Hi I am following the route on autopilot, stable level flight, I go to external view and activate the drone view to pan, suddenly the plane begins to crash. I realize that when the drone is activated it is no longer possible to have control of the commands and this could be the cause of the sudden fall of the plane. Yet you see on many videos on youtube of the external shots with the drone while the plane is in flight how do they make them? The only way I have found is to activate the dynamic pause and after the drone view. Is there another way to use the drone view while the plane is in flight?
Disable the remote control of the plane while operating the drone, and make sure the plane is on an autopilot mode of sorts. Then you can use the drone while flying the plane.
The really safe way is to use SET PAUSE ON which requires you to map an unused key combo or controller hardware button. That’s safer than ESC which is default to Active Pause. SET PAUSE will stop everything, except for live Air, Marine and Ground Traffic, plus Weather. But unlike Active Pause, you do not cumulatively build up speed or any other kinetic movement while paused (which is the cause of many uncommanded crashes in-flight), and when you SET PAUSE OFF, it’s the closest thing to old FSX pause you can get. With SET PAUSE ON, you can freely drone to get your best views and angles.
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if you press C (or ctrl+c I don’t remember now) you can control again the plane in drone camera mode but you need to press C again for moving the drone camera
Since I’m on PC - I bought an actual XBox controller, just for the drone. So when I hit SET PAUSE ON, I press DEL to switch to Drone Active Control., pick up the controller and fly the drone around. Hit DEL again, and I’m back to the last view I had on the plane.
Excuse me, how do you disable the remote control (I don’t know the English language well) that you mean by remote control? So if I disable this Remote Control, will I be able to use the drone while the plane continues to fly on autopilot without activating the dynamic pause? Thank you.
Just follow the directions here. Pressing DEL key is enough of put you in Drone Mode. As long as the plane is flying on autopilot when you press DEL, you should be safe to move the drone around without crashing the plane.
Thank you very much
I can’t understand why you cannot use your keyboard for example to move the drone camera, whilst simultaneously using a joystick to manoeuvre the aircraft.
Controls really need a look at, especially the right mouse pan locking the controls inside the aircraft (but not outside) in other than showcase/drone mode.
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