Cockpit Views

Snap views allow you to set a preset view position in the cockpit, that you can then access at the press of a button. This can be an incredibly useful tool to create custom views that you can quickly for your radar / targeting screens; even for those with headtracking / VR setups this can be a valuable addition to your workflow in the cockpit.

Basics

Please note that by default the snap views are enabled, but they are not bound to any keys in the default bindings. That means that if you wish to use any of up to 10 snap views, you first have to allocate a key to do so. Snap Views are module specific to my knowledge, so you can have a ton of allocated Snap Views without having to worry about interfering with any of your other modules' Snap Views.

To do this go to the 'adjust controls' menu, and go to the View Cockpit tab for your appropriate module. It lists the selected module (for example, 'FA-18C Sim') and then lists the subsection of that modules controls ('All', 'Sensors', 'View' and 'View Cockpit'). We want to go to view cockpit.

Please note that this menu also has the controls for manipulating the in-cockpit view (such as look up, zoom in, rotate left): if you do not own a headtracking solution (such as a VR headset or TrackIR) you may wish to familiarize yourself with these bindings and/or rebind them to a more easily accessible button on your keyboard / joystick / HOTAS. We will need these view controls in a second to get to our view that we wish to save as a snap view.

The keybinds that are of particular interest to us in the View Cockpit tab are Save Cockpit Angles [default: Right Alt + Numpad 0 (insert)] and any / all of the 10 Snap Views [default: Left Windows + Numpad 0 (0 through 9).

By pressing one of these Snap View keybinds brings you to the default Snap View that is setup for that module: in my experience these are usually less then useful, so it is worth redoing them yourself for a more pleasant experience.

To alter a default Snap View first press the Snap View key that you wish to change: we are going to change the Snap View 6 (accessed by pressing Right Alt + Numpad 6) as an example. The game now remembers this as your