![]() ![]() But, I’ll leave that for advanced tutorials. Landing – it is possible to land the plane. To control your direction on the ground, use the comma and period keys on your keyboard to apply left and right brakes. The throttle indicator is on the lower left (triangle should be at the top for full throttle). ![]() To get started, hold down the Page Up key briefly (this will add power to your plane). Make your window dimension roughly square (otherwise you may not see all of the HUD display elements). You will see the HUD (Head Up Display) in green (click here for a guide to the HUD indicators). If you don’t have a joystick, you can’t select one. Choose any airport, or just the default “Katmandu”. I recommend you choose the SR-22 plane to start (it is a much slower plane than the F-16, and will help you learn the controls). Start up the flight simulator as described above. It’s another easter egg to activate the flight simulator mode the first time. Type in “Lilienthal” in the “Fly To” box. There’s another way to activate it that always works. Hit the Exit Flight Simuator button, or the ESC key on the keyboard, to leave the simulator mode. Once you have started the flight simulator mode, you will permanently have a menu choice under the Tools menu called Enter Flight Simulator…. ![]() If you are in the UK, or you are just impatient and immediately want to jump into the jet, then simply hit CTRL-A (there appears to be a bug if you have language setting set to “English (UK)”). On the Mac, the sequence is Command+Option+A. If you are on Windows (and not from the UK), just hit CTRL-ALT-A and you should get the window giving you a choice of either an F-16 or a Cirrus SR-22 aircraft. First click in the main 3D window of GE to activate it. Getting started – If you haven’t tried the hidden flight simulator mode, you need to hit one of several key sequences. Here are a few flight simulator tips to make your flying better: The big news over the weekend was the easter egg Google planted in the Google Earth 4.2 beta: a flight simulator mode (more details here). ![]()
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