Anyone else ever get a CTD when pressing the “VFR Pilot View Save” key combo? This happens to me consistently with certain planes. The latest example being the Trislander. This key combo is necessary to adjust your default view. However as soon as you press the combo, the screen locks up for 30 seconds then exists to desktop with no message or anything at all.
Anyone else experience this?
Well… i use this function extensively to adjust my personal favourite view.
Again and again aircraft get released where this leads to CTD.
Carenado (all planes?), CJ Eurofighter as examples…
It is because there is one line missing in a config file.
You can find that line somewhere around here and add it to the file but as soon as an update is out it will be gone again…
(I’ve given up on adding that. Only if i REALLY care a lot for a specific aircraft).
There should be a shaming thread for every product/developer that shows this behaviour!
And also for Asobo for not handling the error in a more constructive way…
I have just experienced this problem tonight. I have just started setting up my views using the “VFR Pilot View Save” feature. I pressed the “VFR Pilot View Save” in my Cessna Classic 172 and that worked fine. But when I tried to save the view in the Cessna 152, MSFS crashed. I restarted my computer and tried tried several times but it crashed every time.
I thought it might have been just the CTRL + F10 keys so I changed to CTRL + ALT + V but the same thing happened.
Has anyone found the solution?
I just found this. I will try it tomorrow.
Some third-party aircraft that don’t have a default VFR pilot view pre-defined will crash when executing the “VFR Pilot View Save” command. For these aircraft, a custom view must be created and the CAMERAS.CFG file must be edited to convert the custom camera into a default view.
The CAMERAS.CFG is a standard text file and the edits are very simple; but the biggest challenge is finding the correct path.
For the MS Store version on MSFS, the path is:
–drive–\Users--username–\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects\Airplanes--target aircraft–\CAMERAS.CFG
Here’s the step-by-step:
Load up your desired aircraft, position the camera where you want it, and save it to a custom camera (default is Left Ctrl + Left Alt + 0 to 9). Any will do, but for this example, I’ll save my desired view to Custom Camera #1 (Left Ctrl + Left Alt + 1).
Exit the sim and navigate to the CAMERAS.CFG for the desired aircraft (see the path above).
Open CAMERAS.CFG with Notepad or your favorite text editor. Depending on the circumstances, there may be several camera definitions, or there may only be one. The definition you want to edit has a Title that corresponds to the camera you defined in Step 1. In my case, I saved to Custom Camera #1, so I want to edit the definition with Title=“1”.
Edit the following 4 lines in the definition (substituting “1” for your custom camera # as necessary). Don’t worry about the definition’s sequence number ([CAMERADEFINITION.#]) or Guid… they’re fine as they are and shouldn’t be changed.
[CAMERADEFINITION.0]
Title= “Pilot” … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … <Change “1” to “Pilot”
Guid=“{B7C50B63-1029-49E0-A831-0EF6257F1D77}”
UITitle= “TT:GAME.PANEL_CAMERA_PILOT_VFR” … … … … … <Change to “1” to “TT:GAME… etc”
Description=“”
Origin=“Virtual Cockpit”
Track=“None”
TargetCategory=“None”
ClipMode=“Normal”
SnapPbhAdjust=“None”
PanPbhAdjust=“None”
XyzAdjust=0
ShowAxis=“NO”
AllowZoom=1
InitialZoom=0.35
SmoothZoomTime=5
BoundingBoxRadius=0.1
ShowWeather=0
CycleHidden=0
CycleHideRadius=0
ShowPanel=0
MomentumEffect=0
ShowLensFlare=0
PanPbhReturn=0
SnapPbhReturn=1
InstancedBased=0
NoSortTitle=0
NodesToHide=“”
Transition=0
Category=“Cockpit”
SubCategory= “PilotCustom” … … … … … … … <Change “Custom” to “PilotCustom”
SubCategoryItem= “DefaultPilot” … … … … … … … < <Change “None” to “DefaultPilot”
InitialXyz= 0.05, 0.1, -0.8
InitialPbh= -4.719444, 0.005864, 0.00041
Save a copy of the text file to recover is required
Record the path to the CAMERAS CONFIG folder
Note that the Custom Camera you used to temporarily save your default view in step 1 is now available again to save a different custom view.
