Contents
Preface
I  Installation
1 Want to have a free flight? Take FlightGear!
 1.1 Yet Another Flight Simulator?
 1.2 System Requirements
 1.3 Choosing A Version
 1.4 Flight Dynamics Models
 1.5 About This Guide
2 Preflight: Installing FlightGear
 2.1 Installing scenery
 2.2 Installing aircraft
 2.3 Installing documentation
II  Flying with FlightGear
3 Takeoff: How to start the program
 3.1 Environmental Variables
 3.2 Launching the simulator under Unix/Linux
 3.3 Launching the simulator under Windows
 3.4 Launching the simulator under Mac OS X
 3.5 Command line parameters
 3.6 Joystick support
4 In-flight: All about instruments, keystrokes and menus
 4.1 Starting the engine
 4.2 Keyboard controls
 4.3 Menu entries
 4.4 The Instrument Panel
 4.5 The Head Up Display
 4.6 Mouse-controlled actions
5 Features
 5.1 Aircraft Carrier
 5.2 Atlas
 5.3 Multiplayer
 5.4 Multiple Displays
 5.5 Recording and Playback
 5.6 Text to Speech with Festival
 5.7 Air-Air Refuelling
III  Tutorials
6 Tutorials
 6.1 In-flight Tutorials
 6.2 FlightGear Tutorials
 6.3 Other Tutorials
7 A Basic Flight Simulator Tutorial
 7.1 Foreword
 7.2 Starting Up
 7.3 The First Challenge - Flying Straight
 7.4 Basic Turns
 7.5 Taxiing on the ground
 7.6 Advanced Turns
 7.7 A Bit of Wieheisterology
 7.8 Let’s Fly
 7.9 Dealing with the Wind
 7.10 The autopilot
 7.11 What Next?
 7.12 Thanks
 7.13 Flying Other Aircraft
8 A Cross Country Flight Tutorial
 8.1 Introduction
 8.2 Flight Planning
 8.3 Getting Up
 8.4 Cruising
 8.5 Getting Down
9 An IFR Cross Country Flight Tutorial
 9.1 Introduction
 9.2 Before Takeoff
 9.3 In the Air
 9.4 Getting Down
 9.5 Epilogue
10 A Helicopter Tutorial
 10.1 Preface
 10.2 Getting started
 10.3 Lift-Off
 10.4 In the air
 10.5 Back to Earth I
 10.6 Back to Earth II
IV  Appendices
A Missed approach: If anything refuses to work
 A.1 FlightGear Problem Reports
 A.2 General problems
 A.3 Potential problems under Linux
 A.4 Potential problems under Windows
B Landing: Some further thoughts before leaving the plane
 B.1 A Sketch on the History of FlightGear
 B.2 Those, who did the work
 B.3 What remains to be done
Index