How do you guys pan the camera around?

[cantremember 27]

A couple of versions ago there was introduced a bug that the game ignores controller inputs while you are panning around with right-click.

Now a new bug has also emerged where if you use middle mouse button to pan, the view keeps jumping back, so you can't pan this way together with zoom anymore.

It sort of makes flying a PITA because looking and zooming the view around is something I've grown to do habitually in FS. Though I don't know what the "way of working" is. Maybe those bugs take so long to be fixed because no one else really has the same problem I do.

Actually my most preferred way to look around is FSX/Xplane where you can use the hat switch, but in FS2020 the hat switch makes the camera jump to specific preset locations instead of letting you freely look.

[Bobsk8 12,730]

I use Track IR to look around. 

 

[GuyFlyer 34]

I use an xBox controller so just use the right stick. Controls remain functional when panning.

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

1 hour ago, cantremember said:

but in FS2020 the hat switch makes the camera jump to specific preset locations instead of letting you freely look.

Go to Controls Options, select your joystick profile, and then in the Camera section assign each direction of your hat switch to Cockpit/External View Look (you will have to remove the Quickviews assignments as well). It should look like this, and you will have the old FSX free look back:

[jaytee73 132]

1 hour ago, cantremember said:

A couple of versions ago there was introduced a bug that the game ignores controller inputs while you are panning around with right-click.

Now a new bug has also emerged where if you use middle mouse button to pan, the view keeps jumping back, so you can't pan this way together with zoom anymore.

It sort of makes flying a PITA because looking and zooming the view around is something I've grown to do habitually in FS. Though I don't know what the "way of working" is. Maybe those bugs take so long to be fixed because no one else really has the same problem I do.

Actually my most preferred way to look around is FSX/Xplane where you can use the hat switch, but in FS2020 the hat switch makes the camera jump to specific preset locations instead of letting you freely look.

Not necessarily - try this is what I do --- 

 

[6297J 692]

I use the Hat Switch on my stick, mapped to pan around smoothly. 

[Ron Attwood 3,465]

49 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

I use Track IR to look around. 

 

Is there another way? 😲

[177B 730]

I use trackIR, hat switch to preset views and mouse.

Depending on what I am doing.

They all work great for me. 

Oh yes I also use an Xbox controller to run the "drone cam" I set that up to work like a drone controller DJI style. Works great as well.

[flyinpilot212121 724]

36 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

Is there another way? 😲

Tobii is getting some msfs options to match trackir in the next update (or beta if your in it), head tracking without the headgear! 

[bean_sprout 1,201]

A logitech trackball works great.  Has a switch for 2 devices and I connect with Bluetooth.

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[MrBitstFlyer 3,875]

5 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

I use Track IR to look around. 

Absolutely, a 100 percent must have with MSFS.

[rocketlaunch 614]

With VR I just use my head, is there any other way? 

[David Mills 4,763]

The XBOX controller is the way to go, for a wide variety of reasons. Remember, the XBOX controller is a Microsoft product, as is MSFS. So they naturally work together very well.

[MrBitstFlyer 3,875]

6 minutes ago, David Mills said:

The XBOX controller is the way to go, for a wide variety of reasons. Remember, the XBOX controller is a Microsoft product, as is MSFS. So they naturally work together very well.

Why an extra controller when you can just turn your head?

[David Mills 4,763]

28 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Why an extra controller when you can just turn your head?

I think we're talking about two different things. I believe the question was about panning around an aircraft in an external view. I don't use the XBOX controller as an extra controller, but rather as my primary controller, which also has built-in panning capability.