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[gypsymoth]

Deafult cockpit zoom settings are 'cockpit 0.31 zoom' & '0.50 zoom'. Is there a way of changing the 0.31 to 0.40 zoom ? I mean a permanent change. I can change by using the - + buttons but I'd like a permanent change.

[tiger1962]

Is there a way of changing the 0.31 to 0.40 zoom ? I mean a permanent change.

 

Yes, there is: in your aircraft Panel folder, open the panel.cfg file with Notepad and search for [Views]. At the end of that section, just add VIEW_FORWARD_ZOOM= 0.40

The other directions are FORWARD_RIGHT, RIGHT, REAR_RIGHT, REAR, REAR_LEFT, LEFT, FORWARD_LEFT.

[gypsymoth]

Thank you...I'm very grateful to you.

[gypsymoth]

Sorry to say that doesn't work.

 

I can save the flight at 0.40 zoom but it loads at 0.37zoom. Other view are default 0.50 zoom as usual. The panel is not I think, the way to do this........

[ColR1948]

After you edit the panel.cfg as tiger advises are you saving it or just saving the default flight?

I've done this a few times and it always works, this is what made me ask. Edit the panel.cfg then SAVE AS then next time that setting should still apply.

[tgibson_new]

Hi,

 

The panel.cfg edit only changes the zoom for the 2D panel, not the VC. To do that, you set the zoom as you like it, then save this as the default flight. Keep in mind that any flight you load that uses a different zoom will change this.

 

When I set the panel.cfg file to zoom = 0.40, I end up with a zoom of 0.39 in FS9. Changing the cfg file to 0.41 gives me a zoom in FS of 0.40. So try a number a little higher than 0.40 in the cfg file.

[gypsymoth]

Ummmml, changing the value to 40 (or 45) gives virtual 37 & cockpit as 32 .

 

I save the flight in cockpit 40 & it shows as 37 with virtual as 32.

[tgibson_new]

I don't know - yours is working differently from mine. Any addons that can affect the VC or viewing?

[gypsymoth]

Hello. I use the FS2004 Taylorcraft Auster MkV by Bjorn Buchner,

in a South African Air Force livery. It has full animations, virtual cockpit and custom panel.

It's low & slow & a sheer delight. I use it to show school children over the local WW2 airfield I made - RAF Ibsley - so they can see a vanished world we owe so much to.