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* Taxi onto the deck elevators, operate them and park on the hangar deck (0.9.10 and later)
* Taxi onto the deck elevators, operate them and park on the hangar deck (0.9.10 and later)


==What to do first==
You can start FlightGear with the command line or GUI. To position your [[aircraft]] on the carrier at startup, use the following [[Command Line Parameters|command line options]] (Note the upper-case "N". You can copy-paste this. The slash will make it look like one line) :
Note: as of version 1.0, the default preferences has the Nimitz enabled, so you don't need to do the editing described below. Also, there is a command line option --ai-scenario you can use instead of editing.
fgfs  \
--carrier=Nimitz \
--aircraft=seahawk \
--ai-scenario=nimitz_demo


To enable the carrier, you must edit your <tt>preferences.xml</tt> file. This lives in your FlightGear data directory, the one under which your Aircraft, Scenery etc directories reside. Open this file in a text editor (such as notepad on Windows, or TextEdit on OSX - Linux users are probably familiar with such software... try kedit or gedit if not.)
Search for the word ``nimitz'. You ought to find something that looks like this :
<!-- <scenario>nimitz_demo</scenario> -->
You should remove the ``comment' marks so that it looks like this:
<scenario>nimitz_demo</scenario>
Also ensure that the line above that referring to ai being enabled is set to "true"
Save the file and quit the text editor.
[[Image:Carrier4.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[FlightGear Wizard]]]]
You are now ready to start FlightGear. To position your [[aircraft]] on the carrier at startup, use the following [[Command Line Parameters|command line options]] (noting the upper-case "N") :
--carrier=Nimitz --aircraft=seahawk
or
--carrier=Eisenhower --aircraft=seahawk


Note that several FG aircraft are carrier capable, but the [[Hawker Seahawk|Seahawk]] is possibly the easiest to fly to begin with.
Note that several FG aircraft are carrier capable, but the [[Hawker Seahawk|Seahawk]] is possibly the easiest to fly to begin with.
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