OPERATIONS MANUAL

Simulator Handling
Mouse – Flight Deck Controls in General:
When the mouse hovers over
the upper left corner of the flight
deck frame, a menu appears; you
may click one of the nine layouts,
or reload the last loaded layout
file, or show the Instructor. This
menu is intended for use as a
backup control when a keyboard
is currently not available.
The simulator contains many different mouse cursors; they
appear when the mouse is placed in areas where special mouse
functions are enabled. With this visual support, the mouse
functions are quite self-explanatory. The following pages
provide some additional hints.
Note that toggle switches on the flight deck can be toggled up
and down by clicking them with the left mouse button,
or—alternately—by turning the mouse wheel up or down.
Optical illusions: When a rotary selector turns very quickly, it
sometimes looks as if it turned oppositely to the commanded
direction. This is an unavoidable strobe effect in the computer
graphics. The selector actually turns into the correct direction.
Mouse – How to Click the Autothrottle Switches:
As the autothrottle switches move with the thrust levers,
the respective mouse areas move with them as well. On the
picture to the left, the areas illustrated in blue are the click
areas for the autothrottle disconnect switches, and those
in green are for the TO/GA switches. For more details on
autothrottle functions, refer to chapter Automatic Flight.
(These switches, and other controls, can also be actuated by
the keyboard, by USB inputs, or by network injections.)
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