Pre-FLIGHT

The Pre-Flight section  contains four embedded choice as follow :

  Airport select    Weather setup   Flight planing      Instructor

Airport select

This GUI (Graphics User Interface) is intended to set and manage Airports/Navaids data. It is composed of four parts:

Each part has two buttons which allows to save or delete the displayed data. A field can bet set by clicking on it with the left button of the mouse,typing and ending with the "enter" key. Some fields have an help button which displays existing values. The user can pick out one of them by selecting it with the left button of the mouse and then pushing the OK button.

Nota:

The runway ID field cannot be set without the use of the help button, because it is based to airport names.

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Weather setup

Haze function

The haze function is enabled if the Horizontal visibility is less than 1000 hundred Fts for one or more level or if the ceiling level is less than 1000 hundred Fts.

Wind direction

The wind direction must be a number between 0 and 360 which indicated the direction from which the wind comes.

Wind velocity

The wind velocity must be a number between 0 and 360 which indicated the velocity in KTS.

Turbulence

Not yet implemented in this version

Horizontal visibility

Set Horizontal visibility in hundred feet, (1000 Fts means no limits), by clicking on the desired case level and by entering the new visibility

Nota:

An average Wind (velocity/direction) is automatically computed in agreement with altitude levels setting.

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Flight planing

Permits to choose an aircraft family (propeller/Jet) and a predefined aircraft. AFS is provided with some predefined aircrafts such as Cessna 152, 172 , etc ...

To add your own aircraft you could use Panel, Aerodynamics and build editors  in Aerodynamics section.

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Instructor

This function is not implemented in AFS basic version, it is available in AFS professional version, and allow an instructor to monitor and modify the current flight by using a second PC connected by the COM ports. This functionality is only provided on request.

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