Most used/useful Keybinds

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What keybinds do you have that you would say you use commonly? Here are mines
WASDEQ for down, roll left, up, roll right, yaw right, and yaw left
Shift changes secondary weapons
Space is for the AAM lock and fire
Relocking Air-to-Air would be Ctrl+Space.
= is to drop weapons
Shift+Q is for fuel tank drop
X locks aircraft in HMD/ACM and selects a target in-game
R is for locking/relocking onto targets with radar
B is for flare, N is for Chaff
C is for Camera Control
` is for leaderboard
Ctrl+S is for brakes
F2 changes control mode (mouse aim, realistic, etc.)
F3 shows a munition camera
Arrow keys are for trim Rudder/Elevator, Num Arrow Keys 4 & 6 are for Aileron Trim
Num Arow Keys 8 & 2 bring First-Person Camera up/down, Numpad 7 & 9 move camera left/right
The rest are probably default
What are your keybinds? Maybe they could come in useful for somebody?

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Command for Chaff and Flares at the same time, 9 for increasing vertical thrust on VTOL aircraft and 8 for descending on VTOL aircraft.

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For people looking to get into air simulator battles at BRs under 8.0 (before missiles or radar):

HEADS UP: The “`” key gets cited. In game, this is called “GRAVES” if using English keyboard layouts. On Danish, it’s ½. On Hungarian, it’s 0. You can find this key right atop your TAB and left of “1” for the number row.

(small tweak since posting this: I added “elevator trim tail heavy” to my “5” key. It’s very useful for instantaneous turn in 109s but risky at low speeds.)

(most important/useful aspect is the camera set.)

CAMERA

  • WASD to turn head.
  • 1, 3 to lean left/right.
  • TAB+W/S to lean forward/back
  • RMB to raise head, TAB+RMB to lower head.
  • 4 to instantly look back
  • `+mouse wheel to zoom in quickly/reset zoom
  • Z to zoom in quickly/reset zoom
  • V to zoom out quickly
  • X to reset to gunsight.

RUDDER

  • Coarse rudder is handled by Q and E. Q and E also control differential braking
  • Q and E to increment rudder deflection by rapidly (around 6-9)% when quickly tapped.
  • Tap twice for (12-18)%, it stays held down like in IL-2.
  • Tapping opposite directions decrements (e.g. 0% rudder, you input 4Q3E and it adds up to ~-6% left rudder).
  • Press 2 to “lift foot” from rudder pedals to reset to trimmed default.
  • Fine rudder is controlled by mousewheel. Scroll up to increase rudder%/Angle of slip - in other words: Right rudder. Scroll down for left rudder. With my mouse, 1 “tick” of locked mousewheel corresponds to 2% rudder (G502 Hero).

I recommend practicing coordinated turns in test flight to get used to the fine rudder input. It’s mostly for coordinating turns, coordinating flight and fine aiming with the nose. Best use case I found is to open with Q/E for when you roll left/right and then adjust with mousewheel to minimize your slip or get your nose on target.

COMMS

  • F6 for “I am at COORDINATE XY and at altitude Z.”
  • F7 for “I am at COORDINATE XY and at altitude Z, and I have confirmed hostiles please assist.”
  • F8 for “I am at COORDINATE XY and at altitude Z, and I am sorry I cannot assist as I am returning to base.”
  • K + 4 + 5 “I cannot assist as I am reloading.”
  • K + 4 + 8 “I cannot assist as I am repairing.”
  • F6 + K + 3 + 1 “I am at COORDINATE XY and at ALTITUDE Z, and I am on my way to assist.”

ENGINE

  • ALT + I to start
  • NUMPAD - to enable MEC
  • NUMPAD /, * to disable auto radiator and prop pitch.
  • NUMPAD 7, 9 to set prop pitch
  • NUMPAD 5, 8 to set mixture
  • NUMPAD 4. 6 to set radiators AND oil cooler (they’re adjusted together)
  • NUMPAD 1. 3 to set ONLY oil radiator (offset relative to radiator)
  • NUMPAD + to shift supercharger gear

MISC

  • Cursor Left/right for rudder trim
  • ALT + Cursor Left/Right for aileron trim
  • Cursor up/down for COARSE elevator trim (useful to pull out of dives and otherwise overcome stiffening/compression)
  • TAB + Mousewheel for fine elevator trim (1 tick is about half% elevator trim.)
  • TAB + ` for fine elevator trim (1 tick is about half% elevator trim.)
  • ALT + HOME for trim fixation in test flight.
  • ALT + - for canopy
  • . for gunsight
  • R to reduce flaps, T to increase flaps
  • ALT + G to retract gear
  • n to view scoreboard

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I unbinded Q and E as yaw left and right since I never used them, I put Q as fire air to air missile and E as fire countermeasures

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Yaw helps boost roll rate significantly. Might be worth re-binding them, altho might not be as big for jets as for say the 109s.

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I use mainly the number pad at the right part of my keyboard.

Ground:

  • 0 for on/off radar
  • 1 for change targets in radar when using spaa
  • 2 for irst or radar lock
  • 3 for driver view
  • 8 for commander view

Air:

  • 0 for on/off radar and reset radar position
  • 1 to change radar targets
  • 2 to lock radar
  • 3 to change search radar type
  • 4 to lock radar beyond visual range
  • 5to open bombs bay
  • 6 to disable secondary armament selection
  • 7 to enable and change secondary armament selection
  • 8 for cannon ballistic computer
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