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Contents First Flights........................................................................ 2 Installing Flight Simulator................................................................... 3 To Start Flight Simulator..................................................................... 3 Learning to Fly.................................................................4 Experience the Dream ....................................................................... 4 A Century of Flight............................................................................. 5 Getting Started .................................................................................. 6 Flying Lessons................................................................................... 7 The Learning Center .......................................................................... 7 Create a Flight................................................................................... 8 Select a Flight ................................................................................... 8 Flight Simulator News........................................................................ 8 Multiplayer......................................................................................... 9 Settings............................................................................................. 9 Dreams Of The Sky......................................................... 10 Weather........................................................................................... 11 Instrument Flying............................................................................. 13 Historical Flights ...................................................... 14 Of Distance and Terrain........................................ 16 Crossing the Atlantic........................................................................ 16 A Flying Geography Lesson.............................................................. 17 The Scenery Below.......................................................................... 19 Technology Takes Off ..............................................20 The Pursuit of Speed........................................................................ 20 Navigation....................................................................................... 21 GPS................................................................................................. 22 The Kneeboard ................................................................................ 22 Air Traffic Control............................................................................. 23 The aircraft ......................................................................24 Expanding Your Dreams Of Flight ................26 The Web Community........................................................................ 27 Adding Aircraft................................................................................. 27 Piloting Virtual Airlines ..................................................................... 28 The Next Century of Flight ............................................................... 28 Support Options ............................................................29 F L I G H T S I M U L AT O R 2 0 0 4 A CENTURY OF FLIGHT 1 Almost four years of exhausting work and meticulous experimentation went into making the Wright Flyer's first 12-second powered flight a success. First Flights On a cold December day in 1903, after weeks of testing on the windy dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Flyer sputtered to life. At 10:35 A.M., the Flyer, propellers whirring, began to slide down its narrow track. Then it lifted from the track and rose above the sands of Kitty Hawk. The flight lasted only 12 seconds and covered a mere 120 feet. But there was no doubt--on that windy December 17, the Wright brothers had realized a human dream. They had flown! Air Force Historical Research Agency Photo Installing Flight Simulator If your computer doesn't support automatic installation, follow these steps 1. Insert Flight Simulator 2004 Disc 1 into your CD drive. 2. Click Start on the taskbar. 3. Point to Settings and/or select Control Panel. 4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs. 5. For Windows 98, 98SE, or ME, select the Install/Uninstall tab, and click Install. For Windows 2000 or XP, select Add New Programs and click CD or Floppy. 6. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. During setup, select Express to install all necessary Flight Simulator files in their default locations. Otherwise, click Install to choose one of two installation options: Compact or Complete. If you need to conserve disk space, choose the Compact setup option. If you want to optimize flying performance, choose Complete. Just 30 years later, the Douglas DC­3 was making regular airline service comfortable and profitable. Three and a half decades after that, on February 9, 1969, the first Boeing 747 (left, bottom) thundered into the skies over Everett, Washington. Now, it's your turn to fly into history. To Start Flight Simulator · Double-click the Flight Simulator 2004 icon on the Windows desktop. Note: You'll need to have Disc 4 in your CD drive each time you start Flight Simulator. If you've chosen Compact installation, you'll also need to keep Disc 4 in your CD drive during flight. The Wright Flyer's first successful flight (above, top) was shorter than the economy-class section of a Boeing 747. 2 Corbis F L I G H T S I M U L AT O R 2 0 0 4 A CENTURY OF FLIGHT 3 Developed as a World War I bomber, the Vickers Vimy was the finest long-range aircraft of its day. In 1919 and 1920, the Vimy claimed three incredible flying records. Learning to Fly It's been a full century since the Wright Flyer's first powered flight. At first, the skies were empty and the airspace unrestricted. It was an age of slow speeds, spruce-and-fabric wings, and airfields that were also corn fields. In the following decades, aviation filled the skies with beautiful aircraft and awesome adventure, while technology allowed pilots to travel through all kinds of weather. Within a few decades of the birth of powered flight, pilots and passengers were soaring across continents, racing over oceans, and jetting around the world in less than a day. It was a century when the airplane brought distant lands closer and changed people's sense of space and time--a century when the world learned to fly. By piloting the Wright Flyer on the windswept dunes at Kitty Hawk, navigating the Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis" across the dark North Atlantic, and bringing in a sophisticated Boeing 747­400 for a smooth landing in Tokyo, you can experience the range of technology that defined the first hundred years of powered flight. You'll slip into the cockpits of some of the century's greatest aircraft and pilot them on their historic flights. And once you take flight, you'll have a greater appreciation for what those early aviators may have felt as they followed the train tracks, squinted into the wind, pushed in the throttle, and roared aloft. A Century of Flight "The best way to understand pilots--even pilots who lived 75 years ago--is simply to fly with them," writes Flying magazine columnist and West Coast editor Lane Wallace in her introduction to A Century of Flight. In nine evocative stories, Wallace recounts her experiences with A Century of Flight the historic aircraft featured in Flight Simulator and reflects on their legacies. Savoring the rare opportunity to sit in Amelia Earhart's Vega, Wallace writes, "`This is where she sat,' I whisper wonderingly to myself, well aware of how few people since then have ever been allowed to sit in the silence of this carefully preserved cathedral ..." Experience the Dream The centennial of powered flight has enjoyed a healthy share of media coverage. But it's one thing to learn about history, and quite another to experience it. And that is what Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight is all about--allowing you to experience the dream of flight firsthand. Posters celebrated the Vickers Vimy's nonstop transatlantic crossing. 4 Hulton Archive/Getty Images F L I G H T S I M U L AT O R 2 0 0 4 A CENTURY OF FLIGHT 5 Each Century of Flight story includes links to re-created historical flights. After reading about each aircraft, its famous flights, and its notable pilots, you can fly into history--piloting the de Havilland DH­88 Comet in the MacRobertson Air Race, or flying an early airline route through the Rocky Mountains in a Douglas DC­3. Amelia Earhart's Vega in Flight Simulator Flying Lessons Flight Simulator offers two ways for you to learn to fly: Climb into the cockpit and fly by the seat of your pants--as many of the first pilots did--or learn using the same techniques that modern pilots employ, progressing throu ...