Detailed fetal echocardiography potentially detects most congenital heart defects. In the last decade, screening programs have been established in numerous institutions in an attempt to rule out fetal heart anomalies in all pregnancies. However, fetal heart examination is time‐consuming and requires special skills. The ‘four chamber view’ and identification of ventricular outflow tracks became standard tests in screening programs. Examination of the aortic arch and superior vena cava, the location of the trachea in the mediastinum, the size of the aortic arch, main pulmonary artery, and the ductus arteriousus, and the direction of flow in these vessels, demands special attention and increases significantly the time required for routine fetal heart examinations.We introduced the identification of the main pulmonary artery, ductus arteriosus, aortic arch, transverse section of the superior vena cava, and transverse section of the trachea into our routine fetal heart study. This ‘three vessel view’ is obtained by sliding the transducer upward from the four‐chamber plane toward the fetal upper mediastimun. In more than 2500 cases this maneuver significantly reduced the time required to examine these structures. Moreover, this approach facilitated detection of pathologies such as abnormal vessel size, abnormal vessel alignment or arrangement, and was shown to be superior in detecting anomalies such as persistent left superior vena cava, right aortic arch, vascular ring, and others.We believe that this view should be introduced into the routine examination of the fetal heart.