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helping my dad
My sister and I recently bought our 70+ computer phobic father some flight
simulator gear. Dad was a F-86 fighter pilot getting out of flight school just as the korean war ended. because of this i purchased fs2002 and combat sim 2 because i saw/downloaded the combat sim adaption that included the f-86/mig campaign. Bought a sidewinder joystick, which installed so quickly that he was convinced it had not installed. He has windows xp professional a 2400 mhz dell. It always amazed me that he was certified to deal with nukes, but cannot find the Start button (literally) if nukes had been controlled by computers back then, I am not sure we would be here! My sister and i plan to buy him some rudder pedals and even a better joystick if in fact he really starts using it. I am trying to help him long distance, and got him throught the installation and registration and through the cessna training flight. Can someone tell me some real simple things that I could direct him towards to help him get into a little faster? 1) How does he review/assign what all the buttons on his joystick do? 2) How does he look around? That is, he appeared stuck on the forward view with half the screen being the control panel. Is there a quick way to look out the side window or view the plane from outside? 3) How does he get to the documentation (notice that i list this one last, because I am realistic how often he will read it) any suggetions on what flights or tricks i should suggest to him would also be appreciated. Bob |
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