it's a great idea but as you said, going past comms screen was irritating. In ideal world it would all be in the same scene but maybe it zooms in on the area after clicking it? So like you have a main control panel with comms in the middle but instead of arrows have a miniature of the manual and controls which you than click to expand/pop up? It's only my humble opinion but I'd change that transition between scenes somehow, other than that it's great!