Jump your view thru the plane's doors (any plane).

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With many planes (but not all), if you translate the cockpit camera left it stops at the left door and you can't translate further. But there is a way. Start with the normal cockpit view.

1 Translate view left as far as it will allow (e.g. to the left side door).

2 Switch to COPILOT view (overhead handlebar menu, CAMERA, PILOT, COPILOT).

3 Again translate left as far as possible ( to the left side door).

4 Switch back to PILOT view (overhead menu). You will instantly jump left beyond and outside the door.

5 Immediately save that view as a custom view  (in your normal way e.g. Control ALT 1).

6 Reset your cockpit view (in your normal way e.g. Control+Space).

7 Load that new custom view (your normal way e.g. ALT 1). It will jump you outside again.

8 Move the view around to where you like it (zoom, pan, translate) and then save like you did in 5).

Now you have a custom view outside the plane you can load anytime during a flight.

Using  the obvious backwards procedure you can translate out the right side door to create a view there too.

(Number 4 is the key step, it gets you outside the plane)!