KFreeFlight

General Tab

In general settings

• Splashscreen : let you see a splashscreen when FlightGear starting.
• Game mode : Launch FlightGear in true fullscreen mode.
• Fullscreen : Launch FlightGear in a maximised window.
• Intro music : let you ear a music at startup.
• Joystick : make joystick the main input device.
• Unit meter : The unit are in feet by default but you can overwrite this setting here

In advanced settings

• NMEA protocol : usefull option for Atlas which let see your position.
• http server : Let you change flying values through a web browser. (by default : http://localhost:5500)
• Atlas too : launch Atlas and FlightGear together
• Wireframe and objects wireframe options : let you discover the FlightGear's internal world.

Render Tab

Rendering options

• Specular highlight : Enable specular reflections on textured objects
• Distance attenuation : Enable runway light distance attenuation
• Enhanced lightning : Enable enhanced runway lighting
• Clouds : Enable 2D (flat) cloud layers
• Bump mapped clouds :
• Cloud 3D : Enable 3D (volumetric) cloud layers
• Random objects : Include random scenery objects (buildings, etc.)
• Mouse pointer : Enable extra mouse pointer (i.e. for full screen Voodoo based cards)
• Sky blend : Enable sky blending
• Horizon effect : Enable celestial body growth illusion near the horizon
• Textures : Enable textures
• Lightning : Enable lightning rendering
• Precipitations : Enable precipitations endering

Display resolution, shading and shadows

• You can choose here the screen resolution and the color depth. This is the place of your personnal screen resolution defined in the settings window.
• Shading : choose the shading level. Smooth is more beautiful, but need more processor ressource.
• Shadows : choose the objects which must have a shadow (plane, transparency: plane have shadow on ground only, scenery objects, ai objects)

Airport Tab

Here is a list of your favorites airports (not all the "apt.dat.gz" file).

You can easily add another aiport by clicking on the "add" button after put the ID and the name of airport on the good place.
You can delete an airport too by clicking on the "delete" button after selected one in the airport list.

You can easily add runways for each airport present in the list. Put the runway name and click on the "add" button.
You can delete an runway too by clicking on the "delete" button after selected one in the runway list.

You can make a research in the "apt.dat.gz file" by clicking the "Search Airport" button.
This action make the popup airport Window appears

The last button "Web search" open the web browser (configured in the configuration dialog) at a preselected page.
Actually, it's working only for french airports

Airport Menu

This menu appears when you right click on an item

Popup Airport Window

Enter a Airport ID or a name and click on the "Search" button.

You can also search an airport by coordinates.
In that case, check "Search by coordinates" and the popup Search by coordinates Window appears.

A list of all airports found was created and you can double click on one of them to get informations about it (relaunch the searching).

The search is on the "apt.dat.gz" file, and the engine propose you to search in the KWeather database too.

Informations are always about the last airport found. Informations are :

• ICAO ID
• Name
• Elevation
• Longitude and latitude
• Tower, ATIS and some others importants Comm frequencies
• All Runways with their informations : direction, lenght, width and ILS frequency

Popup World Map Window

This popup let you see where the current airport (the last in the list) are in a world map
This window appear when the button "Where is it ?" is pressed.

Popup Search by coordinates Window

Enter a world location (coordinates) and a search radius.
This window appear when the check box "Search by coordinates" is checked.
A click on the "OK" button close this window
Then press the "Search" button on the Popup Airport Window which make a list of all airports found in the search radius

Popup Favorite Airports Window

Carrier Tab

By default, FlightGear (ver 0.9.9) became with a carrier, the Nimitz, near San-Fransisco bay (KSFO airport). But it must be actived first.
KFreeFlight do it automatically. KFreeFlight let you change this value if you have a customized FlightGear.

The default values are Nimitz (case sensitive) for carrier name and --prop:sim/ai/scenario=nimitz_demo for prop to actived

In carrier tab, select a start place (catapult 1, 2, 3, 4, parking 1). Then in Aircraft tab select a navy aircraft : seahawk, a4, seafireIIIc, and checked "On carrier" for starting position.

After launch FlightGear, press shift+L to engage aircraft in catapult and shift+C to launch it. Before landing on flight desk, don't forget the arrester hook : shift+O.

Aircraft Tab

The aircraft are 3D rendering thumbnail now. It can be build by plib directly or by simgear. In that case, add the aircraft name you want to have simgear rendering in the aircraft.dat file in the /home/<USER>/.kfreeflight directory.

You can also load any model you want by pressing "Load Model" button (plib only).

You can choose failures too (check to activate failures): pitot, static, vacuum, or electrical system

Note: The background color of rendering widget is set by the background openGL color in the settings window

Airport Menu

This menu appears when you right click on the aircraft

Start position Tab

You have the choice between four possibilities :

• Start on the selected airport (on Airport tab).
• Start on the selected carrier (on Carrier tab).
• Start in Air : you can specify the initial altitude and speed.
• Start on a place specified by coordinates

You can activate some options too :

• Enable AI traffic.
• Enable auto-ccordination.
• Start in a frozen state.
• Freeze fuel level

Date Time Tab

There is three possibilities for time :

• True local time.
• Enter a date and a time (date not affect season textures pack).
• Choose the time of day between dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, dusk, evening, midnight.

You can check the frozen time option (can freeze FlightGear).

You can specify the season between summer and winter.

Weather Tab

Set here the weather options

• Wind direction and speed
• Turbulences level
• Visibility
• Fog rendering level

You can choose the real weather option for the place to fly. Need an active internet connexion.

You can see the weather before launching FlightGear by clicking the "Get the weather" button.
In that case the popup Weather Window appear.

Popup Weather Window

Just enter the ICAO ID code of airport and click on the "Download" button. You can find this code by making a research on the Airport Tab.
In case of you already have downloaded the metar and you want an updated one, check the update option.
Note that only one metar was available on the server per hour.

Informations reported are :

• Airport ID.
• Date and time (UTC).
• Pressure
• Wind direction and speed and if reported the max speed and wind direction group.
• Temperature and Dew point
• Weather phenomena
• Visibility
• Sky condition

Flight plan Tab

There is two way :

• By enter manually ID and Altitude.
• By loading a file (text only, not FlightGear xml flight plan file).

File must content a simple list of way points (eventually with the altitude). Take a look at the example file (promenade_marseille.txt) in the /home/<USER>/.kfreeflight directory.

You can found ID with Atlas.

The GC autopilot will follow the flight plan for you.

Network Tab

Local service

You can configure here the http server name and the http server port. Default values are localhost for server name and 5500 for the http port number.
This informations are usefull for using the http option (which can let you change FlightGear values in a web browser) and the NMEA protocol (protocol using by Atlas)

Multiplayer

Local network

You must specifie some values :

• IP in and out : three integer numbers (0 to 255) which are your local network IP address range (broadcast) (ex:192.168.0.255). Note that 255 was automatically added.
• the player number (which make, for example --callsign=player1 property)
• the refresh frequency to the server.You can keep safely the default value : 10 Hz
• The port number (which can be the same that the http port number)

Remote server

You must specifie some values :

• IP in : four integer numbers (0 to 255) which are your local machine IP address (even your behind a NAT) (ex:192.168.0.2).
• IP out : four integer numbers (0 to 255) which are the server IP address
• the player login (alphanumeric ).
• the refresh frequency to the server.You can keep safely the default value : 10 Hz
• The port number of server

Note : You can select a server on the selector which configure IP out and port number automatically for this servers.

Radio NAV COM Tab

Enter here the NAV radio frequencies :

• NAV1 active and standby with the radial.
• NAV2 active and standby with the radial.
• ADF active and standby with the rotation.
• TACAN code.
• Slave DME with NAV1 or NAV2 or enter another NAV radio frequency.

Enter here the Comm radio frequencies :

• Comm1 active and standby.
• Comm2 active and standby.

You can activate the background ATC voices too.

Scenarii Tab

Properties Tab

Others options Tab

General Settings

You can make application more talkative.

You can choose here your web browser.

You can choose to have the FlightGear output messages

You can reset the "Don't show it again" messages

You can integrate KFreeFlight on the system tray bar, and choose a minimized starting.

Font Settings

Select the KFreeFlight's font (all windows).

Colors Settings

Select the KFreeFlight's colors (all windows). The foreground, the foreground and background of edit widgets, and the openGL background colors.

FlightGear Settings Page 1

Here is the place to configure KFreeFlight with your FlightGear installation. You must specifie the FlightGear's data directory, your addon directory (the directory where you dezip scenery files). The main scenery (W130n30) is automatically include in this path when FlightGear is launching.

You can choose another executable file to launch FlightGear (useful for patched version). A double click on a list element make automatically it the default executable.

You can pass anothers options which is not supported natively by KFreeFlight. (Double click to edit list element).

FlightGear Settings Page 2

You can specify the host name and the FlightGear port (for http server and NMEA protocol)

You can add a personnal screen resolution which be appeared in the combo box (main window)

You can permit only one instance of FlightGear

Atlas Settings

Choose the directory where Atlas can find its images and the Altas executable.

You can force Atlas to use the GLUT font.

You can permit only one instance of Atlas