Mouse control of view in F2 Solved

[Sandhill]

I have found yet another way to shoot myself in the foot it seems. For reasons I can't fathom (I've really really have tried to figure this out) for all of my aircraft that I have been flying I have lost the ability (which used to be there) to move the camera around when in F2. Now I go to F2 and have a view from the front or side of the aircraft, and can't move the camera around at all, just locked in that view.

I just bought a couple of new aircraft on which I haven't made any bindings whatsoever, and if I start an instant session like takeoff and hit F2 I can fly the camera to wherever I'd like, as I'm used to, so things start out ok with a virgin AC. The num pad keys still control the camera in external view as I assume they should (never used nm pad before as I was just a mousey guy but I thought I should test ). I sure hope that I am missing something simple

And it was simple, thankfully. I was looking in the All list for missing commands, and mouse control of the camera in F2 is a set of AXIS commands, and axis commands don't show up under the All list. Once I added in the missing (Mouse_x, Mouse_y, Mouse_z) commands under Mouse in the Axis lists, all became well again.

[Orlock]

You don't accidentally have the comms menu open do you? I do that all the time and takes me a minute to realize what happened.

[Sandhill]

Thanks for the suggestion, but no. The problem is persistent...exit the game and return still the same. F2 take me to external view just fine, but I can't move the camera with the mouse.

[jalsina]

I can use the stick pov to pan around F2. Maybe you are using it to bind something else.
And definitively I can also view around with the mouse.

And as Orlock mentions, an opened upper right comm menu deprives me to pan around.

[t0rg]

I'll just note that the solution suggested did work for me as well, but I had to select the current plane before choosing its axis controls (e.g. the F/A-18C), and then add the Mouse_x, Mouse_y and Mouse_z