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Learning To Fly

The Cessna 172 has long been a favorite aircraft to train people to fly, it handles easily, is forgiving and recovers very well, but I cannot get it to climb past 500ft, I don't know what I am doing wrong so I switched to a more powerful and low wing Piper Comanche 250. This should be much more difficult to fly for a newbie but it wasn't at all. Here's a screenshot of me flying over California someplace... Ok, so its a flight simulator, namely Flightgear, but it's a pretty good one and fun to fool around with. I have a couple of unresolved issues, one is the scenery for my part of the world simply wont display, I have tried everything I could find in the wiki and docs but still no luck, and secondly the old analog Logitech Wingman Interceptor joystick wont work in the game, despite working and being recognized by Debian. These issues might require mailing-list assistance.

The sim is a little slow to start but is very cool and almost relaxing once you get the hang of it. There are some neat extensions, an app that uses rsync to download scenery as you fly, and, you can even track your flights on google maps.