I want to voice my opinion to the oposite. I love the right click to pan the view. It is what most games use, and having the right click open a menu is totally inconvient. Using the scrollwheel to manipulate buttons is the way to go.
Disagree with OP, this is not needed. MSFS is not P3D and it is hard to add back what wasn;t there in the first place. Right Click to pan is ideal for me
I’m sorta on the same page as OP… I don’t if a right click is really convient as a solution and how it should be implemented; what I know for sure is that the more time I spend clicking buttons in the A320, the more I swear at the mouse and trying to assign everything to keyboard hotkeys… With low FPS, shaking view cause turbulence and head movent simulation, to switch Landing lights you must hit the pixel perfect position, waiting for the arrow cursor to change in the way you need, then view bobs around and you loose the spot… So you start again etc. So yeah, in this case would be much more simple to use to keys: put the cursor on the button, push left to switch off, right to switch on, and so on. (Plus, from the pilot viewpoint lots of switches are one ontop the other in perspective which renders everything more difficult to use)
Would also like to see the L and R mouse buttons used to tune frequencies, navigation radials, and select characters while entering a flight plan. Yes, buttons in addition to the current mouse wheel tuning. The issue I have is that the spots for the mouse wheel cursor are so small, that with the movements of the aircraft my mouse wheel tuning is interrupted by instead having the mouse wheel zooming the view in or out. Very frustrating.
With Reality XP GNS and GTN gauges you can hold down the left button to tune knobs and dials in one direction, and the right button to tune them in the other. You can also click one step at a time to tune knobs and dials in fine increments. I can tune COM and NAV frequencies, navigation radial settings, and especially flight plan airports and waypoint names in a fraction of the time it takes in MSFS.
My biggest MOUSE control issue at the moment, that I do remember having in FSX, is that if I want to control and item with the scroll wheel (ie Turn a Know clockwise or anticlockwise), very often, if I slip off the object, it ends up Zooming in/out instead.
Not figure out yet the an easy way to turn on/off Mousewheel Zoom ??
What am i missing … must be me ~!!!
OK, just realized why I did not have this issue in FSX … I mostly used 2D gauges !!!
(wont get into why – but i sure miss them in Fs2002 )
Not yet. For example, scroll wheel can only change altitude, you still need to click the small arrow to push in or pull out knob when using the airbus autopilot system.