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User Documentation

Getting Started

• New to FlightGear
• Why FlightGear
• FlightGear Reviews
• Features
• FAQ
• Hardware Recommendations
• Notebooks known to run FlightGear
• Recommended Software
• Troubleshooting Problems
• Volunteer
• Real Life Experience

Configuring Flightgear

• Command Line Parameters
• Installing Scenery
• Improving Framerates
• Multiplayer Howto
• Linux software audio mixing with FlightGear
• Using multiple monitors with FlightGear

Using Flightgear

• Aircraft
• Helicopter
• Vehicle
• Suggested Aircraft
• Suggested Airports/Scenery
• Suggested Flights
• Starting in the Air
• Instant Replay
• Preset Properties
• Realism
• Flying the Helicopter
• Doing aerotow over the net

Interactive Scenarios

• Carrier Howto
• Air-Air Refueling Howto
• AI Systems
• Interactive Traffic
• Soaring

Using additional FlightGear Tools

• FGCOM realtime voice comms
• Atlas - How to set it up

Flying Resources

• Tutorial Resources
• Definitions Acronyms
• Getting IFR Charts
• Understanding Altitude
• Understanding Navigation
• Understanding Propeller Torque and P-Factor
• Understanding Aerodynamics
• Communications
• Weather
• Avionics and Instruments
• Everything you need
• FAA Handbooks & Manuals