sorry but that doesnt work when you find a page in order to get a gate and the gate are all accupied you cant go back
you have to enter control+ f12 to reenter
That's an entirely different thing and doesn't have anything with having a timeout or not, once you entered in a gate group, you can go back on the *same* group, but there's no command to go *up* to select another group so, even if the menu remained on screen indefinitely, you would still have to press a key to select a different group but, if we added an "up" menu option, which could only be a number from 0 to 9 and it will also *change* if the menu contained less than 10 items, it would be slower than now, were you just need to press CTRL+F12 twice, and since it doesn't change, it's even easier to remember, without even mentioning that adding an "up" option will reduce the number of menu items available for gates ( an FSX menu can only have 10 items), which means on airports with many gates in the same group the number of *pages* will increase because of this.