Venkatesh Parthasarathy wrote: > I have FG installed at home for the last 2 weeks and use it regularly. > However, I find the manual installed with the package is aimed at users > with a little background in Aviation. I do not have that background and > find the manual difficult to use. Simple tasks such as taxiing, taking > off, cannot be performed by a first timer with the information provided > in the manual, and I am struggling even to taxi let alone takeoff and > maintain the altitude.
Wikipedia has some material, although it's scattered, and sometimes shallow.. almost name-dropping. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_flight_%28airplanes%29 looks good, describing how you'd use the controls to make the aircraft behave. There's a full list of articles under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_topics When I first got bitten by the simulator bug (before flightgear) I hunted bookstores. I came up with The Illustrated Guide to Aerodynamics, H.C.Smith Which is an understandable description, aimed at the flyer (as opposed to the aeronautical engineer) From the Ground Up, (author unlisted, Aviation Publishers Co. Ltd., Ottawa) Which seems to be a ground-school textbook intended for flying students before they get to the plane. It has a lot of material on procedures, air-traffic control and navigation, as well as basic descriptions of the instruments and controls. Both these books are now kind of old, and might not be available outside Canada, but with luck you might find something just as good. Cheers, Mel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
