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

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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

I had some confusion with it early on but not anymore, the weird thing is i don't remember how i fixed it but i have a suspicion.

Check your controls for a command to switch the control to the AI, map a key of your choice to it and try pressing it the next time the AI "steals" your aircraft.

Thanks for the response, the default key "A" gives control of the plane to the AI. But even clicking that doesn't give me control back. Nor does clicking the cockpit view. Only way I can get my plane back from using the external view is to click Alt-F1(take control of AI plane).

It was so conveniant in IL2 to just click back and forth from cockpit to external view. Now this simple swapping of the view is more difficult with the added swapping control of MY PLANE.