MSFS Fly-By View Camera Tutorial 

The critique of MSFS's camera system is still valid today. I'm enjoying MSFS, but the camera system in Xplane just works so nicely. In MSFS it feels like pulling teeth to do anything.

MSFS Flyby: open this, press that, bind xy, do this, xbox controller, keyboard, shenanigans blah bla DCS: hit F3

Wow, I have to give you 100% for contribution to flight-sim community for something that Asobo scores 0% for. However, as a flyby solution I score it only around 20%, as even this is still extremely convoluted (yet probably the best we have for now) AND one will have to do all of this EVERY SINGLE TIME for EVERY SINGLE PLANE! If there was a way to save that camera position permanently and universally and simply hit a key or joystick button to activate, I will give it a score of maybe 70%. The lack of a flyby view is the single biggest reason I have almost completely stopped playing MSFS 2020 and not purchased it yet (still using the "free" option with Gamepass subscription).

Awesome tutorial! I can highly recommend his Twitch channel.

Finaly .. after 28 years back in MSFS and found this beautiful solution to create a fly-by - which btw almost all other FS's have under a single button. However .. dispite of the "complexity" now you/we can tweak it and set it up the way you want it to be, from every angle, which you can not in almost all other FS's On the other hand it shouldn't be a big problem for MS/Asobo to offer the opportunity to bind a key for a standard Fly-by view. Thanks a bunch for the effort to get into a "problem" like this and come up with a beautiful solution.

Thanks for your effort and contribution making this flyby video tutorial possible to use

Flyby views were also in the last SEVERAL version of MS flight sim and all it took was hitting a couple keys right outta the box.

Asobo should add the fly by view Thanks for the tips, anyway

Awesome job friend!

Fantastic Tutorial. Loved the video. Keep posting. Great Work.

wow, this came up on my homepage. thanks for the video.

This is SO AWESOME!!!!! Looks like I'll be spending the weekend honing my MSFS Drone Camera skills. Thanks for... not much, Asobo! LOL

Thanks for making this tutorial. What in the world were they thinking when designing the camera mode? I fly many simulators and this is by far the most convoluted of all.

there is a god! I've been looking for this for a week.

Great demo. Thanks!

Most impressive tutorial.

Great video :)

Muy buen video, siempre lo quise hacer y no supe como. Muchas gracias!!!

Hi nice video to learn from great tuttorial, I didn't understand how to manipulate the airplane control while use drone camera. Thanks Dylan

I've been fussing with how to do this this forever. This video showed how to do it consistently (even though laborious). KUDOS for a great instructional video and THANKS! P.S. What keyboard macro utility do you use?

nice, thank you for sharing this!

They put all the effort into the graphics and missed out focusing on the basics. Great game. Just a lot of things to work out.

Thanks man!!!!!

What a Great Fly-By Camera Tutor !!! I Learn a lot !!! Please, could you tell me where we can learn how to get a working “fixed spot Plane View” for the MSFS 2020 external view, as it was created on the past for the FSX Flight Simulator, just changing “Flat” to “Fixed” at the line “Track=FlatChaseLocked” at the (Cameras Defenition.004) of the FSX (cameras.cfg) file. The objective with that, is to turn only the plane around a spot in its external view, without also turning the surrounding scenery with it, to simplify for us all it's relative position perseption . Thanks.

One of the cheapest fix for msfs is a compelling camera system to properly enjoy the visuals, the fixed 1980's camera system makes planes feel like cars.

Is there a way to do that for AI traffic? That the camera follows the plane while taking off or landing?

What button is it for toggling between drone and aircraft control for xbox?

Asobo I want a flyby view. One of the first functions I tried to find in MSFS. Disappointing not to have someting so common and simple built in.

Hi,looks fantastic.Would this work on Xbox series x?U.I looks the same so i guess it will.Too bad on Xbox series x whe still don't have a replay cam with fantastic TV style fly by cams.

How do I get the drone in front of my plane ?

they absolutely ruined the views in MSFS one of if my only complaint about the entire sim

what to do if i can't turn on track ir

Fourth!

Have they fixed this in updates or is there still no fly by or tower Veiw natively in msfs?

What area are you flying over in the start of the video?

Ahh, thanks a lot…

you talk about button "C" to control the plane in drone mode. I my case it does not work. how can i find out whick key i have to toggle ? or what is the name in msfs settings , so can do it myself . tks a lot

I wanna see the owl

I cannot pilot the plane in drone mode...how is it possible that you can to pilot the plane?

How is this not a single key, I mean BF2 had that.

stubborn Asobo

Asobo could add this within two hours into the game. And in 4 years they still did not.

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Thd camera system in msfs is nothing short of f#%ked. It was so easy back in the old days with all the camera apps you could choose from. I wish asobo opened it up fof development.

The FSX camera system is the only thing i miss in FS2020 , it's garbage

Agreed about the camera system. Msfs is horrid for cameras

so dumb they don't just have a default flyby cam yet.

its possible to fly the plane all the time, the drone mode is activated - i just mapped everything with Spad.Next ... easy..

MSFS seems to be geared toward xbox users now which is sad. Xbox is for kids.

When i try flybys my drone camera rolls over instead of staying level. What am i missing?