Switch craft without changing to map view

[RobertK]

Edit: Michaelo/Pursuedtank have kindly corrected my ignorance. In case anyone reaches this in the future there are keybinds, default [ and ], which do pretty much exactly what I was after.

Why can't I click the ship/rover/kerbal that is right in front of me and change to piloting it. It really doesn't make any sense that I have to change to map view first, or in the case of having multiple craft on the same location, having to go back to the space center.

If I can target something in my screen in the piloting view, I should be able to take control of it. Does anyone have a reason it shouldn't be like that?

Edited June 2, 2014 by RobertK

[Michaelo90]

There are keyboard bindings to switch between vessels within physics range, look at the misc tab in the input settings. I think the standard bindings is [ and ] , but I'm not sure since i had to change it, it didn't work with a swedish keyboard.

[Pursuedtank]

That'll be the [ and ] keys to change to a vessel within physics range.

[RobertK]

Awesome! Thank you.