Posted: 1/8/2007 2:40:15 AM EDT
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How do you get airborn with the Schwiezer sail plane? The "flight" starts out with you at the begining of the runway without a tow plane.... Anybody know how to do this? |
| You can either pick a flight that uses the sail plane or you can slew the plane by hitting the Y key (your keyboard setup should be already setup to recognize Y as slew). Then push A to rise up and Z to go down, use your arrow keys to move around (left, right, forward, backward) |
Keyboard? Dude...I have a joystick. I bought the FS for my son who is nuts about airplanes now. I took him to the EAA museum in Oshkosh and they have a kids section with 7-8 flight sim stations. He was hooked. Now keep in mind he is only 4, but he is learning to use small corrections to fly the planes. His favorite is the 737. Which by the way you can turn the no-smoking sign on and off. |
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I think there is a tutorial that positions you within sight of an alpine airfield, about 3000 feet above IIRC. Anyone else enjoy flying from A to B using autopilot / GPS, and programming the proper ILS frequencies for approach, and landing on the powered aircraft? |
Did you know the Kitty Hawk flyer won't get airborne at 5300+ ft.? Of course it could hardly get airborne at sea level.  My friend has FS and we tried many different airplanes out of the local airport. I'm not sure what the runway length is but if you're talented you can get a Boeing 777 airborne. You sit at the far end of the runway and stand on the brakes. You spool the engines up as high as you can get them. And then let go of the brakes. It's about like coming off an aircraft carrier, without a catapult.  You get to the far end of the runway, lift off and usually drop a bit before you start to climb. Thank God the airport sits on top of a mesa.I've done it once. The other three times I nosed in about where the Super Walmart now sits. 
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Yes Keyboard...It's the flat white object with all of the touchy-pushy thingies on it. Last I checked most people have a keyboard hooked up to their computer....maybe I'm different. |
You can play with the aircraft file and mod the planes, I am not good at this and am reading up on it... it would be cool to be able to do Mach 3 in a 737 lol. I seriously dont spend much time with the stock planes at all. The downloaded ones are way better ( I have free downloads only but will get payware ones pretty soon, but even the free ones are way better than stock.) You would think that M$ would have made better planes  (Liveries, details etc)I downloaded a Millenium Falcon on avsim just for kicks but it wont get past 100K altitude, it dies then stalls. I guess MS wont let ya get into space.
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