AERODYNAMICS

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FLIGHT SIMULATOR

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USER'S GUIDE

Contents

Introduction

CD-ROM contents

AFS is distributed on one CD-ROM disk containing the software for PC DOS platform. The CD is produced according to the ISO 9660 standard. The software is distributed in an non executable format and the installation must be performed by using the supplied installation script. Please read the chapter 'installation procedure' for detailed information of how to install AFS.

The AFS CD-ROM contains an installation script 'install.bat' and the AFS documentation which is provided in both TXT and HTML format, making it possible to read if you do not have a HTML browser.

INSTALL.BAT installation script

CONTENTS.TXT Documentation in Text format

CONTENTS.HTML Documentation in HTML format

System Prerequisites

This chapter lists the hardware and software prerequisites that must be fullfilled for a successfull installation of AFS.

By reading this chapter, you will reduced the risk of running into problems that are subject to terminate the installation or may lead to malfunctions or unexpected behaviour when running AFS software.

Hardware :

PC DOS at least 486DX-33

8 Mb of RAM

580K of conventional memory

Video board providing SVGA mode 640x480x256 with VESA BIOS

56 Mb of free disk space

VGA monitor

Microsoft Mouse or compatible

Standard analogic Joystick

Software :

DOS 6.2 or greater

a Memory manager (HYMEM from microsoft recommended)

AFS may run under WINDOWS 95 in DOS emulation. (see the FAQs)

Other Recomended software

a HTML browser in order the read the Hyper Text documentation (e.g netscape, mosaic ...)

Recomended Configuration

PC DOS Pentium 75

16 Mb of RAM

a Disk cache of at leat 2 Mb

580K of conventional memory

Video board providing SVGA mode 640x480x256 and 1024x768x256

56Mb of free disk space

SVGA monitor

Microsoft Mouse or compatible

Standard analogic Joystick

Additional extended memory and fast CPU will increase the performance.


AFS

AFS is an integrated set of tools used to create, edit and check aerodynamics aircraft model and to train to flight navigation.

This is the version v1.0b , please read Features/Know problem list .

- The Aerodynamics editor

is used to create and change aerodynamics properties of a given aircraft

- The Build editor

is used to create and change structural properties of a given aircraft

- The Panel editor

is used to create and change instruments panel of a given aircraft

- The Log analyser

is used to check the recorded flight

- The fly now section

is used to execute , simulate, and test the behavior of created aircraft

The AFS user interface

The AFS user interface is based on a graphical windowing system and use the keyboard, mouse to interact with the user.

On instruments such as Altimeter or HSI, click with the left mouse button, maintain the button down and move left/right or up/down.

On radio such as NAV1,NAV2 , click with the left mouse button to count up frequencies or right mouse button to count down, You could also click with the left mouse button on radio upper left corner, its allow you to enter frequencies directly from keyboard, press return when finish.

AFS dialogue boxes

Dilogues are used to set any parameters that a tool/command may need. These parmeters are usually indicted by setting option switches, marking choices or providing input from the keyboard.

The Cancel command

All AFS dialogues have a Cancel Button which allows the user to gracefully quit a dialogue without the dialogue being executed.

AFS Help facility

The AFS help facility can be accessed from the main menu by clicking on help

section. A reduced Help is also available under 'flynow' section by pressing

the 'F1' key.

Installation

Pre-flight

Fly-now

Flight resume

Setup

Aerodynamics, Build and Panel editors