The SkyHub map can be operated from the keyboard: the camera, the video, the map and — with gamepad control on — the vehicle itself. Press ? on the map, or click the ? button in the map controls on the left, to see this list in the dashboard. Press Esc to close it. Shortcuts work on the map page only, and act on the selected vehicle.

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Camera

Hold a move key to keep the camera moving; it stops the moment you let go. Hold Shift as you press a move key for fine control: one small step at a time.

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Video

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Map

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Flying

These are the controller’s sticks and buttons, for flying without a gamepad plugged in. The stick keys fly only while gamepad control is on (the controller map, from the map controls) and the vehicle is in GUIDED mode. Hold a stick key to keep moving.

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Help

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When a key does nothing

  • You are typing. Keys typed into a text field, a search box or a drop-down list stay there: typing a mission called “home” never sends the vehicle home.
  • A dialog is open. Camera, video and map keys pressed in a dialog, or while this list is open, belong to it. Flying keys keep working, so a dialog opening never cuts off a pilot.
  • Ctrl, ⌘ or Alt is held. Those combinations are left to your browser and operating system — Ctrl+F finds text on the page, Ctrl+H opens the history — so none of them is a SkyHub shortcut.
  • The control is not on screen. A camera key needs a selected vehicle; Q and W/A/S/D move the camera only while the video is full screen.
On a keyboard with a non-Latin layout (Cyrillic, Greek), the letter keys of the camera, video and map shortcuts follow the key’s position: the key where T is on an English keyboard takes the photo.

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Safety: letting go

When the dashboard stops hearing the keyboard — you switch to another window or app, hide the browser tab, or leave the map — every key you were holding is let go at once. The camera gets an explicit stop, and the vehicle gets one neutral frame (all sticks centred), so it never keeps moving on a key the browser no longer reports.