Is There a Problem With Saving Views?

[Rocky_53 1,606]

Maybe it's me, as I have to admit at spending ages trying to get my head around the camera views. I understand the basic elements and have actually saved some custom views, but for the life of me, I simply cannot, no matter what I do, save a specific pilot view in the VC. I save a view that I am happy with, then whenever I click the button on my PFC yoke, it returns me to the position I have saved in the aircraft, but it's always zoomed out, or not quite in the same place that I saved. Also, I notice the outside views always have to be saved prior to every flight. Is there a bug in this (along with many others) does anyone else have this problem, or am I not understanding something? Cheers fellas.

[lupedelupe 322]

Yes, I have also noticed some issues re saving views since the last update.

I've set keyboard commands up to save custom views. Then I set keyboard shortcuts to recall those views. And, like you , have set a few controller buttons up to call on a handful of these custom views. 

Then the update came along and I find it seems to ignore and fore-aft parameter when I re-save custom views (and likely left/right parameter?). Hugely frustrating (as is having to hit the keyboard combination twice just to load a certain view), seem to be unable to fine-tune my custom views. No matter how hard I press the keyboard buttons to set them. 😂

[Rocky_53 1,606]

1 minute ago, lupedelupe said:

Yes, I have also noticed some issues re saving views since the last update.

I've set keyboard commands up to save custom views. Then I set keyboard shortcuts to recall those views. And, like you , have set a few controller buttons up to call on a handful of these custom views. 

Then the update came along and I find it seems to ignore and fore-aft parameter when I re-save custom views (and likely left/right parameter?). Hugely frustrating (as is having to hit the keyboard combination twice just to load a certain view), seem to be unable to fine-tune my custom views. No matter how hard I press the keyboard buttons to set them. 😂

That is EXACTLY the same issue I am having  In some way I'm pleased that I'm not alone with this, but I was also hoping someone could tell me it was finger trouble and offer some advice. I have to say, after the initial excitement of this sim, I am quickly getting tried of all the little things that don't work properl;y. 

[CFIJose 5,485]

You bring up valid points and it's the primary reason why some have already jumped the ship.

I'm enjoying what it does best despite it massive list of things that need to be fixed.

[pete_auau 1,175]

Thats why I'am  using  track ir   saves  pressing  buttons  etc

[b1bmsgt 207]

We need Chaseplane or, even better, something like XCamera...

Although I haven't had a problem saving views and assigning whatever button I want to use to recall them (I use the switches on my CH throttle quad) I find that the limit of 10 views is way too few! In CP or XCamera, I can have unlimited views if I want them. Hopefully one of these devs will step up soon...

[Pugilist2 882]

Add me to the list of my views not saving. Hopefully, this will be fixed in the next update.

[Alex Z 0]

Hi All,

I still have this issue, anyone here have a fix?

[mikegrr 109]

Couldn't agree more...saving views is certainly slightly out of whack. I try to save a view slightly higher and it turns out a little zoomed out and in a different location. I especially don't understand why the zoom happens. I try to save a view looking at the whole cockpit and somehow the outside view is zoomed out too, even though it wasn't when I saved the view.

I've learned to work around it but it sure is fubar.

[Krakend 3]

Hello everybody

I searched for a solution during long hours.... and I discovered it ! Hooray !

It was on the MSFS2020 forum !

The solution is the following: In the 'Options' menu, please choose 'General Options' and click on to the 'Camera' 'tab': Under 'Cockpit Camera', please change the the 'home cockpit mode' to 'OFF'. That's it !!!!

[Fielder 3,829]

13 hours ago, Krakend said:

Hello everybody

I searched for a solution during long hours.... and I discovered it ! Hooray !

It was on the MSFS2020 forum !

The solution is the following: In the 'Options' menu, please choose 'General Options' and click on to the 'Camera' 'tab': Under 'Cockpit Camera', please change the the 'home cockpit mode' to 'OFF'. That's it !!!!

Yes, that certainly will clear out a reason the camera views won't stick like they should. Thanks!

[jimcarrel 688]

I set some cockpit views last night. For "saving" a camera view - it never worked until I changed the commands to ctl+ALT+ F1 thru F10 keys. and then I found in loading the views (using the key pad keys) if the NumLock key was not in the right mode, the views wouldn't load (didn't do anything with "home cockpit mode" to "OFF" setting)

I did also change the "load" keys to single keypad #'s

[TexasRando 1]

Ok I finally figured this out.  FS2020 considers 50% to be neutral.  So if you set your zoom level to 50% and then use Translate Camera to get the view you want, your custom views will look normal and not stretched out and funky! 

[kneighbour 32]

On 10/31/2022 at 1:39 AM, TexasRando said:

Ok I finally figured this out.  FS2020 considers 50% to be neutral.  So if you set your zoom level to 50% and then use Translate Camera to get the view you want, your custom views will look normal and not stretched out and funky! 

Not sure how this fixes anything?  I have the same problem as others here - I can save a camera view ok, but then when I load it the restored camera view is only fairly close to what I had saved. It is never correct.

It would be GREAT if we had something like xCamera! That was magic.

[Ixoye 1,854]

I haven't had any problems since I started doing it this way.

Camera Settings MSFS

Here’s a step by step:

Go into Options > General > Camera (NOT the in-flight Camera Menu) and make absolutely sure that Height, Horizontal Position, and Zoom are set to 50! These are the global values and if they’re not set to default (50), all of your future custom views will not save correctly. This is probably a bug because it’s counter intuitive to apply global changes all over again when trying to save a view; but it is what it is.

In Options > Controls, search for the command “VFR Pilot View Save” and assign a key binding. By default, this command is unassigned… I assigned it to Ctrl + Alt + V.

Make a note of your controller assignments for “Reset Cockpit View”. Default is Left Ctrl + Spacebar and/or “F” (I also have it assigned to the trigger on my joystick).

Load the aircraft of your choice and use the translation, look, and zoom controls to position the camera exactly where you want it. When you have what you want for a default view, press the “VFR Pilot View Save” binding assigned in step 2 (Ctrl + Alt + V in my case). Now, every time you press the “Reset Cockpit View” button(s), it will go back to this view and will NOT alternate to other intermediate views with subsequent presses… yay!

Now that you have a default view defined, custom cameras may also be saved the same way using the associated key bindings… default is Left Ctrl + Left Alt + Numpad 0 to 9. These views are recalled using the corresponding “Load Custom Camera #” commands… default is Left Alt + Numpad 0 to 9

Repeat steps 4 and 5 to set individualized default and custom views for each aircraft you own.

To save yourself a lot of pain… never, ever, EVER change the global settings in Options > General > Camera again…