I’ll be happy if 2024 even has a semi-working Drone Camera on release !!
Placing bets on anything in 2024 is like playing the Lottery, the only difference being, at least with the Lottery, you know what to expect if you win.
There seems to be very little you, I or even the more respected 3PDs can do to shape that direction, so I see no point in even worrying about it till it releases, and we get to Rock & Roll with it !
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UPDATE: 1 year Later - Sept 2024
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Final solution : Will not be fixed – Topic Closed.
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That’s almost as bad as closing the Topic with a
BY DESIGN
Really – just how stupid does MS/Asobo think its MSFS customers are … because I know how stupid I now think they are !!!,
BTW: I would not be surprised if this slow tilting, was also somehow connected with the way the Static Planes on the ground can start to tilt over, and end up spinning round and round on their sides.
IT seems that must also be BY DESIGN… maybe for the Gamer Amusement factor.
What I find “AMUSING” as a semi-serious MSFS pilot, is that MS/Asobo seem unable or unwilling to address these BASIC issues.
Yeah I perplexed that this hasn’t been fixed yet, on the Xbox controller I have to click both shoulder buttons to reset it and even that doesn’t do a great job. Would really like this fixed.
Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
Yes
Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
Not related to Xbox controllers; occurs when no Xbox controller is connected and happens in the background while the drone camera is not even active, receiving events.
If relevant, provide additional screenshots/video:
Screenshots taken before and after a sunset with camera locked:
I’ve tried everything, and unfortunately the drone is still drifting slowly in July 2024… I was going to make a few timelapses orbiting the airport, but let’s just say the results are rather… psychedelic.
Just confirming this bug is still present on my system, with view controls entirely via the hat switch (no controller joysticks). I regularly have to reset the view in drone mode over the course of flights where I’m trying to get semi-consistent shots over the flight.
Not to state the obvious but if the drone is set to follow the aircraft and the aircraft banks with the AP switched off, the drone camera will bank as well, maintaining the angle and the disctance from the aircraft.
As @hobanagerik says, the issue with unwanted drone camera roll is nothing to do with relative aircraft movement to the camera. It will happen with the aircraft completely stationary on the ground.
What might be the cause however it just occurs to me that it might be a result of the rotation of the earth - the camera is an absolute fixed point. But nothing else is. Hmm.
The default behavior of the drone camera does not bank to match the aircraft’s banking; rolling, pitching, or yawing the plane does not affect the drone camera’s relative position or direction.
(Perhaps you’re thinking of the external view / chase camera?)
This problem (the slow leftward roll of the drone camera) occurs even if you’re traveling in a straight line.
After reading this thread and from my experience, I can say:
This issue is there since as far as I can recall (2020?)
It happend each time I use the drone cam
It is not depend to a hardware since I switch joystick and it is still happening
I just tested it and as someone here mentionned, it starts to roll only when you move down or up the drone cam (not when just moving left-right).
It is realy anoying since the drone cam is the best in my view and used all the time. Especially bad when you do long haul flights because you touch less the camera and come back after a while with the screen completly upside down.
It is indeed here for a very long time, it happend after a update soon after the sim’s full release (update 2 or 3 or something close). I remember making a bug report about it years ago, it’s one very frustrating bug, lets hope they atleast fixed it in FS24.
