Is it me, or is there no spot view with the Q400? I can find the locked spot, but not the view which allows you to fly around the aircraft smoothly with the hatswitch. I hope it's a question of a small cfg tweak, as this is virtually the only external view I use. Is anyone else experiencing this too? Cheers...

Hi howard   cant  see  how  the  q400 would effect  your spot view since it works  fine  on my end,  I usually press the "s" key which brings me  out to the outside spot view, where than I can  pan around up or  down using  my hat switch.

 

The only thing I have  trouble with is  finding the light switch  when its cold and  dark state and at night time.

Hi howard   cant  see  how  the  q400 would effect  your spot view

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You don't know Howard, if anything can go wrong it will happen to Howard. It normally turns out to be at his end. If he dropped a slice of buttered bread it's 100% going to land butter down.  We would find at some point he knocked it of his plate himself. 

 

That's our Howard and we would not want him any other way. /man hug.

 

banter over

try right clicking on the screen/view /out side/spot=works fine my end Howard.

Hi Howard,

 

Is there any other add-on that requires the alteration of your view keys (EZDOK, OPUS)?  Initially during testing I screwed up EZDOK, and almost spent an entire night trying to truble shoot why the Dashes spot view was INOP - but that was just me having tunnel vision.

Hi Howard,

I am experiencing the same. The default camera view under the S key is Spot, Tower, Flyby and Ground view. With all my addon aircraft the Spot view is a smooth pan. Release the hatswich and the pan comes to a smooth stop in 1-2 secs. However no smooth pan with the Q400. I can still pan but only with immediate stops. Very unattractive. Perhaps Crosswind can look into this a bit deeper and advise us.

The following is said in banter.....

 

You don't know Howard, if anything can go wrong it will happen to Howard. It normally turns out to be at his end. If he dropped a slice of buttered bread it's 100% going to land butter down. We would find at some point he knocked it of his plate himself.

 

That's our Howard and we would not want him any other way. /man hug.

 

banter over

try right clicking on the screen/view /out side/spot=works fine my end Howard.

:lol: :lol: Tried your suggestion Dave, but both spot and locked spot give exactly the same results...???

Hi Howard,

I am experiencing the same. The default camera view under the S key is Spot, Tower, Flyby and Ground view. With all my addon aircraft the Spot view is a smooth pan. Release the hatswich and the pan comes to a smooth stop in 1-2 secs. However no smooth pan with the Q400. I can still pan but only with immediate stops. Very unattractive. Perhaps Crosswind can look into this a bit deeper and advise us.

So there, it isn't just me! <_<

 

Hi Howard,

 

Is there any other add-on that requires the alteration of your view keys (EZDOK, OPUS)?  Initially during testing I screwed up EZDOK, and almost spent an entire night trying to truble shoot why the Dashes spot view was INOP - but that was just me having tunnel vision.

 

Hi Simeon, no, I have changed nothing after installing the Q400 with no success. I've tried selecting spot and locked spot from right clicking, but the result is I end up with just locked spot view!!!

There is a thread on the majestic forum dedicated to this topic. The reason there is no spot view is due to the dash 8 being completely independent of the fsx fde (acronym city). They had to fudge it a bit and the view is actually derived from fsx slew mode. I too don't really care for the new outside view, but the rest of the aircraft more than makes up for this deficiency imo.

Here's another acronym for you, read the FAQ on the Majestic website, it's covered there, lol.

 

 

 

 

Here's another acronym for you, read the FAQ on the Majestic website, it's covered there, lol.

 

Thanks Andy, I have not visited the Majestic site as often such questions are adequately answered in a support forum. I have visited the forum but never really found any conclusive response from the developer to my question. There is also a fair amount of disagreement, such as this posted by another guy  When pressing "s" in FSX I get the outside view and then I can switch to locked and unlocked spot view. But having visited the FAQ page I can now see an official response to this question, which incidentally, although is disappointing, is not a deal breaker. 

Yes you can switch to locked and unlocked spot view, but they both act the same as locked spot view, the momentum effect (like a fluid mount on a tripod) is not available, only the instant unsmoothed movement type is available due momentum effects not being supported in pseudo slew mode.