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From v0.4.7 the map, the autopilot, the GPS waypoint and your personal settings all live in one window, the Pilot Panel. It replaces the separate autopilot map and settings window of earlier versions.

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Opening it

Press the same key again, press Esc or click the X in the top corner to close it. All three keys can be changed in Options → Controls, where they are listed as Pilot Panel: Settings, Pilot Panel: GPS Map and Pilot Panel: Autopilot, and server owners can choose the keys their players start on — see Keybinds. The panel opens from any seat in a CZ helicopter, or while walking in its cabin. It does not open on foot, while you are typing in chat, or while you are looking through the chin camera.

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Map

The map shows a satellite picture of the terrain on the maps the cockpit GPS knows (see Cockpit GPS); on any other map it shows the normal game map. It marks:
  • YOU — your own helicopter, turned to its heading
  • every runway an admin has marked on this map, with its name
  • the autopilot DESTINATION and the GPS WAYPOINT, when set
It never shows other aircraft. The map has two modes, switched with the WAYPOINT and AUTOPILOT buttons at the top.

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Waypoint mode

A waypoint is a marker for you to fly to yourself — the aircraft does nothing on its own.
  • Click the map to set the waypoint, and right-click or CLEAR to remove it
  • The pilot and the co-pilot can both set it
  • It shows on the cockpit GPS screen as a marker with a line from your position
  • The map needs the aircraft’s power — the engine running or the dashboard lights on. Without it the whole map, autopilot included, shows NO GPS POWER (the Tracker Receiver’s view works anyway)

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Autopilot mode

This is the autopilot map. Click where you want to go, then press ENGAGE; STOP cancels a trip that is under way. Only the pilot can set the autopilot. The side card shows the destination, the distance, what happens on arrival (MANUAL landing or an automatic one) and a fuel check — WITHIN RANGE, TIGHT ON FUEL or NOT ENOUGH FUEL. Clicking on a marked runway sets its middle as the destination. Everything about how the autopilot flies is on the Autopilot page.

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Tracker view

A Tracker Receiver opens the same map in tracker view, showing where the helicopters you have tagged were at their last signal.

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Settings

Everything on the SETTINGS tab is yours alone. It is saved to your own DayZ profile straight away, follows you between servers, and only changes what you see and hear — it never changes how the helicopter flies for anyone else. RESET ALL puts everything back to the defaults.

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Camera

The CAMERA tab sets how far back the third-person camera sits for the type of helicopter you are in, from 60% to 150% of the distance the server uses — up to half as far again. Switch to third person to see the change. RESET THIS HELICOPTER puts that type back to the server’s distance. Each helicopter type remembers its own choice.