14 hours ago, Fielder said:

You have a hat switch to look around, right? (POV hat).

In the Controls window you can put all the exact same views for Drone View on that POV hat, you have to do it one by one. But then they are there ready for use forever. The hat will work like before in cockpit view (POV), and will work the drone views in drone view. They will not interfere with each other because the drone views on the hat will only work when you are actually are in drone view.

To see the Drone view commands that you can use just type 'Drone' into the "Search by Name" box in MSFS Controls window. Put the drone view commands where your POV cockpit views are, exactly in the same place. They will not interfere with each other.

Then, you won't have to worry which keyboard keys to use. Just move the hat the way you want to point the drone. It will fly forward automatically if you use the hat button where you put "translate drown forward" , and so forth.

I am doing drone views with the keys. Is the POV hat the right button in my yoke? This POV is already programmed by default... If I try to modify this POV it says I already have something assigned...

Edited August 26, 20214 yr by harpsi

Most sticks, throttles, yokes have a dedicated POV hat. I have no trouble reassigning any commandd onto any of those  POV hats. If I have a command which I want to put onto a hat position, I just click on the box for that command in the list of commands. And then click in the window where it asks you to push any button in order for MSFS to know  which button you want to assign that command to. Then just  push the hat in the direction you choose and it assigns the command to that  position on the POV hat. Poof, it's no longer a POV hat.

At least that is how all editions of FS have allowed me to use the POV hat to do any command whatsoever I wished. FS2000, 2002, 2004, FSX, MSFS: I put  commands on the POV hat in every one of those sims. There was no problem doing so. The procedure was same as for doing the same thing with non POV  hats, it made no difference.

5 hours ago, Fielder said:

Most sticks, throttles, yokes have a dedicated POV hat. I have no trouble reassigning any commandd onto any of those  POV hats. If I have a command which I want to put onto a hat position, I just click on the box for that command in the list of commands. And then click in the window where it asks you to push any button in order for MSFS to know  which button you want to assign that command to. Then just  push the hat in the direction you choose and it assigns the command to that  position on the POV hat. Poof, it's no longer a POV hat.

At least that is how all editions of FS have allowed me to use the POV hat to do any command whatsoever I wished. FS2000, 2002, 2004, FSX, MSFS: I put  commands on the POV hat in every one of those sims. There was no problem doing so. The procedure was same as for doing the same thing with non POV  hats, it made no difference.

I think I know how to do that, but do I reset the old configurations? 

I don't think so, I don't think you have to remove or reset anything, I think the hat will still do for you what it does now. But when you move to the drone view, then the hat will have an entirely new set of functions. I know this would all be the case if the hat was not a POV hat.

One thing is: you do the new commands in a new profile that you first make in MSFS profile manager. That way you are not messing anything up. Because you can always go back to using the original profile just by clicking the arrow up there on top to select different profiles. And then go back into your new profile and redo it until you like it. You can have as many profiles as you want.

5 minutes ago, Fielder said:

I don't think so, I don't think you have to remove or reset anything, I think the hat will still do for you what it does now. But when you move to the drone view, then the hat will have an entirely new set of functions. I know this would all be the case if the hat was not a POV hat.

One thing is: you do the new commands in a new profile that you first make in MSFS profile manager. That way you are not messing anything up. Because you can always go back to using the original profile just by clicking the arrow up there on top to select different profiles. And then go back into your new profile and redo it until you like it. You can have as many profiles as you want.

So, it means I can have the same POV hat for drone views and other views and I will not mess it up just because you can't have drone and normal at the same time, right?

Yes, right. This was very good of Microsoft to make it that way, so when you leave drone view, then all the drone commands don't happen any more, until you go back into drone view.