Oh, well I don’t know if it works on Xbox, but if you have a keyboard I’m sure it does.
Yep, you can hook up a mouse and keyboard to the console.
I agree that the drone offers interesting views, but it is absolutely useless for a nice fly-by. I strongly support the question of having just a one-keystroke or button to switch from insideview or external view to Fly-by, just as was the case in FSX and Prepar3D,
So, Asobo, MSFs, or someone else: Please make a Flyby possible.
Piet de Geus
Netherlands
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That shouldn’t be too hard to implement, right? Making for some very exciting jet fighter flybys and equally impressive landing and takeoff flybys in your favourite airliner or plane.
Asobo… Camoh Mayen!
The proof that it is not hard is that everybody else, in the past and today
has it. But Asobo prefers to dedicate its full attention to landscapes and more landscapes,
and arcade planes, and more arcade planes, completely neglecting this most basic and
elemental feature of a proper flight sim.
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Well, I’m glad it’s free on gamepass. I don’t see any genuine reason to buy it.
That’s not proof of anything … A very credible explanation is they have decided it can be much better served once DX12 has been fully implemented (and is the main choice for simmers).
Is this any use? How turn off HUD? (SOLVED) - #6 by RoomiestZoo1660
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Thanks for your help…
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I think we should get used to the idea of not getting a flyby view. It is now over 2 years and if they haven’t put it in by now, they never will. I’m flying more in VR nowadays and judging by other flight sims, the flyby view in VR doesn’t work so well (FSX-FlyInside, P3D4, Aerofly FS2, even X-Plane 11.) There seems to be a problem with getting the distance and/or focus right.
The only one who gets VR flyby right is DCS World, but that is a totally different game engine and Russian programmers, who are probably a lot better than the French…
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To think i set this topic up nearly two years ago and reading all the comments above and Asobo did say its coming …but still Nothing makes me wonder now or is it handed to a 3rd party who knows .
certainly not us !
tinkmiester27
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There is another topic with nearly 200 votes asking for a Camera API for 3rd party developers.
Opening the camera system is continually being asked.
Asobo, we are asking kindly, here! Please open up the camera system for 3rd party developers.
Imagine the content that could come out of that!!
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I know it’s a bit off topic but I’d love an auto-level camera view, where the horizon remains in place while viewing the world from the passenger seat of an airliner. 
Just sayin’… 
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Some 3rd party camera add-ons used to have this feature. Can’t remember if it was Ezdok or Chaseplane…
It was awesome.
Asobo, please let those devs access the camera system!
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the 40th Anniversary Edition could bring it back…
Indeed it could.. 'Bout time…
Am strongly of the opinion we WONT EVER get a basic flyby view! Asobo whilst delivering a great sim, also screwed up in so many ways. IF the basic flyby was an easy fix, am sure they would of implemented it by now…as it stands even after 9 updates and many, many requests for their beloved flyby views…STILL no flyby view. Even as a alpha and beta tester we all asked for the flyby…but nothing! Even their basic roadmap of ‘to do’s’ we get to vote on (which really means nothing), its down as not even being looked at! whilst I greatly admire what MS and Asobo have given us, with all the world updates etc, Its still got the most basic bugs like the stupid horizon bug, and lack of functionality as regards basic camera options like a flyby button, or the ability to zoom in or out of the aircraft WITHOUT having to zoom the whole scenery at the same time! I think their DRONE view was a cover up of the underlying camera issues they coded into their sim.
I don’t personally see Asobo doing a flyby now, despite our concerns.
When they sold and advertised this sim to us before its release, we were treated to all manner of 'how they were creating the most realistic sim, with realistic weather systems, engine systems and sounds etc, they even bragged about the doppler effect being built into the sound system! but what good is teh doppler effect without basic flyby and tower views? It did have lots of lovely flyby scenes, but all faked using drone views! SO they realised the importance of the basic flyby view…enough to fake it and sell it to us as a real inclusion… Then we had those realistic coral reef water maps (yet still absent in the sim after 9 updates!), and god knows how many other features they showed which are still not included.
Whilst i do love this sim and the massive potential for 3rd part devs building onto it in the future as a boating sim, even ground-effect vehicles like the Ekranoplan Orlan, real hot air balloons physics, proper thermals for gliders etc and the long awaited helicopters… I also wonder why they don’t just be honest and say we wont be getting a basic flyby!
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That’s a little contentious, they may well be holding it off for a reason such a better DX12 support or compatibility with the not yet finalised replay function. Only time will tell and yes I miss it myself.
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I wont be buying any liveries until there is a tower view including record function
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2021 !!! We are now 8 months into 2022
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