Hello all,

 

I think the default setting for the right click on the mouse is the ability to pan the view (around the cockpit or around the airplane when external).

However, I couldn't find that setting listed, and I want to assign it to my yoke HAT switch.  Does anyone know the wording (pan view) for that?

Yes, I do, the commands you need are different if you're inside the cockpit or in external. But that does not matter, just put both commands on the same hat positions (two commands on each hat direction, one command for cockpit and one for external). Only one command will actually be sent when you move the hat. Which command is sent depends on whether you are in cockpit or external. So one hat serves for both uses. In other words the sim knows which view you are in and so it sends the correct command.

I actually bind 3 commands on each hat direction. So if moving the hat right the 3 commands are: Cockpit Look Right, Yaw Drone Right, and External View Look Right.

Despite the names of the commands, all 3 will do exactly the same thing: Pan the view to  the right. The first for Cockpit, the second for Showcase (i.e. drone) Camera, the third for External view.

On the external views panning, you can set in options whether the view will snap back to default forward when you release the hat, or instead keep the view where it is at.

That option is: Camera, Chase View, POV Reset. Which you can put at Automatic or Manual. The same option works for when using the mouse to pan in external view.

 

 

 

 

In other words, that one hat will do exactly the same thing whether you are in cockpit, external, or showcase view. It will pan up down left or right.

There is a neat trick you can use to find a setting/command that is already bound to something. Go to Controls and select the control that the item is already set to. On the left is a field called something like "Search by input". Click once in that field, then activate the button or whatever the command is currently bound to. On the right, that setting/command will be shown.

If you now want to bind it to something in another control, make a note of what it is called, then switch to the control page you want to use and search by name for that setting/command. Continue as usual to assign the setting/command.

...jim