Related Links Changing Your Aircraft's Location Using Map View

Flight Simulator departs from real-world flying in a very significant way: Flying isn't the only way to move your aircraft in Flight Simulator. You can go directly to an airport of your choice. You can move your aircraft manually by dragging the aircraft's icon on Map View (see the related links to the right). Or you can activate slewing, a method of rapidly changing your aircraft's position, direction, location, or altitude without flying. Slewing is a nice way to check out a route's terrain before flying it, or to realign your aircraft with the runway for another landing attempt.

To change your aircraft's position by slewing Press Y to enter Slew Mode. Use the key commands in the table below to move your aircraft.

Your current latitude, longitude, and altitude are displayed in the upper-left corner of the view window, and the word "Slew" appears in the status indicator. A check mark next to the Slew command on the menu indicates that you're flying in Slew mode. Use the mouse, keyboard, or joystick to change your position.

Tip: If your aircraft is on the ground and you slew up, you may drop like a rock when you switch back to normal flight. Once you gain airspeed, however, you can pull out of the dive.

Slew Commands

Action	Command
Enable or disable Slew mode	Y
Set heading north and attitude straight-and-level	CTRL+SPACEBAR
Switch between coordinates and frame rate	SHIFT+Z
Move forward	Num Pad 8
Move backward	Num Pad 2
Move left	Num Pad 4
Move right	Num Pad 6
Freeze movement	Num Pad 5
Move up slowly	Q or F3
Move up quickly	F4
Move down slowly	A
Move down quickly	F1
Rotate left	Num Pad 1
Rotate right	Num Pad 3
Freeze rotation	Num Pad 5
Move nose up slowly	9
Move nose up quickly	F5
Move nose down slowly	F7
Move nose down quickly	F8
Bank left	Num Pad 7
Bank right	Num Pad 9
Pan view up	SHIFT+BACKSPACE
Pan view down	SHIFT+ENTER
Pan view left	CTRL+SHIFT+BACKSPACE
Pan view right	CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER

Note: Be sure Num Lock is turned off for all numeric keypad commands.