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Aerosoft F-16 Fighting Falcon 1.00 Manual
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VIEWS AND PANEL NAVIGATION
The cockpit of the F-16 is rather special as there are very few aircraft that give that much external
visibility. The whole cockpit is very low and when you sit in it you really feel like you are sitting on top of
the aircraft. For flight simmers this brings a new problem as many of the controls are not visible in the
default views.
TRACKIR AND MOVING VIEWPOINTS
By far the best solution is to use a view system like TrackIR that adds huge realism to this product by
panning your view as you move your head and even moving your viewpoint. If you move your head
sideways and forwards, it allows you to look UNDER some of our panels. There is nothing that comes
close to this and we can’t advise this enough. See below to see a view that is only possible with one of
these devices.
Now we assume your joystick has at least a pan option that allows you to slew your view, but this might
still hide some panels behind the throttle or the side stick. To solve this we advise you to assign some of
the buttons on your joystick to moving the viewpoint itself. When you are able to move the view
direction (standard on most joysticks) and the view position (as advised here) you have unlimited
freedom.