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Clearing the screen

Two keys take the overlays off the view. H collapses the control list in the bottom left corner down to a single H - CONTROL REFERENCE line, which carries the key and the name of the list that key reopens. Pressing it again brings the list back - as does the CONTROL REFERENCE row of the control settings panel, for a list whose key has been forgotten, and as does clicking the list itself, for a pilot working the menus with the mouse. Tab clears the instruments off entirely, the artificial horizon included, for a clean view out of the window; that choice is stored, so a flight that ends with the instruments off starts the next one the same way. A browser that refuses storage costs the choice its memory and nothing else.

The list's own answer is stored too, as the LIST ON SCREEN box of the control settings panel. The key and the box write the same setting, so a session that ends with the list collapsed opens the next one collapsed - which it did not use to do, the H key's answer being forgotten at the end of every session. It is stored beside the rest of that panel rather than somewhere of its own, because it is the same question the panel is already asking: how this pilot wants the controls to behave.

The warnings are not part of what those keys hide. LOW ALTITUDE, CRASHED, and LANDED still appear over a cleared screen, because they are what a pilot needs to be told about whatever the view is set to.