Chapter 1 - Lucas' Abandonware - Free

Arm Your Aircraft
The Refuel And Load Weapons screen is where you choose weapons
for your mission and adjust fuel levels.
Your aircraft’s internal fuel tank is automatically filled when you
come to this screen. Since the incoming enemy aircraft are probably
within 150 km, you won’t need any additional fuel in external tanks.
You will need weapons, however. Your role in this mission is to
engage enemy aircraft, so you’ll need a lot of air-to-air missiles. Click
on the second missile from the left.
The cursor turns into a small missile icon and a description of the
weapon appears in the upper right corner. You’ve just selected the
AIM-120A Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile. With a range
of 48 km, this missile will give you an advantage to all but the most
powerful Soviet air-to-air missiles. Point the missile cursor at the All
button and click a mouse button.
Since AMRAAMs are radar-guided, they’ll alert their target as they
homeinforthekill, thusgivinghimthechancetotakecountermeasures.
You may also want to take along some infrared-guided (IR homing)
missiles, which silently track the target’s engine heat.
To add some Ill-homing missiles, you’ll need to remove a few AIM-
120s. Pointtomissileonthe left wingtip of the Aircraft Schematic and
click the right mouse button.
Remove the missile on the right wingtip as well. Click on the missile
furthest to the left to select the IR-homing ASRAAM. Now load
ASRAAMs onto the two empty pylons.
To begin you-mission, pressthespacebarorclickon the Next button.
You Begin In The Hangar
When the hangar doors open, you’re ready to take off. But before you
do that, take a minute to familiarize yourself with the HUD, Instrument
Panel, and some important controls.
warning
Lights
Throttle
HUD
Confirmation Multi-Function
Display Display (MFD)
To pause the game while you get to know the cockpit, press
the backspace key(t). In fact, use the Pause key liberally
as you go through the Quickstart.
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