1 Preface
 1.1 Condensed Reading
 1.2 Instructions For the Truly Impatient
 1.3 Further Reading
I  Installation
2 Want to have a free flight? Take FlightGear!
 2.1 Yet Another Flight Simulator?
 2.2 System Requirements
 2.3 Choosing A Version
 2.4 Flight Dynamics Models
 2.5 About This Guide
3 Preflight: Installing FlightGear
 3.1 Installing scenery
  3.1.1 Fetch Scenery as you fly (TerraSync)
  3.1.2 Manual Scenery Install
  3.1.3 Creating your own Scenery
 3.2 Installing aircraft
 3.3 Installing documentation
II  Flying with FlightGear
4 Takeoff: How to start the program
 4.1 Launching the simulator
 4.2 Launching from the command line
  4.2.1 FG_ROOT
  4.2.2 FG_SCENERY
  4.2.3 Launching the simulator under Windows
  4.2.4 Launching the simulator under Unix/Linux
  4.2.5 Launching the simulator under macOS
 4.3 fgfsrc configuration files
 4.4 Command line parameters
  4.4.1 General Options
  4.4.2 Features
  4.4.3 Sound
  4.4.4 Aircraft
  4.4.5 Flight model
  4.4.6 Initial Position and Orientation
  4.4.7 Environment Options
  4.4.8 Rendering Options
  4.4.9 HUD Options
  4.4.10 Aircraft System Options
  4.4.11 Time Options
  4.4.12 Network Options
  4.4.13 Route/Waypoint Options
  4.4.14 IO Options
  4.4.15 Debugging options
 4.5 Joystick support
5 In-flight: All about instruments, keystrokes and menus
 5.1 Starting the engine
  5.1.1 Piston Aircraft
  5.1.2 Turboprop Aircraft
  5.1.3 Jet Aircraft
 5.2 Keyboard controls
  5.2.1 Aircraft controls
  5.2.2 Simulator controls
  5.2.3 Autopilot controls
 5.3 Mouse-controlled actions
  5.3.1 Normal mode
  5.3.2 Flight Control mode
  5.3.3 View Direction mode
 5.4 Menu entries
 5.5 The Instrument Panel
 5.6 The Head-Up Display
6 Features
 6.1 Multiplayer
  6.1.1 Quick Start
  6.1.2 Other Methods
  6.1.3 Troubleshooting
 6.2 Aircraft Carrier
  6.2.1 Starting on the Carrier
  6.2.2 Launching from the Catapult
  6.2.3 Finding the Carrier – TACAN
  6.2.4 Landing on the Carrier
 6.3 Atlas
 6.4 Multiple Displays
 6.5 Multiple Computer
  6.5.1 Basic Concepts
  6.5.2 Basic Configuration
  6.5.3 Advanced Configuration
 6.6 Recording and Playback
 6.7 Text to Speech with Festival
  6.7.1 Installing the Festival system
  6.7.2 Running FlightGear with Voice Support
  6.7.3 Troubleshooting
  6.7.4 Installing more voices
 6.8 Air-Air Refuelling
  6.8.1 Setup
  6.8.2 Multiplayer Refueling
III  Tutorials
7 Tutorials
 7.1 In-flight Tutorials
  7.1.1 Cessna 172P Tutorials
 7.2 FlightGear Tutorials
 7.3 Other Tutorials
8 A Basic Flight Simulator Tutorial
 8.1 Foreword
 8.2 Starting Up
  8.2.1 Using the Launcher
 8.3 The First Challenge – Flying Straight
 8.4 Basic Turns
 8.5 Taxiing on the ground
  8.5.1 Airspeed
 8.6 Advanced Turns
 8.7 A Bit of Wieheisterology
  8.7.1 Engine control
  8.7.2 Wings and speed
  8.7.3 The flaps
  8.7.4 The stall
  8.7.5 The trim
  8.7.6 What direction am I flying?
  8.7.7 A look around the panel
 8.8 Let’s Fly
  8.8.1 A realistic take off
  8.8.2 Landing
  8.8.3 Engine Shutdown
  8.8.4 Aborted Landing
 8.9 Dealing with the Wind
  8.9.1 Crosswind Take Off
  8.9.2 Crosswind Landing
  8.9.3 Taxiing in the Wind
 8.10 The autopilot
 8.11 What Next?
 8.12 Flying Other Aircraft
  8.12.1 How to land the Cherokee Warrior II
  8.12.2 How to take off and land the Piper J3 Cub
  8.12.3 How to take off and land a jet
  8.12.4 How to take off and land the P-51D Mustang
  8.12.5 How to take off and land the B-52 Stratofortress
 8.13 Thanks
9 A Cross Country Flight Tutorial
 9.1 Introduction
  9.1.1 Disclaimer and Thanks
 9.2 Flight Planning
 9.3 Getting Up
  9.3.1 Preflight
  9.3.2 ATIS
  9.3.3 Radios
  9.3.4 Altimeter and Heading Indicator
  9.3.5 Take-Off
 9.4 Cruising
  9.4.1 The Autopilot
  9.4.2 Navigation
  9.4.3 Mixture
 9.5 Getting Down
  9.5.1 Air Traffic Control
  9.5.2 The Traffic Pattern
  9.5.3 Approach
  9.5.4 VASI
  9.5.5 Go Around
  9.5.6 Clearing the Runway
10 An IFR Cross Country Flight Tutorial
 10.1 Introduction
  10.1.1 Disclaimers
 10.2 Before Takeoff
  10.2.1 Flight Planning
  10.2.2 VHF Omnidirectional Range
  10.2.3 How High Are We Really?
 10.3 Takeoff
 10.4 In the Air
  10.4.1 George I
  10.4.2 MISON Impossible
  10.4.3 George II
  10.4.4 Staying the Course
  10.4.5 Yet More Cross-Checks
 10.5 Getting Down
  10.5.1 Instrument Approach Procedures
  10.5.2 Non-directional Beacons
  10.5.3 Procedure Turn
  10.5.4 Chasing the Needle
  10.5.5 FOOTO Time
  10.5.6 George III
  10.5.7 ILS Landings
  10.5.8 Intercepting the Localizer
  10.5.9 Intercepting the Glide Slope
  10.5.10 Touchdown, Almost
  10.5.11 A Confession
  10.5.12 Touchdown, Not
  10.5.13 Touchdown
 10.6 Epilogue
11 A Helicopter Tutorial
 11.1 Preface
 11.2 Getting started
 11.3 Lift-Off
 11.4 In the air
 11.5 Back to Earth I
 11.6 Back to Earth II
IV  Appendices
A Missed approach: If anything refuses to work
 A.1 FlightGear Problem Reports
 A.2 General problems
 A.3 Potential problems under Linux
 A.4 Potential problems under Windows
B Landing: further thoughts before leaving the plane
 B.1 A Sketch on the History of FlightGear
  B.1.1 Scenery
  B.1.2 Aircraft
  B.1.3 Environment
  B.1.4 User Interface
 B.2 Those, who did the work
 B.3 What remains to be done
C Main Index
D Index of Command Line Options
E List of Acronyms
F List of Tables
G List of Figures