Walkaround controls go crazy

[alstr]

I have noticed on a number of occasions that walkaround goes into a weird state where it is constantly moving and you can't stop it. Moreover, the directions seem to get inverted, to the point that whatever you're looking at you're actually moving away from.

Take a look at the attached video. That's not me walking drunk; that's the sim going crazy, with me just spinning the camera around trying to find some semblence of control (thankfully walls do stop you). You can see I immediately backed out of the FBO on entry, because of it moving in the opposite direction. It's a battle to get any kind of control, and the only solution I've found is restarting the whole sim. When I reach the FBO exit to main menu, you can see the camera keeps moving.

X-Camera is disabled. This admittedly may be a Laminar camera bug, but thought I'd see. It seems to randomly trigger when leaving the captain seat.

80% of the time walkaround is fine, but this does happen every few flights.

 

Edited January 11 by alstr

[Pils]

1 hour ago, alstr said:

this does happen every few flights

It's usually triggered by alt-tab'ing out of the sim while pressing keys. You need to reload the aircraft (from the Developer menu) to "cure" it.

[alstr]

22 hours ago, Pils said:

It's usually triggered by alt-tab'ing out of the sim while pressing keys. You need to reload the aircraft (from the Developer menu) to "cure" it.

I thought I tried that and it didn't work, but I'll see next time.

[marekschneider]

@alstr My workaround was disabling the WASD controls in the CL60 menu and assign the XP key bindings "Move camera forward/left/... fast" (or something like this) to the WASD keys. Walkaround mode still works for me, but I have not encountered that issue again.

[alstr]

On 1/16/2026 at 10:56 AM, marekschneider said:

@alstr My workaround was disabling the WASD controls in the CL60 menu and assign the XP key bindings "Move camera forward/left/... fast" (or something like this) to the WASD keys. Walkaround mode still works for me, but I have not encountered that issue again.

I will take a look, thanks.

Side note, another weird camera issue has started the last couple of flights.

These last two times just before takeoff the camera has gone really janky, where any joystick input or braking makes the camera shake around like crazy. Again there’s a chance this is just X-Plane rather than the aircraft. I couldn’t get it to stop despite switching views multiple times, so I had to restart (which then turned my engines off for some reason). I’m currently mid way through a flight where this juddery movement started and I didn’t want to restart so we’ll see how landing goes.

Also I just discovered the fuel guy bangs on the door if you lock him out. Nice touch.