What's the best way to go about doing a walk around of the aircraft? I put it in spot or locked spot, then spin around, but it's less than ideal because I still can't get in close. Also how can I set a camera outside and not have it follow the aircraft? Like a spotters view. Cheers.

There's no way to do that with the default features in FSX, but EZCA (EZDok) is exactly what you're looking for.

Not sure what you mean by "not have to follow the aircraft?"but if you want to have a camera at a fixed point from your aircraft at a position nominated by yourself other than from directly behind you can go into the aircrafts cfg file and add a camera definition. See example below. You will need to alter the definition numbers so as your camera definitions run in numerical sequence. Definitions can be rearranged as you want depending on the camera order you want as you scroll through them.

Open the aircraft.cfg using Notepad AFTER you have done a backup copy and experiment with the InitialXyz and InitialPbh values. Initial Xyz is where the camera eyepoint will be positioned. Long time since I've done this but I think the first value is the left/right axis with 0 = pilot eyepoint. To have a camera 50 metres to the right of the aircraft you would have values of 50,0,0 Initial Pbh determines the angle of the camera in the 3 axis. These values are in degrees. Cant remember which axis is which. Just experiment. If you muck it up, put the copy version back.. thats what its for. Cant remember for sure but I also think you can experiment with FSX running but whenever you want to alter the cfg file that aircraft must not be the chosen one in FSX.

 

default Beech Baron 58

 

[CameraDefinition.3]

Title = "Underbellyl"

Guid = {D8D67955-2E9B-5e75-9D8B-8EFFBBFAC64A}

Description = Looking forward from under the airplane

Origin = Center

SnapPbhAdjust = Swivel

SnapPbhReturn = FALSE

PanPbhAdjust = Swivel

PanPbhReturn = FALSE

Track = None

ShowAxis = FALSE

AllowZoom = TRUE

InitialZoom = 0.60

ShowWeather = Yes

InitialXyz = 0, -1.3, -1.5

InitialPbh = 5, 0, 0

XyzAdjust = TRUE

Category=Aircraft

MomentumEffect=TRUE

ClipMode=Minimum