I asked this about a year ago but wanted to see if anything has changed.  I have a 49" Ultrawide and am currently using 2020 / 2024 with the Fenix.  For those using a similar display as me, what are you setting your cockpit view settings to find a realistic "feel" of sitting in the captains seat?  I feel like it is either too far back and hard to read instruments, or too far forward where you don't have good depth, particularly when landing.  I've asked this before but never really got an answer so I figured I'd throw it out there again.  Are there any suggestions out there?  I know the proper seat position is to put yourself in a seat that allows you to see three red dots and no white on the windshield.   However, I can do that sitting very far back or very far forward.  I know this is a personal preference thing but was hoping someone has a good suggestion.   Thanks!

I too have an ultra wide.  You’ll need to edit the Camera.cfg.  First entry, Pilots Position or something like that.  The initial position is an XYZ value.   I find that sometimes I need to edit the X, usually to move me left a bit.  Look for youtubes about editing camera.cfg and good luck,

-B

35 minutes ago, btacon said:

I too have an ultra wide.  You’ll need to edit the Camera.cfg.  First entry, Pilots Position or something like that.  The initial position is an XYZ value.   I find that sometimes I need to edit the X, usually to move me left a bit.  Look for youtubes about editing camera.cfg and good luck,

-B

I'll have to give it a look.  I was hoping there would be something to download that someone created but am happy to give it a try.  Is this specific to Fenix?

1 minute ago, Zimmerbz said:

Is this specific to Fenix?

All planes will have a camera.cfg.  I hear you on the desire for automation, that’s where I began my search some three years ago when I got my ultra wide.  Never found an automated solution, now I just manually edit as needed. Easiest way (in 2020 at least) is to turn on Developer Mode, and select “Aircraft Behaviors”. From there you will use the  “Reload Aircraft” option after every edit so your edits can be made real time.  Good luck,

-B

 

1 hour ago, Zimmerbz said:

what are you setting your cockpit view settings to find a realistic "feel" of sitting in the captains seat?

You will never really get a "realistic" view' unless using eye tracking since you would need to be pretty close to the panel.  I have the same monitor and I have it set to where I can see just past the F/O side PFD/ND brightness knobs on the right.  The bottom of screen is aligned to just below the 2 screws above the tray table.  I can also see the bottom part of the overhead panel.  I keep my zoom at 50 for all aircraft.  This view feels comfortable in the sim for me....

 

9 minutes ago, btacon said:

Easiest way (in 2020 at least) is to turn on Developer Mode, and select “Aircraft Behaviors”. From there you will use the  “Reload Aircraft” option after every edit so your edits can be made real time

Do you not just have some custom keys set up for your views? I have never needed to mess with the camera.cfg. I have my number pad all set for certain custom views and then can assign controllers to them as well.

I have an ultra wide and use the Ctrl+Alt+a number (1-9) to set views in 2020 allowing Alt+number to jump to those views and Shift+F5-F8 to set and Shift+F1-F4 to view. This way I dont have to deal with the offset in the cfg file as I do have the view with the panel in the center of the screen instead of the pilot view in the center as my simpit seat is off to the left of center of the screen.

I feel for you in flying something with such a big flight deck if you dont have support screen (PFD, MFD, FMS etc) as part of your simpit setup as yes you would have to be way back to see it all at once.  Honestly, I dont think ultra wide is the way to go without addition screens as theres little benefit compared to just getting a bigscreen TV.

Heres what a couple of my GA planes look like with the widescreen

 

 

 

Here is the one thing I have found... I can save my camera only side to side.  Meaning, I can move all the way to the left so that my head is basically on the window and save that.  The moment I zoom in, I cannot save the zoomed in position that I am trying for.  What could be causing that? 

4 minutes ago, Zimmerbz said:

The moment I zoom in, I cannot save the zoomed in position that I am trying for.  What could be causing that? 

I think you have to set your zoom in the General settings and that's what you need to use.  I have never found a way to save a view with a specific zoom so settled on adjusting everything for the standard 50.  This is why we need ChasePlane back!

4 minutes ago, Flic1 said:

I think you have to set your zoom in the General settings and that's what you need to use.  I have never found a way to save a view with a specific zoom so settled on adjusting everything for the standard 50.  This is why we need ChasePlane back!

Strange... In 2020 i was able to save the zoom with the scroll wheel.  So are you saying I can get my side to side view saved, go into settings with whichever zoom i need and save within the settings (50, 60, 70% etc)?  

1 minute ago, Zimmerbz said:

Strange... In 2020 i was able to save the zoom with the scroll wheel.  So are you saying I can get my side to side view saved, go into settings with whichever zoom i need and save within the settings (50, 60, 70% etc)?  

Either that or open the camera from the toolbar, slide it to the desired zoom, WASD to adjust your position and ctrl-alt 0-9  It should save the zoom.

What I have NEVER been able to do is get that to save in the drone view.  That resets to 50 with every sim session for me for some reason.    

8 minutes ago, psolk said:

Either that or open the camera from the toolbar, slide it to the desired zoom, WASD to adjust your position and ctrl-alt 0-9  It should save the zoom.

What I have NEVER been able to do is get that to save in the drone view.  That resets to 50 with every sim session for me for some reason.    

That worked!  Thanks everyone!  Much appreciated

12 minutes ago, Zimmerbz said:

So are you saying I can get my side to side view saved, go into settings with whichever zoom i need and save within the settings (50, 60, 70% etc)?  

Whatever you set that to is going to be that way for every view and every airplane.  That's why I just decided to leave it at 50 and work with that.  You may have to just move the camera forward/backward instead of using zoom.  

16 minutes ago, Zimmerbz said:

That worked!  Thanks everyone!  Much appreciated

Awesome!  Glad it worked! 

I just use the default view position.  I find I can really only focus on one spot anyway so the extra screen real estate just lets me glance at other areas without the distraction of having to use the mouse to move the view as much which is useful for landings and such.  I wanted an ultrawide so I could get a better view of things easier (and also because it's nice in other game titles and productivity).  I feel like if I was zooming in so the entire monitor is just showing what you'd see while looking forward for instance in the real aircraft it would defeat the purpose (for me at least) of using an ultrawide in the sim.  I do run about 55 on the zoom set in the main menus though because most aircraft I find the default camera position a bit too far back making it hard to read the glass cockpit gauges, but I don't want to zoom in so far that the edges to the left/right are seriously chopped off.