TraineeI have not yet found a way to "padlock" a view from the virtual cockpit that will allow me to do a stationary look at the runway while on downwind and crosswind legs of a normal traffic pattern, while using your seat of the pants feel to maneuver the aircraft. I'd like to put this view into a joystick button that would be easy to switch back and forth to the panel.
You can obviously use the pan hat switch on a joystick to move the view so that you can watch the runway-- but that takes constant clicking to keep the view you want. In Combat flight sims this padlock function helps you maintain virtual frame of reference on your target and is very realistic in how you would monitor a target/point of reference in real life.
Anyone figure out how to do this in FSX? I have played around with the view keys but have not had any success. It would be really nice if someone could write an add-on that would let you place the mouse pointer on the runway threshold and then padlock that point of reference.
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