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==Learning to fly== | ==Learning to fly== | ||
===Tutorials=== | ===Tutorials=== | ||
Many aircrafts have their own tutorial. With tutorials, you can learn to operate particular aircrafts but also learn to fly. You can access tutorials by going to the "Help" menu and selecting "Tutorial." A great place to start is the tutorial for the Cessna 172p aircraft, commonly used in real life to learn to fly fixed-winged aircrafts. If the tutorial starts without a runway and surrounded by water, your setup of Flighgear is missing the scenery for the airport at which the tutorial was supposed to run. To fix the problem, you have to [[Howto:Install scenery|download scenery]], which can be done by manually downloading the appropriate scenery, automatically | Many aircrafts have their own tutorial. With tutorials, you can learn to operate particular aircrafts but also learn to fly. You can access tutorials by going to the "Help" menu and selecting "Tutorial." A great place to start is the tutorial for the Cessna 172p aircraft, commonly used in real life to learn to fly fixed-winged aircrafts. If the tutorial starts without a runway and surrounded by water, your setup of Flighgear is missing the scenery for the airport at which the tutorial was supposed to run. To fix the problem, you have to [[Howto:Install scenery|download scenery]], which can be done by manually downloading the appropriate scenery, automatically downloading the scenery for the airport by enabling [[TerraSync]] by selecting "Download scenery automatically" from the "Downloads" section of the "Settings" menu of the Flightgear launcher, using the graphical Java-based tool [[TerraMaster]] (requiring the [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html Java SE Runtime Environment]) to download the appropriate scenery, or obtaining the necessary scenery also available for purchase on Blu-ray from the FlightGear store. [http://store.flightgear.org/product/flightgear-complete-collection-bluray/] | ||
== Making your first flight == | == Making your first flight == | ||