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Pop Out Windows To Put Them on A Second Movie Of The Month
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There are a ton of windows when you’re flying.
Between tower communications, the radar map,
camera settings, and much more, it’s easy to overload
your main window with information. Luckily all of
those windows can be popped out and dragged onto
another screen!
Fauna Shortcuts
For folks who are more interested in seeing giraffes,
elephants, black bears, or any other animals during
their flights there’s actually an easy trick to do so.
When on the world map, just navigate over to the
search bar and type in “Fauna.” A list will pop up
complete with a bunch of available options!
You Can Jump Forward In Your Flights On Canadian Wings is a ten episode documentary on the
At the top of your screen you can open the Travel To history of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
tab which shows your planned flight path. If you Starting from early 1888, Canadian airmen and machines
really don’t enjoy the cruising stages of a flight, you have been flying in the service of the British and Canadian
can very well skip those and travel forward in time. forces.
You can even choose whether or not the game jumps This series will cover the RCAF from the early beginnings to
forward into simulated time or keeps the current live present day.
conditions. Thank you for your service!
Turn On/Off Assisted Yoke Piloting Assistance
Depending on how much experience you have in
flight simulators, you will either want to turn assisted
yoke piloting on or off. This is basically steering
assistance, making your controls less sensitive. As an
incredibly inexperienced player it helped a lot when it
came to maintaining an angle of attack for increasing
altitude. Without it my movements were too jerky to
reliably do so. Letters to the Editor
That said, if you are experienced yoke assistance is
basically equivalent to playing Mario Kart with
Hi Tim
steering assist on and anyone can tell you that it can
I just read the October edition of your magazine and
severely limit your success.
loved it. I found it to be a very interesting and
You Can Change the Simulation Rate informative publication and I feel it will go a long way
If real time flight isn’t your thing, we don’t blame you. to energize and unite the aviation community.
Short flights are easily doable in one sitting, but what Again Congratulations and good luck in the future
if you want to fly over the Pacific Ocean without from someone who has the "aviation disease" and
jumping ahead. For that you can increase the loves it.
simulation rate of the game This essentially speeds up
everything that happens in the game, making your
flights go by much faster. The default button on
keyboard to do this is “R” which you combine with
the “+” or “-” buttons to either increase or decrease
the sim rate.