'Precision' flying problems

[Cholmondely]

Macintosh Keyboard:

The precision flying ‘control’ key does not work well on the modern macs -

Your Oolite window whizzes off to the side, is replaced by another window and you suddenly find that you are looking at something quite different (your cobra may indeed be flying much more precisely - but it's a tad difficult to ascertain this when the appropriate window has jumped into witchspace without you!)

This is because Catalina (MacOS 10.14 - and possibly other recent MacOSs) combines the control key with the arrow keys to activate ‘Mission Control’ (which manages the opened windows on the computer screen).

Solution:
1) You need to find the ‘Keyboard’ panel in System Preferences (3rd row down on my machine)
2) Then select the ‘shortcuts’ button on the top line of the window.
3) Choose ‘Mission Control’ in the left hand box.
4) Finally, ‘uncheck’ the relevant shortcuts (Mission Control, Application windows, move left a space, move right a space).

Things should now work as they should!