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About This Manual This is version 10.10 of the manual to Plane Maker App, last updated March 14, 2013. The latest version of the manual will always be available for download from the X-Plane.com web site. Throughout this text, there will be cross-references to other parts of the manual, as well as hyperlinks to web pages. These will be formatted as gray and blue text, respectively. For instance, clicking the following gray reference to this section will bring you to the top of the current page, while clicking the blue one will open a web browser to X-Plane.com: About This Manual, X-Plane.com The Table of Contents is also cross-referenced; click on the section you’re looking for to travel there instantly. Alternatively, the PDF’s bookmarks can be used to navigate quickly through the manual. If you are using the Adobe Acrobat or Apple Preview PDF viewers, you can display these bookmarks by clicking the buttons shown in Figure 1, respectively. Figure 1: Buttons to show bookmarks in Acrobat (left) and Preview (right) PDF viewers This manual, like all X-Plane documentation, is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. This means you are free to copy, share, and adapt the works so long as you give Laminar Research (creators of X-Plane) credit and release your work under a similar license. Throughout the manual, we make use of images from Wikimedia Commons, a database of some 8 million freely usable media files. The images’ creators we credit do not endorse either Laminar Research (creators of X-Plane) or the manual itself. Instead, they have released the images under Creative Commons licenses, allowing anyone to use the photos so long as they comply with the applicable license. For the most part, this manual assumes basic knowledge of the X-Plane user interface-in particular, it assumes knowledge of how to open and fly an aircraft. The best way to use this manual depends on what you need from it. If you’re already a master of Plane Maker, it probably makes sense to just keep this document around for reference. If instead you’re coming to this manual as a guide for a complete walkthrough to creating your first aircraft, it probably makes sense to read through in this order: vi
1. About This Manual (this page) 2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Plane Maker 3. Chapter 2: The Plane Maker Interface 4. Chapter 3: Shaping the Body of an Aircraft 5. Chapter 4, Section 4.1: Creating the Engines 6. Chapter 5: Creating an Instrument Panel 7. Chapter 6, Section 6.5: Setting the Weight and Balance 8. Chapter 9: Performing a Test Flight Following Chapter 9, your aircraft would be at least tested, and you could go back through the sections you skipped as necessary. Throughout the manual are cross-reference links, formatted in bold, dark-gray type, like this. Clicking one of these links will take you to the indicated location of the manual. For instance, clicking this reference to “The Plane Maker Interface” will take you to Chapter 2. A Glossary of Terms used in this manual is provided beginning on page 96. We recommend that users consult this for reference as needed. vii
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