• Walkaround v2 Update review v2.7.0 by Stephen Dutton  'Overall, VFR Scenery Walkaround V2.7 transforms X-Plane from a purely cockpit-based simulation into a more interactive, human-scale aircraft environment. Whether used for preflight inspection, aircraft exploration, training, creating cinematic videos or simply walking around an aircraft, it provides a substantially more immersive way to experience X-Plane... Clever and Highly Recommended!'
• XPlanereviews.com by Noah Brand - 'WalkAround is a very enjoyable plugin. It is not just useful for checking the outside of the aircraft, but also for taking screenshots, doing a bit of virtual plane spotting with the binoculars, or simply enjoying the extra bits it adds around the aircraft. It also ran well on my slightly older computer, which was nice to see.'

Version  V2.7.0 - August 21, 2026

Changelog V2.6.4 - August 11th  2026

New :

* HeadShake compatibility mode (SimCoders) : like X-Camera and Aura X, HeadShake takes control of the camera and interfered with the start of a walkaround. A new checkbox has been added next to the other two, in Options : "If you use HeadShake please enable the compatibility mode".

 Once enabled, HeadShake is suspended when you enter the walkaround or the cabin visit, and switched back on when you leave - exactly like the two other compatibility modes. If you had already switched HeadShake off yourself, the plugin leaves it alone.

 Nothing happens if HeadShake is not installed, or if the checkbox is left off.

Fix :

* Camera add-ons could stay switched off after using the cabin setup : entering the cabin setup from the Walkaround menu ("Save cabin position") suspended X-Camera and Aura X but never switched them back on. They stayed off until the simulator was restarted. Leaving the setup now restores them, and every camera add-on is also restored when the plugin is unloaded or disabled.

Changelog V2.6.3 - Release Date: July 31, 2026

Fix :

* Crash at X-Plane startup (introduced in V2.6.2) : on some setups, X-Plane could crash during startup, before the main menu even appeared (reported on macOS / Apple Silicon). V2.6.1 was not affected.

 The cause was the feature added in V2.6.2 that announces the Walkaround commands to DataRefTool and DataRefEditor : the announcement is delivered to those plugins the instant it is sent, and depending on the version installed, the way they handled some of the entries could bring the whole simulator down with it.

 The announcement has been hardened : it is now only sent to plugins that are actually active, and the three names that exist both as a command and as a dataref (toggle_WalkAround, toggle_WalkCabin, jumelle) are no longer announced twice - their alternative names (walkaround/start_stop_walkaround, walkaround/start_stop_cabin, walkaround/toggle_binoculars) are still announced and remain the ones to use in SPAD.neXt.

 Nothing changes for your bindings : all commands keep working exactly as before.

 before, and the SPAD.neXt integration from V2.6.2 is  preserved.

- Crash at X-Plane startup (introduced in V2.6.2) : on some setups, X-Plane could crash during startup, before the main menu even appeared (reported on macOS / Apple Silicon). V2.6.1 was not affected.

• • Changelog V2.6.2 - July 29th 2026

      - Hardware support (SPAD.neXt and similar) : Walkaround's commands are now announced to DataRefTool and

    - Hardware support (SPAD.neXt and similar) : Walkaround's commands are now announced to DataRefTool and DataRefEditor, so they finally show up in their lists - and therefore in the file SPAD.neXt imports. Until now they were invisible to those tools even though they worked perfectly in X-Plane's own keyboard settings, which made them impossible to assign to  a hardware button through SPAD.neXt.

      Three commands also received an alternative name, because DataRefTool

      only accepts one entry per name and the name was already taken by the

      dataref of the same name :

          walkaround/start_stop_walkaround   (= walkaround/toggle_WalkAround)

          walkaround/start_stop_cabin        (= walkaround/toggle_WalkCabin)

          walkaround/toggle_binoculars       (= walkaround/jumelle)

      They do exactly the same thing as the originals, which are still there :

      your existing keyboard and joystick assignments are untouched. If you use

      SPAD.neXt, refresh its X-Plane command list (the DataRefTool command that

      writes the export files) and assign the new names.

  Fix :

    - Camera height when boarding through a rear door : on airliners, climbing

      the stairs at a rear door could leave you standing too high once inside

      the cabin (typically 20 cm or more), while the front door was always

      correct. The error also changed depending on the scenery / mesh packages

      installed under the parking stand, which made it look random.

      The reason is that the target height was taken from the saved cabin

      position, which is recorded at the cockpit, and then corrected by a fixed

      per-door value measured once for each aircraft. That value assumed the

      aircraft was always sitting on the ground at exactly the same attitude,

      so anything that tilts the aircraft slightly - terrain slope under the

      landing gear, fuel load, gear compression - made the correction wrong,

      the more so the further the door is from the cockpit (about 17 cm per

      0.4 degree of pitch on a narrow-body).

      The plugin now measures the aircraft's actual attitude in real time and

      computes the cabin floor height at the exact door you are climbing to.

      The arrival height is therefore correct at every door, whatever the

      parking stand, the scenery or the fuel load, and it stays correct if the

      aircraft settles while you are outside. Front doors are unchanged, and

      upper / lower deck handling on double-deck aircraft is unchanged. As a

      bonus, airliners that had no per-door correction defined at all are now

      handled correctly too.

      Nothing to reconfigure : your saved cabin and walkaround positions are

      used as they are.

• New :

•  

• Changelog V2.6.1 - July 24th 2026

  New :

  - Standing pilot height in cabin (GA aircraft) : on some aircraft with a
  low cabin ceiling (e.g. M500, Seminole, PC-12), the pilot's configured
  height could previously make the camera clip through the roof while
  standing. A new "Standing height in cabin" slider (Options > Aircraft
  Type) lets you define, per aircraft, the maximum standing eye height
  for this aircraft's cabin ; it acts purely as a safety cap when
  standing up and never affects the "lowered" / "crouched" postures nor
  Auto-Walk playback. A "Reset to default" button is available to clear
  a per-aircraft adjustment.

  - The walkaround/posture_up, walkaround/posture_down and
  walkaround/posture_reset commands now also work while standing in
  Cabin mode : holding posture_up / posture_down raises or lowers the
  "Standing height in cabin" limit above, and posture_reset restores its
  default value. While in the "lowered" or "crouched" postures, these
  commands keep adjusting the crouch heights as before.

  - "Waking up" blink + seat sound when entering or leaving a walk : every
  time you start or stop Walkaround or Cabin (from the on-screen buttons
  or the keyboard / joystick commands), the screen now briefly fades to
  black and back, as if you were opening your eyes, while a random "seat"
  sound (getting up from / settling back into the seat) plays. The view
  switch happens during the black frame, so the camera "jump" is hidden.
  You can customise the sound by dropping your own .wav files into the
  plugin's sounds/seat/ folder ; if that folder is empty the blink still
  plays, silently.

  - Random crouch sound : when the pilot lowers or crouches (crouch
  command), a random body-movement sound now plays. Drop your own .wav
  files into the plugin's sounds/crouch/ folder : the folder is scanned
  at startup (no hardcoded list) and the same file never plays twice in
  a row. A dedicated "Crouch sound vol." slider in the Options controls
  the volume. Standing back up plays no sound, and if the folder is
  missing or empty the feature stays silent.

  - Sound options tab reworked : the crouch, seat and cockpit-door sounds
  now each have their own dedicated volume slider ("Crouch sound vol.",
  "Seat sound vol.", "Cockpit door vol."), grouped at the end of the
  list. The seat (mode transition) and door sounds no longer follow the
  pilot voice volume ; both default to 50 %, matching the previous
  behaviour. A yellow "Infos:" line under each slider now explains what
  it controls.

  - Smarter timing in automatic walkaround : when Auto-Walk is armed, the
  blink and seat sound no longer fire on the first click, because that
  click only opens the Pilot / Copilot choice. On the Pilot path the
  effect now plays right after the ground dialogue, exactly when the view
  actually enters the cabin ; on the Copilot path (you stay in the
  cockpit watching the visit) no effect plays at all.

  Fix :

  - Cabin greeting voice logic reworked to follow the actual flight phase :
  the ground greeting (walkground / copilot) still plays once and stays
  silent until you reset the sequence, but the in-flight "walkcabine"
  voice and the "back at the gate after landing" voice now play every
  time you click Start WalkCabin instead of only once. No greeting plays
  at all during taxi / runway lineup (roughly between 2 and 100 kt
  groundspeed) ; the in-flight voice now also requires the aircraft to
  be genuinely airborne, so a rejected takeoff no longer triggers it.

• Changelog V2.6.0 - July 18th 2026

  New :

    - Copilot pre-flight walkaround : when the automatic walkaround starts

      on an airliner, you can now choose who performs it — "Pilot" (the

      walkaround plays out as before, camera-controlled) or "Copilot".

      Choosing Copilot lets you pick a playback speed (Real time / X2 /

      X3 / X4) and the visit is performed automatically in the

      background : your view stays free the whole time, a progress bar

      at the bottom of the screen shows the completion percentage and

      the current point of interest, and a button lets you stop the

      visit at any moment. Voice lines announce the start and the

      copilot's return, with an optional cockpit door sound played in

      between for realism.

    - New Options > Aircraft Type setting : "This aircraft has no cockpit

      door" lets you skip the cockpit door sound played during the

      copilot walkaround for aircraft that don't have one.

    - Start Walkaround and Start WalkCabin are now disabled while a

      copilot walkaround is in progress, just like when the aircraft is

      moving.

    - Options window redesign : a modern layout with an adaptive top

      banner and a vertical menu on the left, replacing the previous tab

      bar. The window is now resizable.

    - New button style setting (Options > General) : choose between the

      default "Cockpit" icons and a new modern "Premium" icon set for the

      on-screen sliding UI buttons (Start/Stop Walkaround, Cabin,

      Flashlight). Applied immediately, no restart required.

    - Per-aircraft crouch height : two new sliders in Options > Aircraft

      Type let you adjust the pilot's eye height in the "lowered" and

      "crouched" postures for the currently loaded aircraft, useful to

      duck under very low wings. Settings are saved per aircraft; any

      aircraft you haven't adjusted keeps the previous default behaviour.

      A "Reset to default" button is available to clear a per-aircraft

      adjustment.

    - Three new commands let you fine-tune the pilot's eye height in the

      "lowered" and "crouched" postures while walking, without opening

      the Options window : walkaround/posture_up and

      walkaround/posture_down (hold to adjust continuously) and

      walkaround/posture_reset (restore the default height). Bindable in

      X-Plane's Keyboard / Joystick settings.

    - New update notification system : the "Update available" popup has

      been removed (it was a recurring source of crashes) and replaced

      with a short voice announcement played once per flight session,

      guaranteed to play before the cabin welcome voice. The changelog of

      the latest version can be read at any time from the new Options >

      "Update Notes" tab, and a version status indicator (green = up to

      date, orange = update available, grey = checking / offline) now

      appears at the bottom of the Options window.

  Fix :

    - Cabin / ground transitions (walking down and back up the boarding

      stairs) have been polished on airliner-type aircraft :

        - the footstep (stairs) sound no longer keeps playing once you

          reach the ground after a gradual descent (key released);

        - the camera no longer jumps when switching from cabin to ground

          while crouched;

        - the camera no longer jumps / clips through the aircraft on the

          very first descent right after starting Walk Cabin.

    - Automatic walkaround playback : the camera no longer jumps / clips

      at the first cabin-to-ground transition when playing back a

      recorded automatic walkaround (airliner aircraft). This glitch was

      only visible during playback, not while recording.

    - Recording : starting a recording after going down the stairs and

      back up into the cockpit no longer teleports the camera out of the

      cockpit. The view now stays exactly where you are the moment

      recording begins.

    - macOS : fixed flickering / rainbow-coloured text appearing in other

      plugins' windows (and in X-Plane's own interface) as soon as a

      Walkaround window was opened. Text now renders with correct, stable

      colours. Thanks to Ramon for his help.

    - macOS : fixed a crash that could occur after opening Walkaround

      windows repeatedly or using the online profile features (sharing /

      downloading community profiles, update check).

    - Automatic walkaround : starting Walk Cabin while the aircraft is

      moving (taxiing, > 2 kt) no longer launches an automatic walkaround

      sequence. You still enter a normal manual cabin walk; the automatic

      sequence stays available once the aircraft is stopped.

    - Cabin greeting voice : once a walkaround has taken place during the

      current stop — manually, via the Pilot auto-walk, or via the

      Copilot auto-walk — clicking Start WalkCabin again no longer

      replays the greeting voice (walkground / walkground after landing /

      walkcabine), whether that walkaround was interrupted or completed.

      The greeting becomes available again once the aircraft starts

      moving (taxi or flight), or after manually resetting the automatic

      sequence from the Recorder menu. You remain free to enter and exit

      WalkCabin as many times as you like in the meantime.

    - Fixed a rare crash risk when disabling or reloading the plugin (or

      exiting X-Plane) while the pilot's or copilot's pre-flight voice

      announcement was still playing.

    - Fixed a minor memory leak affecting a few internal UI windows

      (Profile Manager, Copilot pre-flight dialogs) that were hidden but

      never fully released.

    - Footstep audio : minor performance optimization ; volume scaling is

      now cached instead of being recomputed on every single step.