I actually had this issue previously in FSX and never could get to the bottom of it so I decided I would try and tackle it once and for all in P3D (I am using the final version 4). The problem is that certain cameras almost appear to be "hard coded" in their panning behaviour in that the panning speed begins extremely slowly and sluggishly but then speeds up exponentially. I prefer all my cameras to pan at a consistent speed the entire time which I set using the relevant pitch and heading speed parameters in the camera.cfg file.

At first I thought this sluggish behaviour was caused purely by the zoom_pan_scalar parameter since I had noticed the cameras that panned "normally" had a scalar of 1.0 whereas the sluggish ones had a value of 0.5. And sure enough when I changed one camera from 0.5 to 1.0 it began to behave the way I want (so just like the pilot VC view). Though whether it is relevant or not the camera I was changing was a modified pilot view to allow me to more easily see over the instrument panel in a taildragger twin when taxiing.

But this did not work for any other cameras within the cabin such as the right seat or passenger perspectives. Or in any other aircraft for that matter! Whether it is relevant or not, the camera I did change that works the way I wanted I created from "scratch" as it were - I created a new entry with a unique GUID and was not modifying an existing one.

Although it is not s show stopper I'd like to banish this sluggish behaviour without resorting to a third party app if possible but I am beginning to suspect this behaviour is somehow hard-coded into the sim and that certain positions within a virtual cockpit are destined to always behave this way no matter what. Perhaps this is why most people resort to third party apps.

I've never had any issues like this in the main VC view, though I do not have any custom views, just the normal VC view from the Captains side.  However I have had similar issues when I switch to the Co Pilot seat, engineer seat or passenger seat or other custom views like certain aircraft that have custom views for showing different panels from different angles.  In those other views, the camera always pans very slowly.  I don't know why this happens either.

If you are using a hat switch to look around, make sure to set the Repeat slider for the Pan control all the way to the right.  Also in the options menu named Other Controls, there is an option called Enable Joystick Camera Smoothing, it it's enabled, try disabling it.

Edited August 7, 20241 yr by Zylx

Just to clarify, I have never found a problem from the pilot left seat perspective. It is only a problem for any position other than that which is why I suspect this behaviour is hard coded inside P3D.

You'll need to check in both cameras.cfg (for Spot and Spot Locked views) and in aircraft.cfg for all the views. There are some parameters that you may want to edit. If you want a reference, use the parameters for VC view in cameras.cfg.

I don't remember which parameters specifically, I'll be away from my rig until the weekend.

Edited August 8, 20241 yr by Luis Hernandez