December 15, 20205 yr When I start the sim and go to cockpit view, I do not touch the zoom feature using the mouse I see zoom is set at 40. Is this realistic? Using this sometimes trying to see runways signage is quit impossible. If I point the aircraft right at the sign and then zoom in you can disguinsh what it says. When flying GA in real life, I can see the sign. Not sure if zoom as to be set deiferently
December 15, 20205 yr I set it to 70. There's a series of YouTube clips explaining most natural zoom settings for FSX/P3D and I tried to model this by mimicking the very same situation in Prepar3d and MSFS. Unfortunately numerical values between P3D and MSFS are different. Although there is a certain range for lower or higher values (higher values usually incur a performance hit) according to taste, I think 40 is quite low. Kind regards, Michael Intel i7-13700K / AsRock Z790 / Crucial 32 GB DDR 5 / ASUS RTX 4080OC 16GB / BeQuiet ATX 1000W / WD m.2 NVMe 2TB (System) / WD m.2 NVMe 4 TB (MSFS) / WD HDD 10 TB / XTOP+Saitek hardware panel / LG 34UM95 3440 x 1440 / HP Reverb 1 (2160x2160 per eye) / Win 11
December 15, 20205 yr I run in the 50 to 60 range. It's been years since in pilots seat (Piper Arrow), but remembering what the passenger seat proximity was like, led me to high 50"s. 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
December 15, 20205 yr How do you know what the zoom setting is? Is there an on-screen display? Usually what I do is switch to the default outside view, and then set the cockpit to the same zoom level.
December 15, 20205 yr Your can set it somewhere in the settings, there is a slider. It holds that value on shutdown and restart. Kind regards, Michael Intel i7-13700K / AsRock Z790 / Crucial 32 GB DDR 5 / ASUS RTX 4080OC 16GB / BeQuiet ATX 1000W / WD m.2 NVMe 2TB (System) / WD m.2 NVMe 4 TB (MSFS) / WD HDD 10 TB / XTOP+Saitek hardware panel / LG 34UM95 3440 x 1440 / HP Reverb 1 (2160x2160 per eye) / Win 11
December 15, 20205 yr 55-65 - DEPENDING ON YOUR OWN EYESIGHT'S PERIPHERAL VISION (EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT) WILL GET YOU THE MOST NATURAL LOOKING VIEW OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE COCKPIT WINDOWS. Sorry I shouted that. Had the caps lock left on from another site I had to shout on.
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