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[. . . ] Find out where to go for more information. INSTALLING FLIGHT SIMULATOR 1. If your computer doesn't support automatic installation, follow these steps: 1. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. Before You Fly | 3 INSTALLING FLIGHT SIMULATOR During setup, you'll have the option of selecting a default or custom installation. Select the default installation to install all files needed to run Flight Simulator in the default location. [. . . ] Flight Simulator brings the details to life with the same navigational aids used by In Flight Simulator 2002, you have all the same navigation methods at your disposal that real pilots use, from dead reckoning (using landmarks and a compass) to GPS (Global Positioning System) to radio-based navigational aids, such as VORs and NDBs. Before You Fly | 9 WHAT IS FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2002? Air Traffic Control NEW! Flight Instruction and Analysis Flying Lessons Flight Simulator 2002 includes realistic, detailed air traffic control for the first time. Real-time, interactive air traffic control clears you from taxi to takeoff to landing. You can ask for and receive clearances, be warned of air traffic near you, get vectors (directions), and hear controllers speaking to other aircraft. Try out the new Air Traffic Control feature within a flight by pressing the ACCENT (`) key while you're flying. Crowded Skies IMPROVED! Rod Machado has been a flight instructor for 27 years and has logged over 8, 000 hours of flight instruction time. With the new Ground School and improved interactive Lessons, you can earn Flight Simulator certifications from student level all the way up to air transport pilot (ATP). Flight Analysis NEW! NEW! See and hear other traffic wherever you fly. Using artificial intelligence, Flight Simulator 2002 creates realistic air traffic around airports and along your flight path. While en route to a distant shore or practicing takeoffs and landings, you'll keep busy scanning the skies for traffic. Weather If you're working to improve your skills or just looking for new challenges, you can check the precision of your flying against a detailed record of your flights. A flight map and graphs show the course, altitude, and speed you maintained during the flight. Flight Instructor Station NEW! Flight Simulator 2002 models the real weather conditions in which pilots fly. You can set the cloud cover, winds, visibility, precipitation, and temperature. Or, you can have Flight Simulator download the actual current weather conditions for the location in which you're flying. Flight Simulator 2002 Professional Edition includes an Instructor's Station that you can use to monitor and interact with Flight Simulator "students" while they fly. Before You Fly | 10 WHAT IS FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2002? Your Virtual Pilot Career IMPROVED! In Flight Simulator 2002, you'll find predesigned Flights organized into categories that allow you to experience many different kinds of flying that real-world pilots do. Experience a virtual pilot career within Flight Simulator 2002. Help for Add-on Developers NEW! gmax, a 3-D modeling tool from Discreet that is included in Flight Simulator 2002 Professional Edition, helps add-on developers create scenery objects with industry-standard formatting. Although it's best to use a joystick or yoke as the primary flight control, you can fly the aircraft by using the keyboard to control the ailerons, elevator, and rudder. A list of frequently used, basic keyboard commands can be found on the inside and outside of the back cover of this book. For a complete list of all possible key commands, see Getting More from Flight Simulator 2002 in the Library & Help section. In addition, the Key Commands tab on the Kneeboard in Flight Simulator (press the F10 key to display the Kneeboard) features a complete list of keyboard commands. You'll find a short video about controlling Flight Simulator 2002 aircraft using the keyboard in the Getting Started section of the Welcome screen. Customizing the Controls In real aircraft, each button, lever, or knob serves a specific function. In Flight Simulator, you can customize the joystick and keyboard commands so that your simulated cockpit works the way you like best. For example, you could reassign the key used to extend and retract the landing gear from the G key to another. To adjust how sensitive your joystick is, on the Options menu, point to Controls, and then select Sensitivities. Before You Fly | 16 MAKING FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2002 REALLY FLY When talking about a flight simulation's graphics, quality refers to how real the images look on the screen, and performance refers to how quickly and smoothly the images move. Higher quality typically means decreased performance, because displaying complex, richly detailed, three-dimensional graphics puts a heavy load on your system. If you're not seeing the graphics quality and performance you expect, this section explains some choices and tradeoffs you can make to optimize your experience. Use your 3-D graphics accelerator card Improving Quality and Performance To achieve maximum quality and performance, consider the following options: Shut down other applications To display Flight Simulator graphics, your computer must convert a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional image. A 3-D graphics accelerator makes this task easier by taking some of the burden off the main processor. [. . . ] To change display options, on the Options menu, point to Settings, and choose Display. Change sound preferences Full Screen mode makes the Flight Simulator window fill the entire screen (no menu bar or taskbar) and will likely improve performance. To toggle between Full Screen and Normal modes, press ALT+ENTER, or on the Views menu, Depending on your computer, changing sound preferences (or turning the sound off) may improve performance. To change sound options, on the Options menu, point to Settings, and choose Sound. Before You Fly | 19 MAKING FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2002 REALLY FLY Change visibility and other weather settings Monitor the frame rate Generally speaking, the less scenery you see out of the window, the better the performance will be. To change visibility, on the World menu, select Weather. Monitoring the frame rate (the number of times the screen is redrawn each second) is an easy way to assess Flight Simulator's performance. [. . . ]