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Hi I know this type of question is bad, since the answer is always in the manual/tutorials, but I am currently going through the lessons and wanted to get a quick rundown on how I'd do what I want, so me and my friends can have some fun until I really learn it all on my own.

What I want to do is just create a simple flight from one airport to the next, and fly it.

My problem is that I created the flight, made the flight path (I think, it was just a straight line from one to the next) and then I went into the game. I tried using the visual flight course rectangles, but they seemed to just go straight off into the distance and never bring me to the airport.

I was looking at my GPS and I seemed to know how to get there by it, seeing my purple flight path line.

So here are my few questions.
How do I know exactly which route to take to the airport? How can I make that visual flight path rectangle thing actually direct me to my destination?
And on a sidenote, when I request taxi for takeoff and they tell me a runway to go to, how the heck do I know where that runway is? Thanks.

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:23 pm Post subject:

After requesting and receiving taxi instructions there should be an option in the ATC window that says "Turn ON progressive taxi".. it should be option 3. Hit that and it will snow you to the runway. Ive only been to one airport that didnt have the progressive taxi option so Im assuming theres a few more out there that dont have it. I only fly into the big ones so I dont find this stuff out.

As for the other stuff, I dont know. I create a flight by picking the plane, the departure airport, the weather, the time and season, set the failures (if any), then go to flight planner. Enter the Departure and arrival points, find the route, edit it as neccesary, note the fuel and then OK it. Then I go back and enter the fuel requred and away I go. Simple as that. And I navigate via NAVAIDS or GPS, I dont use anything else outside the aircraft for directions.

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject:

lload flight simulator go to create a flight. choose departure air port choose arrival airport ok aircraft selected ok weather ok time ok.ok.

in fls u start of on the runway to start at the gate you go toa coumn at the bottom after u choose depature airport.

taxi to runway as explained in the post before.

from then on it is pretty much simple just listen to atc

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject:

YOU SAID
"How do I know exactly which route to take to the airport? How can I make that visual flight path rectangle thing actually direct me to my destination? "

Ok well looks like "samds" have pretty much said it all but ok Yeah you Start Flightsimulator then at "create a flight" On the left side you should see "FlightPlanner" Now chose where you want to go and undear neath it You should see "Chose Flight Plan Type" So say you want to fly a "Cessna" and under you chose where you want under neath Thes is "VFR" And "IFR" VFR-whic means that you must stay out of clouds,maintain certain distance from them,and have forward visability of certain distances.IFR-Istrument Flight Rules and is for like good weather and mostly use with Boeings and heavy aircrafts but can be used with any if you want.But i sounds like you want to choose "VFR" After that chose "Rounting" "High Altituide Airways"or "Low Alitituide Airways" or "VOR-VOR" So try it all with those! and tell me if it helps your problem Very Happy

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:08 pm Post subject:

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:12 am Post subject:

Thanks a lot, me and my friends have slowly been figuring things out, and I can finally set up a flight with a gps route, taxi properly (with clearance heh) and fly to our destination.

Our newest problem is that my friend likes to autopilot to his destination, but at what point do we have to take off autopilot and manually land? (if ever)
We get there and he tries to select his approach, and then two white dotted circles appear around the landing strip and the plane seems to start to circle those path's...but after that nothing really happens. Do we have to get ATC clearance to land? (I think we may have done that), or is this the point where we just take over and manually land?

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:51 pm Post subject: Consult...

Consult the ILS tutorials availble here at Surclaro...

http://forums.surclaro.com/ftopic1362.html