The best place to find out about the accelerator keys (i.e. the shortcuts, or hotkeys), is in the Help file. Search for "accelerator". Here is a snapshot of that information. Note that Upper-case and lower-case keys are significant - for example "W" and "w" have completely different functions. Please let me know if there are any missing!
Key | Function |
Escape |
Cancel log replays and Multilateration attempts (if PP has the focus) |
F1 |
Help: open the help file |
F3 |
Aircraft: repeat a find operation |
F7 |
Chart/outline: find the largest scale chart containing the current display centre |
F8 |
Chart/outline: toggle GPX waypoint overlay |
F9 |
Chart/outline: toggle aircraft prediction |
F10 |
Chart/outline: toggle Mlat only display |
Shift-F10 |
Chart/outline: toggle display of Designated aircraft only |
Ctrl-F10 | Chart/outline: toggle Flag only display |
F11 |
Toggle "My sky" display |
F12 | Chart/outline: toggle Beamfinder beams |
A | Aircraft: display all aircraft |
C | Toggle the Mode-A/C altitudes window (Charlie) |
Ctrl-C | Chart/outline: copy the current view location to the clipboard |
Ctrl-E | Chart/outline: toggle Circles |
F | Aircraft: display aircraft with Flags defined |
Ctrl-F | Aircraft: find an aircraft in the View..Aircraft display |
M | Aircraft: display aircraft with Mlat possible |
N | Aircraft: display aircraft without the Interested tag |
Ctrl-O | Chart: open a new chart |
Left-shift Map button | Chart/outline: download a satellite chart |
Right-shift Map button | Chart/outline: download an OSM (Open Street Map) chart |
Ctrl left-shift Map button | Chart/outline: download a satellite chart which is larger than the screen window |
Ctrl right-shift Map button | Chart/outline: download an OSM chart which is larger than the screen window |
Ctrl-Map button | Chart/outline: download a chart which is larger than the screen window |
P | Aircraft: display aircraft with positions only |
Ctrl-P | Insert a manual position report |
Ctrl-Quick button | Chart/outline: redefine an existing Quick button to be the current chart, outline or sky view |
Ctrl-R | Refresh sharing |
U | Aircraft: display aircraft without positions only |
V | Define the Vignette window (Victor, note the capital "V"!) |
Ctrl-V | Chart/outline: paste a view location from the clipboard |
W | Toggle the Wind-rose window (Whiskey) |
a | Data: toggle Aircraft data window (alpha) |
b | Chart/outline: filter the chart display by radar interrogator identification |
c | Chart/outline: display all aircraft (charlie) |
Alt-c | Chart: opens the conditional expressions setup dialog for charts. |
d | Download sharer locations (sharerlocations.txt, used in the Circles method) |
e | MySky - face East |
f |
Chart/outline: flight deck view (foxtrot) |
Alt-h | Opens the home location dialog |
i | Aircraft: display aircraft with Interested tag (india) |
i | Chart/outline: display aircraft with Interested tag (india) |
k | Toggle follow Mlats (kilo) |
l | Chart/outline: display Alerted aircraft (lima) |
m | Toggle Message rate window (mike) |
n | MySky - face North |
o | Outline: create outline; the same as the Outline button on the toolbar (oscar) |
p | Toggle profile window showing the vertical history of aircraft with Interested tag |
r | Toggle the radar interrogator identifier window |
s | MySky - face South |
t | Download NAT tracks file (mainly of interest to HFDL and ASCARS users) |
u | Toggle the Mode-A/C pulse rates window |
v | Toggle the Vignette window (victor) |
w | MySky - face West |
x | Aircraft: toggle display of Mode-A/C aircraft |
z | Chart/outline: filter the chart display by radar interrogator pulse rate |
+ | Chart/outline: zoom in to a chart or outline |
- | Chart/outline: zoom out from a chart or outline |
> | MySky - pan to the right |
< | MySky - pan to the left |
Click and drag |
Chart/outline: move the chart/outline around |
Shift-click | On some toolbar buttons, hides the button. Press the ">" at the end of the toolbar to restore. |
Left click |
Aircraft: click on aircraft designates the aircraft and changes to the chart view with the aircraft in the centre |
Left click |
Aircraft: click on column heading In Aircraft View sorts the list in alternating order |
Left click |
Alert: goes to chart, outline or list showing chosen aircraft |
Left click | Message rate: reduces the maximum scale value |
Left click on aircraft | In an Alert pop-up window : if the aircraft has a position, show the chart and centre on the aircraft; if not, change to the View, Aircraft screen with the aircraft highlighted |
Ctrl-Left click | Aircraft: initiates an Mlat process - makes one pair of Mlat requests |
Ctrl-Left click | Home Location Test window: changes the Home location to the clicked position |
Ctrl-Left click | Outline: change the colour of an outline boundary |
Ctrl-left click | Message rate: makes the window smaller |
Shift-Left click | Aircraft: initiate an Mlat process series - makes an Mlat request with a flag that the Mlat is to be continued until it fails or it is cancelled |
Ctrl-Shift left click | Chart/outline: repeat an Mlat on a 'position-less' aircraft |
Double left-click | Chart/outline: designate/undesignate the aircraft |
Right click | Aircraft: click on aircraft consults www.airframes.org (may need to be in Administrator mode) |
Right click |
Aircraft: click on column heading In Aircraft View sorts the list in reverse order |
Right click | Chart/outline: display the information box for that aircraft |
Right click | Message rate: increases the maximum scale value |
Ctrl-Right click | Aircraft: shows the information box for that aircraft |
Ctrl-Right click | Message rate: makes the window larger |
Ctrl-Zoom |
Chart/outline: zoom out without refreshing the shared data |
Mouse wheel click |
On the View Aircraft screen, designate the aircraft without switching to the chart view |