Cockpit zoom default

When I start up the game, my view is zoomed in a bit and slowly zooms out over 5 seconds. Pressing the Num Enter key zooms my view back in. I then zoom out manually to my preferred zoom-out-level. Is there any way to edit a .lua file parameter or something so that the Num Enter key automatically gives me my preferred zoom-out-level?

Thanks!

To fix your problem:

This are the parameters you have to edit and what they are doing:

You have to edit the values starting in line 1055 to change the default start-up view below .

\Eagle Dynamics\DCS Black Shark 2\Config\View\SnapViewsDefault.lua

The values can be positive or negative!

Snap[11][13] = {} -- Default cockpit view
Snap[11][13]["y_trans"]   = -0.041336805555555564    -- move viewpoint Up/Down
Snap[11][13]["x_trans"] = 0.36 -- move viewpoint Forward/Backward
Snap[11][13]["hAngle"] = 0 -- Tilt viewpoint Left/Right
Snap[11][13]["viewAngle"] = 75.0  -- FOV aka Zoom
Snap[11][13]["vAngle"] = -25 -- Tilt viewpoint Up/Down
Snap[11][13]["rollAngle"] = 0  -- Roll viewpoint Left/Right
Snap[11][13]["z_trans"] = 0  -- move viewpoint Left/Right 

you want probably lower:

Snap[11][13]["viewAngle"] = 75.0 -- FOV aka Zoom

to something like 65.0 as a start

Maybe this mod will give you further improvements:

Tweaked Cockpit view for DCS A-10C - and you are still able to tweak the starting FOV.

EDIT:

Download Notepad++ to view and edit LUA files.

MS-Notepad/Editor can easily mess up the structure of lua files if not edited very carefully.

And if you are searching for a better way to zoom easily in/out with only one keypress -one of this scripts will fit your needs:

Zoom-In/Zomm-Out on PAC1 to make your life easier !

Everything I posted will work for BS2 and A-10! -but the cockpit view tweak is optimised only for the A-10.

(You don't posted what Sim you are running- but I assume you want it for A-10 , because we are in the A-10 Tech Support)