Fly2 Manual

Fly! II Users Guide FLY! II USER MANUAL Hello—and welcome to Fly! version II. This electronic manual, the “Fly! version II User Guide,” is one of two electronic manuals you’ll receive, either on the distribution CDs for your copy of Fly! II or from the Fly! II website at www.iflytri.com. Providing these manuals electronically, rather than on paper, lets us keep them constantly up to date for the most current version of Fly! II. However, since they’re in the popular Adobe Acrobat format, feel free to print them out if you want a paper copy of your own. (You can download the latest version of the Acrobat reader/printer program for free from www.adobe.com.) Why two separate manuals? Because we really need to cover two completely different areas of subject matter. In this User Guide, I’ll detail how to operate the Fly! II simulation software package itself, but I’ll provide only minimal information about actually flying any of the aircraft. In the other manual, “How to Fly!,” I’ll hardly discuss the simulator at all, except to mention occasional handy key combinations. Why? Because Fly! II is so realistic, with every real-world control visible and operable on our super photorealistic panels, that it’s far easier and more appropriate to write just as if I were teaching in the actual aircraft, rather than in a simulator (as, in fact, I do in real life). Thus, if I write something like “set the Comm 1 radio to the tower frequency” or “use the prop control to reduce RPM,” I’ll assume that you’ll either simply “grab” the onscreen control with your mouse, use appropriately configured switches or buttons on your control stick or yoke (we’ll go over how to set those up shortly), or use the appropriate keyboard shortcuts. We’ll include a complete list of those in this first manual—just remember that real aircraft aren’t flown from keyboards, and it’s the realism of onscreen control that’s part of what makes Fly! II so realistic overall. Table Of Contents FLY! II USER MANUAL................................................................................................. 1 Keystroke conventions: ................................................................................................... 8 Installation:...................................................................................................................... 8 BEFORE YOU START: ............................................................................................. 8 WHAT YOU’LL NEED: ............................................................................................ 9 MAC.................................................................................…