Microsoft Flight Simulator | Drone Camera + Custom Views Tutorial

[@jimdarley]

I spent 3 hours tonight looking at one video after another. I just wanted someone to explain clearly how to control the drone “showcase” camera view. I finally found a clear, straightforward explanation. YOU DID IT SIMHANGAR!!! Thank you!

[@Q8Pilot]

You are most welcome, glad this was helpful.

[@Francois8011]

I miss FSX so much! The views actually made sense, and there were so many options!

[@Thrust-Set-Simulations]

You mentioned left, right, forward and back, roll and rotate but you forgot the translate drone up and down option with keyboard commands, R and F, I think, very important option. Also, you should recommend that you change the save view commands to Cntrl Num then access it with just Num. That gets rid of the Alt key and makes it a lot easier to use and remember. Otherwise, clear and helpful video for someone new to this. 👍🏻

[@Q8Pilot]

I certainly did...my bad.

[@Thrust-Set-Simulations]

@@Q8Pilot lol. Figured you would probably slap your forehead 🤣

[@Q8Pilot]

@@Thrust-Set-Simulations hahaha

[@wetland3010]

Great, great video Q8 You are one of the treasures of the Flight Sim community. This has helped greatly with my struggle with MSFS views. Now I can move the viewpoint further from the plane to reduce the fisheye distortion that is built into MSFS, that makes (especially big planes) look stupidly cartoonish. Apparently the sim is designed for the pilot/player to be sitting close to a wide-screen flat monitor, but I'm happy that SU 10 will have settings to change the nature of the display. The current view's central bulge toward the viewer is (for me) disturbing and unpleasant when sitting back to enjoy on a 4K 65" screen.

[@Q8Pilot]

Glad this has helped you, thank you for watching and for your kind words!

[@rangerrick8220]

@@hpharold23 Is it worth buying an Xbox controller to handle viewing around the plane?

[@rms59]

Finally, a great tutorial on drone views.

[@The9thprod]

I would pay hundreds of dollars to a developper that would developp an addon to just simply replicate the default x-plane camera system in MSFS. If someone can hear my call...🙂 But thank you for the great content as alway Q8pilot!

[@DownTheRabbit-Hole]

No doubt. These camera views are dumb and overdone. One has to use decent camera view concepts in XP or P3D to know just how stupid these controls are.

[@odelayrowemonkey2145]

I've been Xplane since XP8.. but earlier this year I bought an XboXseries to see what all the fuss was about.. it's absolutely awesome but this is what I really wanted/needed to see! thanks!

[@Q8Pilot]

Glad this has helped.

[@aedale1]

Thank you for a really good video, it has helped me with the viewing system in MSFS. After coming from XP11/12 it was quite frustrating, but not now. 🙏

[@peterkeenan8938]

The only thing that upsets me in the MSFS is when you are in the Showcase views, in a short time the horizon begins to start to rotate which means that you have to press the space bar to get everything level again.

[@chrisbailey9331]

An excellent video, very clear to understand and very helpful thank you for posting it!

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching!

[@rms59]

And... I wish drone views could be done with the mouse like the external views

[@omarijoseph3189]

rather good tutorial and a quick overview on the drone camera..well done sir / left a discord message for you

[@simaviation3]

Great video, Can you make a tutorial about how we can make a cinematic view for videos?

[@GrumpyOldMan9]

You merely explain setting up cockpit custom views. How do you set up drone custom views? By the way, those cabin window views only work if you have a special plane, that has the cabin worked out.

[@erlincoln1]

also, I noticed that your cockpit door was open. How did you manage that?

[@That_Aviationguy]

It’s not open?

[@leohors852]

This is the best tutorial how have to use drone camera mode. However, where is the IACO airfield? Thank you,

[@rangerrick8220]

Thanks! Wish FS2020 had as good a replay function as Xplane!

[@Q8Pilot]

Hopefully this is coming in the SU10, I am not sure how good it is, but it would be hard to beat the X-Plane camera system.

[@richpaul8132]

Outstanding!

[@VNAV_PTH]

Excellent tutorial!

[@johnmcgahern3946]

Great video, but one question. You stated that the insert button toggles between cockpit mode and showcase mode. Then you said, let's hit the insert button to enter drone mode. Which is it?

[@Q8Pilot]

Both. Insert will toggle the modes.

[@CianMcsweeney]

Thanks for the video! The camera system in msfs is definitely convoluted and kind of bad tbh, they should've just replicated x-planes, would love to invest in msfs, everything else about the sim is great, but controlling the camera is such a pain

[@TUKUMZ]

Very helpful video. Thank you.

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching my friend!

[@peterpieras]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching! Glad it helped!

[@Vivid_ID]

how did you phase through the walls in the cockpit, it wouldn't let me do that

[@TundeEszlari]

You are a very good videographer.😊

[@chriswatkins2936]

Great information. Can you tell me what airport you were at? It looked beautiful. Thank you!

[@prowelddynamics]

How did you get into the cabin without messing with the camera settings on the note pad?

[@ster100]

Is it for you possible to write all this shortcuts here somewhere? Or...can i find it elsewhere?

[@laura-ann.0726]

Is there still no way to save a drone camera view as one of the 10 "External" saved views? I know how to save cockpit camera views, with the CTRL+ALT key combo, but what about saving Drone camera views?

[@erlincoln1]

I cant seem to get thru the cockpit door, regardless of aircraft. What am I doing wrong?

[@MotmedGaming]

Why does noone explain how to translate up and down?

[@DownTheRabbit-Hole]

Be advised.. I had some issues with Yaw. Be sure to reset keyboard by loading another profile then going back. Probably best to use default keyboard and commands to see if everything works.

[@mikew130]

Great video thanks

[@Q8Pilot]

Thanks for watching!

[@diegosala1167]

Not in every plane you can leave the cockpit just trsaspassing the door/walls, can you?

[@Q8Pilot]

You are correct, not all planes allow you to do that. You can always delete the custom views for aircraft your can't modify and create your own.

[@Photoshopmanipulator]

Another great show as usual thank you very much I have eight different types of planes and jets that I fly ,do I have to set views for each and every one of those different planes

[@MsCarlos2125]

tks, carlos montréal canada

[@lowrivera]

Can one use the numbers on the 10 key instead of the top for shortcuts? Also can these shortcuts be done for the drone in showcase?

[@Q8Pilot]

You can change the assignment yes.

[@Dalamain]

Great video but it really is pathetic how ASOBO won't open up their camera APIs so that we can have amazing utilities like chaseplane create views more easily.

[@michaelmm4684]

Why don’t you do tutorial on how to set up views with joystick… like the Logitech… and load from Simbrief or Navigraph into the FMC

[@Q8Pilot]

I will consider it in the future. Thanks for making a suggestion.

[@alexbhms2]

Wich scenery is this?

[@catiiiresponse2223]

Great video! Is there any sort of flashing landing lights mod? A lot of times I will see 737s with flashing landing lights presumably to deter birds from approaching an aircraft.

[@Q8Pilot]

Some aircraft have them some don't. Thanks for watching!

[@RobertHopkinsArt]

There is some kind of bug going on right now with the sim. My Alt+Ctrl+1 to Alt+Ctrl+0 keyboard keys do not save the camera view. Alt+1 --> Alt+0 don't do anything for me. They worked in the past with no issue. I have made a post on the forum along with others that have this same issue. If you can think of some setting in Options or Keyboard Shortcuts that could make this work I would really appreciate it! Thanks for the excellent video.

[@Q8Pilot]

I don't think it is a bug. I think your mapping has been changes. Go to your keyboard profile and reset to default.

[@RobertHopkinsArt]

For some reason, Ctrl+Alt+1 was not working. So, to fix it, I changed it to Shift+1 (a not used keystroke) and then Alt+1 started working! The other keys also started working too (2 through 0). No idea why, other than the system needed to reset itself. Weird, but it's fixed for me now. Thanks for the reply!

[@juancamilogonzalezva]

Greetings, I have followed your camera and drone tutorial and almost everything works out, what I can't do is make the drone go up or down... the altitude moves me to the right, left, etc., but I can't to raise or lower the altitude. thank you so much. for your help, and thanks for the tutorial.

[@Q8Pilot]

R and F for up and down.

[@flightgamer7849]

Great content. One question please. In your streams you can switch wing views instantly but when I do it (and in this video) the camera "travels" between views which is annoying. Did you find a trick or software to make the views change instantly. Many people might be helped by this. Thank you and Merry Christmas.

[@Q8Pilot]

It depends which camera you are in. If you are in external mode using "A" to cycle it is instant. If you are in cockpit mode, it will transition.

[@ster100]

The drone camera rotates around the aircraft (from minute 6.34 to minute 6.49). How do you do that?

[@Q8Pilot]

This is a done camera view with lock "Shift+Tab"

[@ster100]

@@Q8Pilot I found it, thanks. But the speed of turning around the plane, I want to make it slower. How do I do that? By the way, greetings from the Netherlands

[@agent_tech3898]

how to do it without a numpad??

[@Q8Pilot]

Xbox controller

[@jamespimenta4257]

I Prefer to use a XBOX controller for the drone camera, and the problem I think with setting up customs views is that you have to remember what key numbers go with what views. It would be better if a user could label them, a bit like how XCamera on Xplane does it. I wish Asobo would upgrade this feature.

[@Q8Pilot]

I don't have an xbox controller so this was intended as an alternative for those in the same shoes =). Asobo certainly can learn a few things from X-Plane developers.

[@jamespimenta4257]

@@Q8Pilot thanks and I hope you are well

[@Thrust-Set-Simulations]

Yeah, I don’t either. As far as views go, you can set the num pad to be like an aircraft. Left num pad for left side wing views and right side for right side of the aircraft, num 8 for copilot view, num 9 for copilot look right, num7 for FMC, num 2 for overhead. Num 0 for throttle/radio panel, num 5 for captain view. I the bind the wing views to yoke buttons. I have the Theustmaster Boeing Yoke, the right hand set of 4 thumb buttons get the left and right wing view looking back the engine and looking from behind the wing, right trigger is external view, press right hat switch to get back to captain view. I have a button set for drone camera as well. Pretty easy when you get it set up right.

[@jamespimenta4257]

@@Thrust-Set-Simulations I could do that representational viewing system on the numpad and had thought of that before, but its not the same or as good as X-Camera on Xplane which can configure and label many more views. For example I have 50 on the 737-800 Zibo and around 20 on other planes. As for the XBOX controller I think that is a matter of personal preference and have also used the keys on the keyboard. I can tell you that a XBOX controller is more enjoyable in my opinion. However, there is no wrong or right. USB XBOX controllers are very cheap, and just plug in to one of your PC USB ports, thats it.

[@bobykim5311]

Well, this is what you get when a game is a console clone. How easy would it have been to just use WSAD + mouse. We need to know 30 buttons to use a cam control...aweful

[@Swifty_OneX]

I don't have a numpad

[@ab-ie9tz]

then get one?

[@realbloxgamingxd53]

How do you go up and down

[@Q8Pilot]

"R" and "F" sorry I missed that in the video.

[@landhemi3391]

4 and 6 dont turn for me

[@Q8Pilot]

You might need to reset your keyboard profile.

[@RobertGeez]

I’m even more confused now.

[@abbalarrs]

I wouldn't vote for either of you on a bet...get lost