Disabling views in FSX

[fsaviator]

Hello all, just discovered another annoyance I'm hoping to fix.

I've got my saved flight that starts at my favorite place, and I've edited the panel.cfg to show my three views and nothing else.  No problems there.

What has cropped up since the reinstall though is that periodically, when I position my AC via Instructor Station, I end up in spot view instead of in the cockpit.

-I start my sim at the default location, cold and dark sitting in the cockpit.
-Using IS (or even Prosim's built in IS) I then position the aircraft at another airport, and whatever place I want.
-Usually no issues, however, every now and then when the scenario loads, I'm in spot view.

As you know there is no way to get back to my inside the cockpit view with 60 degree offset front/side views without resetting the flight back where I started.

As the only plane I use is the Jetstream 737, I want to do two things:

1.  Make the three view default for the aircraft, not only the saved scenario
2.  Disable ALL other views except the three-view as I do not use any others

Any ideas?

[Sean]

This is pretty easy Warren. It must be, because I've done it!

Not sure off the top of my head exactly how I achieved it now, and I'm just about to leave for work, but have a look at this for starters. If you haven't figured it out, I can have a look at how I did it later tonight...

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85028

Sean

[fsaviator]

Hi Sean,
I saw this yesterday and tried it.  It seemed to work, but I still had a right wing view that wouldn't go away, and that was using the cyclehidden=yes on every view but cockpit view.  Not sure why.

[fsaviator]

OK, so I played around a bit and I appear to have solved issue #2.

I used windowmaker to confirm my settings in my flt file and then I went in to the camera.cfg file and deleted ALL the cameras EXCEPT 1 and 2 (which match up with the 2D and Virtual Cockpit cameras in the windowmaker entries).

Then I went in to the aircraft.cfg and deleted ALL windows and cameras.

Then for added effect, I went into panel.cfg and deleted all the panels.

Now the only view I have is the front cockpit view spanning 180 degrees.  No other views cycle, and no other windows, panels, or views available through the menus (except for tower, airport, and traffic).

Still haven't figured out how to make the 180 degree view the default view.  If you start via free flight, you end up with three front views.  Figuring that out would mean that I would not have to reload the flight everytime, then move elsewhere.

[Kennair]

Now the only view I have is the front cockpit view spanning 180 degrees.  No other views cycle, and no other windows, panels, or views available through the menus (except for tower, airport, and traffic).

Still haven't figured out how to make the 180 degree view the default view.  If you start via free flight, you end up with three front views.  Figuring that out would mean that I would not have to reload the flight everytime, then move elsewhere.

Warren don't start from the Free Flight menu, use the associated .FSSAVE file that goes along with your .flt file.  This will load whatever parameters you've set in the FLT file and bypass the menu.  You can also save your favourite flight as default then untick the show menu option in the general parameters (I think?)  This way it just loads that flight straight up.

Ken.

[fsaviator]

I'm tracking all that Ken.  That is how I currently start a flight.  My issue is that I have to start the saved flight, then reposition the aircraft if I want to start elsewhere.  That works fine most of the time, but if I need to reload the aircraft for whatever reason, I also have to go back to the saved flight and reposition.

The biggest issue to this I think I solved now, but that was every now and then when I used the IS to reposition, particularly on an approach, it would start after the load in spot view...  no way to get back to 180 degree front view from there, which meant reloading and reinputting parameters etc.  I think I've solved that by removing all the other views.  We'll see how FSX surprises me.