If you can control the planes from "fly by view" or "tower view", it would be no less than fantastic. But we will see.
Cross my fingers and hope for the best 

4 hours ago, Soeren Jensen said:

If you can control the planes from "fly by view" or "tower view", it would be no less than fantastic. But we will see.
Cross my fingers and hope for the best 

I would buy it the day it is released.

I mostly used Chaseplane in P3D to set up internal views. It made that super easy, and the ability to disable TrackIR for certain views was very helpful. Hoping the MSFS has similar functionality.

Think that any one  that had  chase plane  before, would be  a instant purchase on release 😉 

Will they abandon it like skypark at the first opportunity?

13 hours ago, Soeren Jensen said:

If you can control the planes from "fly by view" or "tower view", it would be no less than fantastic.

Hmmm... we had that already years ago. Fantastic it was but nothing out of the ordinairy. Flightsims came with Fly-By and Tower view. Period. And control your planes no problem of course. Setup your Tower view and fly your plane like an RC model. That sort of thing. Big fun.

In a topic about FS camera views a number of thirdparty FS Camera add-ons are always mentinoned but remarkably ' the Mother of All Camera add-ons' is always missing. If you think Fly-By and Tower view are fantastic wait till you can sit in your cockpit at final approach, see the runway in front of you, point your mouse cursor at a spot alongside the runway and click it (can do it during flight or pause if you like) and continue your approach and land your plane. Than hit the Instant Replay button (like Fly-By and Tower view another feature that belongs to a normal Flightsim program, if not you're being ripped off..) and watch your approach and landing (over and over again if you like) from an aircraft-spotters point of view alongside the runway at precisely the spot that you clicked from inside the cockpit.

Nonsense ? Dream On ? Never gonna happen ?....

No Sir, FS9 aka "FS2004 A Centrury Of Flight" about 20 years ago. A thridparty camera add-on called 'Active Camera' by Anticyclone, a French/Belgian programming team, was released for FS9 with which the above description was just one of the incredible features. Alas all water under the bridge (i moved virtual heaven and earth to get them to release their amazing AC for FSX but that never happend..)

I am at the front row for a Fly-By and Tower view camera mode to enjoy in MSFS already for 4 friggen years without so much as a how do you do from MSobo. Aircraft need to be seen flying by ! That's their prerogative !

Will 'Chaseplane' finally come to the Fly-By and Tower view rescue ?.... Looking at the few seconds trailer I highly doubt it..

Edited January 29, 20251 yr by JanGerbr

15 hours ago, Aviator_2024 said:

just hope it has the horizontal and vertical axis motion and the head tilting like in P3d. The new X-plane physics based camera is amazing!!  I think FS 2020 SDK is much different and less customizable than P3d was. I really hope its not a nerfed version of P3d

Well, their video blurb says 'fully customisable camera with real physics'.  

14 minutes ago, JanGerbr said:

Hmmm... we had that already years ago. Fantastic it was but nothing out of the ordinairy. Flightsims came with Fly-By and Tower view. Period. And control your planes no problem of course. Setup your Tower view and fly your plane like an RC model. That sort of thing. Big fun.

For me that was undoubtedly the most fun thing to do in flightsim for years.  

Only things for me was chaseplanes physics effects in p3d always felt like an ongoing wobble that felt like a pattern, not like the more occasional sharper jolt that you get in turbulence or landing. Felt rubbery. I hope that is changed for 2024. Looking forward to it! Hope adobo opens up apis for physics camera and weather! Good things will come from that if they do I’m sure!

13 hours ago, Alistair Logie said:

I mostly used Chaseplane in P3D to set up internal views. It made that super easy, and the ability to disable TrackIR for certain views was very helpful. Hoping the MSFS has similar functionality.

Similarly, I used EZDok for the same thing.  MSFS is pretty good at defining internal cameras on it's own so I'm hoping for 1.  The ability for more custom camera views opposed to just 0-9 and 2.  The ability to save exterior view settings.  I use drone view for a walkaround in 2020 and while I can save internal views I seem to have to reset the drone view every session... 

Those two things alone and I would be happy 

One thing I miss in both FS2020 and 2024 is the FSX spot view, which you could set either to follow the exact roll/direction of your aircraft (as now) or much better still, you could keep the camera positioned so when you turned it would not follow wingtip to wingtip but allow you to see your turning trajectory without being glued to the aircraft laterally.  Getting rid of that excellent view was IMO a major blunder. I hope the new camera brings it back.

Never used chaseplane and the trailer didn't really tell me much about its functionality so I guess //42 is assuming a lot of assumed familiarity already.  

But onto my question would this be replacing a replay tool?  Been wanting a replay tool for some time, sky dolly is fine but doesn't work well with all planes, was looking at flight control replay but then I heard it would be built into 2024 so I didn't bother anymore.
It's pretty clear now that I'll be flying in 2020 for a long time to come so been contemplating getting that replay tool again but would chaseplane be the one to wait for instead?

 

 

1 hour ago, stefaandk said:

ut onto my question would this be replacing a replay tool?  Been wanting a replay tool for some time, sky dolly is fine but doesn't work well with all planes, was looking at flight control replay but then I heard it would be built into 2024 so I didn't bother anymore.
It's pretty clear now that I'll be flying in 2020 for a long time to come so been contemplating getting that replay tool again but would chaseplane be the one to wait for instead?

No, it is not a replay tool. At least, not in P3D. It was purely a camera definition tool with associate physics based elements etc.  But if they included that functionality as well, Keven would do it extremely well, simplify it, make the interface easy to use -  and make it the best selling app yet.

Edited January 30, 20251 yr by ErichB

Does anyone have an idea how far away are we from launch?

1 hour ago, Simselli said:

Does anyone have an idea how far away are we from launch?

Nope.