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Flight: Unlimited Special Edition README: I....HOW TO PLAY 1..Basic In-Flight Controls 2..Other In-Flight Controls 3..Recorder Controls 4..FBO Controls II...TECHNICAL NOTES III..GAME NOTES IV...JOYSTICKS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I. HOW TO PLAY 1. BASIC IN-FLIGHT CONTROLS: You may use a joystick or keyboard to control your plane. In Flight: Unlimited, you will be using an aerobatic plane, and the emphasis is on flying, not fiddling with your instruments, so your most important controls are your elevators and ailerons, your throttle, and your rudder. You can use any combination of keyboard and joystick, throttle device, and rudder pedals to affect these controls. Joysticks, throttles, and rudder pedals work much the same as in other flight sims. Just connect the devices, and access the Options Panel (ESC from anywhere in the game) to calibrate. Flight's keyboard flying interface has been implemented to meet the demands of aerobatics flying. You may find it differs from keyboard systems on other flight simulators you have tried. We have found that with this keyboard system you can make small adjustments, hold a fixed attitude, and also make rapid, forceful changes. It may be unfamiliar for a short while, but it is very effective in allowing you to fly. The keys function as follows: -If you tap a key, the control surface it is linked to moves slightly, then settles back to neutral. -Tapping rapidly will quickly bring the surface to full deflection. -If you hold a key down, this holds the control surface fixed in its current position. When you release the key it returns to neutral. -You can center any control surface by pressing the key opposite its current deflection - e.g., if you have full down elevator, you can center instantly by pressing number-pad 2. The keys are laid out as follows: ALT + any key or number-pad ENTER + any key moves that control surface as far as it can go. On the number-pad: 7=full left rudder 8=down elevator 9=full right rudder 4=left aileron 5=centers elevators 6= right aileron 1=left rudder 2=up elevator 3=right rudder There are also rudder keys for the left hand: a=left rudder d=right rudder ************************************************************************* *If you have a joystick and don't have rudder pedals, you may want to * *fly with the joystick in one hand and your off-hand on the rudder keys.* ************************************************************************* By holding down the ALT or number-pad ENTER key all the time, you can create an approximation of a more standard flight-simulator keyboard interface, if that is what you prefer. 2. OTHER IN-FLIGHT CONTROLS: --Almost all the following key strokes have equivalents on the Options Panel. While flying your plane, there are a variety of different cockpit views and outside cameras that you can access. The function keys allow you to choose views, as follows: F1: Toggles between internal and external view. F2: Glance left F3: Glance up F4: Glance right F5: Cycle forwards through views (internal or external) F6: Cycle backwards through views (internal or external) F7: Chase plane external view F8: Orbital external view F9: Flyby external view F10: Fixed external view F11: Cinematic external view (view switches every few seconds) F12: Follow external view In external views, you may zoom the camera in and out, and move it around the plane. Hold the first joystick button and move the stick to move the view around. Hold the second joystick button and move the stick forwards and backwards to zoom in and out. The following keys control camera movement: I: Camera up J: Camera left K: Camera down L: Camera right Non-camera in-flight keys are: Q: Quits flying, returns you to the FBO. SPACE: Restarts hoop course in hoops, starts/stops instructor demo in lessons `: Toggles smoke on and off C: Cycles external camera views forwards Shift-C: Cycles external camera views backwards TAB: Teleports plane up 500 ft Shift-TAB: Teleports plane down 500 ft ESC: Options panel Alt-F: Toggles dials on and off, in external view Alt-M: Change screen resolution (320x200,320x400,640x480,1024x768) [: Gamma correction: lighter ]: Gamma correction: darker N: Gamma correction: center PrintScrn: Make screenshot (screenshots go to the GEN directory, under the directory in which Flight is installed.) Alt-J: Calibrate Joystick Pause: Pause game Alt-X: Exit game 3. RECORDER CONTROLS: You may also make recordings of your flights. To turn on the recorder, either select it from the Options Panel or press ALT-R during flight. These are the recorder keys: ALT-R: Turns on VCR panel (also starts recording) R: Begin/end recording. W: Rewind recording E: Eject (stops recording and turns off the VCR panel) When you make a recording and then return to the FBO, you will be asked if you want to save the recording in your logbook. If you do, it will be available for later playback from your logbook. During playback, you can press: P: Pause playback B: Plays tape backwards or increases reverse playback speed F: Plays tape forwards or increases playback speed E: Ejects tape (gives you control of plane) 4. FBO CONTROLS: TAB: Cycles forwards through FBO objects Shift-TAB: Cycles backwards through FBO objects Q,X,ALT-X: Quits to DOS T: Go to travel map O,ESC: Go to options panel L: Go to lesson selection whiteboard C: Go to Hoop Course panel B: Go to Logbook shelf H,?: Run FBO tour Enter: Use highlighted object F1: Full screen/reduced size ---------------------------------------------------------------------- II. TECHNICAL NOTES 1. In the lowest Terrain detail level, turning on the Blending option in the Renderer section of the In-Flight Menu has no effect. 2. If you eject the Flight Unlimited CD from your CD drive during installation, you may cause an error in the installation which will prevent Flight from running properly. If this occurs, please delete your previous Flight directory and re-install. 3. When selecting a sound card in the installer, due to the nature of its hardware the Ensoniq Soundscape will autosetup correctly, but will not allow you to set up manually. The Roland RAP-10 will set up manually, but will not autosetup. Also, the RAP-10 joystick port may autodetect ordinary throttle-less joysticks as having throttles and rudder pedals. 4. Loading "SHARE" may cause problems in flight. We strongly recommend that you take SHARE out of your AUTOEXEC.BAT start-up file with the REM command. 5. When saving copies of the screen with the PRINT SCREEN key, it is possible to cause Flight to produce corrupt .pcx files, by flying in 640x480 screen resolution. To fix this, you need only change screen resolutions once (by pressing alt-m) or visit the In-Flight Menu (by pressing ESCAPE), and then you can save screen images from any screen resolution, including 640x480. 6. You must have at least 15 megabytes of space on your hard drive to run Flight Unlimited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- III. GAME NOTES 1. When you're flying, you should be wary of putting your plane in an accelerated stall. Pulling the stick back quickly, all the way, is often less effective than pulling back gently and firmly. When you slam the stick back suddenly, you can stall your wing briefly, so that you lose airspeed and actually pull up more slowly than you would with a slower pull. 2. Flight starts with the gyroscopic flight model set to on as a default (you can change it in the In-Flight Menu: Options panel). The gyroscopic flight model (as opposed to the standard model) is unique to Flight, makes for exquisitely realistic flying, and lets you do cool things you can't do on any other simulator. It allows for gyroscopic effects such as slipstream, torque, and gyroscopic precession (see Chapter 8 of the manual, p. 50-51 for an explanation of these effects). However, if these effects are making it difficult for you to fly the lessons (particularly if you don't have rudder pedals), you may want to switch to the standard flight model, which is simplified but in some ways easier to cope with. 3. Flight starts out with the screen resolution set to 320x400 while you're flying. You will probably want to adjust screen resolution for yourself (alt-m while flying, or the View section in the In-Flight Menu) - Flight offers a wide variety of screen resolutions, including 1024x768 mode (this mode gives a display of almost one million pixels, among the highest SVGA displays and frame rates available anywhere; understandably, it will not give you as high a frame rate as 320x200 mode). You can find your own balance between graphics quality and gameplay speed, depending on your preferences and the capabilities of your computer. 4. Like real planes, the planes in Flight can take be damaged by high-G stresses and overspeeding (if your airspeed indicator is near or at the red mark, you are probably overspeeding), and can even break apart in mid-air! When you hear your wings start to creak from the strain, you may want to take it easy, or switch your plane strength from normal to nigh-invulnerable mode. For this reason, you will probably not always want to fly with your throttle at max. 6. We have added an additional camera view in Flight - the ground camera. It is available through the In-Flight Menu: View panel, or by cycling through views by pressing c or shift-c. It shows the plane from a fixed vantage point on the ground, as an spectator might see it during an air-show or aerobatics competition. You can zoom in and out as you would in other views. 7. When you are flying a towed takeoff in the Grob, you'll be better off not using the rudders. Just use your ailerons to keep the wings level. 8. Look at hints.fu for some basic pointers on the lessons. 9. Don't forget to calibrate your joystick! Press alt-j from flight or the FBO, or choose controls in the In-Flight Menu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. JOYSTICKS 1. If you are using the XL Action Joystick you should configure your joystick option to "Thrustmaster" in the Controls section of the In-Flight Menu. 2. For those of you who own a Thrustmaster (P)FCS/WCSII or F16-FLCS, we have included the appropriate .ADV and .B50 files in the DEVICES\THRUSTMS directory. 3. In the DEVICES directory on your CD-ROM, we have also included config files for the Gravis Firebird and Gravis Phoenix, in DEVICES\FIREBIRD and DEVICES\PHOENIX subdirectories, respectively.