Thanks to all for the replies and, specifically, thank you, Bustr: I will definitely try your suggestion. Since I am really new, I would love to know how you saved your six o'clock views via the F10 function. I do not have any views mapped to any of my hat switches, since I want to strictly rely on track-IR for my views. My hat switches are strictly being used now for other flight functions (trimming, etc..). I guess what I am asking is, how do I setup reasonable six o'clock views, if I am not mapping anything to the hat switches? Is it just a matter of using the in-flight page up/page down, forward/backward head movement while looking back, then hitting F10 to save? I know that I would need to do this chore for every plane, but are there already saved six o'clock files that others have and are willing to share for specific planes? I know that much of this depends on personal customizations, but for the past three weeks since I have started this game, all I have been doing is setting up things and, at this point, I really want to focus on competitive flying now! Thanks again to all. Please share your TIR-5 profile if you are willing!
Pelota,
Spawn on the runway. Hold the key(s) to get the view direction you want. Then using the Page up\down and the four arrow keys. Move that view direction around until you have the best you can get. Then hit F10 to save. If you don't like it when you test it, use the same keys again or hit the Home key to return it to it's default position to start over. This is good if you move your gunsight view up and down a lot which is your default forward view.
With some aircraft you will have one view direction that will not respond to moving it around. Something about Windows and too many keys being held down at the same time. Other Players can tell you how they get around that. I've always borrowed the line in question from another plane's hps file and copied it over the view position line of the plane's hps file I'm working on. I mapped the lines below to the keys.
It will take awhile for all of your fighters and bombers if this is your first time. Or in the past some players have been kind enough to share their <plane.hps> files with others. You can set a plane's views back to the default by deleting that plane's hps file from the planes folder. If you are into working on things in long hand, here is the contents of the hps file mapped out for you. You can edit them in notepad. You cannot hurt anything making changes to these files. Just delete them if you get in trouble and they will be regenerated.
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