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T H E L O W L A N D S
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A BIT OF SCOTLAND GROWN FROM AN ACORN!!
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This is a conventional flight simulator designed using the Flight Simulator
Toolkit from Simis. In it, you will find a 'world' 100km by 100km which
represents central Scotland. As much as possible, objects within this world
map some real feature of the lowlands landscape. You will find Loch Lomond and
its dominant mountain, Ben Lomond. The Campsie hills to the north of Glasgow
are there with many other large scale features like Carron Reservoir, the
Forth Rail Bridge, the Erskine Bridge.
Many, though by no means all, roads are included. Motorways like the M74, M8,
M80 and M9 along with more minor roads can be followed as aids to navigation.
Some tower blocks and house type buildings are in as well as the occasional
gasometer and football ground. A couple of major roads have trucks driving
along them and a convoy of boats can be found sailing up the River Clyde. In
the construction of a mapped landscape like this, one has to make huge
compromises in the amount of detail included. Some roads have their paths
carefully copied while others are not even represented. The spread of the
simulator's detail is not in any way consistent but rather has evolved based
on my own interest in flying and what I wanted to see from the cockpit. There
is, however, a hefty amount of detail to fly around. Since I live in Glasgow
and fly from Cumbernauld, much detail is focussed around these areas.
Within the area covered by the 'world', there are 6 facilities for landing a
fixed wing aircraft (that I know of). These are Cumbernauld Airport, Edinburgh
Airport, Fife Airport (Glenrothes), Glasgow Airport, Prestwick Airport and
Strathallan Airfield. The Cumbernauld runway, both runways at Glasgow and the
two major strips of Edinburgh are shown accurately in size and position, other
runways in position only (in order to save space in the 'shapes' directory; 77
file limit you see). Each airfield has a beacon to aid navigation to it, but
the aircraft you are flying is not equipped appropriatly. Cumbernauld runway
26 is the starting runway so take off will roughly due west. This airport is
designated with beacon 0. The beacons are:-
0 Cumbernauld Airport
1 Glasgow Airport
2 Edinburgh Airport
3 Strathallan Airfield
4 Prestwick Airport
5 Fife Airport (Glenrothes)
6 Denotes the position of a DME beacon in the Borders
Since the purpose of the simulator is to mimic civilian airspace, there are no
enemy aircraft to fight. Despite this, most of the building type structures
(not roads, rivers but hangers and tower blocks) are easily destroyed with
cannon fire. You may land on all the roads if you wish though many are quite
narrow and require some skill to get down.
When flying around areas with a lot of detail, i.e. around Glasgow, it is
possible to notice the screen update rates decrease, even on an ARM3 machine.
In certain cases, the sheer workload on the machine makes the 3x 'fast time
simulation' go unstable with sometimes spectacular results.
Flying the Simulator
====================
Getting Up
----------
At the start, when on the runway. Use Z to zero the mouse control before you
begin to move. The engine is set running when you first begin but to start and
stop it:-
W takes the Wheel brakes off
Z zeroes the mouse
E Engine on/off
= revs up
Shift= full power
- revs down
Shift- Idle power
Once you are rolling down the runway, push forward on the mouse slightly to
bring the tail up then pull back when the speed reaches about 70 Knots. The
nose of the plane should rise and you may hear the wheels skate over the
tarmac as the plane lifts. You should now be flying successfully.
Ctrl E Emergency Eject, in case you get into trouble
< Rudder/steer left
> Rudder/steer right
Weapons
-------
Weapon stocks are shown on left of instrument panel.
Adjust Fire 30mm cannon (500 rounds)
Other Controls
--------------
A Autostabilizers. Useful for long flight.
Navigation
----------
The compass is upper centre of instrument panel.
Simulation Controls
-------------------
N Engine noise on/off
Q All noise on/off
Pad 8 View forward with instrument panel
Pad 5 View forward without instrument panel
Pad 1,2,3,4,6,7,9 Other views
The simulation can be viewed from other vantage points.
V This gives a vantage point from outside the aircraft looking at
it. The view direction can be altered from the numeric keypad.
O Views the plane from the control tower and up to 10km away.
Allows you to �radio control� from the tower.
Finally
P Pause simulation
X Fast time simulation on/off. Runs the simulation at 3 times
normal speed. Dodgy in this simulator when lots of detail is
present
This flight simulator is based on a Stolp 'Starduster Too', a modern biplane
designed with the best characteristics of the classic age of the biplane in
mind, owned and operated by Jim McTaggart. It is very capable of advanced
aerobatics and is often seen at many air displays in Scotland.
This simulator was made using the Flight Simulator Toolkit from Simis Ltd.
This form of the simulator is copyright �David Woods 1993
Date of this version - 14 December 1993
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