solved View zooms out - Newbie probably screwed up something. LOL

[PilotGuy9853]

I am pretty new to DCS and have an issue that I am not able to figure out.  I have a Winwing takeoff panel that has the gear lever on it.  Yesterday I noticed that whenever I raised the gear, the view would change to what you see from the bottom picture to the top picture in the attached screenshot.  Please pardon the poor quality of the screenshot as I am still learning how to take proper screenshots.  Anyway, it always happens when I raise the gear.  I checked to see if anything else was mapped to that lever and I can't find anything other than raising and lowering the gear.  I can raise and lower the gear with the mouse, clicking on the gear handle in the cockpit, and it does not change the view.  I deleted the 2 mappings for the gear handle in DCS and confirmed that I can't find anything else mapped and it still does it when I raise the gear using the Winwing device even though the gear handle in the cockpit does not move after I removed the key map in DCS.  It acts like there is something else mapped to it but I can't determine what it is.  Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance for the help.

[SharpeXB]

When you check for double mapping of that Winwing lever, did you check the axis assignment on the separate axis menu? It sure seems like you just have that double mapped. Does the Winwing software have some sort of keypress emulation added outside of DCS?

Edited August 29, 2023 by SharpeXB

[PilotGuy9853]

That did it.  I checked the axis controls, and on the Winwing device, just to the left of the gear handle, is a slider type switch.  That was mapped to zoom the view.  I don't know if I was bumping that when I raised the gear or what but I removed that mapping and that seems to have fixed it.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.