Film viewing:
You do not have to be stuck looking at defult views when viewing .ahf films. You can save film viewer head positions just like in the game. Hold down the number key on the keypad, and adjust your head position with the arrow keys and page up/down keys, press F10 to save. You must control views with the number pad while doing this to avoid overwriting your defult forward view. One last note: You only get one view set in the film viewer, which will be used no matter what plane you are viewing from.
To stop the annoying windows 'ding' when using the number pad, simply turn off number lock.