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
  3.1.1 FG_ROOT
  3.1.2 FG_SCENERY
 3.2 Launching the simulator under Unix/Linux
 3.3 Launching the simulator under Windows
  3.3.1 Launching from the command line
 3.4 Launching the simulator under Mac OS X
 3.5 Command line parameters
  3.5.1 General Options
  3.5.2 Features
  3.5.3 Aircraft
  3.5.4 Flight model
  3.5.5 Initial Position and Orientation
  3.5.6 Rendering Options
  3.5.7 HUD Options
  3.5.8 Time Options
  3.5.9 Network Options
  3.5.10 Route/Waypoint Options
  3.5.11 IO Options
  3.5.12 Debugging options
 3.6 Joystick support
  3.6.1 Built-in joystick support
  3.6.2 Joystick support via .fgfsrc entries
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
  5.1.1 Starting on the Carrier
  5.1.2 Launching from the Catapult
  5.1.3 Finding the Carrier - TACAN
  5.1.4 Landing on the Carrier
 5.2 Atlas
 5.3 Multiplayer
  5.3.1 Quick Start
  5.3.2 Troubleshooting
 5.4 Multiple Displays
  5.4.1 Hardware
  5.4.2 Basic Configuration
  5.4.3 Advanced Configuration
 5.5 Recording and Playback
 5.6 Text to Speech with Festival
  5.6.1 Installing the Festival system
  5.6.2 Running FlightGear with Voice Support
  5.6.3 Troubleshooting
  5.6.4 Installing more voices
 5.7 Air-Air Refuelling
  5.7.1 What’s possible
  5.7.2 Necessary preparations
  5.7.3 In the cockpit
  5.7.4 In the Air
  5.7.5 More advanced topics
III  Tutorials
6 Tutorials
 6.1 In-flight Tutorials
  6.1.1 Cessna 172P tutorials
 6.2 FlightGear Tutorials
 6.3 Other Tutorials
7 A Basic Flight Simulator Tutorial
 7.1 Foreword
 7.2 Starting Up
  7.2.1 MS Windows
  7.2.2 Linux and other unices
  7.2.3 In the dark?
 7.3 The First Challenge - Flying Straight
 7.4 Basic Turns
 7.5 Taxiing on the ground
  7.5.1 Airspeed
 7.6 Advanced Turns
 7.7 A Bit of Wieheisterology
  7.7.1 Engine control
  7.7.2 Wings and speed
  7.7.3 The flaps
  7.7.4 The stall
  7.7.5 The trim
  7.7.6 What direction am I flying?
 7.8 Let’s Fly
  7.8.1 A realistic take off
  7.8.2 Landing
  7.8.3 Engine Shutdown
  7.8.4 Aborted Landing
 7.9 Dealing with the Wind
  7.9.1 Crosswind Take Off
  7.9.2 Crosswind Landing
  7.9.3 Taxiing in the Wind
 7.10 The autopilot
 7.11 What Next?
 7.12 Thanks
 7.13 Flying Other Aircraft
  7.13.1 How to land the Cherokee Warrior II
  7.13.2 How to take off and land the Piper J3 Cub
  7.13.3 How to take off and land a jet
  7.13.4 How to take off and land the P-51D Mustang
  7.13.5 How to take off and land the B-52 Stratofortress
8 A Cross Country Flight Tutorial
 8.1 Introduction
  8.1.1 Disclaimer and Thanks
 8.2 Flight Planning
 8.3 Getting Up
  8.3.1 Pre-Flight
  8.3.2 ATIS
  8.3.3 Radios
  8.3.4 Altimeter and Compass
  8.3.5 Take-Off
 8.4 Cruising
  8.4.1 The Autopilot
  8.4.2 Navigation
  8.4.3 Mixture
 8.5 Getting Down
  8.5.1 Air Traffic Control
  8.5.2 The Traffic Pattern
  8.5.3 Approach
  8.5.4 VASI
  8.5.5 Go Around
  8.5.6 Clearing the Runway
9 An IFR Cross Country Flight Tutorial
 9.1 Introduction
  9.1.1 Disclaimer
 9.2 Before Takeoff
  9.2.1 Flight Planning
  9.2.2 VHF Omnidirectional Range
  9.2.3 Takeoff
 9.3 In the Air
  9.3.1 George I
  9.3.2 MISON Impossible
  9.3.3 George II
  9.3.4 Staying the Course
  9.3.5 Yet More Cross-Checks
 9.4 Getting Down
  9.4.1 Instrument Approach Procedures
  9.4.2 Nondirectional Beacons
  9.4.3 Procedure Turn
  9.4.4 Chasing the Needle
  9.4.5 FOOTO Time
  9.4.6 George III
  9.4.7 ILS Landings
  9.4.8 Intercepting the Localizer
  9.4.9 Intercepting the Glide Slope
  9.4.10 Touchdown I
  9.4.11 Touchdown II
  9.4.12 Touchdown III
 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.1.1 Scenery
  B.1.2 Aircraft
  B.1.3 Environment
  B.1.4 User Interface
 B.2 Those, who did the work
 B.3 What remains to be done
Index