If you are a Microsoft Flight Simulator enthusiast you have arrived at the golden gates for obtaining what could be considered as the largest holy grail of flight simulation resources for Flight Simulator 2004 or Flight Simulator X. This one technical manual completely reveals the entire world of advanced flight simulation for both the novice or advanced pilot. Its primary focus is creating an advanced flight sim computer platform for you...the home user. This scope includes the many, many software / hardware relationships between your flight sim, your PC and you. It contains a vast amount of core knowledge necessary for tweaking and adjusting all the files and config file code that perhaps you never even knew existed or could be modified to give you a better and more realistic flight sim experience!
The UGTAFS is over 260 pages of the best answers, explanations, and tutorials that provide in depth details on how you too can create a very professional flight simulator environment in your own home exactly as I have as you will see in my photos and videos.
Now in revision 1.5 ! - While the 1.0 manual is incredible I have revised about 15 pages of the UGTAFS for increased Windows 7 compatibility and have added better artwork.
This manual is a culmination of over 10 years of daily experience with Microsoft Flight Simulator and all its files, folders, and tweakable parameters that lay inside the sim software as well other key software which allows you to totally unlock the default flight simulator experience.
I have combined all of this key knowledge into one professionally written manual with easy to understand concepts and countless "how to" tutorials within each chapter, all of which also contains a horde of optimization tools and strategies for your PC. In short, all the answers you need to build a professional quality home flight simulator are right here!
The UGTAFS manual literally contains thousands upon thousands of tools, tips, and shortcuts that will keep you flying high in the virtual skies for the rest of your flight simulation days! It really is that good and contains every little detail you could ever hope to ask for in order to create a professional home based flight simulator environment. It is certainly one of the best if not the best resource you will find for how to build an optimize a professional "sim pit" PC. As you may already know, to do so means first mastering the interworkings of the sim software as well as mastering the PC itself so that you can take all other areas of your sim to the next flight level of high end performance!
While other well known sim tech manuals such as "Using Microsoft Flight Simulator As a Real World Training Aid" may teach you the skills of how to fly or how to use your sim for real world training, the UGTAFS gives you alot of other tools that will help your home flight training. There are also other books available today such as Mike Powell's great new "Building Recreational Flight Simulators" which teaches you how to actually build real analog flight sim controls and avionics complete with advanced wiring diagrams, detailed schematics and the like. The SimSamurai UGTAFS however could easily be considered as a very important precursor to these other two manuals simply because it starts you out on the ground floor by teaching you how to master your PC first, then the flight simulator software itself, followed by how to manipulate all the editable code files within the sim software. Only once all this "sim-core" knowledge is mastered should you really begin to look at actually building a home sim pit or advanced flight simulator cockpit. Lastly, even while learning how to properly flight train with FS 2004 or FSX the UGTAFS will quickly help you resolve all of the many common issues you will run into which are inherent to the flight simulator software, simware add-ons, and the most common controller hardware. Thus my manual is a both a first and major step in your journey to becoming an advanced sim pilot. I really needed this comprehensive manual for my own flight simulator PC checklists and this is why it was written!
The UGTAFS is an ultimate "hands on" guide which explores the most crucial "lock and key" computer side of flight simulation and within this journey details how to turn your own PC into an amazing virtual flying machine which will result in freeing you from the limitations of the default flight sim experience. Secondly, all of my selected topics and chapters were designed to make you train more effectively as a pilot. As a real world pilot who wanted to create an advanced home flight simulator for realistic training, this manual details the entire journey. I still use it almost daily!
While my new sim station cockpits can allow you to feel the rewards of all your growing knowledge of flight simulation the UGTAFS teaches you all this knowledge so that you can correctly set up your sim PC the right way...the first time.
I want you to realize that if you can't properly manage all the computer based configuring first then either attempting to train properly with a home PC or trying build a simpit complete with some self made buttons and switches will certainly never become a reality for you! So once again grasshopper ...welcome to the underground!
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The SimSamurai Ultimate Guide To Advanced Flight Simulation contains over 260 pages of text (actually well over 90% text all at 12 point font) that vastly detail the multitude of practical intricacies of how you can manipulate the sim to create a professional home sim pit. The UGTAFS starts by detailing how to build the most optimal PC for flight simulation which includes step by step details of how to properly employ the use of RAID as well as guides you on how to properly format a new hard drive for specific sim use. It also contains countless other optimization strategies for how to greatly increase both the speed and data rate I/O of your computer.
Other chapters detail how to configure all aspects of common USB controller hardware as well as how to choose the best add-on software and hardware that will help make you a better pilot! In all chapters it routinely explains why many choices are much better than others and presents these options from many angles of use.
Interested in Cockpit Panel Design ?
The UGTAFS also details how to properly install and configure new add-on aircraft and instrument panels as well gives great tutorials on professional aircraft instrument panel construction which includes many tips, tweaks, tools, and shortcuts that I use each week for my own panel building creations, some of which can be seen on this website!
In every manner imaginable the UGTAFS reveals how to manipulate the aircraft config file, the panel config file, and how to tweak the FS Master config file. You will learn how to properly add in new aircraft, panels, sound files, effects, textures, and many other great features all in step-by-step detail. While there are of course similar basic tutorials scattered widely across the internet, I guarantee that none are as detailed nor are they all bound in one convenient location! The UGTAFS is the ultimate reference guide for all your core flight simulation needs.
Want to display alot of monitors or Projectors ?
For those pilots who are ready to add more monitors and perhaps want to network other PC's for use with FS I have included a very large chapter on multi-monitor flight simulation which specifically details the absolute best ways to accomplish this task. It includes detailed instructions on PC-to-PC networking for FS and has step by step multi-monitor optimization tutorials for both FS9 and FSX. It also includes great detail about how to properly use projectors for flight simulation as well provides many helpful tips on how to properly set up the Matrox Triple Head 2 Go system with FS2004 and FSX. With this key step-by-step knowledge you will easily be able to create a 180 degree panoramic view in your sim that will rival most professional flight training centers! This is flight simulation at its finest!
Want to fly in alot of online player scenarios ?
Other chapters detail how to properly set up and lock down your internet router as well how to open and close PC and router ports for joining or creating your own multi-player sessions. This is great for all those sim pilots who enjoy dogfighting and online flight simulation combat. Again, there are details abound here too!
Do you like Air Combat and Aircraft Carrier Operations ?
To top it off the last chapter is a true "aces high" military salute for recreating realistic aircraft carrier operations. It details how you can make any aircraft in your hangar ready for carrier operations as well how to make it very real. Not only do I guide you to all the freeware to make it happen I also give you step-by-step instructions on how to get it all done! I really love practicing aircraft carrier landings and you will too!
Do you want to train like a Professional ?
For all those real world training pilots who want to enjoy ultra-realistic flight training in online environments such as VATSIM or IVAO I have included three great chapters which detail every single checklist on how to get properly airborne in cyber airspace. No detail has been missed and I will have you flying like a pro in a single afternoon!
I have also included a chapter on advanced flight planning for flight simulation which details how to create and use advanced IFR flight plans just like you would in the real world. More importantly It shows you how to make sure that sure your flight simulator can digest all the many, many real world waypoints, navaids, and intersections that are not included in the default simulator software! Again, this is real as it gets.
IN SHORT SIM-HEADS ...IT IS ALL HERE.
Whether you are young or old and are of low hours or many hours, this highly detailed flight sim tech manual is an absolute must have tool for sim pilots of any proficiency level. It is designed for anyone who wants to take their home flight sim training to a whole new level of professionalism and realism.
Even for all the old salts and most experienced "simulists" I guarantee this manual will completely fill in the final gaps of sim knowledge that you've always looked for!
Whether this is your hobby or if you are a real world pilot who wants to step up your home training by creating a professional flight simulator, the UGTAFS is a sim reference guide no sim pilot should be without! Your sim training simply begins ...here.
SIM SAMURAI's ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ADVANCED FLIGHT SIMULATION
CHAPTER INDEX
-- CHAPTER 1 - ADVANCED SIM PC COMPUTER BUILDING 22 pages
-- CHAPTER 2 - SIM SOFTWARE OPTIMIZATION 18 pages
-- CHAPTER 3 - SIM CONTROLLER HARDWARE SET-UP 24 pages
-- CHAPTER 4 - SIM PC MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING 14 pages
-- CHAPTER 5 - SIM TWEAKING AND TUNING (FS9 & FSX) 30 pages
-- CHAPTER 6 - MULTI-MONITOR SIMULATION 16 pages
-- CHAPTER 7 - ADVANCED INTERNET CONFIGURING 12 pages
-- CHAPTER 8 - AVIATION SIMULATION CYBERSPACE 14 pages
-- CHAPTER 9 - FS-INN AND VATSIM USAGE 14 pages
-- CHAPTER 10 - ADVANCED FS FLIGHT PLANNING 12 pages
-- CHAPTER 11 - VFR-IFR SIM ATC COMMUNICATION 6 pages
-- CHAPTER 12 - INSTALLING ADD-ON SOFTWARE 14 pages
-- CHAPTER 13 - AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATION FILES 14 pages
-- CHAPTER 14 - PANEL FILES & COCKPIT DESIGN 36 pages
-- CHAPTER 15 - AIRCRAFT COMBAT SIMULATION 14 pages
-- APPENDIX A - FS9 KEY COMMANDS 3 pages
-- APPENDIX B - FSX KEY COMMANDS 2 pages
OVER 260 PAGES OF TEXT !
The UGTAFS manual is printed on 24lb paper with a high end laser jet printer. It includes thick durable plastic covers on the front and back and has a 1" inch metal coil binder. All photos are in color. No expense has been spared in the manufacturing of this product! For all those samurai pilots who want to create a realistic environment for real world training this manual is simply a must have tool.
IT IS BUILT TO LAST !
Is This Manual Available In PDF ?
In short, NO....sorry.-- After having spent many, many years of researching, refining, and developing this product, the last thing I will stand for is having an untraceable thief feel the need to freely distribute my hard work all over the internet as is the case with alot of great software and .pdf files these days. So while nothing is sacred in this world anymore (except flying)... I can at least make my efforts more difficult to copy! Therefore you will get a printed and bound book just like all the ones that have been made long before the internet ever existed ! Sorry, but for now it just has to be this way! Im currently looking at getting this published in seven languages too! If you have foreign language friends please have them email me and request their language!
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ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ADVANCED FLIGHT SIMULATION
"UGTAFS"
If you are ready to take your flight simulation experience to the next level and want to learn all the practical applications of how to properly build, install, configure, control, and manipulate all the open ended architecture that is available for tweaking within Microsoft Flight Simulator then the SimSamurai UGTAFS manual is the place to begin. This one technical manual truly unlocks all the keys that you want to learn about advanced flight simulation. While it is written with the beginner in mind, all experienced sim pilots will quickly find that it fills in many final gaps of knowledge for sim mastery. If you really enjoy flight simulation and want to take your home training to a professional level then this book is where it all begins!
This unique "Sim-Tech" manual is a culmination of my 10 years of daily experience with Microsoft Flight Simulator and more importantly key experience with tweaking and tuning all of the settings and config files within the sim that are available for editing by the home consumer. As you may know (or may not know) you can do alot with Microsoft Flight Simulator just as you can see in the many pictures and videos on this website. It took me many, many years to learn all this core knowledge as there is a vast multitude of hurdles, checklists, and challenges you must overcome on a daily basis in order to create a professional looking, and more importantly a professionally operating, flight simulator.
Even on the best days there can still be many small problems you will encounter when using an advanced flight simulator. In knowing that there was no concise, nor precise, manual that explains everything I always wanted to know is exactly why I set out to write the Ultimate Guide to Advanced Flight Simulation. As a real world pilot, advanced flight sim enthusiast, and professional technical writer, I felt I had three unique skills that could help alot of other people take their own home flight sim experience to a much greater level just as I have.
While there are a few other flight sim manuals on the market that specifically teach you how to use your sim for flight training, or perhaps those that teach you how to build physical buttons and switches to wire up a grand "Level D" type simulator, the SimSamurai UGTAFS manual is in fact a very important precursor to all other sim manuals on the market today. This is because it starts you out on the ground floor with all the core basics of simulator software and how it interacts with the Personal Computer. Secondly, it details how to properly use all the best add-on resources available. All this core knowledge certainly has to be known and understood in great detail well before you can take any other big steps in building an advanced flight sim or sim cockpit. As needed it also steers you into these other areas too as I provide many links to the absolute best resources for Microsoft Flight Sim 9 or FSX.
In a larger sense the UGTAFS is a "C-P-O-H"..or "Computer Pilots Operating Handbook." Its a tech manual no sim pilot should ever be without!
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Hands On Flying
Most importantly this manual does not explain abstract concepts that you do not need to know nor does it explore any details that you will not use. Instead, it is totally meant to be a true "hands on" practical knowledge guide that helps you to tackle all the many, many subjects necessary for creating a very professional home flight simulator environment or as many call it ..a "sim-pit". Again, its main focus is intended for all you sim pilots who want to create a very realistic flight training environment at home. As a real pilot, this was my own goal.
I can guarantee that this manual puts any old default FS strategy guide to bitter shame and can easily be considered to be the ultimate guide for flight sim enthusiasts. If you want to know how to build the most optimal PC for your flight sim, and want to know how to correctly configure all the latest hardware for FS, as well want to know how to tweak and edit all the config code files in the sim, including cockpit panel design, ...then this is your book. If you also want to learn how to properly operate in environments like VATSIM or IVAO then then once again...this is simply a must have item.
The SimSamurai UGTAFS is without a doubt the best resource you will find for unlocking the huge and vast world of advanced flight simulation for the home computer. Once you learn all of its content you will certainly start feeling like you are a true flight sim engineer! After writing the UGTAFS I learned more about the sim and my PC than I could have ever imagined! I still refer to it myself on a weekly basis!
Time Waits for No One ...even You!
Why spend countless upon countless hours, if not days or even weeks, trying to hunt down all the questions you want answered all of which are spread across thousands of forum threads!?? -- Wouldn't it be so much easier to have at least 95% of all of your core flight simulator questions answered in one convenient place? Best of all, the UGTAFS will in fact answer many many questions you didn't even know you should be asking! The reality of forums is that while they can indeed be helpful, their content is scattered across thousands of threads many of which are often old and out of date. The largest issue I have found with forum hunting is that all to often forum threads have tons of one sentence answers from either people who know too much and don't know how to explain things in detail the way they should be, and mixed within these answers are the countless number of incorrect or "guess" answers from the thousands of members in the flight sim "peanut gallery".
Therefore, this endless habit of forum hunting for my own numerous questions was a huge reason, if not the reason why I created the UGTAFS. I was simply sick of the many endless days of internet goose chasing. This tiresome frustration with many sim and PC computing forums quickly steered me to the realization that the ultimate flight simulator manual for the average home user needed to be written. Because of this, the Sim Samurai Ultimate Guide To Advanced Flight Simulation was actually born out of my own necessity and desires!
In every case of these countless questions, I have most likely taken tutorials that would be correctly explained by piecing together 100 forum thread pages and have extracted the most useful data down into just a few pages of the most important facts and checklists. Thus the data contained in the 260 page UGTAFS is really like hunting through well over 2600 pages of forum posts! So...really...why waste your time with endless web searches or spend anymore time waiting for emails to be answered when all answers (or hopefully 99.5 % of them) are right here in one convenient book!
So sim pilot, I hope you can agree that time is indeed money. You can save yourself from alot of wasted time and wasted money by purchasing the UGTAFS today. It will steer you straight onto all the courses you should be on if you are ready to take a bigger step into advanced flight simulation. Let my path become your path.
I have spent the past three years making sure all of its content is worthwhile, practical, professional, and have made sure that all subjects are fully explained in a manner that even a dummy like me can easily understand! (and that IS often hard to do!) This is because another common problem I have encountered over the years with some "elite" members of the sim community is that while many are indeed brilliant geniuses in their own field, some folks just don't know how to put big concepts and instructions into laymen's terms. Well ,..I do! Thus each subject in the UGTAFS is carefully explained in clear detail so that people of any comprehension level can make sense of even the most hard to grasp concepts. I know I needed it!
IF YOU BUY ONE THING TO IMPROVE YOUR FLIGHT SIMULATION EXPERIENCE THE
SIM SAMURAI ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ADVANCED FLIGHT SIMULATION SHOULD BE IT.
Again, this manual is an extensive culmination of my own 10 years of experience with Microsoft Flight Simulator and the real world of aviation too. I understand where they meet, separate, and often marry. I stand by the UGTAFS and guarantee its answers will stand the test of time! ( until I write the revision for FS-11 ...IF we ever see it!)
UGTAFS ...Under A Microscope
In writing this manual I also knew that it would be scrutinized and picked over by many top elite members of the flight simulator community. In knowing this I certainly put in alot of extra time and energy to make sure that my subject data was correct and the most up to date for both sim versions (FS9 and FSX). Furthermore once the new Windows 7 came on the market I quickly bought it, installed it, and made sure I added many specific entries that accomodate the newest Microsoft operating system. Vista and XP (both x32 and x64 are also covered and have many specific tips for each operating system!)
The UGTAFS will Save You Alot of Money in Flight Simulation!
Once again I wish to point out that this manual will in fact save you thousands of dollars as there are countless references that point you to the absolute best freeware resources for your simulator as well includes tons of tips that will help you save money. The UGTAFS also contains many new "off the map" websites which contain the best high resolution scenery at no cost to you.
I also detail what are perhaps the best resources available for flight simulation hardware. This even includes tutorials on picking, choosing, and even building your own flight simulation hardware just as I have done. My own goal is always one of wanting to build great looking and perfectly functional equipment for as cheaply as possible.
I also detail what I feel are the absolute best freeware aircraft available for both sim versions. You will most likely never find these resources without many of these included links as some "pro developers" dont advertise their wares, yet they are available! Key information such as this is likely worth the cost of purchase. I also include a ton of references and links to all of the absolute best of the best freeware (and payware) that will help you create a professional home flight simulator environment in your home just as I have.
Chief ...Where's The Beef !
Don't forget that as a "tech manual" the UGTAFS fully explains in step-by-step detail how to edit, manipulate, and modify ALL of the code parameters within the Aircraft config file, the Panel config file, as well as the FS Master config file. All of this information is a very big part you must learn and master before you can build a professional flight simulator platform. Only with this information in hand can you actually begin to unleash the restraints of the default (and often bland) flight sim experience. Know that the UGTAFS was written with the goal of absolute flight sim perfection in mind!
Your Flight Leaves Now !
Since the FS series has been indefinitely suspended there is no better time than now to dig in and learn all there is to know for Flight Simulator 2004 (FS9) or FSX. When and if the next edition ever comes out ...I'll make updates for it too! -- Because of how the software has evolved through Microsoft I can only assume that most every principle in the UGTAFS will still apply to FS-11.
So get in, sit down, and buckle up! Become the Sim Samurai pilot you know you want to be! All of your most simple questions as well most advanced questions regarding Microsoft Flight Sim 2004 and FSX will all be answered with this one professional reference manual.
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