In my last post about setting up a Full Forward View without Instruments, Michael sent in a comment below:

I’m in the same situation and have been using this for quite some time, however, with one modification:

I first make a copy of the camera file using (I think Alt+Ctrl+0). This will be saved under, e.g.

C:\Users\[your profile]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\SimObjects\Airplanes\Asobo_C172sp_classic

In this file you can make the amendment above.

You can then switch back and forth between the “normal” and the “shifted” camera using Alt+0. I found this somewhere on the official forum. This way you don’t have to modify the original files.

Thanks Michael and that’s another approach of creating a full forward view with no instruments, too.

Well, either method has its pros and cons:

Mine can go into the Full Forward View directly at game start; while Michael’s can leave the original view (i.e. cameras.cfg) untouched.

But no matter which one we choose, we’ll have to create the view manually for every aircraft we want to apply the view to.

BTW, we can always press [F9] (for Close Cockpit View) or [F10] (for Wide Cockpit View) to exit the Full Forward View at any time.