During the cockpit prep whilst panning around (spacebar and mouse) to set up the a/craft this panning function suddenly stops working which means the end of my flight. Not sure whether I am doing something wrong.

 

 

Danie Steffens

Sounds like you have the infamous Windows 8 joystick dropout bug. Throw your hat into the ring:

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/393486-windows-8-joystick-megathread-problem/?view=getnewpost

Thanks DAL 1850. I run Windows 7 , checked out the thread. Checked device manager - not set to turn off to save power.