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14 CHAPTER 2. QUICK START GUIDE the use real weather will cause X-Plane to occasionally download the real-world weather in your aircraft’s location. Finally, when you’ve finished setting up the flight, press the Fly with these options button. 2.5 Getting Off the Ground Once again, these instructions are written for the Cessna 172—flying an airliner or another heavy aircraft will require flaps/slats, a great deal more speed, and a very different technique, all of which is beyond the scope of this chapter. 1. The airplane’s engine is already running. Press the button that was assigned to brakes when the joystick/yoke was configured. If no button was configured (e.g., if you are flying with the mouse), press the ‘b’ key on the keyboard. 2. Move the throttle all the way up. 3. If applicable, use the joystick’s twist or the rudder pedals to control the plane’s left and right motion to track the centerline of the runway (don’t worry if you go off it—you’ll still get up to speed for take off). If no yaw axis was configured above (or if using the mouse), the simulator will attempt to control the yaw for you. 4. Watch your airspeed indicator (seen in Figure 2.7), and when it hits 60 knots, pull back slightly to get the plane off the ground. If using a mouse, you will have to click the white + sign (found near the center of the screen) with the mouse in order to grab the controls with the mouse. From there, move the mouse within the white box that appears in order to control the aircraft’s flight— moving it up within the box will pitch the nose down, and moving the mouse down will pitch the nose up. Moving it left within the box will cause the craft to roll left, and moving it right will cause the craft to roll right. Click the mouse again to release the controls, freeing you to open a menu, adjust controls on the aircraft panel, etc. 5. Gently level the plane off in order to build a little airspeed, then, when the plane hits, say, 80 knots, pull back again to begin climbing. Building airspeed this way will help to keep the plane from stalling. 6. Fly away! 2.6 Updating X-Plane Figure 2.7: The airspeed indicator in the Cessna 172 [Full size →] Updating X-Plane will ensure that the copy of X-Plane you are using is the most stable, most feature-rich version available. Updates within a given version of X-Plane (e.g., from Version 10.0 to 10.1 to 10.2) are free, and recommended for virtually all users.
2.7. FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS 15 1. In X-Plane, move your mouse to the top of the screen (causing the menu to appear) and click About. 2. In the About menu, click About X-Plane. 3. In the window that appears, there will be an Update X-Plane button if an update is available. Clicking this will cause X-Plane to download the latest update and run the updater for you. 4. The installation files will be downloaded and installed, after which you will be ready to fly. 2.7 Further Considerations Among the more important options skipped in the guide above was the configuration of flap and trim switches. If your joystick or yoke has switches or buttons you would like to use for this purpose, you can configure them similarly to the brakes that we assigned in part 3 of this guide. The difference is that when using a switch, pressing it “up” assign it one function and pressing it “down” will assign it another. Remember to click the button on your joystick before trying to assign it a function. Further information on this can be found in the section “Configuring Flight Controls” of Chapter 4.
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