User Guide

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IN THE OFFICE
On the Fly
When you’re ying, you must use your plane’s
instruments and watch for enemy aircraft.
Instruments are vital to completing any mis-
sion. Your onboard instruments display crucial
information like altitude and air speed. As you
become more experienced with dropping bombs and
strang, you’ll learn which altitudes and speeds
are best for each type of attack. For informa-
tion about an instrument, move your mouse cursor
over the instrument to view rollover Help.
The Virtual Cockpit (turned on and off with
the F3 key) allows you to look around your air-
craft freely using the hat switch on your joy-
stick. Your instrument panel works in this view.
Press the NUM LOCK key to toggle between panning
and snap-to views with the hat switch.
When you’re ying a ghter-bomber, you can
shoot and drop bombs from the cockpit, but when
you’re in other planes, you must jump to the
bombardier seat (press F7) or gunner position
(press F8) to perform these tasks. To jump back
to the pilot seat, press F6.
In the bombardier position, you can use a
bombsight for more accurate bombing, and you
can make minor ight path corrections, but noth-
ing extreme. In the gunner position, however,
you can’t make any ight corrections, so unless
you want to watch your plane crash, get it ying
straight-and-level before you leave the cockpit.
On the Fly