padlock and loosing it?

[Uriah]

Do I understand correctly that once you have something padlocked, and then switch to an non padlocked view there is no way to switch back to the padlock you had, you basically are starting over again and so may end up with a different plane or ground object padlocked?

 

[noelberrier]

AFAIK you switch beetwen normal view and padlock view on the selected item. If the selected item diseapears/moves out of range, the padlock key does lock the view in front position. Using padlock will not cycle trough targets. This is done with next/previous target keys.

Hope it helps.

 

[OldCrow]

Do I understand correctly that once you have something padlocked, and then switch to an non padlocked view there is no way to switch back to the padlock you had, you basically are starting over again and so may end up with a different plane or ground object padlocked?

"Padlock Toggle" will lock right back on to whatever it was you had padlocked before you stopped padlocking.
I have it assigned to my joystick and do it constantly.