The same basic movement applies to all classes when walking around the deck of a ship. When you walk up to a repairable component, you will see the health and other stats about the repair status of the component you are looking at. You can switch to different repair tools or even the spyglass to fit your needs.
When walking up to the helm or a gun, you can press the Interact button to mount the helm or gun.
Gun Controls
After mounting a gun, movement controls except for Look are disabled. You can aim the gun and fire using Primary Fire. Secondary Fire will zoom if the gun supports it. After firing rounds, you can manually press the Reload button otherwise the gun will automatically begin reloading when the clip reaches zero.
While on a gun, you can switch your ammos and press Reload to being loading in the selected ammo otherwise the gun automatically reload with the currently selected ammo when its clip reaches zero. A gun will have the same ammo loaded in it until someone loads a different ammo or does not have the same ammo to load back in.
Helm Controls
After mounting the helm, movement controls are changed. Up and Down that used to control player forward/backward movement now controls ship altitude. Additional Throttle Up and Down controls are not activated to control the ship’s throttle. If the Throttle is left outside its neutral position when exiting the helm, the ship will continue to move.
While on the helm, you can select and use different Pilot skills and abilities. Many of these will become active upon selection so exercise caution and switch back to no skills activated. Other skills may require manual activation with Primary Fire.