SCENERY DISK LOADING INSTRUCTIONS

Using a Scenery Disk with Flight Simulator II

Load Flight Simulator II in the usual way. When the program has finished loading, enter the simulator's program editor as described in your operating manual and set the NORTH and EAST coordinates of the airport you've chosen from the directory for the region you'd like to explore (set ALTITUDE to 0). Exit the editor, remove the FSII disk and insert the appropriate Scenery Disk. Next, press CTRL E and wait for a menu to appear. This menu page lists the names of the sectionals included on the Scenery Disk. Press any key to exit, and you should find yourself at the airport you've selected. If no scenery is visible, go into radar mode and zoom out to determine your approximate location. You may be able to zoom all the way out and view the entire continental United States database, complete with rivers, highways, coastlines, and the Great Lakes. This default database display indicates that you are not within the boundaries of the sectionals included on your disk. Re-enter the program editor and double-check your coordinates, making sure that both NORTH and EAST coordinates are correct.

When you find yourself at the airport you've selected, it may be a good idea to save your position to a User Mode (see User Mode Library in the FSII Pilot's Operating Handbook). This way, if you crash, you will be returned to the selected airport. Otherwise you will be returned to a preset location (above Lake Michigan) in the default USA database.


Crossing a Sectional Boundary

When you fly over a sectional boundary, one of two things will occur. If the neighboring sectional is also included on your Scenery Disk, that sectional will load and you will have to switch to the appropriate new map and directory provided. If the neighboring sectional is not available on your disk, a common default USA database will load.This default database allows you to zoom out (in radar mode) to view the major geographical features of the United States.

If you have another Scenery Disk containing the appropriate sectional, you can switch disks and press CTRL E to log-in the new disk. After a brief load, the names of the new sectionals available on this disk will be displayed. Press any key to exit and return to Flight Simulator II.

IMPORTANT - If you want to change Scenery Disks or go back to the scenery on the FS2 disk, you must log-in the new disk by pressing CTRL E. If you do not login the new disk, you will not get the new scenery and you will risk causing a disk load error.


Using the Microsoft Flight Simulator Disk as a Scenery Disk

The Flight Simulator disk contains all of the usual scenery for the Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York areas. You can insert this disk and log it in as you would any other Scenery Disk to fly in these areas. 


Conclusion

As of this writing there are no fuel or repair facilities available on regular Scenery Disks (although they do occur on STAR Scenery Disks).To refuel, just land at an airport and enter the program editor. Your tanks will be filled and repairs will be made when you exit the editor.


 					1985 SubLOGIC Corporation

