Download the Plane Maker Manual - X-Plane
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About This <strong>Manual</strong><br />
This is version 10.10 of <strong>the</strong> manual to <strong>Plane</strong> <strong>Maker</strong> App, last updated March 14, 2013. The latest<br />
version of <strong>the</strong> manual will always be available for download from <strong>the</strong> X-<strong>Plane</strong>.com web site.<br />
Throughout this text, <strong>the</strong>re will be cross-references to o<strong>the</strong>r parts of <strong>the</strong> manual, as well as<br />
hyperlinks to web pages. These will be formatted as gray and blue text, respectively. For instance,<br />
clicking <strong>the</strong> following gray reference to this section will bring you to <strong>the</strong> top of <strong>the</strong> current page,<br />
while clicking <strong>the</strong> blue one will open a web browser to X-<strong>Plane</strong>.com:<br />
About This <strong>Manual</strong>, X-<strong>Plane</strong>.com<br />
The Table of Contents is also cross-referenced; click on <strong>the</strong> section you’re looking for to travel<br />
<strong>the</strong>re instantly. Alternatively, <strong>the</strong> PDF’s bookmarks can be used to navigate quickly through <strong>the</strong><br />
manual. If you are using <strong>the</strong> Adobe Acrobat or Apple Preview PDF viewers, you can display <strong>the</strong>se<br />
bookmarks by clicking <strong>the</strong> buttons shown in Figure 1, respectively.<br />
Figure 1: Buttons to show bookmarks in Acrobat (left) and Preview (right) PDF viewers<br />
This manual, like all X-<strong>Plane</strong> documentation, is released under <strong>the</strong> Creative Commons<br />
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. This means you are free to copy, share, and adapt <strong>the</strong> works<br />
so long as you give Laminar Research (creators of X-<strong>Plane</strong>) credit and release your work under a<br />
similar license.<br />
Throughout <strong>the</strong> manual, we make use of images from Wikimedia Commons, a database of some<br />
8 million freely usable media files. The images’ creators we credit do not endorse ei<strong>the</strong>r Laminar<br />
Research (creators of X-<strong>Plane</strong>) or <strong>the</strong> manual itself. Instead, <strong>the</strong>y have released <strong>the</strong> images under<br />
Creative Commons licenses, allowing anyone to use <strong>the</strong> photos so long as <strong>the</strong>y comply with <strong>the</strong><br />
applicable license.<br />
For <strong>the</strong> most part, this manual assumes basic knowledge of <strong>the</strong> X-<strong>Plane</strong> user interface-in particular,<br />
it assumes knowledge of how to open and fly an aircraft.<br />
The best way to use this manual depends on what you need from it. If you’re already a master<br />
of <strong>Plane</strong> <strong>Maker</strong>, it probably makes sense to just keep this document around for reference. If instead<br />
you’re coming to this manual as a guide for a complete walkthrough to creating your first aircraft,<br />
it probably makes sense to read through in this order:<br />
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