January 15, 201313 yr I apologize if you've already read a similar post. I put a similar request for recommendations for camera AddOns a little while ago and either my thread was eaten in the rollback or I just plain lost it. Anyhow...I'm trying again. The short version was that a few years ago, in FS9, there was a camera AddOn that I really liked called "Active Camera" The website is here.... http://www.anticyclo...amera/Home.html An AVSIM review can be found here... http://www.avsim.com...ctiveCamera.htm One functionality I really liked about Active Camera was that it allowed me to do a Pre-Flight Walk-Around around the aircraft. You could actually get out and stroll around the airport and walk around your aircraft. That is the feature I'm trying to find in an FSX AddOn. See the snippet from the AVSIM review below that describes this... The External Inspection Active Camera allows you to do a full external inspection of your plane. When in the Virtual Cockpit, pressing "X" will put you outside the plane, on the tarmac. The numeric keypad will now allow you to walk (or run, if you really want to) forwards and backwards, from side to side, and to swivel on your heels. Using the mouse wheel as before lets you rotate your head in any direction. This means you can do a full external inspection, and get into all the nooks and crannies that are impossible with FS2004's Spot view. As you walk along, your head bobs up and down slightly. You can even crouch down, ideal for checking the undercarriage hydraulics. Checking out the rotor blades on the PSS A330 Crouching down to look at the nosewheel Examining the flaps at full extension The only problem with this view is that scenery tiles can go missing, so that scenery objects appear to float - this can be seen in the first two pictures above. Anticyclone say that this is due to FS2004 conflicts in an area not covered by the SDK. However the external view has proved so popular with virtual pilots that, rather than take it out, they would rather continue to make it available in spite of the problem. I would agree with their judgement call on this; after all, in this situation, one is looking at the plane, not the scenery. This AddOn isn't available for FSX so I was wondering if I could get some recommendations of roughly equivalent Camera AddOns for FSX that might allow me to ?
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