Please bring back a Fly-By view, that then ends in a cinematic Chase Plane view, where the view is cinematic like in a movie, with the camera bobbing, banking to keep up with the plane.
It would be a lot like the Cinema Cut-scene effects of the opening graphics when you have finished loading a flight , and there are different views of your aircraft, taxiing to the runway, before the Yellow ‘Ready to Fly’ button comes up.
Unfortunately another Dev Q&A where this wasn’t tackled at all.
Maybe it is too difficult to implement? Maybe there’s too many aircraft now developed or published by Asobo that would need flyby sounds added or at least a way of the engine getting louder depending on distance.
Whatever the reason, it really doesn’t feel like it will ever be added or even addressed in MS2020. Which is a massive shame considering how many votes this particular wishlist has.
It does seem we have an answer to this wishlist thread. Although it’s still never been addressed on any Dev Livestream, it does say on the Wishlist on the Development Update, “Planned MS2024” so any hopes of this being added to MS2020 are probably gone however hopefully it’ll be in MS2024 at launch.
I guess the reason is that it’s difficult to implement due to memory problems.
When you press on a “outside” view you”ll see what they mean, choppy, stuttering and laggy at first. Later it becomes smooth.
So, for a good fly by view like the one in DCS or XP you need a better memory management in the graphical engine.
Now, MSFS 2024 will probably have a much better engine or so…
Yes! Playing ATC was a blast!
It features on the wishlist as 2024+ so it won’t launch with this feature.
or lua or python interface and Ill do it…“Linda!”?
I am REALLY hoping that msfs24 will include a few of the classic modes like flyby and tower view.
From the FSElite hands-on article:
Sadly, I don’t have much to report here as the camera system operated largely the same way we saw it in Microsoft Flight Simulator. The UI has had a bit of a change visually, but beyond that, I was unable to notice any significant changes here.
We did ask about a camera API and the question was passed on for something to consider in the future. Nothing concrete was given here, nor was there anything too exciting to write about here.
If this is true, this is going to be a real disappointment .
I think, if you know the initial camera position relative to the aircraft and the drone speed, you could in theory build an add-on that could move the camera via keybinds (or vjoy or similar) to achieve these effects. At max speed (which can be set via SimConnect) the drone can shift quickly. You’d need to offset for aircraft movement. But it could be done. Maybe now’s the time to think about it.
MSFS 2024 will NOT have a basic flyby or tower view. These specific requirements were requested by the community many times for MSFS 2020, and Asobo and Microsoft completely ignored the communities requests.
Hell I even asked for these camera views in the alpha and beta stages of MSFS 2020, but they never even acknowledged or made any statements on the issue. It seems rather odd, that either they are either incapable of creating the basic flyby or tower cameras, and so gave us the silly drone cameras instead, which are only good for making promotional videos, or someone at Asobo or Microsoft just doesn’t want them included for some sad reason. Its a real shame because these additions would make MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 it far more immersive, than fiddling and setting up silly drone cameras to watch a simple flyby and our takeoffs from the tower view. A million updates and improvements to MSFS 2020, but they couldn’t be bothered, or are unable to give us a much requested simple flyby and tower view.
Now we have MSFS 2024, where you can take pictures of the wildlife and watch the breeze blow the grass around, but still no basic Flyby or Tower cameras. This and the lack of credible grassroots feedback from Asobo, tell us all we need to know about the Classic Flyby views and Tower views…We wont be getting them! Instead of decent camera options, like in X-Plane, DCS World etc, they gave us drones instead…Drones! 
A recent developer stream which took place (25/09/2024), it was the first stream to talk in more detail about the new simulator. A specific question was asked, Will there be tower and fly-by camera views? the answer was These camera views are not supported yet but they will look at adding them if the community still want them present.
The complete Q and A stream can be found at the ‘fsnews.eu site’.
What I found irritating at Asobo’s answer, was ’ if the ‘community’ still want them’…THEY know full well we want them. We have forums here, full of this specific requirement and Wishlist.
So make of their statement what you will.
Is it so difficult for them to do these flyby views and tower views ? I mean does it require so much time ?
Did we have it in FSX? There’s your answer…