3rd Person Aircraft Control
Take direct, arcade-style gamepad control of the currently selected airplane or helicopter.
⚠ Work in Progress
The game is not balanced around this mod and the implementation is quite rough. Expect bugs and weirdness and there is a high chance of the mod breaking after updates of the base game.
Please report issues you run into.
Features
- Direct third-person gamepad (or keyboard) control of any airplane or helicopter
- Custom smoothed chase camera
- Simplified flight-envelope consequences: fixed-wing stall/buffet model (accelerated stalls included), helicopter translational lift and settling-with-power (vortex ring state), scaled per-vehicle from its own .ini data
- Harrier-style VTOL hover toggle for VTOL-capable aircraft
- CCIP HUD element for dumb bombs, torpedos and sonobuoys
- Target lock system for guided weapons, with a range-colored lock box, turns green when in range
- Cone-based aim assist for guns and unguided rockets
- Player controlled countermeasure (chaff/flare) dispensing
- Simple Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) scope with an active-missile warning
- Sonobuoy deploy depth and torpedo search depth/launch speed settings
- Center-screen instrument HUD: speed, altitude, heading tape, throttle %, G-load Toggleable pitch ladder + 3-stage HUD display cycle
- Gamepad rumble feedback for stall/VRS, weapon fire, missile events, and damage
Controls
(Gamepad first, keyboard fallback in parentheses)
- Start (F8) — toggle piloting the selected vehicle on/off
- Left Stick (Arrow keys) — pitch / roll
- D-pad Left/Right (, / .) — yaw / rudder
- Triggers (Page Up / Page Down) — throttle / collective
- Right Stick — camera orbit (yaw/pitch look-around)
- Right Bumper (Space) — fire selected weapon
- Left Bumper (V) — cycle selected weapon
- Y / North (T) — cycle target lock
- B / East (R) — clear target lock
- X / West (C) — dispense countermeasures (chaff/flare)
- A / South (H) — toggle VTOL hover (VTOL-capable aircraft only)
- D-pad Up (Ctrl+Page Up) — cycle sonobuoy deploy mode / torpedo search depth
- D-pad Down (Ctrl+Page Down) — cycle torpedo launch speed
- View / Back / Share (F9) — cycle HUD display mode (full HUD → +pitch ladder → hidden)
