The above article may contain affiliate links which help support Guiding Tech. Overall, it’s a fun tool to play with and a must-try if you’ve got Google Earth installed. Here’s the Flight simulator keyboard controls taken from official website. After attaining a decent level of flying the aircraft you can use various keyboard controls. Note that the keys are very sensitive, it means make use of keys slowly otherwise your plane will crash. Now you can turn your plane to left and right by using the corresponding arrow keys. After attaining certain height release the button. After sometime, when the aircraft accelerates, use down arrow key to take off your flight. Increase the thrust by pressing “Page up” button of your keyboard. The terms used are Aileron, Altitude (feet above sea level), Bank angle, Elevator, Exit flight simulator feature, Flap and gear indicators, Heading, Pitch angle (degrees), Rudder, Speed (knots), Throttle, Vertical speed (feet per minute).įor novice users, it may take some time to learn the operation (I crashed my flight several times). These are some basic terms a pilot needs to know when he is flying an airplane. You can see there are random numbers appearing on the screen. You could also activate mouse control by clicking the left mouse button.Ĥ. You can take off your flight with the help of keyboard keys.