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
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!
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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 🤩✈️
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.
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.
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 😀
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)...
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.
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.
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?
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...
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?
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!
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..:-)
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).
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'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.
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.
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.
I can't look around inside the plane the camera doesn't move around please I need help tell me what to do I think the problem is on the camera settings but I try everything it doesn't work..
Hi...thx for the video. However, at least on MY system, I have 2 issues I hope you can help me with. First, it seems that I have to go through this mapping procedure for each separate aircraft. I suppose I could live with that and only map those A/C that I often fly, except for the second issue. Not sure why this happened, but when I restart MSFS2020 and go to fly the same A/C that I've mapped the camera settings (as per your video), the numeric keypad (built into Microsoft keyboard) no longer gives me the different views...even though when I go back into the control settings for my keyboard, your mappings are still there. The only thing that stands out to me is that when I initially restarted the sim, all was OK. The next time I restarted the sim, I went into the external views...not the settings, just the external views that I initiated from the cockpit (INSERT key, END key). After that, all previous inside cockpit mappings did not work. Hope I've been clear on this, and hope you might be able to help. Thanks in advance.
@@simgeeks378 Hey Sim Geeks, great video, but what about the question about setting this up for every aircraft. i to have to set up mapping for every aircraft. Is this how it should work? i could see why it should be this way, but just want to make sure
@@simgeeks378 Hi again...On my system at least, I've found that I DO in fact have to set up cockpit views separately for each different A/C. As far as the original posting of my "second issue", that seems to be gone...not sure what I might have done, but I don't notice that anymore. But as I've said, I most definitely DO have to set up for each different airplane. Once I DO that aircraft's cockpit camera setup, it stays put...even when shutting down the system and restarting later.
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.
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.
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?
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?
Still works for MSFS 2024! Thanks again buddy!
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
I'm new to MSFS and this is pure gold!
cheers best explanation so far, well done and thanks.
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
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!
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.....
Couldn't have been a better explained video mate nice one!!
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.
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.
You, sir; Are a life saver. This is exactly the information I was seeking.
You are welcome friend.
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.
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.
Great just what I needed to now, THANK YOU.!!!!!
You are welcome.
Glad to be able to find this again. For some reason all my key bindings previously set disappeared!
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.
Just came across your tutorial...thank you thank you thank you...saved me binning MSFS due to its incredibly clunky view options :)
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!
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.
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 🤩✈️
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.
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 !
Thank you so much for the straight forward and very useful information !
Many thanks for taking the time to do this. It's really helped:)
Glad it helped
Great tutorial, now I might be able to stand this sim a little more.
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 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.
Thank you so much! Simple and straight to the point!
thanks, man. really great video. id say its the best out there. definitely makes sense now.
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.
Excellent, this really got me started.Thanks!
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 for this video. I gonna try out your settings.
Thanks Captain, very usefull for those X-Plane Pilots testing the MSFS2020 Thanks!!!!
Thank you. I agree with Greg. Asobo should have just paid Laminar about 10 million for a simple control system.
Thats a well done job Mr.Sim.
Thanks so much for this info!! Helped a ton getting my views set up!!
Excellent tutorial thanks. And please do more
Thanks for your kind words Tim.
Great stuff 👍
You are welcome.
Excellent. I’ve tried this so many times and failed until now. Feels like I’m back in xplane 👏👏👏
Glad it helped!
Thank you! That's really helpful!
Brilliant easy and simple tourtial, thank u
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)...
Excellent so easy to follow well done Sir, thank you so much
Thanks .. so much easier
You're welcome!
Great video , thank you for your support.
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!
This was very helpful, Thank you! June 2022 California USA
thank you really informative any chance you can do the same to set up the POV switch?
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.
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?
Excellent info thank you
Thankyou, very well done!
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...
Great video...thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Great video. Subscribed.
Awesome, thank you!
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?
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!
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..:-)
Perfect! Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Thumb Up ! Subscribed ! Thank you, very usefull !!
Do you know of a solution to set the external view to a second monitor? Thx
Top!!! Most useful!
Glad to hear that!
Thank you very much !
You are welcome!
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?
you are a life saver lol thnks a milon
Thanks a million. Works great. Do you have to do it for each plane. Can it be copied to all planes.
thanks man very helpful
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.
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.
Thanks a lot for the help.
Well explained!
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!
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.
Hello friend, what is the shortkey to activate "camera menu" please on keyboard ?
do youe have to have the num lock key ON or OFF ?
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.
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.
Fantástic 👍
So if I brought a separate Numeric Keypad would the keys have separate bindings to my keyboard?
I can't look around inside the plane the camera doesn't move around please I need help tell me what to do I think the problem is on the camera settings but I try everything it doesn't work..
First off, try restoring your controls to default settings and work from there
Hi...thx for the video. However, at least on MY system, I have 2 issues I hope you can help me with. First, it seems that I have to go through this mapping procedure for each separate aircraft. I suppose I could live with that and only map those A/C that I often fly, except for the second issue. Not sure why this happened, but when I restart MSFS2020 and go to fly the same A/C that I've mapped the camera settings (as per your video), the numeric keypad (built into Microsoft keyboard) no longer gives me the different views...even though when I go back into the control settings for my keyboard, your mappings are still there. The only thing that stands out to me is that when I initially restarted the sim, all was OK. The next time I restarted the sim, I went into the external views...not the settings, just the external views that I initiated from the cockpit (INSERT key, END key). After that, all previous inside cockpit mappings did not work. Hope I've been clear on this, and hope you might be able to help. Thanks in advance.
Hi John, soprry for late reply. Did you manage to get this sorted? i can't imagine what could be causing this at all???
@@simgeeks378 Hey Sim Geeks, great video, but what about the question about setting this up for every aircraft. i to have to set up mapping for every aircraft. Is this how it should work? i could see why it should be this way, but just want to make sure
@@simgeeks378 Hi again...On my system at least, I've found that I DO in fact have to set up cockpit views separately for each different A/C. As far as the original posting of my "second issue", that seems to be gone...not sure what I might have done, but I don't notice that anymore. But as I've said, I most definitely DO have to set up for each different airplane. Once I DO that aircraft's cockpit camera setup, it stays put...even when shutting down the system and restarting later.
@@johnmccann5318 .. you
How to relate the zoom level in the MSFS to the XP FOV?
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.
Can you make a video about a320NEO wingviews too?
Its exactly the same process, just select the 320 folder instead.
thank you, sir.
Thank you!!!
will this not affect your drone camera views?
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.
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?
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?
THANKYOU
thanks brother
What do you press on the keyboard to move the camera down... so the view isn't so high up?
Space bar is default I believe. Or, if you follow my tutorial, the arrow key up and down moves you up and down.