Games PC FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2004 User Manual
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Display/Hide Kneeboard: F10
(includes a complete list of key commands)
Pause P
Full Screen Mode (no menus or taskbar) ALT+ENTER
Display Menu Bar (in Full Screen Mode) ALT
Cycle Views
(Cockpit, Virtual Cockpit, Tower, Spot Plane)
S
Panel On/Off
W
Display/Hide Other Panel Windows
SHIFT+2 through SHIFT+9
Change Simulation Rate R (press + and – to increase/decrease)
Look Around
SHIFT+Num Pad 1 through 9
or move joystick hat switch
Display/Hide ATC menu ` (ACCENT)
Engine Autostart CTRL+E
Decrease Throttle F2
Increase Throttle F3
Decrease Propeller rpm CTRL+F2
Increase Propeller rpm CTRL+F3
Lean Mixture CTRL+SHIFT+F2
Enrich Mixture CTRL+SHIFT+F3
Landing Gear Up/Down G
Retract Flaps (in increments) F6
Extend Flaps (in increments) F7
Slew Mode On/Off Y
Basic KEY COMMANDS
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SAFETY WARNING
About Photosensitive Seizures
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Even people who have no history of seizures or epilepsy may have an undiagnosed
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• Play in a well-lit room.
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Contents
First Flights........................................................................ 2
Installing Flight Simulator
................................................................... 3
To Start Flight Simulator
..................................................................... 3
Learning to Fly
.................................................................4
Experience the Dream ....................................................................... 4
A Century of Flight
............................................................................. 5
Getting Started .................................................................................. 6
Flying Lessons................................................................................... 7
The Learning Center.......................................................................... 7
Create a Flight
................................................................................... 8
Select a Flight
................................................................................... 8
Flight Simulator News
........................................................................ 8
Multiplayer......................................................................................... 9
Settings............................................................................................. 9
Dreams Of The Sky
.........................................................10
Weather
........................................................................................... 11
Instrument Flying............................................................................. 13
Historical Flights
......................................................14
Of Distance and Terrain
........................................ 16
Crossing the Atlantic
........................................................................ 16
A Flying Geography Lesson
.............................................................. 17
The Scenery Below
.......................................................................... 19
Technology Takes Off..............................................20
The Pursuit of Speed
........................................................................ 20
Navigation
....................................................................................... 21
GPS................................................................................................. 22
The Kneeboard................................................................................ 22
Air Traf c Control
............................................................................. 23
The aircraft
......................................................................24
Expanding Your Dreams Of Flight................26
The Web Community
........................................................................ 27
Adding Aircraft
................................................................................. 27
Piloting Virtual Airlines
..................................................................... 28
The Next Century of Flight
............................................................... 28
Support Options
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Air Force Historical Research Agency Photo
Installing Flight Simulator
If your computer doesn’t support automatic installation,
follow these steps
1. Insert Flight Simulator 2004 Disc 1 into your CD drive.
2. Click
Start on the taskbar.
3. Point to
Settings and/or select Control Panel.
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
.
5. For Windows 98, 98SE, or ME, select the
Install/Uninstall tab, and
click
Install. For Windows 2000 or XP, select Add New Programs
and click
CD or Floppy.
6. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
During setup, select
Express to install all necessary Flight Simulator les
in their default locations. Otherwise, click
Install to choose one of two
installation options:
Compact or Complete. If you need to conserve disk
space, choose the
Compact setup option. If you want to optimize ying
performance, choose
Complete.
To Start Flight Simulator
• Double-click the Flight Simulator 2004 icon on the Windows desktop.
Note: You’ll need to have Disc 4 in your CD drive each time you start
Flight Simulator. If you’ve chosen
Compact installation, you’ll also need
to keep Disc 4 in your CD drive during ight.
On a cold December day in 1903, after weeks of
testing on the windy dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Flyer
sputtered to life. At 10:35 A.M., the Flyer, propellers whirring, began to slide
down its narrow track. Then it lifted from the track and rose above the sands
of Kitty Hawk. The ight lasted only 12 seconds and covered a mere 120
feet. But there was no doubt—on
that windy December 17, the Wright
brothers had realized a human dream.
They had own!
Just 30 years later, the Douglas DC–3
was making regular airline service
comfortable and pro table. Three and
a half decades after that, on February
9, 1969, the rst Boeing 747 (left,
bottom) thundered into the skies over
Everett, Washington.
Now, it’s your turn to y
into history.
The Wright Flyer’s rst successful
ight (above, top) was shorter
than the economy-class
section of a Boeing 747.
Almost four years of exhausting work and meticulous
experimentation went into making the Wright Flyer’s rst
12-second powered ight a success.
First Flights
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It’s been a full century since the Wright Flyer’s rst
powered ight. At rst, the skies were empty and the airspace unrestricted.
It was an age of slow speeds, spruce-and-fabric wings, and air elds that
were also corn elds. In the following decades, aviation lled the skies with
beautiful aircraft and awesome adventure, while technology allowed pilots
to travel through all kinds of weather. Within a few decades of the birth of
powered ight, pilots and passengers were soaring across continents, racing
over oceans, and jetting around the world in less than a day. It was a century
when the airplane brought distant lands closer and changed people’s sense
of space and time—a century when the world learned to y.
Experience
the Dream
The centennial of powered ight has
enjoyed a healthy share of media
coverage. But it’s one thing to learn
about history, and quite another to
experience it. And that is what
Flight
Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight
is
all about—allowing you to experience
the dream of ight rsthand.
By piloting the Wright Flyer on the windswept dunes at Kitty Hawk,
navigating the Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” across the dark North Atlantic,
and bringing in a sophisticated Boeing 747–400 for a smooth landing in
Tokyo, you can experience the range of technology that de ned the rst
hundred years of powered ight. You’ll slip into the cockpits of some of
the century’s greatest aircraft and pilot them on their historic ights. And
once you take ight, you’ll have a greater appreciation for what those early
aviators may have felt as they followed the train tracks, squinted into the
wind, pushed in the throttle, and roared aloft.
A Century of Flight
“The best way to understand pilots—even
pilots who lived 75 years ago—is simply
to y with them,” writes Flying magazine
columnist and West Coast editor Lane
Wallace in her introduction to A Century
of Flight. In nine evocative stories,
Wallace recounts her experiences with
the historic aircraft featured in Flight
Simulator
and re ects on their legacies.
Savoring the rare opportunity to sit in Amelia Earhart’s Vega, Wallace writes,
“‘This is where she sat,’ I whisper wonderingly to myself, well aware of
how few people since then have ever been allowed to sit in the silence of
this carefully preserved cathedral …”
Posters celebrated the Vickers Vimy’s
nonstop transatlantic crossing.
A Century of Flight
Developed as a World War I bomber, the Vickers
Vimy was the nest long-range aircraft of its day. In 1919
and 1920, the Vimy claimed three incredible ying records.
Learning to Fly
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Each Century of Flight story includes links to
re-created historical ights. After reading about
each aircraft, its famous ights, and its notable
pilots, you can y into history—piloting the
de Havilland DH–88 Comet in the MacRobertson
Air Race, or ying an early airline route through
the Rocky Mountains in a Douglas DC–3.
To read about—and y—the nine historical
aircraft in Flight Simulator, click Century of Flight
on the left side of the main screen.
Getting Started
Early pilot training included little more than mastering a few simple rules and
then giving it a try. The rest was left to instinct, good sense, and knowing
the lay of the land. But pilots quickly discovered that there was a lot more to
learn about ying.
There’s a lot to know about Flight Simulator,
too, and that’s part of its fun and challenge. In
Flight Simulator, you can learn what it takes to
y some of the world’s nest aircraft.
Getting
Started—with John and Martha King of King
Schools—gives you an introduction to key
features and a gateway to your rst ight.
To begin exploring Flight Simulator, click Getting
Started on the left side of the main screen.
Flying Lessons
Flight Simulator offers two ways for you to
learn to y: Climb into the cockpit and y
by the seat of your pants—as many of the
rst pilots did—or learn using the same
techniques that modern pilots employ,
progressing through the ranks of Student,
Private, Instrument, Commercial, and Airline
Transport courses by taking
Flying Lessons
with instructor Rod Machado. Flying
Lessons combines in-depth ground school
tutorials with integrated ying lessons, starting in the Cessna Skyhawk SP
Model 172 and moving up to the Beechcraft Baron 58 and Boeing 737–400.
You’ll even earn a certi cate upon successful completion of each category.
To learn to y, or to earn a new Flight Simulator pilot rating, click
Flying
Lessons on the left side of the main screen.
The Learning Center
As you explore Flight Simulator—taking lessons, ying around, trying new
aircraft—be sure to spend some time in the Learning Center, your source for
answers and information about Flight Simulator. The Learning Center offers
more than 120 articles covering the full range of Flight Simulator topics,
such as basic ight instruments, using the mouse in the cockpit, and setting
weather themes. You’ll also learn about new features, such as dynamic
weather and changes to Air Traf c Control, as well as advanced ying topics
such as Flying Taildraggers, Flying Twin-Engine Aircraft, and Flying Jets.
Amelia Earhart’s Vega in
Flight Simulator
Flying Lessons
Getting Started
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