Unlike Free Flight, Missions have more structure and have one or more goals
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Pilot Records
Pilot Records help you keep track of your time and progress in Flight Simulator. They include Rewards, the Logbook, and Photos.
Using the In-Game Menus
Although you can select Flight Simulator options from the game shell (the screen that you see when you start Flight Simulator), most of the same options are available on the menu bar while you’re flying.
Optimizing Visuals and Performance
Unless you have a high-end computer that’s customized for gaming, optimizing Flight Simulator’s performance and its visuals may require some tradeoffs.
Using Multiple Monitors
Flight Simulator’s ability to display multiple windows on more than one monitor at a time creates a more realistic cockpit environment.
Using an Xbox 360 Controller for Windows
Flight Simulator is most realistic when you use a joystick, yoke, or other controller.
Using a Joystick
Flight Simulator is most realistic when you use a joystick, yoke, or other controller.
Understand the Big Picture
Flight Simulator allows you to experience the physics and mechanics of flight in both contemporary and historical aircraft.
Step-By-Step Guide
To keep an airplane in the air—and to land it safely on a runway—a real-world pilot must understand and manage many controls.
Using the Kneeboard
Real-world pilots need to refer to lots of information while they fly, and most put everything they need at their fingertips: on a kneeboard, a sort of clipboard that straps to the pilot’s knee.
Using the Keyboard
Controlling aircraft in Flight Simulator is a lot like flying a real aircraft.
Using Views and Windows
In a real airplane, you can look around by moving your head.
Using the Mouse
We’ve expanded the usefulness of the mouse in Flight Simulator, bringing back a feature that many users liked in older versions: using the mouse as a control device for flying.
What’s Changed
In addition to new aircraft and scenery, Flight Simulator has some improvements that affect features that you may already be familiar with.
A Century of Flight Sim Coverage
This document is the 100th issue of Computer Pilot Magazine.
All About Flights
The Free Flight dialog box allows you to easily configure a flight scenario of your own, specifying the aircraft, location, weather, and time and season.
Controlling the Engine
Engines can be humbling because they are reminders that humans really can’t fly—at least not for long—without some help.
Cockpit Basics
Airplanes have evolved from relatively simple to incredibly complex machines.
Expanding Your Hobby
If you can’t get enough of Microsoft Flight Simulator, you’re not alone.
Flying Jets
In the world of aviation, the pinnacle of airplane flying is piloting a jet.