera wrong. I know a hotas may help but I want to get used to the game first. If I am not doing something wrong, I don’t think you can save camera views in the tutorial. I read about some tools like TrackerIR and SmoothTracker that can make things a bit easier with head tracking. But I want to try to do it manually efficiently first. Thanks in advance for your help.
I sincerely don’t know about Xbox controller, because I use a joystick, but one suggestion is to retry the custom view assignment. The combination is “Ctrl+Alt+#”, not Shift. You recall them with “Alt+#”. In my case it works also during the tutorials.
I meant alt. Sorry about that. But it doesn’t seem to work for me in the beginner tutorials. I tried in free flight mode and it works. Very strange.
Did you also tried in the very first tutorial, when the lady explains just how to save custom camera views? There it should surely work. Also you can check if moving the mouse when pressing the right button allows you to freely look inside the cockpit.
Yes, it works when instructed in the first tutorial but not in subsequent ones. I tried free flight and it works there as well. Strange since other keyboard commands work in the tutorials. I’m only talking abt the beginner tutorials and not the airliner ones. God knows when I’ll be good enough to try those. I’ve been going through each beginner tutorial a couple of times. Having to focus on the cockpit view to keep looking at the instruments is really distracting.
Did you tried the different standard Cockpit Views? For example with F9, F10, and F11 you get quite good settings that allow to see both instruments and outside.
I’m now trying smoothTrack that is a head tracker using your phone. It seems to work pretty good. The one problem I have is that the instruments on the Cesna 152 are not backlit and the lighting makes it hard to read even in daytime.
I tried to document how the different camera/view modes are transitioning into each other some time ago in a different discussion. Perhaps you find that information useful.
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Regarding the lighting, there is a trick. I had the same problem, then I discovered that MSFS uses a sort of adaptive lighting, in some ways simulating the eye adaptation to different conditions. The trick to better read the instruments is to avoid to look at a too large portion of the windscreen. Try it, it is quite easy to understand the dynamics in action.
By the way, I just tried the Training tutorial #3, and the method with “Ctrl+Alt+#” seems working perfectly. Please remember that you have to use “Ctrl+Alt+#” to record a custom view, but only “Alt+#” to recall it afterwards.
So you are saying to zoom into a smaller area to read the dials better? Makes sense but I still wish the gauges would stand out better. I don’t know why the custom view setting doesn’t seem to work for me in the tutorial. I’ll try it in another lesson.
Nenenui, thanks for the flow chart. I will study it in more detail.
Not exactly. It is sufficient to change the point of view, in order to fill the screen more with the cockpit part and less with the windscreen/external view. For example, try simply to lower the pov with the arrow key, and check if the luminosity of the instrument section improves. It should.
Thanks for the help.
I had the same problems with reading the instruments, but yesterday I found that the Cessna 152 has a dome light switch. I don’t remember were I found it, so I made a picture myself.
. The Cessna 172 has different kinds of lighting I always use.
Thanks! I’ll try that switch later. Hopefully it works during day missions in the tutorial.
I tried the light and it helps! Thanks! You can use the L key for it.
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