How to fly with no cockpit and FOV 90º by default?

[MadBlaster]

you could write yourself a glovepie macro to run in the background when the game is running. you need a trigger action. something like pressing on the wheel brake will kick it off.

here's simple example:

ppjoy1.analog0 = joystick1.x (these would be your peddles as Glovepie might see them, an axis range -1 to 1, but I'm not sure how it would actually see them.)

//90 degree fov macro

if ppjoy1.analog0 = -1 then
key.pagedown=true
key.pagedown=false
endif

so, in this simple example. I press wheelbrake and signal is -1. this causes glovepie to toggle the pagedown key. this action will occur every time i press the peddles. if you want to do "no cockpit" you can put those keys in there too.

so, no more pressing a bunch of keys, but you would still have to run glovepie in the background while the game is running. but you could put it in a dos batch file to start the two programs (il-2 and glovepie) simultaneously. that wouldn't be so bad.