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This is where you select the flight basics, e.g., which plane you want to fly, the weather conditions, the time and date, and so on.
Here, you can select your starting airport from where you’ll be taking off if you just want to tour an area.
If you want to emulate a “commercial” flight, you’ll need to select your starting- and destination airports, your desired cruising altitude, and so on.
This is the route which the computer came up with, based on its internal maps, guidelines, and so on.
This is right before takeoff. We’ll preset our cruising altitude to FL350 (35,000’), cruising speed to 250kts, then set runway heading to 059, and flaps to 10°, so we don’t have to do it in the air.
We should’ve turned on our nav lights, rotating beacon, and strobe back at parking, but the sim starts us out at the runway, so we have to do it here instead.
This is the view looking out the window as we’re banking sharply to the left, shortly after takeoff.
…somewhere over south New Jersey.
This is the cockpit view, with the GPS unit displayed as a popup window and tucked away to the side, covering the landng-gear controls which we (obviously) won’t be using all that much at 35,000’…
The Salisbury VOR (SBY) is just under 50 miles ahead.
We’re heading south, but need to land on runway 36R, which points due north, so here we are passing KMCO in the background and about to hang a yooey.
We’ made our approach about 30° off the runway’s axis, and are just lining it up now, getting ready to set down.
Seconds away from touching down, all lined up, turning off all autopilot/autothrottle controls to put it down manually. Full flaps at 30°, autobrake (rides the wheel-brakes and engages reverse thrust from the engines) set to 2, which is pretty hard for a nice long runway, but I’m in a rush… :D
We landed just fine, and just pulled off the runway onto a taxiway, will now contact ground to tell us which taxiways to use to pull up to the terminal.
Up ahead you can see another World Travel 747 just like ours, and a Landmark 777 as well.
Just pulled up to the gate, powering down the engines, heading off to relax…
“Lose not thine airspeed, lest the ground smite ye.”