I once was able to initiate a "view forward" (either by keyboard or joystick assignment) with a forward view aligned with the direction of the heading of the aircraft regardless of what other views I had selected previously. Now, after a pan procedure, when I activate view forward - the result is a view of the last direction of the view forward. Maybe I'm not making myself exactly clear explaining this but any help or followup questions would be appreciated.Wilbert

Try using the space bar ...

Thanks Milton for such a speedy response. That workedWhat I now would like to know is why or what changed to make it so now that I have to use the "space" key to accomplish this. I hadn't needed to do this before. I've been trying to use various fs2002 panels and I believe somehow the assignment or some config must have been altered. Any ideas about how I could fix this without always having to depress the space key?

Are you using fs2002 panels in FS2004?FS2004 no longer supports the "old technique". I have simply changed my yoke to use the spacebar instead of the 8 numeric. Works fine.