The problem is when you bind a key and it does not delete the previous binding, like 99% of programs on the market. It should at least ask you to delete when you assign new, instead of making one to find and delete. Dumb as a box of rocks. It also double assigns yokes, throttles etc. Then it crashes..... 3-4 times a day.
Great video, thanks. A) What helped me as well was to raise or lower my seat so that when I look straight ahead I'm even with the Horizon straight ahead. C) in setting choose Camera then adjust Zoom to in-between 80-90. Default is 50 & that is not realistic. Zoom is "Field of View". One TV/monitor should be a 45 degree field of view. 80 on zoom will get you there. Once you best to zoom 80 then move back in seat a bit & save that a default or custom view.
Thanks for this very helpful video. I am also an X-Plane user and need to configure my MSFS camera presets the same. I will now go and follow these instructions.
Excellent!! This is the video I have been waiting for. I am an X-Plane 11 guy and bought MSFS 2020 because of the spectacular visuals. One of the things that makes a flight sim good is an excellent and easy camera system, either native or add-on (ChasePlane is not yet available for MSFS 2020, but I have found it very useful in P3D). Unfortunately MSFS 2020 lacks this at this time, and I found myself clinging to X-Plane 11 and avoiding MSFS 2020. That is going to change now because of your excellent video. Thank you again
Many many thanks from us simmers for a brilliant tutorial, these settings were putting me off msfs, but now i'm flying. You must have racked your brains to find all this and saved us all a real headache. Absolutely brilliant. Robert Wood, Rothesay, Scotland UK
As a sim-pilot with 1000s of X-Plane hours, I found I just couldn't use MSFS due to camera clumsiness... My disappointment of X-Plane 12's dark cockpits, etc. forced me to give MS another try and THIS VIDEO has made all the difference. THANK YOU !!!
Thanks so much for that, Sim. I had set up my system according to your intructions before but for some reason after installing the latest drivers for my sound system I found that all my settings had reverted. I was delighted to find your tutorial again and reestablish some normality. Thanks again!
Thanks for this. X-plane controls for views are so much easier. Perhaps useful to duplicate the default keyboard mappings and work on the duplicate when making these modifications, not least because you might want different settings for different aircraft later on. But, when I did it, it spent ages thinking about changing the name afterwards, so worth getting the right name first time. And it's easier to remove unwanted mapping to the same key by using the key itself rather than scrolling through the list.
Hi! this was very helpful! Can you maybe make a Video about how to have xp11 controls in general for MSFS2020 I just cant get warm with the MSFS Controls and would like to basically copy as much as possible from XP11 for MSFS 😀
Thank you very much for your help with the view settings. This just what I have been looking for. I have been flying XP11 but I now also own MSFS. Right! Time to get things set up 🤩✈️
Very cool. Thanks for sharing this. Fortunately, when you get your hotas setup, you'll also be able to move many of your views, with the hat switches. On my Thrustmaster hotas throttle, there's even an analog stick, which allows smooth, and slow panning, and tilting of the camera. Over on the side stick, it's hat switch will let you cycle through the panel vies, by pulling down on the hat, then pushing it right, til you find the desired panel. But I like the idea of being able to just push one button to get to a desired view.
What I found particularly handy with XP11 was that when I pushed the same button a second time, the camera returned to the previous view. In msfs2020 the camera always goes back to the base view. For me it was perfect and I miss it a lot. In summary: I am in left view and I click the throttle view button. I push back the throttle view button a second time and go back to left window view. It worked in XP11 for customer view 0 to 9...
Thanks so much! What a great and straight video. A well deserved Thumbs Up and happy to be your newest subscriber. Please keep up with your great job helping us.
Well done Mr. Sim Geek, you sir are a "steely-eyed missile man" thank you so much just what I wanted to know. Do I have to do that with each aircraft now?
When checking the Inputs for duplicates you can click on the 'Search by Input box' (above Select an Input) and when it changes colour simply press the key e.g. Num1 and it will show all the relevant bindings. Saves scrolling through the list.
I suggest if you gonna do it this way go through your Num. Keys and Ctr. And clear al current imputs before reassigning them. Do this by, Search By Imput, and delete everything to those keys first. It'll be much much easier.
Liked, Subscribed. Great video. I expect more tutorials from you to make our lives easier lol 😁 I take it if you want to use a Hat Switch to toggle through the views, you can assign this? I believe I saw K and ALT K for your bindings?
Brilliant tutorial, thank you. I would assume I could do the same process with the default "Drone" camera assigned keys as well as I only use a few (Number keyboard).
Your explanation is quite good and simple. What I don't know is why it does not work in my system. I do exactly all your suggested steps and clean any duplicate key but in the game nothing happens. You set you view, click ctrl + the num to store it and when you go back to the original position and click the num where the view is stored, nothing? What may be happening, any clue? One thing, I have multiple monitors setup (3)...
Thanks ....great ....you are working from comparing X plane camera s system......could you tell how I get rid of the annoying pop up tags you get any time you hover yr mousepoint over knobs and flightinstruments?
Yes - I found the X-Plane camera system so intuitive, so thought I'd set up what I know best on MSFS. 'Mouse over tool tips' - I know what you mean, I cant turn mine off either, I read somewhere its a bug because it should be controlled in 'Assistance' and 'Notifications' - all mine are off but they still pop up when I hover over all the knobs, dials and buttons. Hopefully this is something else they fix in the next patch.
This helped me understand the keyboard bindings section of MSFS2020 better however when I chose "new" for my FBW A320 I was not able to press "esc" to get back into my control settings. Does it make more sense to just copy the "default" keyboard setting and work from there? Excuse my ignorance if this question is irritating..:-)
C’est magnifique, mon ami. (Spoiler alert - I’m not French - Lol!) Meanwhile, I’ve subbed. But my big question, is can I do this reset and still be able to scroll views in cockpit and move around it as before? I ask because I love that ability to be retained even after changing over to the X-plane 11 view mode.
I've tried. I used to use the numbers at the top of the keyboard (1-9) to get my external views in XP11, there's no way to do it here I've seen so far - so we are stuck with using the bar at the top which is very clunky.
Very useful. Thanks! Now, if you could figure out how to make the POV on my Thrustmaster A320 Joystick act like it did in X-Plane (as well as the Right-button on the mouse) so I can smoothly scroll around the cockpit, that would be the Bees-Knees.
@@eddeig I would but that was a year ago and I cannot remember where I saw it. I think it was done by Simhangar. If you search on POV Hat Thrustmaster you may find it.
Thank for this. Any idea how you can reset cockpit view but keep any applied zoom or translation? I can't figure it out. Best I have is I set a custom view but for some reason I need to press it twice to get me back to my saved view?! The first press takes me to some strange angle. So frustrating!
Just installed MSFS and am a bit lost concerning the camera (I'm an XPlane user) and it's config. Thanks for the life line. Will these mods be over written with each MSFS update?
Thank you , thank you, thank you. You've saved me hours of frustration at the least, and most likely from deleting this steaming pile of garbage that is MSFS2020 at this point.
You know if I can invert the mouse to make the click hold and drag feel like XPlane? Do you know if it is possible to have the same free camera we get in XPlane by pressing c?
Sorry to hear you may "retire" from making vids; you have an excellent voice and style. On the other side, it's pitiful MS makes us jump through hoops to do the job POV1 used to do. A thought: could i bind the views you created to the POV? Needs more thought. I'm thinking of going through your drill (mind already boggled :-) at the chore), but then I'll have another chore, loading all those commands into VoiceAttack so I can change my views by voice rather that reaching for the NumPad numbers. Also, is there an easy way to switch between internal and external camera views? Thanks for your good work, NOMAD the Aviating Author (also on YT with DCS)
uhm - I had expected that you might use the hat switch on your yoke. But I come from FSX, which was so easy to set up - vs.MS2020 that is a nightmare out of hell concerning the setup for views.
Hi! I do exactly what you say but when I click 0 on the num pad after saved the camera view, it just takes me outside the aircraft... How can I solve this problem?
I think you are the first person who understood the pain of a xplane simmer coming to msfs. Best video🙏
Finally I found someone who could explain the custom camera setups WITH the associated keystrokes!! Good job young man!
Thanks a lot for this! MSFS set up just like XP11's! Cheers!
FD2S
Leave it to Microsoft/Assorbo to have one of the most convoluted setup. Thanks for the video and simplifying what should have simple to begin with.
As much as I love where MSFS2020 has gone. This game has the most insane set of key bindings. Well... not as bad as Star Citizen that is.
The problem is when you bind a key and it does not delete the previous binding, like 99% of programs on the market. It should at least ask you to delete when you assign new, instead of making one to find and delete. Dumb as a box of rocks. It also double assigns yokes, throttles etc. Then it crashes..... 3-4 times a day.
cheers best explanation so far, well done and thanks.
Great video, thanks.
A) What helped me as well was to raise or lower my seat so that when I look straight ahead I'm even with the Horizon straight ahead.
C) in setting choose Camera then adjust Zoom to in-between 80-90.
Default is 50 & that is not realistic.
Zoom is "Field of View".
One TV/monitor should be a 45 degree field of view. 80 on zoom will get you there.
Once you best to zoom 80 then move back in seat a bit & save that a default or custom view.
I'm new to MSFS and this is pure gold!
Thanks for this very helpful video. I am also an X-Plane user and need to configure my MSFS camera presets the same. I will now go and follow these instructions.
Excellent!! This is the video I have been waiting for. I am an X-Plane 11 guy and bought MSFS 2020 because of the spectacular visuals. One of the things that makes a flight sim good is an excellent and easy camera system, either native or add-on (ChasePlane is not yet available for MSFS 2020, but I have found it very useful in P3D). Unfortunately MSFS 2020 lacks this at this time, and I found myself clinging to X-Plane 11 and avoiding MSFS 2020. That is going to change now because of your excellent video. Thank you again
Many thanks for this video! The rubbish view system was holding me off of MSFS in the past. I’ll give it a retry with this familiar X-Plane system.
Many many thanks from us simmers for a brilliant tutorial, these settings were putting me off msfs, but now i'm flying. You must have racked your brains to find all this and saved us all a real headache. Absolutely brilliant. Robert Wood, Rothesay, Scotland UK
No problem.
Now if only I could find a way to use the top row of numbers to change the external views instead of using the camera menu overlay.....
As a sim-pilot with 1000s of X-Plane hours, I found I just couldn't use MSFS due to camera clumsiness... My disappointment of X-Plane 12's dark cockpits, etc. forced me to give MS another try and THIS VIDEO has made all the difference. THANK YOU !!!
Thank you very much for a great and simple video. Was able to get my views up to XPlane standard. Just could not do so until I watched it.
Thanks so much for that, Sim.
I had set up my system according to your intructions before but for some reason after installing the latest drivers for my sound system I found that all my settings had reverted. I was delighted to find your tutorial again and reestablish some normality. Thanks again!
Just came across your tutorial...thank you thank you thank you...saved me binning MSFS due to its incredibly clunky view options :)
V Useful. It took me a while before I realised that I had the set wrong. becomes and caused me to go to external view all the time !
Glad to be able to find this again. For some reason all my key bindings previously set disappeared!
Thank you. I agree with Greg. Asobo should have just paid Laminar about 10 million for a simple control system.
Thanks for this. X-plane controls for views are so much easier. Perhaps useful to duplicate the default keyboard mappings and work on the duplicate when making these modifications, not least because you might want different settings for different aircraft later on. But, when I did it, it spent ages thinking about changing the name afterwards, so worth getting the right name first time. And it's easier to remove unwanted mapping to the same key by using the key itself rather than scrolling through the list.
Good tip!
Appreciate the help. If you do decide to do any other videos, go ahead and do them. Your chronological approach is easy to understand. Thanks again.
Hi! this was very helpful! Can you maybe make a Video about how to have xp11 controls in general for MSFS2020 I just cant get warm with the MSFS Controls and would like to basically copy as much as possible from XP11 for MSFS 😀
Thank you very much for your help with the view settings. This just what I have been looking for. I have been flying XP11 but I now also own MSFS. Right! Time to get things set up 🤩✈️
You, sir; Are a life saver. This is exactly the information I was seeking.
You are welcome friend.
Great tutorial, now I might be able to stand this sim a little more.
Thanks! This is exactly what I needed to know to get out of MSFS shortcut hell! Now it makes sense.
Thanks a lot for this extremely informative video. Searched for hours before I found it. Makes sim heck of a lot more fun.
Excellent. I’ve tried this so many times and failed until now. Feels like I’m back in xplane 👏👏👏
Glad it helped!
Great just what I needed to now, THANK YOU.!!!!!
You are welcome.
Couldn't have been a better explained video mate nice one!!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing this. Fortunately, when you get your hotas setup, you'll also be able to move many of your views, with the hat switches. On my Thrustmaster hotas throttle, there's even an analog stick, which allows smooth, and slow panning, and tilting of the camera. Over on the side stick, it's hat switch will let you cycle through the panel vies, by pulling down on the hat, then pushing it right, til you find the desired panel. But I like the idea of being able to just push one button to get to a desired view.
The best view binding short cut seen until now!!!Thanks you!😀
I stole it from XP11. And I wanted it in MSFS because it just worked so well, so thought I would port it over and share. Glad you like it friend.
@@simgeeks378 Yes i am use to Chaseplane for P3d, pretty much the same.
Thank you so much for the straight forward and very useful information !
What I found particularly handy with XP11 was that when I pushed the same button a second time, the camera returned to the previous view.
In msfs2020 the camera always goes back to the base view.
For me it was perfect and I miss it a lot.
In summary: I am in left view and I click the throttle view button. I push back the throttle view button a second time and go back to left window view.
It worked in XP11 for customer view 0 to 9...
Thanks so much! What a great and straight video. A well deserved Thumbs Up and happy to be your newest subscriber. Please keep up with your great job helping us.
Many thanks for taking the time to do this. It's really helped:)
Glad it helped
thanks, man. really great video. id say its the best out there. definitely makes sense now.
Well done Mr. Sim Geek, you sir are a "steely-eyed missile man" thank you so much just what I wanted to know. Do I have to do that with each aircraft now?
Thank you for this video. I gonna try out your settings.
Thank you so much! Simple and straight to the point!
This was very helpful, Thank you! June 2022 California USA
Thanks a million. Works great. Do you have to do it for each plane. Can it be copied to all planes.
Thanks...been struggling for a while to set it up. Greatly appreciated.
Welcome brother, just wish MS made it a bit easier for us to do.
Thanks Captain, very usefull for those X-Plane Pilots testing the MSFS2020 Thanks!!!!
When checking the Inputs for duplicates you can click on the 'Search by Input box' (above Select an Input) and when it changes colour simply press the key e.g. Num1 and it will show all the relevant bindings. Saves scrolling through the list.
Nice, cheers!
I suggest if you gonna do it this way go through your Num. Keys and Ctr. And clear al current imputs before reassigning them. Do this by, Search By Imput, and delete everything to those keys first. It'll be much much easier.
thank you really informative any chance you can do the same to set up the POV switch?
Liked, Subscribed. Great video. I expect more tutorials from you to make our lives easier lol 😁 I take it if you want to use a Hat Switch to toggle through the views, you can assign this? I believe I saw K and ALT K for your bindings?
Brilliant tutorial, thank you. I would assume I could do the same process with the default "Drone" camera assigned keys as well as I only use a few (Number keyboard).
Not sure Kevin, I use an Xbox controller for the drone and havent really messed with the drone settings 👍
@@simgeeks378 OK thank you.
Excellent, this really got me started.Thanks!
Thanks so much for this info!! Helped a ton getting my views set up!!
thanks man very helpful
Your explanation is quite good and simple. What I don't know is why it does not work in my system. I do exactly all your suggested steps and clean any duplicate key but in the game nothing happens. You set you view, click ctrl + the num to store it and when you go back to the original position and click the num where the view is stored, nothing? What may be happening, any clue? One thing, I have multiple monitors setup (3)...
Thank you! That's really helpful!
Thanks ....great ....you are working from comparing X plane camera s system......could you tell how I get rid of the annoying pop up tags you get any time you hover yr mousepoint over knobs and flightinstruments?
Yes - I found the X-Plane camera system so intuitive, so thought I'd set up what I know best on MSFS. 'Mouse over tool tips' - I know what you mean, I cant turn mine off either, I read somewhere its a bug because it should be controlled in 'Assistance' and 'Notifications' - all mine are off but they still pop up when I hover over all the knobs, dials and buttons. Hopefully this is something else they fix in the next patch.
Great video , thank you for your support.
This helped me understand the keyboard bindings section of MSFS2020 better however when I chose "new" for my FBW A320 I was not able to press "esc" to get back into my control settings. Does it make more sense to just copy the "default" keyboard setting and work from there? Excuse my ignorance if this question is irritating..:-)
C’est magnifique, mon ami. (Spoiler alert - I’m not French - Lol!) Meanwhile, I’ve subbed.
But my big question, is can I do this reset and still be able to scroll views in cockpit and move around it as before? I ask because I love that ability to be retained even after changing over to the X-plane 11 view mode.
Excellent so easy to follow well done Sir, thank you so much
Very useful. Thanks.
Hopefully, you do an external camera version
I've tried. I used to use the numbers at the top of the keyboard (1-9) to get my external views in XP11, there's no way to do it here I've seen so far - so we are stuck with using the bar at the top which is very clunky.
Brilliant easy and simple tourtial, thank u
Thats a well done job Mr.Sim.
Excellent tutorial thanks. And please do more
Thanks for your kind words Tim.
Very nice job, thanks for this. Amazing contribution. Plans on making an external view video?
Yes, next few days, I think I found the way.
Thankyou, very well done!
Excellent info thank you
Very useful. Thanks! Now, if you could figure out how to make the POV on my Thrustmaster A320 Joystick act like it did in X-Plane (as well as the Right-button on the mouse) so I can smoothly scroll around the cockpit, that would be the Bees-Knees.
Answering my own inquiry: Found another TH-cam Video that answered my question about the POV hat. So, I'm happy as a hog in a mud pile.
@@Topcat1952 Can you send the YT link, please?
@@eddeig I would but that was a year ago and I cannot remember where I saw it. I think it was done by Simhangar. If you search on POV Hat Thrustmaster you may find it.
Great stuff 👍
You are welcome.
Thanks .. so much easier
You're welcome!
Thumb Up ! Subscribed ! Thank you, very usefull !!
you are a life saver lol thnks a milon
Well explained!
Thank for this. Any idea how you can reset cockpit view but keep any applied zoom or translation? I can't figure it out. Best I have is I set a custom view but for some reason I need to press it twice to get me back to my saved view?! The first press takes me to some strange angle. So frustrating!
Great. The camera system is a big reason I still prefer xp so this will help. Shame it’s such a faff.
Just installed MSFS and am a bit lost concerning the camera (I'm an XPlane user) and it's config. Thanks for the life line. Will these mods be over written with each MSFS update?
Thank you very much !
You are welcome!
Thank you , thank you, thank you. You've saved me hours of frustration at the least, and most likely from deleting this steaming pile of garbage that is MSFS2020 at this point.
Great video. Subscribed.
Awesome, thank you!
Perfect! Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Great video...thanks!
Glad you liked it!
You know if I can invert the mouse to make the click hold and drag feel like XPlane? Do you know if it is possible to have the same free camera we get in XPlane by pressing c?
thank you, sir.
Top!!! Most useful!
Glad to hear that!
Thanks a lot for the help.
I have MS Flight Simulator X and whenever I go to External View all I see is a propeller, not the entire Airplane. Please help!!! What do I do to fix?
Sorry to hear you may "retire" from making vids; you have an excellent voice and style. On the other side, it's pitiful MS makes us jump through hoops to do the job POV1 used to do. A thought: could i bind the views you created to the POV? Needs more thought. I'm thinking of going through your drill (mind already boggled :-) at the chore), but then I'll have another chore, loading all those commands into VoiceAttack so I can change my views by voice rather that reaching for the NumPad numbers. Also, is there an easy way to switch between internal and external camera views? Thanks for your good work, NOMAD the Aviating Author (also on YT with DCS)
uhm - I had expected that you might use the hat switch on your yoke. But I come from FSX, which was so easy to set up - vs.MS2020 that is a nightmare out of hell concerning the setup for views.
Do you know of a solution to set the external view to a second monitor? Thx
Thank you!!!
will this not affect your drone camera views?
So if I brought a separate Numeric Keypad would the keys have separate bindings to my keyboard?
thanks brother
THANKYOU
Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks !!!!
do youe have to have the num lock key ON or OFF ?
Can you make a video about a320NEO wingviews too?
Its exactly the same process, just select the 320 folder instead.
Fantástic 👍
Hi! I do exactly what you say but when I click 0 on the num pad after saved the camera view, it just takes me outside the aircraft... How can I solve this problem?
Try searching for '0' under keyboard bindings, sounds like it may be bound to external view.
@@simgeeks378 Thanks for you help, it did work!
Hello friend, what is the shortkey to activate "camera menu" please on keyboard ?
you are a life saver