Hey, I'm 12 and i really dont no much about the dynamics and physics of flying, i just like playing flightgear. i have 2 questions-1.)How do u fly the helicopter (i cant get it to do anything so i need the complete controls)2.)How can u put the different aircraft that you download and fly them? (i did what it said on the site, but it didnt work [it couldnt extract, there was nothing there to extract])

>Hey, I'm 12 and i really dont no much about the dynamics and>physics of flying, i just like playing flightgear. i have 2>questions->1.)How do u fly the helicopter (i cant get it to do anything>so i need the complete controls)Ok, first you have to start the engine.To do this you need to press the "}" key.Then wait until the rotor is running at full power.To lift of you need to press the "Page down" key todescend you need to press the "Page up" key.>2.)How can u put the different aircraft that you download and>fly them? (i did what it said on the site, but it didnt work>[it couldnt extract, there was nothing there to extract])This could be a problem with fgrun.exe the gui interface to run flightgear.In this case try to run flightgear without fgrun.exe at the command prompt with the --aircraft optionby executnig fgfs.exe.To do this you need to be in the flightgear/bin directory.Example:fgfs.exe --aircraft=bo105fgfs.exe --show-aircraftgives you a list of available aircrafts.

umm, i got the helicopter part, but, not really the more aircraft thing.... can u like give me a step-by-step walk-through of it, because i still don't understand and it's still not working. thanx

>umm, i got the helicopter part, but, not really the more>aircraft thing.... can u like give me a step-by-step>walk-through of it, because i still don't understand and it's>still not working. thanx Read this tutorial to get used to the Windows command prompt.http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ind...showtutorial=76After that open a command prompt window and switch to your Flightgear directorywith the "cd" command where you can find the file fgfs.exe.You can check your location with the command "dir".When you have found the directory where fgfs.exe is do what i said in my last posting.

but what do i do when i'm in that black box thing?I think the problem is that when I download the planes, i dont get a compressed (Zipped) file to extract into my flightgear data thingmaybe i should just give up?

The "black box thing" is called a command shell. Try and launch FlightGear by typing in "runfgfs".There is a documentation on FlightGear's website regarding how to launch FlightGear in Windows. If typing in "runfgfs" doesn't work, you may want to check out the documentation:http://flightgear.org/Docs/InstallGuide/ge...tml#x9-310004.2As to compressed files, there are many formats out there other than zip. The files that you have downloaded from FlightGear's mirror are call tarballs. You will have to get a seperate program (similar to WinZip) to be able to extract the files. Unfortunately, I am a Linux user, so I cannot tell what program you will have to get for Windows or where to get it.As a side note, I highly encourage you to start using Linux now. It will give you better understanding and knowledge on computer than Windows can. I can only hope to start using Linux when I was twelve years old.

>As to compressed files, there are many formats out there other>than zip. The files that you have downloaded from>FlightGear's mirror are call tarballs. You will have to get a>seperate program (similar to WinZip) to be able to extract the>files. Unfortunately, I am a Linux user, so I cannot tell>what program you will have to get for Windows or where to get>it.>7-Zip will work:http://www.7-zip.org/