I don’t think that there has been an update since May 31.
Well I had an update for that and three other aircraft last night on Xbox.
Regardless of that however, the pilot is still stuck outside the aircraft.
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This seems to be an issue with several helicopters…
It may affect fixed wing too, but I hardly fly planes and haven’t noticed it in any addons that I have.
Anyway, there seems to be a bug in MSFS where the initial viewpoint is not the same for all users. I usually readjust this in the cfg files after update, but that doesn’t help Xbox users. Do you have the translate view commands assigned? Or a keyboard? They are assigned to the arrow keys by default.
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There is a command to set the VFR Pilot Viewpoint. Default keybind is Left Alt F10. Just use the arrow keys to set the viewpoint you want, Left Alt Up/Down for forward and back, and press Left Alt F10.
The same for the Landing viewpoint but use F11.
There is, but when you’re stuck outside the cockpit and can’t move the camera position inside, it’s somewhat problematic…
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Can you select another internal view with CTRL 1-9 and go from there?
I bought the H125 this week and moved the VFR Pilot View as I described initially.
Again, yes, up to a point… The internal views tend to be zoned in on a control panel, or the collective, or whatever, which doesn’t allow the full range of movement you’d need to get it anywhere resembling a pilots eye view.
Ahh well, I’m sure they’ll fix it soon enough. In the meantime, there’s always the Chinook! 
Is there a Landing View F11 set up? Might be a better starting point.
Strangely F11 doesn’t work on H125 although does work on MD500 and other helos.
I use it for a quick instrument panel close up on most helicopters as I usually set my pilot view point quite far aft to help with peripheral vision especially when landing.
I’ve never run into a limit moving the seating position. You can move it to the next town over if you hold the command and wait long enough…
Do you have the “Translate Cockpit View” and “Increase/Decrease Cockpit View Height” assigned? They are the arrow keys on the keyboard by default. If you’re not using a keyboard with your Xbox though, you may have to assign them to whatever controller you are using. Then you can “Save VFR View” (default CTRL+F10) and use F10 to come back to that saved view.
Does anyone have a binding setup for xbox? I can’t seem to find a way to properly bind the throttle without it affecting the collective.
You can translate your camera back into the aircraft. Then save your preferred camera by CTL + F10. Reset to default Shift + F10
Not in this aircraft you can’t… I’ve stated this above. You can adjust the position of the camera, but the “save view” option doesn’t register, so you’re placed back outside the aircraft whenever you hit the trader view button.
Make sure your camera settings are horizontal 50, vertical 50 and zoom 50 before saving the view that’s closest to what you want then edit from there. If I save a view with my normal zoom of 15 it pushes the camera in weird positions and skewed.
Still doesn’t work. You cannot save the view in this helicopter, it always defaults to placing the pilot outside the cockpit when the reset view button is pressed. Maybe it’s Xbox specific, but it doesn’t happen in any of the other Cowan helicopters I have (or any other aircraft by any other manufacturer), it’s just this one since the last update.
Shame, because I’d have grabbed the R22 in the sale but I don’t want to risk that one being broken either. Not taking the chance on another Cowan helicopter until this one gets fixed.
This is odd my friend as I am on Series X as well and have no issues with the R66. I would say addon interference, but that isn’t likely with Xbox. I’m stumped. I’ll be on the sim later and do some poking around.
I’ve tried different liveries, airports, spawning in cold and dark, spawning in on the runway, everything, and it still won’t let me stay in the cockpit.
It’s a strange one!
Just move your view back in with the arrow & alt+arrow keys.
This seems to be a bug with MSFS itself. I have offset views on a number of aircraft that others do not. You can always edit the viewpoint in the camera config. for a more permanent solution.
If you bought it on Cowan’s store:
MSFS_Pack_Path\Community\CowanSim_R66_v2_0\SimObjects\Airplanes\cowansim-r66
If you bought it on Marketplace (I’m guessing at the path):
MSFS_Pack_Path\Official\OneStore\cowansim-aircraft-r66\SimObjects\Airplanes\cowansim-r66
Open the cameras.cfg file and edit the first eyepoint line under views.
It tells you what each number means in feet. Just change them by how far the view is from where it should be.
I’m on Xbox, you can’t edit the files.
Looked like this one is retired to the hangar permanently in that case.
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hmmm…
can you assign the translate view commands to the directional pad?
You can go to their website and submit a bug through their support feature: