Engine: Hold "E" to turn the engine on. Press "E" again to switch it off.
Hint: You can glide with your engine off to save the fuel.

Accelerate: Hold "left arrow" if you are heading left. Hold "right arrow" If you are heading right.

Break: Do nothing, your plane will slow down a bit.

Altitude: "up / down arrows" govern the plane's altitude.

Turn: Hold "right arrow" if you are heading left. Hold "left arrow" if you are heading right.
Hint: The slower you fly the less fuel you use. On the other hand you become an easy prey for enemy planes and turrets.

Spin: Press "right ctrl". Your plane will roll.
Hint: Use 'spin' to turn around faster and to gain advantage over enemy planes.

Gear: Press "g" to extend / retract your gear.
Hint: Remember that you can't fight effectively with extended landing gear. On the other hand you need it for landing.

Gun: Press "z" fire your gun which is a deadly weapon against soldiers and planes.

Bombs/Rockets: Press "x" use your secondary ammo. Bombs will destroy wooden bunkers, soldiers, and sometimes even enemy planes. Rockets will prove effective against every target.

Camera: Press "c" to cycle through available camera views.

Zoom in/out: Press "pg up/pg down" zoom in and out.

Change ammo: Press "x" while in the middle of a carrier.

Finish mission: Press "x" while in the middle of a carrier when all enemy solders are eliminated.

Hint: you don't need to destroy all enemy planes to complete the level.
Hint: you can access all completed levels using 'Completed levels' menu:)

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How to start
Start your engine. Accelerate and hold "up arrow" at the same time. Retract your landing gear. You are ready for the fight!
Hint: You should start from the left side of the carrier, otherwise your plane might get damaged.

How to land
Approach the carrier from the right. Decrease your altitude. Extend your landing gear. Press and hold "up arrow". You need to touch down near to the arresting cables (red stuff). That's it!

There's one thing about the U-turns: Let`s say I fly with nose pitched downwards by 5°, when I do the turn the pitch is changed for the opppsite i.e. my plane's nose points upwards...! And that's not realistic - to say the least.

The old game would allow the player, to ascent or descent WHILE turning around, in fact, if you turned without any pitching, you would loose some height gradually, which is much more like real life.

It would be great, if this kind of behaviour could be implemented in the final version; I guess this would make quite some ppl happy !