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12 CHAPTER 2. QUICK START GUIDE Figure 2.3: Selecting Joystick & Equipment from the Settings menu [Full size →] Figure 2.4: The relevant portion of the Joystick & Equipment dialog’s Axis tab [Full size →] 2.3 Configuring Essential Yoke/Joystick Functions Note that a mouse may be used to fly if neither a yoke or a joystick is available, though it will (of course) be unrealistic and cumbersome. If the mouse will be used, however, skip to the section “??” below. 1. Once the program loads, move your mouse to the top of the screen, causing the menu to appear. 2. Click on Settings (per Figure 2.3), then Joystick & Equipment. The relevant portion of the dialog box that appears is shown in Figure 2.4. 3. Move your joystick or yoke forward and back. A green or red bar should move as you do so. Click the drop-down menu next to it and set it to pitch. Do not check the reverse box next to this control unless, when flying, the aircraft’s pitch control is working backward. 4. Move your joystick/yoke left and right. The green or red bar that moves should be set to roll. Do not check the reverse box next to this control unless, when flying, the aircraft’s roll control is working backward.
2.4. SETTING UP A FLIGHT 13 5. Twist your joystick (if applicable). The bar that moves should be set to yaw. If you do not assign a yaw axis, X-Plane will attempt to stabilize it for you. Once again, do not check the reverse box unless, when flying, the aircraft’s yaw control is working backward. If you are using rudder pedals instead of a twisting joystick, slide them forward and backward and set the green/red bar that moves then to yaw. Additionally, only when using rudder pedals, press the left pedal down with your toes. The green or red bar that moves should be set to left toe brake. Do the same for the right pedal, and set that green bar to right toe brake. If this is done, you may also skip steps 8 through 10 below. 6. Move your throttle forward and back (on a yoke, this is typically the leftmost lever). Set this bar to throttle. Check the reverse box only if, when flying, the aircraft’s throttle control works backward. 7. Move all the joystick’s control axes (that is, pitch, yaw, roll, and throttle) through their full range of motion to calibrate the controls. 8. Once again, skip this step and steps 9-10 if the rudder pedals are set up as toe brakes. Click the Buttons: Basic tab at the top of the screen. 9. Press the button on your joystick that you would like to assign to brakes, then release it. 10. Using the mouse, click the round button to the left of Toggle brakes regular effort (found near the bottom of the second column and already selected in Figure 2.5). 11. Close the Joystick & Equipment menu with either of the X buttons at the top of the screen, or by pressing the Enter key on your keyboard. 2.4 Setting Up a Flight As of X-Plane 10.10, the first thing you see when you launch X-Plane (unless you disable it) is the Quick Flight screen, as seen in Figure 5.1. If you don’t see this screen, you can open it by moving your mouse to the top of the screen (causing the menu to appear), then clicking File, then clicking Quick Flight Setup. This screen combines miniature versions of the dialogs which are used to open aircraft, choose an airport, and set up the weather. Choose an airport from which to take off by using the upper-left box in this window. You can either type the airport’s name or identifier in the text box to search for it, or scroll through the full list. Click on an airport to select it. To the right of the airport selection is a box displaying your X-Plane directory. This is used, in combination with the “cover flow”-like view in the bottom left of the window, to select an aircraft. By selecting the X-Plane 10 folder, or the Aircraft folder, you will be able to scroll through all the aircraft you have installed. Clicking on a more specific folder will expand it, and the cover flow view will show you only the aircraft in that folder. The frontmost aircraft in the cover flow is the one which is selected. For the purposes of this guide, select the Cessna 172 by clicking the Aircraft folder (thus displaying all the aircraft), then using your mouse’s scroll wheel to scroll to the 172. Set the time of day and weather using the rightmost boxes. Click on one of the rectangular panels to select the time of day and weather conditions shown in that panel. By checking the always track real date and time box will make the time in the simulator match your computer’s time. Checking
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