It doesn't happen all the time, just once in a while. Sometimes when I fly my Flight 1 Piper Meridian at the same altitude for an extended period of time, the outside aircraft view keeps creeping closer and closer until the wing begins to disappear underneath my feet. I have to keep pressing the minus key until it runs out of travel. Eventually to the point of looking through a fish eye lens and the view will not recover.Anyone else experience this too? It happens in other aircraft as well but it appears to be more pronounced in the Meridian.Mark

It doesn't happen all the time, just once in a while. Sometimes when I fly my Flight 1 Piper Meridian at the same altitude for an extended period of time, the outside aircraft view keeps creeping closer and closer until the wing begins to disappear underneath my feet. I have to keep pressing the minus key until it runs out of travel. Eventually to the point of looking through a fish eye lens and the view will not recover.Anyone else experience this too? It happens in other aircraft as well but it appears to be more pronounced in the Meridian.Mark

Your question intrigued me so I watched several flights (in spot view) that lasted for an hour or more with various aircraft over the past few evenings and did not see the "creep" you describe. The distance from the "camera" to the aircraft remained constant for me.No clue what might be causing what you are seeing. :(

Haven't noticed any creep, but very occasionally an aircraft will suddenly rotate round 90 degrees! Fortunately it only seems to happen when on the ground and stationary.

Just a brief PS to my previous post - the "tests" I ran were all an hour or more and the aircraft were on Autopilot under the complete control of FSNavigator.Probably does not make a difference but thought you should know.

Thanks Opa...thanks everyone. This condition happens when I'm flying at about 15,000 ft. on autopilot. If I take a flight from KSFO to KLAX, by the time I reach the Tehachapi Pass or the grapevine, the aicraft's wing has crept under my camera view. I have no expaination for it...although, this is happening when approaching MegaScenery Southern California V2. I guess that I'm going to have to do a test install of FS9 in another folder and try it (I've been a bit lazey lately). If I do come up with any exciting revelations, I will regale the group! Opa, Thanks for trying though... :)Mark

Are you using Active Camera by any chance, or one of the other 3rd party addon "cameras"? I seem to remember this happening to me but it never bothered me enough to investigate it at all. I'd be very interested in hearing if you ever discover what the cause is.

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Interesting post:When I first saw your title, I thought you were talking about the old scenario of a plane creeping when on the ground and parked at a gate, but this is quite different. Somewhere back there I discovered how to stop the ground problem but forgot what the solution was. I usually just pause the flight now days if it turns out to be of any significance, but that wouldn't get you anywhere with the problem you describe. Keep us posted.Good luck:RTH

Try Ctrl+w (the thing to cycle through AI aircraft), then Ctrl+Shift+W to return to your own plane. that usually resets the camera.

I downloaded, and installed Howard's mix the other day. ( Took quite a while on dial-up :( ) The aircraft textures seemed a better , but that was it. Water was not good. Mountains didn't look that much better, if any,in fact I'm not convinced they looked as good. I have USA Extreme Landscapes, and a few other ones by Abacus installed, maybe that's why. :( . I made a backup of FS before installing, and reverted back to it. The weather settings made with Howard's still remained, but I kind of like those. I suppose you can't beat the payware available. There is plenty of freeware available, that seem to make FS9 better...Just be sure to make a backup first. The image below is without Howard's..just thought I should add that.

Just a quick personal observation for MUSE -You posts would be much easier to read if you would reduce the font size to Veranda 2 - the font almost all of us use.

I've notice it happen on a few larger aircraft,never gave it much thought since I usually fly with the VC.I do know,on my system,if I'm flying with the outside camera and cycle through A.I aircraft,if I don't cycle all the way back to mine and stop on a larger aircraft than mine and switch back to the panel of VC view,once back on the outside view the camera is a long way away.If I do this with a smaller A/C,the camera is way too close and I can't see all of the plane.I really don't know what causes any of this,but you can probably get the correct camera distance back by cycling through the AI,stopping on an A/C roughly the same size or slightly larger,and going back to you're A/C by changing to the panel view.Works for me anyway. :(

muse...what the hell does that have to do with OP?Swoop,In all years, I've never come across this problem. Let us know if anything has solved it.

Thanks Red! I haven't found a solution to this yet. I suspect that it has something to do with the way both FS9 and my Saitek driver together deal with the "Gradual Transition" setting of the spot plane view. I wonder if there maybe some type of unique caching/buffer overrun anomaly going on here. Where a mathamatical equation is off by small factor and that amount is being added to the "Gradual Transition" equation. So as I pan around and look at the world on a long flight, the "Gradual Transition" calculation keeps moving the aircraft closer to me by that small factor. Yuck!Since Saitek doesn't have a large swath of drivers available for the X52 Pro, this is really difficult to test. I wouldn't even know what to try to change in FS9 to compensate for it either. I've been debating weather to try a Saitek driver from another Joystick or maybe getting a registered copy of FSUIPC and go/try that route.Mark

Have you tried to disable 'gradual transition'?