hi, i was a massive fan of Chaseplane in the old P3D days , is it has good in 2024 maybe some of the old boys  can chip in with opinions ?

It’s very good in 2020, hopefully coming to 2024 next week…

5 hours ago, ianb2469 said:

hopefully coming to 2024 next week…

Really?  Where did you hear this ETA?

I am eagerly waiting for it as I almost made the switch to 2024 and I miss it badly, hopefully a Christmas release maybe??  

It’ll be out on the 19th of December I believe. Earlier they shared a cryptic image with dates and so far they came true.

I bought it for 2020 and didn't like it except for its Fly-by and Tower views.  The fact you must kill the uber simple and amply adequate Ctrl-Alt-# for your custom views, and replace it with a PIA to do the same thing made it clear to me I won't buy it for 2024.  All I need or want are those two views, Fly-by and Tower.  I can see it if you were making detailed videos doing some unusual views for theatrics and trailers, but for normal use w/ BATC, SLC, GSX?  Over the top.  That being said, it was very professionally done and worked, but again, over the top, at least my top.

Well over 1000 votes on FS.com for those two simple views I hope MS/A does it, or some smart developer and am frankly shocked it hasn't happened yet.  I would imagine the market for a simple keypress option for those two features would be huge compared to the market for the full version ChasePlane.  I contacted the dev twice attempting to introduce the idea of a simple version for less cost because I believe they would actually make more $$ going that route.  

Edited December 14, 2025Dec 14 by Noel

Christmas coming early!!  🎅

 

 

 

Hopefully Friday, 19th Dec

4 hours ago, SayAgain said:

Really?  Where did you hear this ETA?

Their Discord.  

Parallel 42 also created this gem:

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Edited December 14, 2025Dec 14 by Sky_Pilot071

4 hours ago, Noel said:

I bought it for 2020 and didn't like it except for its Fly-by and Tower views.  The fact you must kill the uber simple and amply adequate Ctrl-Alt-# for your custom views, and replace it with a PIA to do the same thing made it clear to me I won't buy it for 2024.  All I need or want are those two views, Fly-by and Tower.  I can see it if you were making detailed videos doing some unusual views for theatrics and trailers, but for normal use w/ BATC, SLC, GSX?  Over the top.  That being said, it was very professionally done and worked, but again, over the top, at least my top.

Well over 1000 votes on FS.com for those two simple views I hope MS/A does it, or some smart developer and am frankly shocked it hasn't happened yet.  I would imagine the market for a simple keypress option for those two features would be huge compared to the market for the full version ChasePlane.  I contacted the dev twice attempting to introduce the idea of a simple version for less cost because I believe they would actually make more $$ going that route.  

You won't buy it for 2024? You get it for free if you bought it for MSFS 2020.

7 hours ago, SayAgain said:

Really?  Where did you hear this ETA?

They posted this teaser a while ago. The first one was Flow for 2024, which has since been released, and the one on the 19th is suspected to be ChasePlane for 2024.

7 hours ago, Noel said:

I bought it for 2020 and didn't like it except for its Fly-by and Tower views.  The fact you must kill the uber simple and amply adequate Ctrl-Alt-# for your custom views, and replace it with a PIA to do the same thing made it clear to me I won't buy it for 2024.  All I need or want are those two views, Fly-by and Tower.  I can see it if you were making detailed videos doing some unusual views for theatrics and trailers, but for normal use w/ BATC, SLC, GSX?  Over the top.  That being said, it was very professionally done and worked, but again, over the top, at least my top.

Well over 1000 votes on FS.com for those two simple views I hope MS/A does it, or some smart developer and am frankly shocked it hasn't happened yet.  I would imagine the market for a simple keypress option for those two features would be huge compared to the market for the full version ChasePlane.  I contacted the dev twice attempting to introduce the idea of a simple version for less cost because I believe they would actually make more $$ going that route.  

Interesting take, I'm the complete opposite. For me, ChasePlane is a bless after having to use the (in my opinion) very bad default camera system.

You even give examples why the default camera is bad in your post. Default views like tower or Fly-By where default in the past like in P3D or FSX (or even older iterations), yet Asobo decided to remove it from MSFS and MSFS2024 and at the same time, don't offer a working camera API for developers which older sims did. So it's a complete regression to what we already had and ChasePlane finally brought back the camera experience which already worked very well in the past.

You are happy about the default Ctrl+Numpad binding, which is the only "good" thing they copied from X-Plane default, but then stopped at this point.

For me, setting up cameras should be an easy, "do it once" action, which ChasePlane absolutely delivers. Take a wing view for a example, how many planes require you to edit .cfg files, to overcome camera collision and other annoyances, just to set up a view? It's not fun at all, and if you don't backup your %AppData% folders, have fun to do it all again after re-installing the sim or switching computers. With ChasePlane, you don't have to worry about anything of this. It's just in the cloud.

When I decide to switch over to MSFS2024 (most likely when the 24 version of CP drops, hopefully soon), my views from MSFS will be there and I don't have to start over again.

I saved way more time by using CPs method to set up views (which can be tuned on a pixel perfect level) instead of using the default method. But at the same time, how often do you set up views? Once per "new" aircraft, and this works like it should with CP. And even if you decide to edit an already existing view, it's way easier with ChasePlane for sure.

I get the point being accustomed to the default behaviour of setting up views, but I think it would be easier to talk to //42 devs asking to implement the "default keybind behaviour" as an option for ChasePlane instead of hoping for Asobo to fix the camera system or open up the API, which they never did in over 5+ years

And from my experience, this works very well: I did request a feature in the past in fact, and it got implemented in the next beta version.

For me, the user experience is incredible and I'm very happy it exists. Maybe if MSFS is the first simming experience, I can understand that one is okay with it. But personally, I don't like giving up a majority of features which existed in the past and make it super hard for 3rd party developers to improve it (which is probably the reason no "simple tool" exists, because it is not simple to overcome Asobos restrictions).

Edited December 14, 2025Dec 14 by roesti

Does this Chaseplane do what FS Realistic does but better? As in camera shake etc?

10 minutes ago, vonduck said:

Does this Chaseplane do what FS Realistic does but better? As in camera shake etc?

ChasePlane completely replaces the default MSFS camera system (so you set up your views and everything else related to it within ChasePlane), and yes, it includes head movements / camera shakes which are adjustable. Chaseplane does a way better job here than FSRealistic, but the latter brings other stuff like additional sounds, which ChasePlane doesn't. I heard there is FSRealistic+ in the works, which is marketed to work together with ChasePlane to enhance it. I still use FSRealistic, but disabled every effect that interferes with the camera.

Edited December 14, 2025Dec 14 by roesti