Does anyone here find that these 2 default views in FSX are pretty much pointless? I can't even pan around whenever I'm in these views.

Hi,

 

No. These functions are quite useful in fact especially if you want to watch general airport or AI traffic at your airport of interest. I use it quite frequently when designing airport AFCADs to ensure AI are landing as they should.Some sceneries though I find do not have the Tower View correctly defined in the airport AFCAD so it can be problematic at times.

 

FYI - Also, there is an FSX function which will alow to pan from the Control Tower.

http://forum.avsim.net/tutorials/article/6-panning-in-tower-view/

 

Cheers

Mark

How is it useful if I can't even pan around to focus on a particular subject? For example, I'd like to use those views to monitor ai planes also, but if I can't even move around in order to view the planes, then it's not useful for me. Ever since I've been using fsx, I don't recall ever having these 2 views function properly at all. If I'm using tower view, then I'd expect for it to be able to let me pan around 360 degrees so I can view the entire radius around the airport but instead I'm stuck on some strange view that slowly moves to the left or right for no apparent reason.

You obviously didn't click on the link I provided you..... You can pan and zoom whenever and wherever you want in FSX.

 

Cheers

Mark

I dont use tower and runway view and i eliminated them using the cyclehidden entry.

 

But this panning in tower view possibility seems interisting. I will definitely try it.

 

 

You should look into FSRecorder.net. Has many camera features, Lets you move the position of the tower and lower/raise the point of view. Freeware.