Hi all,
I had a look at some other posts but nothing I found gave me a solution.
I have drone mode working great with the 737 outside - I can move anywhere I want with ease - no issues at all with the drone itself!
The problem I have is when in drone mode, none of the aircraft controls on my MS sidewinder joystick work … all of them seem to be deactivate while in drone mode - by that I mean the basic flight controls and throttle control, as an example.
Just to clarify - for drone mode I select the MSFS Camera Icon, then Showcase, then Free Camera then Camera Drone (see attached screenshot).
How can I use Drone mode and also taxi around the airport using throttle and nosewheel actions?
Thank you in advance!
RN
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Wow - that worked! Thanks for your quick reply.
What is C actually doing ? Turning off Drone mode ?
yeah, it lets you switch between controlling the aircraft, or the drone. one or the other. 
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Thanks again - all solved! 
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How do you do that on Xbox
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Why is this default behavior for this sim? If I don’t have overlapping control mappings, shouldn’t I be able to control both the camera and the plane at the same time? It’s really clunky to have to disable the controls whenever I want to adjust the view angle.
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How did the author of the topic even dare to call the drone’s camera “great”? It’s hard to imagine a much worser camera system. Now I was trying to “catch” the drone’s focus on the plane in a replay so that it could keep an eye on it. All the hair on my head fell out, dude, it’s just crazy. While in X-Plane you just need to select a specific camera and it is intuitively controlled in the same calm way, you do not need to adjust its speed from the caterpillar to the fighter, you just have 3 convenient modes.
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Before purchasing anything, I highly recommend testing consistently several times together with a mouse before.
I got a nice RGB Razer tenkeyless, it works beautifully on anything on Xbox X. But MSFS2020 it will not work under any means.
There is also some workarounds, but not the way how things are susposed to be.
With me, on Xbox X it does not work.
PC is something else…
In controls setting in 2024 it is possible to steer your aircraft
If you are looking to map a key on keyboard or a button to do this
Search in the controls section for " Toggle plane control " and assign a key or button to it
Now if you use this key or button while in drone mode , you can switch between fly the airplane in drone mode or set view position, easy to switch between.
Set freelook speed in drone mode higher to make the plane faster to respond to your input.
Are you saying that you can control both drone and plane simultaneously? In MSFS 2020 “toggle plane control” also toggles drone control. You can control either the drone or the plane but never both at the same moment in time.
No you can controle either control the plane or the view.
But you can switch during session like you could as in msfs2020 by the press of a key or button.
I could not find this until last week so i thought i share this with community,
I am on pc and joined beta not sure if it is related to beta,
