I give up, where is external free roam view without losing control of plane to AI?

[MeatEtr]

This is really annoying, all I want to do is have external view with mouse control. But when using the external view the AI takes control of my plane. Then in order to get it back I gotta alt-F1 to take control of the now AI plane. This makes no sense, it adds an extra step to get back into the cockpit. This is not how it was in IL2.

Please tell me there is a way to get this control key back or eliminate the AI from stealing my plane? As it now, I'm using the external view-follow key.