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vi CONTENTS 3.3.2.1 Special Considerations for Mac Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.3.3 Installation on a Linux PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.4 Launching X-Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4 Configuring and Tuning Your X-Plane Installation 27 4.1 General Use of the X-Plane Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2 Setting the Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.3 Updating X-Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.4 Using the X-Plane Betas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.5 Uninstalling X-Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.6 Configuring Flight Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.6.1 Setting Up the Control Axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.6.2 Centering the Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4.6.3 Calibrating the Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4.6.4 Assigning Functions to Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4.6.5 Controlling Joystick Sensitivity and Aircraft Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.6.6 Setting Null Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.6.7 Adding Special Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.7 Configuring Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.8 Configuring the Rendering Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4.8.1 Setting the Basic Rendering Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4.8.1.1 Texture Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4.8.1.2 Gamma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4.8.1.3 Anisotropic Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4.8.1.4 Full-Screen Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4.8.1.5 Frame Rate Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.8.1.6 Anti-Aliasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.8.1.7 Field of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.8.2 Setting Up the X-Plane World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.8.2.1 Miscellaneous Drawing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.8.2.2 Objects on the Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4.8.2.3 World Detail Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4.8.2.4 Expert Rendering Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 4.8.2.5 Special Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 4.8.2.6 Cloud Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 4.8.3 Setting the Rendering Options for Best Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4.8.3.1 Increasing the Frame Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4.9 Configuring the Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 4.10 Allowing X-Plane through Your Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 4.11 Expanding X-Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 4.11.1 Adding Aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 4.11.2 Adding Scenery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 4.11.3 Installing Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
CONTENTS vii 5 Flight in X-Plane 45 5.1 Setting Up a Quick Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 5.2 Opening an Aircraft and Selecting a Livery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 5.3 Choosing an Airport or Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 5.3.1 Other Ways to Choose a Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 5.4 Changing the Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 5.4.1 Setting the Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 5.4.1.1 Setting Uniform, Static Weather for the Whole World . . . . . . . . 49 5.4.1.2 Setting Randomly-Generated, Realistic Weather . . . . . . . . . . . 50 5.4.1.3 Drawing or Adding to Weather Patterns by Hand . . . . . . . . . . 51 5.4.1.4 Downloading Current Real-World Weather from the Internet . . . . 51 5.4.2 Setting the Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 5.5 How to Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 5.6 Using the Instruments and Avionics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 5.6.1 A Note on Radio Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 5.7 Using the Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 5.7.1 Using the Quick Look Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 5.8 Letting X-Plane Fly Your Aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 5.9 Getting Quick Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 5.10 Saving and Sharing Your Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 5.10.1 Creating a Reusable Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 5.10.2 Creating an Replay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 5.10.3 Creating a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 5.10.4 Capturing a Screenshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 5.11 Visualizing and Replaying Your Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5.11.1 Viewing the Path Taken by Your Aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5.11.2 Using the Built-In Replay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 5.11.3 Replaying a Flight from a Flight Data Recorder (FDR) . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 5.12 Viewing the Behind-the-Scenes Flight Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 6 Advanced Simulation in X-Plane 63 6.1 Keeping a Logbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 6.2 Working with the Air Traffic Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 6.3 Using ForeFlight for Real-Time Charts and Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 6.4 Changing How and Where the Aircraft Starts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 6.5 Using a Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 6.6 Changing How Damage Affects the Aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.7 Setting the Weight, Balance, and Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.8 Simulating Equipment Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.9 Enabling a Smoke Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 6.10 Speeding Up the Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 6.11 Taxiing More Accurately . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 7 Navigation, Autopilots, and Flying on Instruments 71 7.1 Navigating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 7.1.1 Air Navigation History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 7.1.2 Modern Means of Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 7.1.2.1 NDB Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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