It looks like its a universal issue, and for me, it seems to be as bad with the NGX as it is with the 777.  It's really more annoying than anything else.  I figured though that it was better to light a candle then curse the darkness

 

What I do is on my joystick (CH Fighterstick)  I've mapped one of the hats to the VC cockpit eyepoint controls, so as I'm taxiing and make turns, I constantly adjust the viewpoint to keep the view correctly centered.  In the NGX, I taxi with the HUD down and keep the HUD data centered in the glass.  I've done this for so long that it's almost second nature, and I hardly notice it anymore.  It would definitely be nicer if there was some built in compensation for this though...

 

It seems odd to me that some third party hasn't dealt with the issue as an addition to an add-on like EZdok...  With all the wizardry they do with viewpoint manipulation to synthesize aircraft motion, you'd think they might also do something like write code to perhaps keep two datum points in line to keep the view centered...  But you know what they say about the difference between a computer person and a non computer person; A computer person will tell you what you think should be simple is impossible, and what you think is impossible a computer person will tell you is actually very easy

To Hopskips point, does that mean it will be even more noticeable in the 777-300

 

Niall

 

I reccon the amount that it slides left and right will be slightly larger in the 777-300(ER?) than the 777-200(LR)

 

I remember an old A340 addon from back in the day which was a bit annoying too.

What I do is on my joystick (CH Fighterstick)  I've mapped one of the hats to the VC cockpit eyepoint controls, so as I'm taxiing and make turns, I constantly adjust the viewpoint to keep the view correctly centered.  In the NGX, I taxi with the HUD down and keep the HUD data centered in the glass.  I've done this for so long that it's almost second nature, and I hardly notice it anymore.  It would definitely be nicer if there was some built in compensation for this though...

 

It seems odd to me that some third party hasn't dealt with the issue as an addition to an add-on like EZdok... 

 

I don't have EZdok, but doesn't the various views start at a given 'co-ordinate' in the cockpit?

 

Even if you had to press a button or something, a "Put the view back where I set it" would be good, used something like:

 

1. Turn aircraft
2. FSX VC view slides around a bit
3. Press the button
4. addon software sets the view back to it's pre-set position.

Even if you had to press a button or something, a "Put the view back where I set it" would be good

Thats what I think OPUS has done.

 

 

What I do is on my joystick (CH Fighterstick) I've mapped one of the hats to the VC cockpit eyepoint controls, so as I'm taxiing and make turns, I constantly adjust the viewpoint to keep the view correctly centered. In the NGX, I taxi with the HUD down and keep the HUD data centered in the glass. I've done this for so long that it's almost second nature, and I hardly notice it anymore. It would definitely be nicer if there was some built in compensation for this though...

 

That is what I have been doing as well lately. I will try OPUS...

It is so annoying...

 

Thanks for all the information! :-)

That is what I have been doing as well lately. I will try OPUS...

It is so annoying...

 

Thanks for all the information! :-)

Read the manual and the OPUS FSX forum before you buy!

 

Oh, and there is a demo version of OPUS too!

I just stumbled across this thread which opened my eyes and made me realize I have been suffering this problem for years without really acknowledging it. I remember using TrackIR and constantly having to move my chair around to "center" the view as I expected, and all the time just thought it was "my" issue and not the simulators...

 

This proves one more time what a piece of s*** FSX is. Just like with Microsoft's products, they all have issues, everybody knows about them, but neither Microsoft shows any effort to fix them nor the users threaten to leave to another provider. All what happens is people coming up with elaborate "work arounds". I remember the first time I read the 777 manual, how it was filled with "due to FSX limitations", "sadly because of FSX", "we've worked around this FSX issue by..." and so on.

 

If everybody just used Linux and X-Plane, what a happy world we Flight Simmers would live in!

 

Sorry for the "offtopic"

 

 

If everybody just used Linux and X-Plane, what a happy world we Flight Simmers would live in!

 

That's an opinion.  Prepar3D has fixed this old problem in version 3.2, and I am too used to uniform dialog boxes with OK and Cancel buttons to be enamored with the X Plane UI, but that's just an opinion.

 

 

I remember the first time I read the 777 manual, how it was filled with "due to FSX limitations", "sadly because of FSX", "we've worked around this FSX issue by..." and so on.

It's an easy way out for issues that can't be solved. Blame it on FSX.

Take a look at this thread - I installed it and it works very well even right near the Equator 

 

http://www.avsim.com/topic/374622-camera-movement-in-vc/page-9

 

Jake Roberts

Btw guys, this has been completly fixed in p3d 3.2