i can’t explain how much this video has ended my pain of not free looking in my flights. thank you 🙏

THANK.YOU. Was legitimately considering just returning my HOTAS after setting it up and being completely disappointed in the hat switch camera movement. Now I'm doing this! Just need to pick up a mouse now for the first time in my life - trying to really use the simulator to its fullest and want to work on cockpit instruments/buttons etc. Thank you!

Your instructions - and your instructions ONLY - made mapping the free view quick and simple! Thanks a lot for it!! 👍

Your vids are very much appreciated. Especially to someone new to this stuff. It’s very difficult to find good tip videos specifically for the Xbox this early into the release.

You made things that seemed complicated quite easy,clear directions,easy to follow along..thank you

Outstanding! One of the best tutorials I have seen. This is a very detailed and patient explanation. Keep them coming!

My Thrustmaster stick is currently in Spain on the way to the UK lol. Your videos are easing the pain of waiting, enjoying the content. Thank you.

Great video! It does take away your ability to zoom up and down from over your dash and instruments, BUT those can be mapped out separately and more efficiently using F2 + the joystick pov direction, which solves that issue. This was a great tutorial! Thanks!! Excellent work dude

Thank you! Unlike tons of useless FS Videos found on KZfaq, yours is very useful and helped me in understanding how to assign functions to the Hotas One.

Hudds … Having ordered the rudder pedals for the Thrustmaster Hotas I was intrigued by this video which is very informative. You’ve probably moved on to greater things but I’ll continue with the Hotas and these great guides for now.

Yet again, bloody fantastic thank you so much. I don't know how I missed this but had been struggling with the hat switch snapping left, right, etc yet now it's all set to panning and doing so beautifully. Thank you so much, you are my real MSFS 🌟, now I've just to fix the floppy throttle 😏

I’m so happy I found your post, after hours of looking around Reddit and other forums I was really starting to think I had a defective Hotas One. Glad to know it’s becoming a known mapping bug. Just wondering if anyone also has an issue with the rocker on the back of the throttle not working as well? I was really hoping to map these buttons to the trim. Can’t wait to see your mapping video.

THANK YOU SOO MUCH! This was driving me crazy lol. I'm now a loyal follower 👍

Thanks for the video man, liked and subscribed, can't wait until your next video covering the sensitivity and such!

Great advice as always🙂I'm loving Microsoft Flight Simulator on my Series X. The HOTAS certainly adds a lot of realism to the game. I just hope they can fix the button mapping problem soon

Thank you! I'm having a much better experience now! This method works on PC with the hotas stick as well.

Invaluable video. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. 👍🏼

Thanks heaps mate that was brilliant. Your patient approach greatly appreciated, I sat here following pausing doing etc until now the hotas acts like my pc joystick...stoked!! You're a legend

Thanks for this video and the other ones - I'm new in this universe and your videos are so helpful (thx for the mapping tips - i would have never figured it out).

IT WORK!!! It WORKS!!!! THank you Mr. Huddison...Im a little slow but kept at it without me glasses on yet got it right this time, tickeld pink I am! Well, now, I suppose I might learn how to actually operate the controls myself now! Ta!

wow! that was so easy! MS is amazing, what’s next? a button that says „free moving camera“ and it set‘s this all up by itself? that‘s crazy, just kidding:) keep up the good work MS! thanks to you for the good video, seriously!

Awesome, tried doing this via the input method and it didn't work. But this video showed the way. No longer need the mouse or joystick to look 45degrees. Thankyou mate

Thank you so much for this video. After having 'dealt' with MSFS for a year now -and with flight sim a lot longer -, I thought myself accomplished enough to show a couple of setup 'tricks' and teach some basic flying and navigation skills to a collegue of mine, who had eagerly awaited the xBox release, buying all recommended stuff (Hotas 1, mouse, keyboard). Boy, was I mistaken! I felt so stupid, when the assignments per scanning did not work at all, searching all fault by myself - I should've known better. At least he has guidance now to set up the hat switch properly, and the reason why it wouldn't work. Being so used to TrackIR and/or the hat switch on my Bravo for cockpit views, I thought the xBox version was hardly flyable. I barely managed to find the runway with the default quickviews :)))

A great video, after a few attempts following your examples it all makes sense. C&E views sorted. Thank you.

Good stuff man thank you, looking forward to the button and sensitivity vid!

This tip is A plus thanks.. loved this fight stick and hated the lack of free look.. just the four setting on pov work perfect for the fighters jets thanks

thanks so much for this video!! hey, just FYI.. you can plug a mouse into your USB port and you'll get a standard cursor you can use with the UI.. it's so much easier than trying to use the controller! cheers.

I would never have the patience to dig through these settings alone lol. Thank you so much idk how u do it

You my friend are a genius. Thank you soooo much. I was able to use my keyboard and mouse to run the settings and it worked out perfectly.

Man this was so helpful, thank you. The only thing I changed is the external left and right I flipped. Don't know why but felt a bit weird otherwise. Keep up the good work. Loving the videos.

You sir deserve a medal, thank you

This is everything RIGHT NOW! Thank you very much. Subbed

Great stuff, but I’m probably going to wait until they figure out this HOTAS One mapping mess. I wasted a lot of time last night! I’m getting by with a combination of HOTAS, keyboard and mouse, but I’d much rather have a properly mapped HOTAS!

Hello from France. Thanks for this very useful video!

Thank you , I’ve just got my t hotas and followed your video . You should be a teacher.

Absolutely fantastic video. I have been trying to figure out camera settings with no luck.

Thank you, great clarity of explanation etc.

Newbie to flight sims checking in. Very helpful video. Subscribed and thanks.

Thank you...the quick look was really bugging me and I was trying to use the 'Input' feature to remap....it's perfect now.

Pro Tip: Connect a wireless USB Logitech mouse. It makes navigating the menu so much better.

Thank you so much bro. Needed this!!!! Much better. I never would have gotten this figured out smh.

Just like everyone else here, i plugged my HOTAS in and tried to set up to no avail...packed the sucker in a box and made do with the controller til I found this! You're a gentleman and a scholar. I can now do carrier landings with a stick and throttle as it should be. Any advice from anyone how I could then bind my trim axis by activating a button and using the hat switch? Same with zoom axis. If I can bind those, I'll never fly with a controller again!

That is so much better than the default setting. Thank you

Thanks for the latest 2 videos. I’ve configured most of my buttons now seeing as I did a 2 hour flight from Darwin on Friday night and when I went to press the left thumbstick to bring up the atc landing announcement I crashed on the end leg.......made sure active pause is now Y on the throttle 😂 I just set up the drone camera using the pov hat switch for left,right,up,down, yaw using the rudder twist along with backwards/forwards using the axis 5 trim buttons........now if only I knew how to take a picture or where they might save to in game (I defaulted a button, but no clue if it did anything)? Guess I can just stick with capture and share button on the regular controller for now. Thanks again, enjoying this tons.

Thanks again for a most helpful and informative video. Works like a dream!

This was extremely helpful. Thank you!

Thank you so much for making this vid, big help.

I bought this because the normal controller was confusing to use. I guess it was a waste of money since this seems more confusing than just learning the normal controller. I do not want to do all this if it won’t even save when I am done. You say “hat switch” but I am not sure what button that is and how you can have so many things on one button. Please understand I do not think this is your problem. This is my first joystick and I am new to flight sim and Xbox so I am just way behind! I subbed so maybe when they fix the issues and you redo the video it will make more sense and not be so frustrating. Looking for a relaxing hobby not something frustrating and more work! Lol

Great tutorial, thank you. Really enjoying all your instructional videos. Great content and easy to follow. You helped me very much. Again, thank you!

Thanks for the great video! Very helpful!

excellent vid, thanks for your time much appreciated MMDogs

As always, your videos are very helpful, thank you. :-)

Thank you so much you've been extremely helpful awesome brother it's helped me out in a simulator to it's been a while since it took in the sky but thank you so much with these tutorials awesome

Fantastic video! I was hoping someone would cover button mapping for the Hotas One. Any chance you will be doing a Keyboard key shortcut video. Or at least the most popular key bindings? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the great content!!

Great video, really helpful, thanks!!

Ur a lifesaver man

Very nice instructions. Thanks!

Thank you!!!! Cant wait for the button video.......

After day 1 and looking at the button mapping for the hotas one and finding out on the controls settings that some of the buttons come up the same as F2. After spending most of day 1 trying to figure it out i just went and fly and all the controls are the same as my Hotas T Flight X for ps3/pc what i used for MSFS2020 on PC so all was fine and i did not have to change any button mapping. One problem we have though is that Sensitivity settings on the Hotas One do not save once you quit and reopen the game again as they reset back to default. The other thing i'm a bit annoyed at is when using a mouse, you cannot interact with the instrument panel when in cockpit, have to use the xbox controller mouse which when moving the cursor with the left stick on the controller also moves your airelons on your plane, so i have had to delete the xbox steering with controller button mapping as i use the Hotas for flight, and now the mouse move with controller does not effect your planes movement. Great video, keep up the good work.

This is great. Now I just need to figure out why I cannot trim and my aircraft keeps nosing down !

Quick tip, you can plug a mouse to your xbox, makes it way more smoother to navigate the menus.

Scanning works. It shows the wrong input. You can just ignore the one that comes up. It's on the flight sim website under known issues.

Should be getting mine Sunday. If possible, I'll change the hat switch to trim and rudder.

Clear, concise and effective as usual, thank you for that .... Can Hat Switch also be suitable for activating the buttons and potentiometers of the cockpit ? (without having to use the stick of the Xbox controller)

Very nice. Thank you!

thank you love❤️‍🔥

Thankfully very good job 💪🏼✈️👍🧑‍✈️

Super super helpful

Perfect. How can i map the F1-Button? I cant find it in the drop down menu.

Great Video! As I am pretty new to Flight Simulator 2020 on Xbox Series S and the Hoyas One I watched already several videos you made. I discovered myself the mess with the setup of the Hotas One and beside the settings described here I decided to stay on the default for now. Unfortunately I did not get done like in the video and have now explanation for it. Here is what I did: Deleted everything from the camera settings beside the reset to default view and the F1 smart camera. Then I added the POV axis to let, right, up, down, down-right and so on external and internal. This work as expected but even if I haven't touched anything with the A-Key when I release my parking break the pilot start viewing up-right. When I delete the profile everything is OK. But creating again the profile result in the same behaviour (even if I choose default profile again). So I am on default again waiting for a fix. Where would I see such a fix is available?

Not sure how to toggle between cockpit/external view. On the controls option it keys to hit the "B" key on my keyboard. Funny thing is, I don't have a keyboard plugged into my xbox, only an elite controller and the Hotas 1.

Thank you, got it working. But personally I've reversed the horizontal on Exterior view so the is the same motion to look left inside & out. Might reverse the vertical axis too, I'll see how i get along

Thanks for this! very helpful! :)

Soooo usefull! Thanks a lot dude!👍🏼

Thanks for the explanatory video...

Good afternoon. Thank you for your very well structured and detailed video. I made the setups for the views as you said, but there is one issue: After i look at the different directions, both in cockpit & external, when i stop pressing the POV key on my joystick, the view comes again in the start position. I would like to stop in the position -view- i want. thank you in advance!

Just bought the T.Flight HOTAS one and I'm watching your videos to get it programed with MSFS. When I to the cockpit view and select input I have all the "joystick POV" settings but also have "POV" with just an arrow up-right-left-and down. Does it make a difference which one I use. Thanks. Great videos.

Okay,you had me all the way until switching from inside the cockpit to outside the cockpit to pan around the plane. Can you explain that again? I am 73 years old and not too hip to these XBox movements. That is what I have my flight simulator on. Thanks! I have to write down what you did to assign the buttons.

Another very helpful video. I'm stumped on one issue. I was able to map "toggle drone camera" and that works; however, I find myself stuck in drone mode. It doesn't seem to toggle drone mode off. When I toggle to get back into the cockpit, it defaults me to a camera on the tail looking down on the front of the aircraft. Any ideas how to solve this? I had the same issue with my controller but for some reason I was able to solve that one. Thanks in advance if you have any suggestions. Cheers, John

Sir...on my pc mfs2020, I can pan externally but it flips back to chase view....what have I not done? Logitech 3d pro stick

Absolutely brilliant thank you. Subscribed.

After setting up external views as described, I don't get complete travel around the entire aircraft in any direction. As an example, when I enter external view, I am positioned directly behind the aircraft. When I use the left hat switch, the view travels around the left side to directly in front of the aircraft and then stops. When I release the hat switch, the view returns to behind the aircraft where it started after entering external view. I don't get the complete 360 degree rotation in any direction. Any advice on correcting this? Thank you.

Very helpful, many thanks!

Thank you for that much needed... I have anotherquestion for you & my biggest issue. I'm on Xbox, obviously using the flight stick but having an issue interacting with instruments in my cockpit especially on flights I need to navigate using my menu.. my question/ problem (for example) interacting with with my flight timer & menu forces me to switch to my controller just to move my curser around in rhe cockpit.. while im doung all this i have no control of rhe aircraft.. I feel like I'm being an idiot & there's an easier way ? Or it is what it is bc I'm on Xbox ?I appreciate all of your videos especially this one again, thank you Sir..

Thank you again. 👌🏻

Awesome! Thanks for this (again!) Did you have any issues with the thrustmaster one being mapped incorrectly on xbox?

When you change camera settings and rename Hotas One to “new” are the rest of the setting remain the same? Just the cameras has changed. Correct?

Legend

Wondering if it's possible to select things in the cocking eg autopilot controls with the joystick alone? I'm coming from the controller so I'll probably buy a second mouse for this function but just wondering if you can do it at all with the stick

Just ordered this for my XboxSeriesX.

this look great but i don't want to lose the ability of moving to instruments fast with the little stick moving right and left so useful

Hi there, my external view work fine with all the EXTERNAL VIEW LOOK bindings to my JOYSTICK POV2 (Velocity One), but when I release, it keeps returning to the rear view! How do I make the view stay where it is, when releasing the POV? Thnx!

Is there a way to set it up where you can zoom in and out in the cockpit with the HOTAS?

Very helpful, thank you 👍

This is a little offtopic, but is there a way to have a default airport when launching Xbox msfs? Regards from Spain.

Thank you for this amazing video, from Spain!! There's someway to use the panel control (every button and handle) with the Hotas one?? I didn't find how to do it with the Xbox!!

Thank you ever so much.

I'm waiting on my hotas x too come in I'm new too this and wanting too learn can anyone help

First off thank you so much for the content,secondly both my views are same for cockpit and external view but when I hit my button to take me from cockpit to external view it doesn't work.Only when I click on external it pans around?

Thank you!