How do I Interact While Outside the Plane?

I’m obviously missing something here but I’ve been at this for too long now and am not getting anywhere.

During the walkaround I can see the dots next to things I’m supposed to interact with. They flash blue when I’m looking at them but I can’t interact with them.

The only way I can get the prompt to carry out the action, e.g. remove engine covers, is to toggle the cursor on, put that over the thing, click it, and then turn the cursor off. That uses the Cockpit Interaction - Primary Action key binding.

Presumably the binding “Player Character>Intreract” is supposed to do the same thing while the cursor is off but it does nothing. No prompt to take an action even though the thing is flashing blue and in focus. It looks like if there’s no prompt then no action can be taken.

Am I just being daft here? How to I interact with something outside the airplane without turning on the cursor?

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I am having this problem while using my Xbox controller in Walk Around mode on PC. The Interact key binding does nothing using the controller, I have to use my mouse to click on the items.