Those did not seem to have any effect.
Not sure if anyone’s tried, but you might be able to create a Custom Camera and then edit the file to place you further forward beyond the windscreen.
If you create a custom camera (ctrl / alt / 0)
Then take a look in the aircraft folder created here …
C:\Users"Your ID"\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects
You can alter the InitialXyz at the bottom of the camera.cfg definition file.
It works!
I added 1 to the 3rd number against InitialXyz and selected my custom cam in the sim (ctrl / 0) and moved forward beyond the instruments, still behind the prop (c172). A clear view.
Thanks for your efforts.
Unfortunately, I don’t have the “8weky…” folder anywhere on my drive…
So long as you can find \Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_[any random text], you’ve found the correct folder to click. It won’t be named the same as it was for the poster above.
I don‘t, although I saved a custom camera.
What am I doing wrong?
Video is privat, unable to watch it…
I think it is the same name for everyone, I don’t think it is random. If you google the folder name, you’ll find this folder name everywhere on the web with nothing to do with me.
More info about the “no instrument” view here …
when you say you added 1 then does that mean it becomes 2.27…
?InitialXyz= 0.214387, 0.572012, 1.275917
In the “OLDEN DAYS” with FS, we could totally get rid of the cockpit. Now that I have a home cockpit, I need to move forward of the plane which totally hoses the entire views. Are we EVER going to get this feature back with 2024?
This has been requested since 2020:
A question was asked about this on the dev stream last year.
Unfortunately, in the forum discussion for that stream, someone called it a waste of resources, and that started an argument among several people. I found that comment to be so short-sighted and frankly, selfish. And now, who knows, maybe the devs read that and aren’t going to do anything about it. I’d link to the conversation, but I’d rather not because of the controversy.
Meanwhile, I logged a bug report about home cockpit mode not doing anything in MSFS 2020. It got bug-logged and eventually, the bug was closed in the bug tracker. The topic’s still open, but for all intents and purposes, the bug is dead. And they put home cockpit mode in 2024 with the same bad labeling. So frustrating.
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Yes, get it done.
This has been a constant request. Do it - or definitively say you absolutely can’t or won’t.
Don’t continue to be so wishy-washy about responses.
This has been available in previous flight sims but not now. HOW FREAKING HARD COULD IT BE TO PROGRAM THIS? Asobo… Allow us to get rid of the cockpit. I have my own home cockpit.
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I absolutely second this. This feature has been requested since 2020, and it’s time for Asobo to finally implement it. While I understand that it may only be a top priority for a smaller part of the community, home cockpits are definitely becoming more accessible these days, and more and more people can and do afford them. Even for users without a home cockpit, being able to switch to an unobstructed forward view would offer clear benefits. And finally: how much effort can it really take to add a few lines of code to bypass rendering the virtual cockpit?
So please Asobo - have mercy on us and just implement this already!
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