ChasePlane, a statement on MSFS & Price Drop for FSX/Prepar3D version

2 min readSep 29, 2022

by Edson Soriano, Managing Director //42

If you’re new to Flight Simulation and don’t know about ChasePlane, watch the video above. ChasePlane is an award-winning virtual Camera system that allows you to experience virtual flight like never before in Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Lockheed Martin Prepar3D. (not msfs 2020, read on!)

ChasePlane includes revolutionary features like an In-Sim View Selector, full camera control, including roll axis and zoom, Cinematic Mode, realistic turbulence, and much more.

HOWEVER…if you’re like what seems like 99.9% of the flight sim community, and will yell at their screen for any info on ChasePlane for MSFS, let’s start by addressing that officially first.

Official //42 Statement on ChasePlane for MSFS

MSobo delivered a closed camera system nowhere near prior offerings. As it stands today, we can’t tap into it to make it great.

If you’d like to see ChasePlane in MSFS, there are 2 things you can do. Please upvote those suggestions:

Forums: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/fix-support-camera-api-in-simconnect/334102

//42 has also provided MSobo engineers with a confidential document outlining exactly what would need to exist/change for ChasePlane to come to MSFS. This document was requested and provided in January of this year. To date, we’ve not heard anything back.