INSTALLATION:
Installation is a matter of  using the  included Installer  to install the files into your fs2004 installation.   That extraction into your main fs2004 folder will install all your aircraft and scenery files!      Please do not manually install this file as you might miss something and be unhappy with the results! 

                   PLEASE READ THE REST OF THIS DOCUMENT BEFORE BOOTING UP SO YOU CAN PROPERLY ENJOY     THE   TRI-PACER EXPERIENCE!!

PLEASE!!!! PRETTY PLEASE..;o))

After reading the rest of this document boot up and make sure your settings are as follows:
AIRCRAFT REALISM: Full realism!
AUTOGEN: Recommend maximum but highest you can live with!
                                      

PANEL: There is no need for a 2d panel  therefore  none are put in to obstruct the view!

NOTE: It is recommended that you start with the flight " Nice Summer Day" to become familiar with your new Classic Tri-Pacer!
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AIRCRAFT OPERATION:

If you desire, the virtual cockpit pan rate can be adjusted in your main fs9.cfg file from the default 400 to 900 which allows much faster more realistic panning using the hat switch. These aircraft have been designed so that 75% zoom should be used in the Virtual Cockpit.  I would highly recommend getting the great Active Camera program and setting head latency at 0.5 ! It has literally transformed our flightsimming and we couldn't fly with out it now!!!!!

Pilot and Passenger/Cargo:

Before each flight you should add the pilot to the plane using the "O" key(normal strobe lights) You can add the optional passengers or cargo using the "/" key(normal spoiler key)      Adding the passengers or cargo will cause some degradation in performance!

DO NOT USE THE "L" KEY TO OPERATE THE LIGHTS!!! USE THE SWITCHES ON THE PANEL!!!!

Virtual Cockpit Operation: The virtual cockpit  concept has been expanded to include a complete virtual aircraft! This we call Virtual Plus or V+.   This means that by using the hotspots and Active Camera or the included VP Movement Arrows you can open the door, do the complete walk around preflight, open the cowling, check the oil, drain fuel sumps, remove tie downs etc thus further enhancing  flight simming !  Use the "Hot Spots" assignments as shown below and you will have a new and fun experience! Be sure to call out "Contact" of course when starting the engine! If you don't have Active Camera you can still do some limited movement using the "move eyepoint" key assignments or the Movement Arrows as shown in the pictures below!  When you have moved outside of the aircraft in VC mode click on the service aircraft hotspot beneath the cowling to get started! In some of the included flights the fuel tanks are only partly filled requiring you to fuel the aircraft before flying!

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Radio/CD Player Operation

The  Radio/CD player can be used to play your favorite music while you fly!!   You can assign your own favorite sounds by going to "windowed mode" and right clicking on the each preselect AM/FMbutton! If you experience poor flight sim performance when the Silvaires are used it may be that your video card or operating system will not handle the radio/cd player. You can disable the radio/cd player by removing the radiocdl.gau  file from your gauges folder!  The Radio/cd player has been generously provided by Rob Clark! Thank you Rob for enriching our flight simming experience!!

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GPS Operation

The GPS was created by Chuck Dome and generously allowed to be used by others in small aircraft like these. It contains 3775 world wide waypoints.    It comes with 3,775  waypoints The upper left portion of the gauge displays a pointer to the chosen waypoint. To the right, the top number simply identifies the waypoint for possible future reference. The next number indicates the distance to the waypoint in nautical miles. The third line displays the selected region of the world, and the fourth line displays the selected state or nation-state. The bottom line displays the selected airport name.      The airports are arranged in the following
sixteen regions:

NORAM NW (North America, Northwest)
NORAM NC ( " " North Central)
NORAM GL ( " " Great Lakes)
NORAM NE ( " " Northeast)
NORAM SW ( " " Southwest)
NORAM SC ( " " South Central)
NORAM SE ( " " Southeast)
AFRICA
ASIA
CENTRAL AMERICA
CANADA
EUROPE
HAWAII
HONG KONG
OCEANIA
SOUTH AMERICA

In Chuck's words:

Within each region the airports are arranged by state or nation-state.
Within each state they are arranged alphabetically by the local city or area
name. For example, New York's LaGuardia airport is listed in the New York
City area. To keep the gauge from getting too large, I decided not to
display the local area name. To find LaGuardia, you would select the NORAM
NE region, NY state, and look through the Ns (for New York City). Because
this process can be tedious sometimes, I have included AIRPRTS.TXT which
lists all 3,775 airports by number. A quick word search can help you find
your desired airport.

The "buttons" on the GPS gauge function as follows: the PWR button turns
the gauge on and off, the R button cycles forward or backward (< or >)
through the sixteen regions and the S button similarly cycles through the
states, within each region. Sometimes a state will be divided between more
than one region. Among the four buttons at the far right, the > button moves
forward, one waypoint at a time, through the list of airports and the <
button moves backward. The >> and << buttons jump ten numbers at a time, for
faster searching.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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PERSONALIZED HANGAR MACRO:

      We have included in this folder your personalized hangar API Macro, Pa22hang1.api. You can use it and one of the many freeware scenery packages to place your hangar at any airport in the flightsim world!  Place your newly compiled BGL into the Addon Scenery/Scenery folder and your  hangar at your favorite airport should appear when you boot up Fs2004!  Happy scenery making!

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PERSONALIZATION:

To personalize your registration numbers just select the desired aircraft in the fs2004 menu and change the registration numbers to whatever country and numbers that you want. Note to repainters: You can designate  the panel.n folder on the aircraft.cfg and there will be no numbers displayed on the fuselage if you so desire.  The photos in each plane can be replaced with your own as long as they are named "photo.bmp" and are 256x256 pixels square and at a color depth of 256 colors.

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KEYBOARD COMMANDS:
If you do not want to use the mouse in the Vc  view follow these keyboard commands:

Put Pilot  On Board= Push the O key... (normal strobes key)

Put Passengers or Cargo  on board= Push the / key...(normal spoiler key)

Start Engine= Hold M and + keys till engines catch or Control-E



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CONCLUSION:
We hope you enjoy using these models as much as we did in creating them!! These models were built with FSDS2, the superior building program from Louis Sinclair! Thanks to the Microsoft Flight Sim Team who did an outstanding job on Fs2004!

A special thanks  to all the wonderful GES Guys who  suffer through all the beta testing and keep us going through the rough spots!

Please let us know what you like or don't like about this project so we can direct future efforts toward creating more realistic and enjoyable virtual flying experiences...:o))
Lynn and Bill Lyons
Custom Classic Aircraft
Support Forum at The Old Hangar