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The Ultimate Flight Simulator Pilot’s Guidebook & Companion CD-ROM
by Nick Dargahi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Is this Book for You?
Why Buy This Book?
Configuration and Customization FAQ
New GPS Navigation Computer, Inertial Navigation Computer and Ground
Proximity
Warning System for Your Aircraft
World's Navaids plotted on Global Maps based on the Digital Chart of the
World
You Can Install Over 6,124 Missing VOR/NDB/ILS Navaids for the World
Learn How to Plot Great Circle Paths Around the World
Fly an Around the World Flight with our Specially Created Adventures
Value Added CD with Bonus Software, Maps, Aircraft, Scenery and
Utilities
Detailed Information on How to Fly the Cessna, Learjet, Schweizer
Sailplane,
Aerobatic Extra 300, the
Boeing 737-400, and the Bell JetRanger III Helicopter
Understand Aviation Weather
Learn How to Install User Created Scenery and Aircraft from the Web.
Have Fun Creating Your Own Custom Scenery
Learn How to Really Fly Your Airplane
Learn How to fly Real Instrument Approach Procedures
Learn Great Circle Navigation Techniques
Flight Simulator History
High Development Costs Force Consolidation in the Flight Simulator
Industry
The Benefits of Moving to the Windows 95/NT Platform:
Flight Simulator 98: New Features
Flight Simulator for Windows 95: Feature Set
Hardware Requirements
Negative Points
Organization of this Book
CHAPTER 1: THE ART OF FLYING 1
Menus and Commands 2
Basic Tips for Using Your 3-D View Windows 4
Tips for Using Flight Controls 8
Selecting Your Airplane 11
The Six Primary Flight Instruments 11
The Art of Flying 19
The Basic Maneuvers of Flight 22
Taxiing and Steering 73
Runway Markers 76
The Traffic Pattern 77
References 82
CHAPTER 2: THE AERODYNAMICS OF FLIGHT 83
The Cambered Airfoil 84
The Bernoulli Principle 87
The Four Forces Acting on the Airplane 92
The Wing and the Angle of Attack 127
CHAPTER 3: AIRSPEEDS 145
Velocity and Important Airspeeds of the Airplane 145
Stall Speed in Level Flight 154
The Speed of Sound 163
Mach Number 165
Converting Indicated Airspeed to True Airspeed 173
Rate of Climb 179
CHAPTER 4: AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES,POWER PLANTS, AND TECHNOLOGY 185
Fuselage and Empennage 187
Wings 194
Control Surfaces 198
Pitot-Static System 215
Piston-Powered Aircraft 216
Turbine-Powered Aircraft 235
Environmental Systems 263
Electronic Computing Systems 269
Air Traffic and the Environment: Global Implications 283
CHAPTER 5: THE ATMOSPHERE 299
What Is the Atmosphere? 299
Standard Atmosphere 302
Classification of the Atmosphere 304
Temperature in the Atmosphere 305
Pressure 311
The Danger of Icing 319
Clouds 320
Winds 324
Low Visibility 333
Automatic Terminal Information Service 334
Creating Weather Areas 336
Setting Time of Day and Season 337
CHAPTER 6: PILOTING THE CESSNA 182 SKYLANE 341
CHAPTER 7: COMMANDING THE LEARJET 45 351
General Description 354
Range Performance 363
CHAPTER 8: MASTERING THE BOEING 737-400 365
Boeing 365
The 737 Family 366
The 737-X Series 367
737-300 Description 368
The 737-400 369
CHAPTER 9: FLYING THE BELL 206B JETRANGER III HELICOPTER 385
Controlling the Helicopter via the Keyboard or Joystick 387
The Helicopter Instrument Panel 389
Operating the Helicopter 391
Takeoffs and Landings 395
Other Useful Tips 396
CHAPTER 10: ADVANCED SIMULATOR FEATURES 399
Multiplayer Mode 399
Slewing 402
How Do I Set Up Flight Simulator So I Start with a Particular
Airplane and Location, and Scenery Density and View Preferences
Set the Way I Like Them? 403
Is There a Way to Load Custom Panel Configurations at Startup in F598?
403
How Are Individual Sound Files Handled for FS98 Aircraft? 404
Can I Change Instrument Panels and Gauges in FS98? 407
Can I Make My Own Checklists? 412
Saving Your Start Location 414
Taking Flight Photographs 414
Taking Flight Videos 414
Logging Your Flight Time 414
Land Me 414
Adjusting Display Resolution and Sound Volume 415
Installing New Aircraft in F598 415
Installing FS5.1 Aircraft in FSW95 417
Installing FSW95-Ready Airplanes into F5W95 418
Changing the Livery on the 737 (FSW95 Only) 421
Adding Landing Lights to Your Airplane (F5W95 Only) 421
Using the Shareware on This Book’s CD-ROM: Your Rights and
Obligations 422
Using the Freeware on This Book’s CD-ROM 423
FlightPlanner 4.0 by Matt Maessen 423
CHAPTER 11: CREATING & MANAGING YOUR OWN SCENERY 425
How to Become a Scenery Manager7 425
The Concept of Layering 426
Adding New Scenery 428
Scenery Caching 434
Scenery Problems 435
Summary 437
Flight Simulator Scenery File Format 438
Using Airport 2.05 Scenery Creation Software 442
Where to Learn More 445
Exploring Flight Simulator’s Easter Eggs 445
CHAPTER 12: CONTENTS OF COMPANION CD-ROM, ADD-ON SCENERY, AND ONLINE
RESOURCES 449
Companion CD-ROM Contents 449
A Few Facts About the World Wide Web 458
Online Flight Simulator—Related Forums 463
Flight Simulator-Related Web Pages 464
Magazines 465
Scenery Add-Ons 468
FSClouds & Textures Pro 3.0 by Steve Halpern 469
Other Scenery Design Programs 469
Flight Sim Merchants 469
Virtual Airlines 469
CHAPTER 13: GLOBAL NAVIGATION 471
The Magnetic Compass 472
Aircraft Communications 476
Visible Horizon Distance 481
In-Flight Visibility 481
The Cockpit Cutoff Angle 482
Basic Navigation Jargon 484
VOR Navigation 490
Instrument Landing System 502
Radio Magnetic Compass 514
How to use the (HSI) Horizontal Situation Indicator 515
NDB Navigation 526
Autopilot 528
Inertial Navigation with GPS 2.0 539
GPS, LORAN C, and Omega 551
Trans-Oceanic Trip Planning 552
CHAPTER 14: GREAT CIRCLE NAVIGATION 555
The Solution of Right Spherical Triangles 557
Solution of Oblique Spherical Triangles 560
Law of Sines and Cosines for Spherical Triangles 560
Great Circle Distance between Points 564
Great Circle Course 569
Latitude of a Point on a Great Circle 571
Latitude and Longitude of a Point 573
Clairaut’s Formula 580
Finding the Intersection of Two Great Circles 581
CHAPTER 15: THE SCIENCE OF FLIGHT SIMULATORS, FEDERAL AVIATION REGULATIONS,
AND PILOT TRAINING 583
The Science of Flight Simulation 583
Flight Model 584
Frame Rate 602
Flight Simulator’s Future 606
Full-Motion Simulators 607
Display Technology 612
FAR/AIM 617
Learning to Be a Pilot 623
Accident Rates for U.S. Airlines, Charter Airlines, Commuter
Air Carriers, and General Aviation 629
FAR for Advanced Simulation Training 637
References 642
CHAPTER 16: INSTRUMENT DEPARTURE AND APPROACH PROCEDURES 643
A Brief History of Instrument Navigation 644
Postwar Navigation Aids 646
Tutorial, Flight 1: B737-400 San Francisco (KSFO) to Los Angeles
(KLAX) 648 - —
Tutorial, Flight 2: Cessna 182RG VOR-DME Approach to
Carlsbad/McClellan-Palomar 679
Tutorial, Flight 3: Terminal VOR-DME Arc Approach, B737,
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois 695
Tutorial, Flight 4: NDB Runway 27 Dwight, Illinois 702
The Next Step 709
Practice Makes Perfect 709
References 709
CHAPTER 17: THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF AMELIA EARHART 711
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart 713
The Route Taken by Amelia Earhart 715
Installing the Amelia Earhart Scenery 720
Pilot’s Operating Manual for the Lockheed Electra L-lOe 723
APPENDIX A: CONFIGURATION AND PERFORMANCE FAQ 727
What Should I Do after I Install Flight Simulator? 727
How much hard disk space does Flight Simulator occupy? 730
Can I run the scenery off my hard drive for faster performance? 731
How do I get rid of those annoying pauses? Flight Simulator drops 5
fps or less for about 2 or 3 seconds and then picks up again, why? 733
Why does Flight Simulator Pause (stop flying) when I task switch
from one Windows application to another? 733
How do I get rid of the Microsoft opening screen animation? 734
How do I get the mouse to work as my yoke? 734
What 3-D video cards are safe bets for getting maximum frame rates
in FS98? 734
What kind of frame rate should I be getting? 735
How can I increase my frame rate? 737
What color depth and resolution should I be running the program? 741
(FSW95 only) How come the Fine Zoom doesn’t work? 742
Why do those dad blasted zoom keys + and – not work like they used
to in FS5.1? 742
What Is AGP? 742
What does alpha blending, bilinear filtering, and MIP mapping have
to do with FS98? 743
Is my video card working properly? 745
Is there anything I should worry about with my joystick? 745
My joystick doesn’t work 745
Configuring the CH Products Virtual Pilot Pro with FSW95 746
My rudder pedals don’t work 748
What’s the latest on these new "digital joysticks" I keep hearing about?
..749
How do I configure the SideWinder 3-D Pro to have separate
rudder and aileron controls for crosswind landings/takeoffs? 749
I would like to easily reprogram my digital joystick buttons or
keyboard keys with different commands 750
FS98 Instructions 750
I would like to reprogram my analog or digital Joystick manually.
How do I do this? 751
Can I get differential braking to work with my rudder pedals? 763
My laptop doesn’t have a game port. Can I use a joystick? 763
Why is my sound monophonic, when I have a stereo sound card? 764
Why can’t I get the Advanced Weather Dialog box to appear under
the World/Weather menu? 764
Why can’t I turn on Wispy Cloud Effects and Cloud Thickness Effects?
..765
Why can’t I adjust the barometric pressure setting on the Altimeter? ..
..765
Why doesn’t Slew Mode work? 765
The K key doesn’t recalibrate my joystick like it used to! What do I do?
765
How can I disable the Autorun feature in FS95/98? 766
Does Flight Simulator support plug and play? 766
What is DirectX? 766
How do I get updated DirectX drivers? 767
How do I install updated DirectX video drivers from the video card
manufacturer? 767
Does Flight Simulator support DirectSound? 768
Does Flight Simulator support DirectInput? 768
Does Flight Simulator support DirectDraw? 768
What happened to my video card driver after I installed Flight
Simulator? 770
Does Flight Simulator support Direct3D? 770
Does Flight Simulator support DirectPlay? 771
Does DirectDraw 5.0 make use of MMX, and if so does FS98 take
advantage of MMX? 771
Do FS98 and DirectX 5.0 take advantage of the new AGP
motherboards, such as the Intel 440LX? 771
Does F598 support all six joystick axes that are possible in
Windows 95/98? 772
What about that flickering problem I had in FSW95? Has that
been fixed in FS98? 772
How do I get rid of DirectX if I have problems with it? 772
Were changes were made to the Adventure file format in FS98? 773
What about F598’s multiplayer mode? 773
Why can’t I steer? 773
How can I get the Enhanced Spatial Effects for Left and Right
Stereo Sound Working in FS98? 774
Morse Code Identifier Bug in FS98 774
Does Flight Simulator run better/faster on Windows NT? 774
Should I run Flight Simulator on Windows NT? 774
How do I reset my situation~ 775
Is there a patch disk for FSW95? 775
Is Flight Shop still available? 775
How much memory do I need? 775
What is MMX? 775
Hey, what goes on here? I can’t find a VOR, NDB, or ILS station
that should be there 779
How do I tune the ADF radio for a fractional frequency of lOOs Hz? . . .
782
Why are some of the ILS glidepaths not aligned with the runway? 781
How do I tune the COM radio in 25 kHz increments, instead of
50 kHz increments 782
How can I turn off the Quick Tips on screen notes, which keep
blocking my view of the instrument panel displays? 782
Why are some of the runways not aligned with their compass headings? 782
Why am I having trouble with the ILS glide slope? 782
Why can’t I install my commercial scenery? 783
Can I run Flight Shop created adventures and aircraft for FS 5.1
in FSW95? 784
How do I uninstall the original aircraft and Adventure Converter
for FSW95? 785
Hey, what happened to my instrument panel in FSW95? It’s gone7 785
Why is it that some airports disappear when I install certain
scenery packages? 785
FSW95 missing ILS problems 785
How do I take a screen shot? 786
I’m getting the dreaded KERNEL32.DLL error message and can’t
get Flight Simulator to start. What do I dcP 786
My FSW95 737 keeps running out of fuel, and I still have fuel as
shown on my fuel gauge 787
I can’t seem to open any of the dialog boxes in FS98 787
The Numeric Keypads switch the views instead of controlling the
airplane 788
Why doesn’t the NumLock key bring up a map view? 788
I see a COM2 radio in the Cessna’s radio stack. Why can’t I use it? 788
I’ve changed my CD-ROM drive letter. How do I get FS98 to read
scenery off the CD again or run the setup program? 788
Hardware problems with FS98 789
FS98 Converter Questions 790
Improving F598 Performance 790
What about my Microsoft scenery add-ons? 790
How do I access the airports in my Microsoft Southern California
Scenery Expansion Pack? 790
APPENDIX B: NAVAIDS 791
United States Department of Defense Digital Aeronautical Flight
Information File (DAFIF) Navaids on the Companion CD-ROM
Searching and Filtering the DAFIF Navaids in the Excel97 Spreadsheet
on the CD 792
Using the Navaid Listings 793
Explanation of Navaid Types 798
Copyright, Warranty, and Indemnity Information 799
APPENDIX C: AIRPORT DIRECTORY AND SELECTED INSTRUMENT APPROACH PLATES 801
Indian Airports 803
Alaskan Airports 803
United States Department of Defense Digital Aeronautical Flight
Information File (DAFIF) Airport Listings on CD-ROM 804
Filtering Airports for Viewing in the DAFIF on the CD-ROM 806
100 Selected Instrument Approach Plates (in Acrobat Format on CD-ROM)
810
Figure C. 5: Anchorage Intl ILS RWY 6R (CAT II) 7
Figure C. 6: Fairbanks ILS RWY 1L (CAT II) 7
Figure C. 7: San Francisco ILS RWY 28R 7
Figure C. 8: Metropolitan Oakland Intl ILS 27R 7
Figure C. 9: Metropolitan Oakland Intl ILS 29 (CAT II) 7
Figure C. 10: Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena ILS RWY 8 7
Figure C. 11: Lake Tahoe LDA/DME-1 RWY 18 7
Figure C. 12: San Jose Intl ILS 12R 7
Figure C. 13: Aspen VOR/DME or GPS-C 7
Figure C. 14: Denver Intl ILS 34 7
Figure C. 15: Miami Intl ILS RWY 9L 7
Figure C. 16: Atlanta Intl ILS RWY 8L (CAT II) 7
Figure C. 17: Maui Island Kahului ILS RWY 2 7
Figure C. 18: Hawaii Island Keahole Kona ILS-DME RWY 17 7
Figure C. 19: Oahu Island Honolulu Intl ILS RWY 8L 7
Figure C. 20: Hawaii Island Hilo ILS-DME RWY 26 7
Figure C. 21: Chicago O’Hare ILS RWY 14L (CAT II) 7
Figure C. 22: Boston Logan Intl ILS RWY 4R (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 23: Minneapolis-St. Paul Intl ILS RWY 29L (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 24: Las Vegas McCarran Intl ILS RWY 25L 8
Figure C. 25: Newark Intl ILS RWY 4R (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 26: Albuquerque ILS RWY 8 8
Figure C. 27: John F. Kennedy Intl ILS RWY 4R (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 28: Portland Intl ILS RWY 10R (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 29: Philadelphia ILS RWY 9R (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 30: Houston Intercontinental ILS RWY 27 (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 31: Dallas-Ft Worth Intl ILS RWY 17L (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 32: Salt Lake City ILS-DME RWY 16L (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 33: Seattle-Tacoma Intl ILS RWY 16R (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 34: Washington Dulles Intl ILS RWY 1R (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 35: National ILS RWY 36 (CAT II) 8
Figure C. 36: Milwaukee ILS RWY 1L (CAT II) 9
Figure C. 37: Cheyenne ILS RWY 26 9
Figure C. 38: Jackson Hole ILS RWY 18 9
Figure C. 39: Calgary Intl ILS RWY 34 9
Figure C. 40: Edmonton ILS RWY 12 9
Figure C. 41: Goose Bay ILS RWY 8 9
Figure C. 42: Gandor ILS-DME RWY 4 9
Figure C. 43: Montreal Dorval ILS RWY 6L (CAT II). (Courtesy of
George Lorsche—printed with Final Approach 5.0) 9
Figure C. 44: Ottowa Intl ILS RWY 7 9
Figure C. 45: Toronto Pearson Intl ILS RWY 33 9
Figure C. 46: Vancouver Intl ILS RWY 26 9
Figure C. 47: Victoria Intl ILS-DME RWY 27 9
Figure C. 48: Santa Maria Intl ILS RWY 18 9
Figure C. 49: Bermuda Intl ILS-DME RWY 30 9
Figure C. 50: Keflavik ILS-DME RWY 20 9
Figure C. 51: San Juan ILS RWY 08 9
Figure C. 52: Brussels National ILS RWY 25L 9
Figure C. 53: Paris Le Bourget ILS-DME RWY 07 9
Figure C. 54: Berlin Tempelhof ILS-DME RWY 09R 9
Figure C. 55: Munich ILS RWY 8R 9
Figure C. 56: Athens (Athinai) ILS RWY 33R 10
Figure C. 57: Dublin ILS RWY 10 10
Figure C. 58: Rome Ciampino ILS-P RWY 15 10
Figure C. 59: Amsterdam Schiphol Intl ILS RWY 01R 10
Figure C. 60: Lisboa Montijo NDB RWY 26 10
Figure C. 61: Moscow Sheremetyevo ILS RWY 25L 10
Figure C. 62: Barcelona ILS RWY 07 10
Figure C. 63: Geneva Cointrin ILS RWY 23 10
Figure C. 64: Heathrow Intl ILS RWY 27R 10
Figure C. 65: Cairo Intl ILS RWY 23L 10
Figure C. 66: Tel Aviv Ben Gurion ILS RWY 12 10
Figure C. 67: Kuwait Intl ILS-DME RWY 33L 10
Figure C. 68: Riyadh Intl ILS-DME RWY 01 11
Figure C. 69: Abidjan Felix ILS RWY 21 11
Figure C. 70: Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl ILS RWY 06 11
Figure C. 71: Lagos Murtala Muhammed ILS-DME RWY 19R 11
Figure C. 72: Kinshasa VOR-ILS RWY 24 11
Figure C. 73: Harare Intl ILS RWY 05 11
Figure C. 74: Beijing Capital Intl ILS RWY 36R 11
Figure C. 75: Hong Kong Intl IGS RWY 13 11
Figure C. 76: Shanghai Hongqiao ILS-DME RWY 18 11
Figure C. 77 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Intl (formerly Dum Dum Intl)
ILS RWY 19L. (Courtesy of George Lorsche—printed with Final Approach 5.0).
11
Figure C. 78: Tokyo Intl ILS RWY 33 11
Figure C. 79: Karachi Quaid-E-Azam Intl NDB RWY 25R 11
Figure C. 80: Manila Ninoy Aquino Intl ILS RWY 24 12
Figure C. 81: Singapore Changi Intl ILS-DME RWY 20R 12
Figure C. 82: Seoul Intl ILS RWY 20 12
Figure C. 83: Bangkok Intl ILS-DME RWY 21L 12
Figure C. 84: Sydney Intl (Kingsford Smith) ILS RWY 16R 12
Figure C. 85: Melbourne ILS RWY 26 12
Figure C. 86: Brisbane Intl ILS RWY 01 12
Figure C. 87: Alice Springs ILS RWY 12 12
Figure C. 88: Perth ILS RWY 24 12
Figure C. 89: Darwin ILS RWY 29 12
Figure C. 90: Guam International (Agana Naval Air Station-Brewer
Field)l ILS RWY 6L 12
Figure C. 91: Midway Henderson Field HI-NDB RWY 6 12
Figure C. 92: Auckland Intl ILS-DME RWY 05 12
Figure C. 93: Wake Island TACAN or VOR-DME RWY 10 12
Figure C. 94: Buenos Aires Ezeiza/Ministro Pistarini Intl ILS-DME
RWY 11 12
Figure C. 95: La Paz J.F. Kennedy Intl ILS-DME RWY 9R 13
Figure C. 96: Rio de Janeiro Intl HI-ILS RWY 10 13
Figure C. 97: Brasilia Intl ILS RWY 11 13
Figure C. 98: Santiago Arturo Merino Benitez Intl ILS RWY 17 13
Figure C. 99: Bogota Eldorado Intl ILS RWY 13 13
Figure C. 100: Guayaquil Simon Bolivar Intl ILS RWY 21 13
Figure C. 101: Veracruz General Heribeto Jara Intl VOR-DME RWY 18
13
Figure C. 102: Panama City Tocumen Intl ILS RWY 3R 13
Figure C. 103: Lima Jorge Chavez Intl ILS RWY 15 13
Figure C. 104: Maiquetia Simon Bolivar Intl ILS-DME RWY 9 13
Warnings, Copyright Notice, and Other Restrictions on the Use
of the DAFIF and Other Navigational Data 814
APPENDIX D: U.S.A. IFR ENROUTE HIGH-ALTITUDE JET ROUTEWAY CHARTS & WORLD
AERONAUTICAL CHARTS 815
Interpreting Aviation Maps 815
Installing the AeroView Moving Map Display on the Companion CD-ROM (by
Resolution Mapping) . . 818
How to use the AeroView Moving Map Display with Flight Simulator 824
APPENDIX E: WORLDWIDE AVIATION CHARTS 827
Chart E. 1: Baja California
Chart E. 2: Central Mexico
Chart E. 3: Yucaton Peninsula and Gulf of Mexico
Chart E. 4: Northern Caribbean Region (Cuba & Bahamas)
Chart E. 5: Central Caribbean Region (Haiti, Dominique Republic,
Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands)
Chart E. 6: Southern Caribbean Region (Venezuela, Gran Roque, Aruba)
Chart E. 7: Central America
Chart E. 8: South America (Northeast portion, including Columbia and
Venezuela)
Chart E. 9: Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)
Chart E. 10: South America (Southern portion, including Chile,
Easter Island, Argentina & Falkland Islands)
Chart E. 11: South Pacific (Tahiti)
Chart E. 12: North Pacific (West Coast of California to Hawaii)
Chart E. 13: Islands of Hawaii
Chart E. 14: Kauai, Hawaii
Chart E. 15: Oahu, Hawaii
Chart E. 16: Molokai, Lanai, & West Portion of Maui, Hawaii
Chart E. 17: Maui, Hawaii
Chart E. 18: Hawaii, Hawaii
Chart E. 19: Western Pacific Ocean. Alaska and North Pacific Route
from West Coast to Asia
Chart E. 20: Far East Route from Aleutian Islands, Alaska to Japan
Chart E. 21: Hokkaido, Japan
Chart E. 22: Northern Portion of Honshu, Japan
Chart E. 23: Central Portion of Honshu, Japan
Chart E. 24: Southern Portion of Honshu, Japan
Chart E. 25: Shikoku, Southern Tip of Honshu, and Northern Tip of
Kyushu, Japan
Chart E. 26: Kyushu, Japan
Chart E. 27: Eastern Pacific Ocean
Chart E. 28: Southeast Asia
Chart E. 29: Taiwan, South China, and Hong Kong
Chart E. 30: Hong Kong
Chart E. 31: Australia and New Zealand
Chart E. 32: Eastern Indian Ocean, Including Christmas Island, Cocos
Island, Singapore, and parts of Indonesia
Chart E. 33: Madagascar, South Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, South
Africa, and East Africa
Chart E. 34: India, Burma, Pakistan, Nepal
Chart E. 35: Middle East
Chart E. 36: North Africa and Mediterranean Region
Chart E. 37: Western Russia
Chart E. 38: Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Albania, Yugoslavia,
Bosnia
Chart E. 39: Italy, South of France, Bosnia, Croatia
Chart E. 40: Spain and Portugal
Chart E. 41: France and Switzerland
Chart E. 42: France, Netherlands, and Germany
Chart E. 43: Sweden, Denmark, North Germany, Poland
Chart E. 44: Republic of Ireland
Chart E. 45: South England and Wales
Chart E. 46: Scotland and Northern Ireland
Chart E. 47: North Atlantic Route Crossing (England to Iceland)
Chart E. 48: North Atlantic Route Crossing (Iceland to Goose Bay,
Canada)
Chart E. 49: Newfoundland, Canada (Goose Bay)
Chart E. 50: New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada. Maine and New
Hampshire in the U.S.A.
Chart E. 51: Mid-Atlantic Crossing from Natal or Recife, Brazil to
Dakar Africa.
Chart E. 52: Africa and South Atlantic Ocean
APPENDIX F: STANDARD ATMOSPHERE TABLE 881
APPENDIX G: KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS AND BASIC SIMULATOR FUNCTIONS 893
How to Custom Configure Your Joystick or Keyboard 893
View Keys 894
Basic Fixed Wing Aircraft Flight Controls on the Numeric Keypad 902
Navigation and Communication Controls 908
Miscellaneous Key Commands 909
Slewing 911
Autopilot Commands 913
Mouse Controls 914
Special keys During Flying Lessons and Adventures 915
Special Keys During Multiplayer Flight Mode in FS98 916
APPENDIX H: ADVENTURE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE REFERENCE 917
APLC32 Requirements 918
How to Use APLC32 919
Phases of Compilation 920
Adventure Programming Language (APL) Syntax 921
Commands 925
Numbers, Precision and Operators 944
Built In-APL Functions 946
Flight Simulator Variables 947
Technical Notes 957
FS98 APLC Changes 957
Assigning Numerical Values to Variables 958
New APLC32 Program Language Extensions 959
Limitations of APL: Missing Trigonometric Functions 966
Using the Adventure Sound Files on the FS98 CD-ROM 970
Using the Adventure Sound Files in AAFWAV.ZIP 970
APPENDIX I: BIBLIOGRAPHY 973
Sources for Aviation-Related Books 973
Videos 977
Pamphlets 978
Magazines 978
Charts and Sectionals 979
INDEX 993
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 1006
Mickey W.
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Michel Joron
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I'm waiting for my copy since 2 weeks.
I made a special command at Chapters (in Montreal) still waiting for
it.
I'm proud owner of the previous editon. I'm looking forward for this
version.
Thanks for the table of contents.