"Home cockpit mode" does not hide the virtual cockpit and never has since it was introduced

It is true that the concrete effects of this option are disappointing given its title. However, it does correspond to functionalities that are extremely useful (even mandatory) for those who use a home cockpit, including:

  • The elimination of movements and vibrations (absolutely essential)
  • The elimination of undesirable actions on the view and instruments (good to have).

So the feature should definitely not be removed, even if there is much room for improvement !

As for renaming it : indeed, for now, this option could be renamed to something like “static view,” to better represent what it currently does… BUT having something in the interface that at least evokes the notion of a home cockpit is still good to have: it at least ensures that the issue is present in the developers’ minds, and why not spark curiosity or even expand the number of MSFS users for a home cockpit :slight_smile:

As for improving it: it is indeed extremely unfortunate that this option has currently no effect on the visibility of the interior cockpit, which you would often want to remove when flying a physical cockpit. But it must be recognized that designing this feature is not as straightforward as it seems, especially because from one home-cockpit to another, you might not necessarily want the same elements to appear. For example, in my case, the windshield (with its various visual effects) and the wings should remain visible, but maybe that won’t suit everyone. And of course, this also depends greatly on the 3D model of the virtual aircraft, both technically and functionally.

For me this setting is the only one (since 2020) that enables some cockpit view axes in VR. Without this on the cockpit view in VR can be turned only by own physical head. With this setting on you can use yaw and pitch view axes (no the lockable ones!) assigned to a joystick’s mini stick etc. If you assign those axes to a mouse then you lose totally the ability to click on buttons.
Also same setting (“home cockpit mode”) makes copilot view switchable only via toolbar. once you use the toolbar then you can switch the position with Next and previous cockpit positions buttons but not with the dedicated switch to copilot view one! that one works only in 2D.

Does it work with all planes? like Fenix? seems like a stroke of genius

As long as it has a model.cfg, and in msfs2020 than it should work just add ; or // in front

This does not work anymore for MSFS 2024 stock/marketplace aircraft. The files are not accesssible.

That i what i understand to, unfortunatly.
We cannot acces these files needed for this for we dont see them on our pc anymore.

I hope i future that it will be back

I feel like Alan in ‘The Hangover’ when he says he’s been banned from Chuck E. Cheese.

Why Microsobo…why?

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Description of the issue: am trying to get external views omitting the virtual cockpit using the home cockpit mode in the camera section but enabling this nothing happens.

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This problem still persists, actually it is a regression, as there was a workaround for 2020, but the file which allowed this workaround has been made inaccessible.
The problem seems to affect all planes, but some more than others. I have tested 5 planes, the results are as following:
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Boeing 737 by Asobo:
Without home cockpit mode enabled, it is normal:

With home cockpit mode enabled, the camera is centered to the middle of the screen, and freelook using Rmb and mouse is disabled. This seems to only be missing the removal of virtual cockpit.

Cessna 172 in homecockpit mode, behaves the same as the Asobo 737

Inibuilds A320V2, which is a default plane for Msfs24 does not center the camera to the middle of the cockpit, nor does it hide the VC, but it does disable freelook with RMB:

Lastly PMDG 772. Behaves same as Inibuilds.