How do you disable auto turret elevation?

[Mr. Jellybean]

One annoying feature of War Thunder is that turret elevation adjusts automatically going between open to behind buildings or objects. How can I disable this? It does much more harm than good.

[underarmhornet5]

This only happens in third person view because your gun points at what ever serface your indicator is on. so when you move behind cover even though you dont aim up your cursor is on the wall now and your gun starts aiming up at that point

[Mr. Jellybean]

No way to disable that? Sometimes I 3rd person aim going around cover. Having my reticle automatically traverse causes me a lot of issues.

[underarmhornet5]

one way might be to use "free look" its naturly bound to the "c" key i think. because if you press "free look" your gun will will not move and your camera can look around.
That way if you press it before you go behind cover your gun wont look up.

I remember having a problem with that when i first started playing 4 years ago.

[ulzgoroth]

There isn't any 'auto turret elevation' distinct from basic mouse aiming for you to disable. The problem is that your perspective being far from your gun mounting means that how far away the thing under your cursor is affects how high up you're pointing at it.

Going to commander or gunner perspective so that your perspective is close to the gun, is the solution.

[underarmhornet5]

being gunner view it wouldnt happen. In comander view it would happen but only a little