Why am I glued to my instruments?

Why am I glued to my instruments? I can't zoom out?

#1 Matters End

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 11:55 AM

Hello everyone, I recently picked up x-plane, and had a concern.

In FSX (which I used to play), while in my virtual cockpit, I could zoom out all the way so that, while I was in my cockpit, I had a nice zoomed out view and was able to see the outside and all my instruments, and zoom in when I need to check my HUD or a specific gauge. However, in x-plane, when I am in the virtual cockpit, and press -, it doesn't back out at all. Only when I press + can I use - to get back to the original view. BUT, the original zoom is so close to the instruments, it kills the pleasure of a 3d cockpit since I can only see the instruments. Does anyone have a solution? I would really appreciate any advice/help.

Thank you.

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 05:05 PM

This is X-Plane's default Field of View.
It sucks.

In the rendering options menu, you should find a Field of View box. Change that anywhere from 55 to 80 depending on what you like.
The more of a FOV you have however, the more distorted the picture becomes.

My FOV is set to 72 right now.

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Posted 09 March 2010 - 02:26 AM

assigning keys for zoom in/out, moving etc. works for me

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Posted 09 March 2010 - 04:24 PM

Matters End, on 08 March 2010 - 11:55 AM, said:

You can watch my video here about this. It could help

Joseph

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Posted 09 March 2010 - 07:33 PM

Wow, this is great guys. Thanks so much. As a follow up, is there anyway to increase the sensitivity of the arrow keys? I feel like it takes forever to pan from left to right or from up to down. As a side, I use the HAT buttons on my joystick to look around, but it's only doing what the up/down/left/right arrow keys do, so its just as slow. Is there any fix for this? It would be truly amazing!

Thanks again everyone, amazing community.

Sincerely,

Aleks

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