Short description:

Klaus Neupert        for  initial Airliner adventure.
Martin H. Smith      for  aplc32 compiler (what a job !)
Ernie Alston           for  aplc32 docs
Jorge Moreyra       for  fltcrw.zip
Patrizio Migliola     for  767*.wav files
Tom Schilling        for  firstoff.zip
Nostromo            for  a lot of cabin sounds (in Advanced QLS ATC-system)
Brad Jackson      only him knows why !

All other authors for their wav files I found in their files.Sorry I don't remember all your names !

Thanks also to the simmers who mailed me their ideas or bug reports to improve the adventure: Garvin Medina, Martin Lukas, Tom Gibson, Marcus Kevin, Steven Nicolaou, Bruce Bridges, Richard de Raat, and many others...

And, last but not least, a standing-O for Nels Anderson for maintaining the greatest FS site on the Net !
http://www.flightsim.com is IMHO the best, the most simple to use, and the best structured FS-site I've ever visited.

1. Installation:

This version 4.1. does not require any previous version.Watch out for all the sounds required, including those in all previous versions.
Extract all the files in an empty folder of your choice and:
    - move *.wav to your MSFS/Adv/Wav folder
    - do what you please with this HTML file, but read it before deleting it !

2. Required files:

This adventure uses many sounds (more than 220 !). In order to save your download time, I used standard FS files as much as I could.

The Ultimate Airliner complete sound collection (5 files) can be found at flightsim.com and other sim sites. These archives contains ALL the sounds you need to run the adventure, except ATC.

  uaev24sc_1.zip Ultimate Airliner V.2.4. Sound Collection #1
  uaev24sc_2.zip Ultimate Airliner V.2.4. Sound Collection #2
  uaev24sc_3.zip Ultimate Airliner V.2.4. Sound Collection #3
  uaev24sc_4.zip Ultimate Airliner V.2.4. Sound Collection #4
  uaev24sc_5.zip Ultimate Airliner V.2.4. Sound Collection #5

About the sounds in uaev24sc_*.zip:
Some of them are extracted from other adventures or packages (thanks to their authors !) Some others are standard FS files or part of aafwav.zip.

FEEL FREE TO OVERWRITE YOUR EXISTING FILES WITH MINE BECAUSE THEY ALL ARE ORIGINAL AND UNMODIFIED.

I collected all these sounds in archives because many simmers asked for it. I also recommend atc_talk.zip by Edward Holnagel & Carl Olsen which replaces all of your fsatc_1 to fsatc_30.wav files with new ones, much better than the standard ones. Many other chat packages are now available on the Net, choose the one which suits your environment, just rename the files fsatc_1.wav, fsatc_2.wav,..., fsatc_30.wav.

No matter what files do you use for ATC background. Just give them the right names !

PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS LONG LISTING OF ALL THE WAV FILES NEEDED TO RUN THIS ADVENTURE:
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Wav Name   Plays     Comes from
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x   "react2.wav"  ; an aircraft sound   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "b747land.wav"  ; an aircraft sound   V2.2. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "airporta.wav"  ; an airport announcement  V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "ground__.wav"  ; ground    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "stand_by.wav"  ; stand by    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "Cgreetz3.wav"  ; good morning    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "Ccaptain.wav"  ; captain    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "Cgreetz1.wav"  ; good day    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "Cgreetz2.wav"  ; good evening    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "cpushbac.wav"  ; ground requests pushback  V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "pshbkapp.wav"  ; pushback approved   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "gndbrief.wav"  ; ground briefing   fltcrew.zip
x   "pregndbr.wav"  ; ground briefing   fltcrew.zip
x   "b747f-b.wav"  ; an aircraft sound   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "jetf-b1.wav"  ; an aircraft sound   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "parkbrk.wav"   ; parking brakes set   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "start_up.wav"  ; engines startup   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "767b.wav"   ; left egine startup   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "767a.wav"          ; right egine startup   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "pretaxbr.wav"  ; pre-taxi briefing   fltcrew.zip
x   "767b1.wav"         ; brakes-off please   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "ccabinsi.wav"  ; cabin signs on   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "ccontrol.wav"  ; flight controls   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "caltimet.wav"  ; altimeter    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "cflaps__.wav"  ; flaps     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "cfuel___.wav"  ; tanks and fuel   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "ctrim___.wav"  ; trim     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "cgear___.wav"  ; gear     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "ccabincr.wav"  ; cabin crew alerted   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "cset&ch4.wav"  ; all set    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "f16.wav"   ; an aircraft sound   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "tobrief.wav"  ; take-off checklist   fltcrew.zip
x   "crolling.wav"  ; rolling    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "b4tochkl.wav"  ; take-off checklist   fltcrew.zip
x   "b707t-o.wav"  ; an aircraft sound   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "jetf-b2.wav"  ; an aircraft sound   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsgrd089.wav"  ; taxi to runway   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsgrd090.wav"  ; and hold short   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "line_up_.wav"       ; Line-up    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fstwr093.wav"  ; cleared for take-of   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "cset&ch3.wav"  ; All set    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "afttochk.wav"  ; climb checklist   fltcrew.zip
x   "maxthr.wav"  ; max thrust    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "80ktsto.wav"  ; 80 knots    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "v1to.wav"   ; v1     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "v2to.wav"   ; v2     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "vrto.wav"   ; vr     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "clmbthr.wav"  ; climb thrust    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "clmb1set.wav"  ; climb 1 set    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "pllup.wav"   ; pull up    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "wheeler.wav"  ; cabin sound    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsclr085.wav"  ; 10 minutes after departure  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "airbrief.wav"  ; cruise briefing   fltcrew.zip
x   "spdchk__.wav"  ; speed check    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsfltlvl.wav"  ; flight level    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "ding.wav"   ; cabin sound    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "767s.wav"   ; descent checklist   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "desbrief.wav"  ; descent briefing   fltcrew.zip
x   "fsapp128.wav"  ; cleared for the approach  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "ctwrom.wav"  ; contact tower at OM   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "caskhea1.wav"  ; ground can you give us ...  V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsapp113.wav"  ; radar contact, stand by  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "767z.wav"   ; approach checklist   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "tlgear.wav"  ; too low gear    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "lndchklt.wav"  ; landing checklist   fltcrew.zip
x   "applause.wav"  ; passengers applause   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "767w5.wav"   ; speed brakes, 2 reverse  V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "the_end_.wav"  ; take the first taxiway...  V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "lhgnd.wav"   ; ground    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "lhrwvc.wav"  ; runway vacated   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "gnd736.wav"  ; ground speech    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "lhgndins.wav"  ; taxi instructions   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "lhgndrb.wav"  ; taxi instructions   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "767w9.wav"   ; gonna taxi to the ramp  V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "arrvbrie.wav"  ; cabin crew arrival briefing  fltcrew.zip
x   "arivbrie.wav"  ; cabin crew arrival briefing  fltcrew.zip
x   "b747f-b.wav"  ; an aircraft sound   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "b707t-o.wav"  ; an aircraft sound   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "767w8.wav"   ; shutdown checklist   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "minimlnd.wav"  ; minimums    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "alt400.wav"  ; 400     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "alt300.wav"  ; 300     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "alt200.wav"  ; 200     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "alt100.wav"  ; 100     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "alt50.wav"   ; 50     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "alt30.wav"   ; 30     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "alt20.wav"   ; 20     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "alt10.wav"   ; 10     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsatc_*.wav"   ; ATC chatter    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsair.wav"   ; Air France    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "roger___.wav"  ; roger     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fssab.wav"   ; Sabena    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fssob.wav"   ; Sobelair    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsswi.wav"   ; Swissair    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsvir.wav"   ; Virgin    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "brak80.wav"  ; 80 knots    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "brak70.wav"  ; 70 knots    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "brak60.wav"  ; 60 knots    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "manbrk.wav"  ; manual braking   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "whine.wav"   ; cabin sound    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "bumbrief.wav"  ; fasten seat belts   fltcrew.zip
x   "thunder.wav"  ; thunder sound    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "m010.wav"   ; 10 miles    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "m009.wav"   ; 9 miles    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "m008.wav"   ; 8 miles    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "m007.wav"   ; 7 miles    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "m006.wav"   ; 6 miles    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "m005.wav"   ; 5 miles    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "m004.wav"   ; 4 miles    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsapp125.wav"  ; visual    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "m003.wav"   ; 3 miles    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "m002.wav"   ; 2 miles    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "csetadf2.wav"  ; setting adf    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "csetcom2.wav"  ; setting NAV2    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "csetna11.wav"  ; setting radio 1 and vor  V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "csetna21.wav"  ; adjusting radio 2 and vor  V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "csir____.wav"  ; sir     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "turn_rig.wav"  ; turn right    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "turn_lef.wav"  ; turn left    V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "caskhea2.wav"  ; may we have approx heading   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsapp116.wav"  ; turn downwind heading   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "x4.wav"   ; an aircraft sound   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsapp117.wav"  ; turn crosswind heading  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "cestabli.wav"  ; established on the localizer  V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "cltoland.wav"  ; cleared to land   V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsapp124.wav"  ; expect a procedure turn...  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsrc01.wav"  ; radar check to follow   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsrc06.wav"  ; airspeed    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsrc02.wav"  ; altitude MSL    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsrc04.wav"  ; heading    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsrc05.wav"  ; course    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsrc07.wav"  ; radar check complete   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss.wav"   ; flight service   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "q_n_h___.wav"  ; QNH     V2.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x   "fsapp_i.wav"  ; ILS     standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss135.wav"  ; latest weather rpt has winds   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss136.wav"  ; above     standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsat.wav"   ; at     standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss150.wav"  ; clear skies    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss146.wav"  ; scattered clouds   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss147.wav"  ; broken clouds    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss147.wav"  ; overcast    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss150.wav"  ; clear skies    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss146.wav"  ; scattered clouds   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss147.wav"  ; broken clouds    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss147.wav"  ; overcast    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss145.wav"  ; currently    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss137.wav"  ; there is a good chance of  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss139.wav"  ; improving conditions   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss140.wav"  ; deteriorating conditions  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss151.wav"  ; conditions are remaining...   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsfss143.wav"  ; cleared back to IFR...  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fstwr094.wav"  ; please cycle transponder...  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x   "fsdep101.wav"  ; radar contact, climb ...  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x  "fscenter.wav"  ; center    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "fsdep121.wav"  ; please expedite climb to  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "fsdep111.wav"  ; please expedite descent to  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "fsct.wav"  ; contact tower on   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "fscd.wav"  ; contact departure on   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "fscc.wav"  ; contact center on   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "fsdep.wav"  ; departure    standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "fsclr086.wav"  ; departure frequency on  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "fstwr129.wav"  ; reduce to final approach...  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "seat.wav"  ; Seat sign on sound   V2.2. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "mv-coffe.wav"  ; Let's have a coffe break  this package
x "fsapp123.wav"  ; turn base heading   standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "fsapp117.wav"  ; execute a standard proc...  standard FS sound or aafwav.zip
x "gm_id.wav"  ; Good morning, identified  V3.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "security.wav"  ; Take-off security mesage  V3.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "crepeat1.wav"  ; Could you repeat the last message V3.1. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "speed.wav"  ; speed     V3.2. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "tops.wav"  ; take-off power set   V3.3. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "cl2pb.wav"  ; cleared to pushback   V3.3. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "rspin.wav"  ; spin removed    V3.3. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "sbrakes.wav"  ; set parking brakes please  V3.3. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "pushing.wav"  ; pushing back    V3.3. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "rbrakes.wav"  ; release park brakes please  V3.3. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x "ispin.wav"  ; spin inserted    V3.3. of Ult. Airl. Env.
x  "desce.wav"  ; ladies and gentlemen, we just...
gate1
gate2
gearup
onbelts
rqtaxi
uacdoors
uapdrarr
uacwatch
uac-toff
-wptbeep

3. Getting started:

There is no automatic situation selection at the beginning of the adventure, you can start it wherever you want. Since the adventure starts at gate, you must first select a situation which loads a plane at an airport boarding gate (speed must be of course zero).

No more weather conditions supported in this version, because of the entire new weather management in FS2K.

Go to the File menu and select Adventures...then Other. Pick the adventure you have compiled with UAE Word file.
Read the briefing and go!

3.2. At gate:
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Before you begin:
If you want to use a callsign of your prefered (virtual or not) airline, all you have to do is to record yourself spelling its name and save it (wav format). The file name must be "my_air.wav" and must be moved to your FS2K/ADV/WAV folder. That's all ! You must have selected airline "custom" in the Word dialog box when preparing your adventure to achieve this.
 

• After the boarding message, the first sound you'll hear (maybe) is an airport announcement and aircrafts sounds.
• Then you'll hear "Stand by" and the first officer will say "good morning", "day" or "evening", depending on the current time.
• Tune in your transponder with squawk code given by ground.
• Tune in radio to ground frequency prior to request taxi.
• Contact with ground will be played and the automatic pushback will follow just after a cabin crew message.
• If parking brakes are not set you will be prompted to set them.
• Start the engines when requested, release brakes and wait to be prompted to request taxi with Ctrl-X.

3.3 Taxi:
 

• Start taxi to the runway.
• When taxiing, you will be prompted to tune to tower frequency and to set flaps down if they are less than 15 down.
• "Rolling" and a before-take-off checklist will be played.
• When at holding point press Ctrl-h (TAS must be zero). You'll be told to line-up then cleared for take-off.
• Apply max thrust...

3.4. Take-off and climb:
 

• Max thrust, speed calls 80 knots, v1, vr, v2 are played.
• Set your autopilot to the transition FL.
• Gear-up warning and flaps checks will be performed during climb.
• A complete checklist will be announced after gear-up and flaps up.
• Tune in to departure frequency.
• Remember that above 250 knots under FL 100 is not allowed !
• After a few seconds, the appropriate cabin crew message will be played.
• When reaching your transition flight level, departure will request to contact center.
• "Ten minutes after departure" message will be played when appropriate.
• Center will ask to climb to and reach your cruise FL.

3.5. Cruise:
 

• ATC messages are then randomly played.
• Radar checks are sometimes read by the flight service.
• Center may sometimes request to climb or descent to a new FL.
• If your flight plan mention, say FL 240, and if you start descending to, say FL 150, it will take a long time and maybe the program will determine that you are going to land. So it will consider that your descent has begun. Anyway, you can stay at FL 150 without any inconvenience and start the landing procedure later, because the program detects if you are stabilized for a long time and brings you back to the cruising step of the flight.

3.6. Descent:
 

• A few moments after the beginning of descent, the descent checklist is played, and cabin crew will announce the appropriate briefings.
• If you stop descent, you'll be back to the normal cruise environment. If you don't, you will reach the landing environment under 6500 feet.
• Request approach with Ctrl-p or Ctrl-q when prompted.You MUST have tuned VOR1 to an ILS frequency BEFORE typing Ctrl-p or Ctrl-q.
• Ctrl-p requests a standard approach including downwind and crosswind legs before establishing on the ILS, Ctrl-q will guide you directly to waypoint #5, that's to say to final (see below). Remember you MUST select an arrival airport with an ILS, because special ILS informations are needed by the program to guide you to the final.
• The first officer then asks ground for vectors. Follow these vectors until an "Established" report is announced by the first officer.
• (You can request approach when descending whenever you want with Shift-A, but you MUST have tuned VOR1 to an ILS frequency BEFORE typing Shift-A or Ctrl-p or Ctrl-q). Get it ? Goooood.

3.7. Landing with ATC vectors:

Automatic vectors will help you through the downwind, crosswind and base legs, to final. How is this working ?

Suppose you have to land on a runway with an ILS Course at 360 (or 0).

Imagine these 5 waypoints around the runway. They are approximatively 10 to 12 NM far from the runway, and you can change this value by pressing "r" BEFORE requesting approach. ATC vectors guide you to waypoint #5. No matter from where you come, the program will give you vectors to the nearest waypoint.

In this example, if you come from North-West, you will have to reach waypoint #1 first, then #2 (this is the downwind leg), then #5 (base leg).
If you come from South-East, you will probably be guided to waypoint #4 first (skip #2), and then #5.

So the waypoints sequences are:
1   ->   3   ->   5   -> Runway
or
2   ->   4   ->   5   -> Runway
or
3   ->   5   -> Runway
or
4   ->   5   -> Runway
 

• Just before reaching waypoint #5, the first officer will report "established" on the ILS: it's time to turn to final ! At a speed of about 200, you will be really established at the end of your turn to ILS course. I have tested this step many times before releasing the adventure. But some bugs or adjustments are still to be made. Let me know !
• In addition, approach may request a 4mn left or right-hand holding pattern. Follow instructions from the holding fix until back to the holding fix, then resume normal navigation to the next waypoint.
• A landing checklist will be played if gear is down and flaps are at least 15 down.
• Distance readouts will be heared: 10 miles, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 , 4, 3, 2.
• Altitude readouts will be played: 400, 300, minimums, 100, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10.
• Passengers will (sometimes) applause at touchdown.

3.8. Landed:
 

• Braking readouts, 80 knots, 70 knots, 60 knots and manual braking will be played.
• When at the end of the runway, turn at the first available taxiway.
• "Runway vacated" message and contacts with ground will be played when appropriate.
• Taxi to the ramp and two crew briefings will be displayed, depending on the aircraft's rolling speed.
• ATC sounds and airplanes sounds will be randomly played.
• A shutdown checklist when at gate (parking brakes set) is played.

3.9. Restart:
 

• When the plane is parked at the gate (please set parking brakes), you will be prompted to restart (hit "r") or quit (hit "t") the adventure.

Because of APLC limitation to 16 "ONKEY" statements, it's impossible to include GPWS and Weather98 and UAE key shortcuts in the same adventure. Sorry !

Many features in Airliner Environment are fully automatic. For example, weather reports or radar checks are performed from time to time. But you can request several actions with reserved keys like in many other adventures:

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KEY     ACTION
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Shift-M   requests missed approach

Shift-D    sets decision height: 220, 200, 180, 150, 100, off

Shift-E    performs a reset or ends the adventure

Shift-A   requests approach when not in landing step of the adv

Shift-R   radar check

Shift-S   toggles background jet sounds (when on ground) on/off

Shift-I    ILS info (when VOR1 tuned to an ILS station)

v    sets the radius (in NM) of ILS approach vectors.

Ctrl-j     toggles automatic vectors ON/OFF

Ctrl-r   Repeats the last message

V 1.0.:

• First public release. Basic version.

V 2.0.:

• Parameters adjustments related to aircraft types: speed checks, flaps checks.
• Added many new cabin sounds (copilot, and some missing sounds in V 1.0. included.
• Better weather management.
• Switches during initialization added.
• Fixed several (must say many) small bugs.
• Weather generation parameters adjusted.
• Automatic vectors when tuned to an ILS added (it took me several hours to do that !)
• Callsign added.
• Automatic altitude holds added.
• Descent, approach and shutdown checklists added.
• Weather reports(QNH, winds, clouds) and radar checks added.
• Several adventure keys added.

V 2.2.:

• VOR-1, VOR-2, and ADF infos added.
• VOR-1, VOR-2, and ADF scanners added.
• Vectors radius parameter added.
• ILS scanner and info output added.
• Squawk added.
• Random FL assignments added.
• Departure, tower, center frequencies added.
• Switch for automatic vectors on/off added.
• Temperatures are now adjusted depending on seasons.
• Holding patterns added.

• Annoying debug messages (climbing, cruising, descending) removed.
• Coffee break added.
• Bug in winds direction during weather report fixed.
• Bugs (speed, headings...) in holding patterns removed.
• Flight types added to get more realistic FL's.
• First FL after take-off added, before cruise FL.
• More compagnies supported.
• Flight ID added.

• Automatic altitude hold feature modified: your glide slope will now be exactly 3 degrees. Altitude hold is adjusted only if the aircraft is too high.
• Switch for background jet sounds added.
• Major bug of version 2.3. removed: the plane was always considered "climbing" when no automatic FL assignments were choosen at the beginning of adv.
• Heading bug of right-hand holding removed.
• Weather98 included (slightly modified).
• Complete GPWS included (except waypoint support, use DPGPS or tools like that instead)
• ADF_RADIAL variable removed to be FS98-compatible.
• Removed flight range question when no FL assignments selected.
• Velocity and MSL altitude bugs during radar check removed.
• Ground and tower (at take-off) frequencies added.
• Winds switch in weather generation added.
• Decision height support (default 220 ft)
• Several more sounds handled.
• Runway number detection at take-off.
• Departure procedure modified (much closer to the real thing).

• Missed approach now available
• More realistic FL's. (Thanks to Garvin Medina for his help).

• Changed Shift-G (reset or ends the adv) to Shift-E.
• Choice between standard and direct approach added.
• Bug in flight levels (sometimes FL 450 was assigned!) fixed.
• Heading deviations added. ATC can request to modify heading durin 1 to 4 minutes then resume normal navigation.
• Flight Recorder added. It saves main parameters during your flight and display them at the end of the adventure.

• More accurate alignment on ILS course (2 degrees precision now for waypoint #5).
• Versions for FS95 and FS98 included.
• Removed a major bug which inhibited some reserved keys.
• Missed approach complete rework.
• Grouped VOR1 and VOR2 info with Shift-V
• Changed the key for missed approach from Shift-Escape (was rejected by the converter) to Shift-M
• Added the Print Weather Facility with Shift-1: it displays current weather settings.
• Weather init bug removed when using the weather of current start-up situation.

• Options displayed longer than before at the beginning of the adventure.
• Ctrl-t to begin taxi supressed.
• Ctrl -R "Repeat the last message" function added. Main messages are supported.
• Toggle vectors on/off changed from Ctrl-r to Ctrl-j
• Supressed the rudder pedals test to check if runway has been vacated: it caused problems to several simmers, I still don't know why.
• FL's modified to suppress the hundreds of feet.
• Flight level assignments during descent added.
• Custom airline callsign added. ("Delta" supressed to let #11 available for your prefered airline).

• Custom flight ID added.
• More realistic FL: Odd or even FL's depending on wether you fly eastbound or westbound.
• ATC Chatter Rate (1 to 9) added.
• Bug in the automatic runway ID detection at take-off fixed.
• More accuracy in the 250 knots warning under 10000 feet.
• Print time at the beginning of the adventure lenghtened.
• Engine startup sequence slightly modified.
• Extended the ATC chatter at airports.
• Approach pattern modified, more realistic, see above. (Thanks to Harald Fahlberg).
• Bug 250 knots warning when descending fixed.
• More accurate descent->landing state criteria (understood ?)
• Surface wind report before take-off and before landing added.
• Printing of your choices at the beginning of the adv.

• More ATC chatter available (80).
• Again, supressed the rudder pedals test to check if runway has been vacated.
• New cabin sounds and messages added.

• Automatic altitude hold during final suppressed (too boring).
• All VOR, ILS, ADF scanners and info displays suppressed, assuming you have another GPS running, like DPGPS, NavDash...
• The adventure lets you enter your desired FL when automatic FL is not selected.
• Several weather bugs removed.
• Some Weather 98 shortcuts keys now available.
• The adventure is now available for propeller aircrafts.

• Take-off runway choice added, rather than automatically detected when lined-up.
• No-automatic pushback bug fixed.
• Dialog box and macro in a Word file to set up the adventure
• FS2K compatibility.

• Be aware that several functions may not work properly when there is surface wind, especially you may encounter  problems to get t/o clearance (in this case just apply a little reverse thrust), and to get the "vacated runway" message 'maybe caused by several joysticks).
• Sometimes after the pushback the aircraft position and heading are modified. It seems to happen when you used slew mode just before launching the adv.
• Vocal messages sometimes play not well, chipmunks voices (known FS bug, I can't do something about it !)
• Braking readouts sometimes too late.

• Implement all the suggestions you've made to me !!!.

I have only one thing to say: I spent a lot of hours creating this adventure. I had fun. I gave it too the flight-sim community but it remains my property, and don't put that free stuff on some kinda f... commercial CD or on anything else commercial. OK ?

Soon to come: My personnal Web Page opening, the home of UAE, Eastern France scenery, Corse island and St Pierre et Miquelon.
(Now we are in 2K and the web site is not opened yet. I'm too lazy sometimes ;)