I just changed the aircraft to fly to another variant of the same aircraft (the Aerosoft DH6 Twin Otter and there are variants for wheeled, floats, skis etc) and found that the keyboard mapping which I set up for another variant (which I named DH6 KEYBOARD) does not work with the different variant I chose (eg I had set up all the NUM keypad number keys to different cockpit instrument views). All the instrument panels look the same so why would the keys I mapped work I wondered.

I have to assume then that keyboard settings become part of a particular aircraft or variant.

I had a look in Settings and did not notice anything there to enable my keyboard mapping to be copied to another aircraft.

Is it possible and if so how?

Thanks.

Hello John,
I assume you call "keyboard settings" the shortcuts you have created for a specific airplane to customize the cockpit/instruments views.
You'll find the camera.cfg files here:
C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects\Airplanes
They are the files you want to copy for your different variants.

1 hour ago, Jarnie said:

All the instrument panels look the same

All the DHC6s are effectively different aircraft in the sim, with different 3D models and different cfg files (as opposed to being just a livery of the same aircraft sharing the same cfg file(s)). 

Edited July 1, 20223 yr by Lorby_SI

1 hour ago, David Roch said:

They are the files you want to copy for your different variants.

Thanks. I assume that all I need to do is copy the cameras.cfg to each of the other subfolders for each aircraft variant?

That is easy and again thanks for the advice.

21 minutes ago, Lorby_SI said:

as opposed to being just a livery of the same aircraft sharing the same cfg file(s)). 

Thanks. Yes I assumed that HOWEVER how do the downloadable liveries work they as they seem to share one or more variant?

Also (not nice) at least two liveries I downloaded (and copied to the community folder 'as is') resulted in no 'thumbnail' in the aircraft selection screen and if actually selected results in a 'ghost' aircraft 😁ie no outside or inside view of the aircraft.

1 hour ago, Jarnie said:

Thanks. I assume that all I need to do is copy the cameras.cfg to each of the other subfolders for each aircraft variant?

That is easy and again thanks for the advice.

 

My pleasure.
Yes, that's all you need to do.
If you don't see one of your variants in the Airplanes folder, (i.e. "skis"), select this specific variant in MSFS and create a single view (ctrl+alt +1) once, and then the folder will be automatically created in Airplanes.
After doing that, you'll replace the new created "cameras.cfg" file with the one you want to copy.

Edited July 1, 20223 yr by David Roch

That then answers another question I would have asked viz can I backup/restore user setups. And of course YES.

Lorby_SI mentioned above, this problem with the Twin Otter package is they made it so they are all different planes, instead of just different liveries. And that is an unusual way and not the standard way.