[Arkangel]

I cant, for the life of me, remember how to turn the cockpit views on and off, can anyone just let me know?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Do you mean just the normal retail keys to do it?  If so it's just shift-O I believe. 

[Polpolion]

IIRC shift-o toggles HUD. I think he wants the "show ship" flag in the ship's table entry. Not sure if that's the exact word, or if there's an underscore or not, so you might want to check the wiki before tinkering.

[Arkangel]

But is there no other way than to change the ship tables?

[Galemp]

Well, you could just make a big TBM with

$GTF Shipclass
+nocreate
$Flags: ("show ship" "player ship" "fighter" etc. )

for each player ship in the ships.tbl.

[Arkangel]

Um, this never happened before: All the ships with cockpit view now have no afterburner. Did as suggested above, made a TBM which doesnt even mention or tamper with afterburners....?