How do you preserve position settings in the 3d Cockpit view?

I am new to this sim and used to getting in and out of the 3d cockpit view as I fly to see my approach and landings from different positions. How does one preserve the 3d cockpit settings to a hot key so one doesn't have to adjust them every time they pop out and in?

 

I have 3 screens and can set the view to be perfect for an aircraft. The up/down/left/right/in/out camera settings can be adjusted nicely. If I use the key assignment to go to chase and then go back in (shift/9) all my settings are gone to the default and I have to reset everything. Is there some way to preserve my position to a hot key so it is retained for that flight?

 

Thanks in advance

Are you using the quick look feature?

 

I copy-pasted the following from the online manual

http://www.x-plane.com/manuals/desktop/

 

[h=4]Using the Quick Look Feature[/h]Quick Look allows you to set up a view just the way you like it, and then save it as a hot key or command. Then, in the future, whenever you press that key on the keyboard (or button on your joystick, as the case may be), you can go right back to that view again.Note that the Quick Looks are aircraft-specific preferences. This means that your Quick Look views in the Cessna 172 do not interfere with your views in the King Air, and so on.For example, suppose you’re flying the default King Air and you find yourself frequently positioning your view in the cockpit by tilting down and zooming in on the throttle quadrant to see how you have the aircraft configured. This can take some time to set up and if you do it often, it can get tedious.The solution, then, is to set up a Quick Look. Set the view to however you like it, and assign it to Quick Look 1 by pressing Ctrl+Num Pad 1 (i.e., the control key, with the 1 key on the number pad). Note that the Num Lock must be on in order to do this. Now, no matter how your view changes, when you press the shortcut for Quick Look 1 (by default, Num Pad 1), your head position, orientation and zoom goes right back to your memorized view of the throttle quadrant.By default, the numbers 0 through 9 on your keyboard’s numeric keypad (a.k.a. the num pad or tenkey) are used to bring you back to Quick Looks 0 through 9. When pressing the Ctrl key along with any of those numbers, you will store your current view to be recalled later by that number key. Thus, to set a view for Quick Look 3, you would get the view to the way you like it, then press Ctrl + Num Pad 3, and to go back to that view, you would press Num Pad 3. However, like most keys in X-Plane, you can modify these settings if you like, and you can even assign an established Quick Look to your joystick as described in the section “Assigning Functions to Buttons”.Quick Looks are not just for 3-D cockpit mode, either. They work in all aircraft-relative views, such as 3-D Cockpit, Ridealong, Chase, Circle, and Forward with HUD.

I read someones post on the X-Plane Forum that quick look couldn't function other than in head turns. Glad to hear they were wrong. Got it going. Thanks