I checked: Left Ctrl is not assigned in the vehicle control tab, but in the common controls tab.
It is standard assigned to "crouch" and changing it to another key, does not mean it works in a tank.
The newly assigned button works for crouching, but free view in your tank still only works with Left Ctrl (which isn't mentioned anywhere in the control tabs once I've reassigned te crouch function).
This both sucks and blows, coz I am not used to using wsad keys to operate anything.. I use the arrow keys.
On a positive note: played a game on the hslan server last night and got my first tank kills, thanks to some of the advise here. Don’t remember which map, but there was a reported firefly covering a flag and our infantry was screaming bloody murder for us to get rid of them.
I first went up in a Panther through the middle of the map and got owned, just like all the other tanks. Then I went creeping up the right side of the map in a Stug and got within viewing distance of the flag. Looked around for a bit and then it struck me… the contours of a Sherman were visible in the greyish fog of war! Since it was my first time on the map I hesitated shooting... it could just as well be a burned out husk of a Sherman that was simply part of the map. Then it moved and in a reflex I shot… my gun sight lit up red and I saw the kill message in the screen, booya, my first good deed in a tank! Instead of a thank you comment, our infantry coldly asked me “now kill the other one”. There were two fireflies there?!? Had I known that, I would have never moved up on the right side by myself.. but I was there so, no guts no glory. Couldn’t see the bugger, so I asked the infantry to give me a position on it. The reply “right where you killed the first one!”… looking at the spot again, I couldn’t make anything out in the fog.. until.. was I looking at the long moving barrel of a firefly?? It had to be.. but if that’s the barrel, then the body of the tank must be slightly to the right.. I took aim and fired.. boom! My second shot and second kill of the battle. The infantry went up and took the flag, and I took a moment to light a cigarette and enjoy the moment.
Now that was as good as it got on the map, coz from then on I continued to get owned by 6 pounders and piats, but it was an awesome experience non the less.