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Please advise on hatswitch and panning capability

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OK guys, aI'll be honest.... I spend a lot of time just enjoying the scenery and use my spot view a lot !

I use the hatswitch on my Saitek yoke or X52 stick, to effect this.

But I still cannot work out if Chaseplane will allow me to do this.

I have literally 1000s ... (well a few dozen) posts, but seem to find conflicting views on whether this is actually achievable.

So, I can only buy this if I can use my hatswitch to pan.

Advice ?

 

Many thanks

Edited by Gabe777

I use hatswitch to pan using ChasePlane. There is a place in CP user preferences to set the hat up,down, left right. I have views for PIC, radios, etc set up on the numpad keys.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz (8 cores) Hyper on, Evga RTX 3060 12 Gig, 32 GB ram, Windows 11, P3D v6, and MSFS 2020 and a couple of SSD's

  • Commercial Member

The Hat Switch is configured like buttons in the Control Assignments section of ChasePlane

Keven Menard 
Technical Director, //42
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  • Author

Hi,

 

So how do effect a default panning effect, using the hatswitch, with the aircraft remaining in the centre ?

 

Thnx

  • Commercial Member

Not sure what you're talking about... Spot view?

Keven Menard 
Technical Director, //42
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  • Author

Is there any way to pan freely around the aircraft using the hat switch, as in default locked spot view - or is it disabled when CP is running ?

Thnx

 

 

  • Commercial Member

We recommend not using the default sim views and stick to the ChasePlane ones. You can make a custom Spot View camera with more visual effects and with greater control than what P3D offers by default.

Here's how you do it in CP:

  1. Camera > Advanced > Enabled Gimbal
  2. Camera > Advanced > Track Aircraft


TLDR Yes you can have that in ChasePlane

Keven Menard 
Technical Director, //42
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  • Author

Hmmm... well if I press "S", it appears to switch to default external panning view - internal works as per CP settings..... and when I hit s=a CP external preset, it goes back to CP control !

Maybe an anomaly, but it works for me !

 

Great stuff.... gets better all the time.... well done (!) - next to Simstarter, this is the best app made for flightsim - just wish I'd come on board a year ago.

 

Thnx again.

  • Author

Appears that once preset views are assigned to the hatswitch, that ability to use the panning in default mode, is gone !

 

Oh well, at least I have the choice.

 

Cheers

 

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