X-Plane keybinds into MSFS

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Is there anyway I can get my keybinds from XP into MSFS?

Struggling to get them right, and am wondering if anyone has made a profile that mimics the X-Plane default binds in MSFS?

Thanks

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Short of manually clearing your current binds on everything and rebuilding from scratch, Iā€™m not sure thereā€™s a way. I could be wrong though. It seems like it would be a lot of work to do that though.

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Itā€™s one of the main reasons Iā€™m not really using MSFS at all atm. I just canā€™t crack the camera controls. Managed to get flight controls sorted out a few weeks ago, but just canā€™t get my head around setting the cameras up. Currently use a custom camera for the cockpit straight ahead view, but for some reason I have to click the key a few times before it delivers the view I expect.

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Iā€™ve never flown X-Plane, so I donā€™t have a point of reference. But the camera controls in MSFS are very clunky and not very intuitive IMHO. From what I understand, XPā€™s cameras are great, so I can understand the frustration coming from that to this.

Best of luck.

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Thanks. Yep, X-Plane default controls are brilliant. Iā€™m really not a fan of the controls page in MSFS. Will probably spend this evening trying to figure it out.

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Might be teaching Grandma to suck eggs here a little, but there were some quite good Youtube tutorials done on the camera back just after release ; think Squirrel did one off the top of my head. YMMV.

I think ā€˜not particularly intuitiveā€™ hits the nail on the head, although to this day the Drone Camera is a source of mystery to me ( hands up user error more than anything else though).

Good luck :+1:

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Controlling the drone with the keyboard is an exercise in both frustration and futility for me. Itā€™s terrible by all accounts.

However, using my XBOX controller, itā€™s absolutely brilliant, simple and intuitive. IMHO, they hit it out of the park with the functionality of the drone. By contrast, itā€™s execution while using a keyboard is dismal at best.

But it should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that the focus is to get it working fantastically well on the XBOX controller.

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I have made the MSFS keybinds as close to XP as possible. A couple exceptions are that I have a ā€œPauseā€ key and I prefer that to ā€œpā€ (XP) and I also prefer ā€œEndā€ to ā€œshift 8ā€ (XP). A problem with the MSFS keybinds is that it seems to execute the primary keybinds of 0 - 9 regardless if they are already defined as part of other key combinations (ie. ALT 1 or CTRL 1). I am not sure if this behavior has changed with the latest updates. So I started with the default MSFS keybinds and created a custom ā€œXPā€ compatible keybind. The XP keys that I am very familiar with are the quick look keys (numpad 0 thru 9) and the quick look mem (ctrl numpad 0 -9) , flight control keys 0-9, and engine control F1 - F12. As a result, there are some MSFS features that are disabled but I only care about the primary piloting functions that are convenient to have on the keyboard. Unfortunately it appears that the keybinds are stored in the ā€œcloudā€ and not locally, so I do not know how to get a MSFS key mapping file that can be shared. It is nice to have a common set of MSFS/XP key mappings.

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coming off decades of Flight Sim over to XP 10 and 11 - what do people like about their cameras? - I hated them, and it was one of the reasons switching to XP took a long time for meā€¦ ( well, not switching, but running in parallel to P3D ) in fact - XPs UI put me off them for years.

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Ah that is a pity, I thought they would have been stored locally. That is basically exactly what I am looking for :slight_smile:

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