[Sutts]

Type of improvement:
Implement floating camera mount to give a more natural appearance to aircraft views - like watching your aircraft from another aircraft.

Explanation of proposals:
I believe the current (non-flyby) external views are implemented as if the camera is fixed to the aircraft with a long pole and moves with the aircraft as it rises and falls in flight. This view to me looks quite unnatural, as if you're viewing a model on a turntable.

My proposal is that this fixed mount is replaced with a floating mount (as if attached to another aircraft in formation). The camera would roughly follow the aircraft movement (perhaps smoothing the camera movement out using a moving average of the altitude). In this way the movement of the aircraft within the air mass will be much more obvious and natural in appearance - floating up and down as if filmed from another aircraft alongside.

Benefits:
Aircraft movement will look more believable and better for film makers too.