NF-Guides.com is how obst taught myself and quite a few others to play NF. :)

Thanks guys, that was extremely helpful. I was getting very frustrated. Now I know to left
click to get off it and more importantly, the guides taught me some other things the
probably would have come up.

heres i do when controlling scout and my ship at the same time

after selecting the plane and got it to fly to where i want to, i press G to bring the
screen back to my ship, and i've developed a habit of "left click then right click" when
i want to move my ship (instead of a simple right click). The left click ensures that i
de-selected the scout before right clicking.

then, when you want to move the scout again, press the plane's pilot number ( '1' if you
are just carrying one scout). The screen will center to where the scout is, as well as
selecting the scout.

i repeat this sequence many times in one battle to control my scout the best i can.
(although t5 scouts spoiled me......a lot)

Or this:

http://www.nf-guides.com/common.htm#scout_start

Try this.

http://www.navyfield.com/board/view.asp?Num=1692&Sort=D07&Order=re_upday&PageSize=20&Page=1&SearchPart=title&SearchText=aircraft%20control&Ctg_1=&Ctg_2=&Ctg_3=