When it comes to landing at any airport with any aircraft in the SIM’, I can’t for the life of me get a perfect landing looking at my plane in chase view, I have to be in cockpit view to make my landing without scrubbing it. Is it me or are there others of you who have this same perspective dilemma…?
After 35+ years in sims I still need to be in the cockpit.
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Glad I’m not the only one. 
I’m fairly new to flight sims. Well I did mess with the early MS versions back in the 80’s., but that was like playing Excite Bike on Nintendo. The Excite part wore off quickly.
However and to the point, when I first started flying in MSFS 2020 I couldn’t land from the cockpit. I had to be viewing from the external cam in order to get runway alignment. That was probably my first 10 landings or so and one of the members here told me then that once I got an understanding of the visuals from the cockpit it would be the only way to land.
And I can say that the several hundred landings I’ve had since have all been from the cockpit view. I occasionally go outside to snap a picture on final but immediately jump back into the cockpit for touchdown.
I land sometimes in external view…Mostly on the great Low Aittude VFR approach in SFO from SJC…less than 300 feet over water. Cockpit mode is good for cruising.
For me the only way to land is in the cockpit. I would like to see how hard I touch down from an external view, but thing my visual perspective would be compromised. Also, depends on which type of A/C I think as well.
I just want to view a replay of a landing so ■■■■ bad. Being on Xbox can be frustrating sometimes.
8 months until I switch to PC lol
Yep, cockpit is the way to go for me.
I tried all the landing challenges, and external view is my default “go-to” choice to try to find the runway. However, during touch down, it is simply too difficult to measure how much flare you need, given the simulator now has “ground effect”: where a cushion of air underneath your wing are squeezed into the earth’s surface, which should help dampen your descent rate before you touchdown.
In real life, you can sort of feel the descent rate. In sim, you sit stationary, guided only by audio and visual cues. External view doesn’t really give you good reference point on how fast your machine is falling from the sky. Like the entire view is just the general scenery and this plane thing in the middle of your screen moving about. Cockpit view should give you better state of how shaky, bumpy, or fast you are falling from the sky, because you can see what’s going on outside from the window, relative to the static calm state of your cockpit shelter.
This is the same in every other “game” like racing sim. You just can’t drive it using “chase camera” anymore and hit the apex right.
Hmm 
, seems to be the way to go for a lot of pilots. I just thought that some people prefer external view instead. I must have read some blurb or something online about landing that way externally. But then again, everybody has their preferences I guess.
Hi, my friend. I moved your post to the Community Support > Basic Gameplay Help category since you’re requesting advice for a basic flight sim procedure. I also updated your thread title to be a bit more specific. Happy landings!
I’m trying, as much as possible, to simulate a real flight experience. Staying in the cockpit for all phases of flight is required for that.
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