Hi Tony, Would you mind terribly if I plagerise your work? It's PERFECT !!! Robert On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Tony <tonys_groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Captains**** > > ** ** > > I’ll assume that you’ve signed up for IYP VA, and have read the > documentation.**** > > ** ** > > I hope the following helps you load up a flight and endure the sarcasm and > bad jokes of the Lead Flight executive, my wife is cabin crew in real life, > it seems that nothing changes in the virtual world either.**** > > ** ** > > Anyway, I use IYP with JAWS:**** > > ** ** > > **1. **Launch your flight simulator.**** > > **2. **Load a flight, or get an aircraft running, any flight or > aircraft will do.**** > > **3. **Once it has loaded, launch IYP.**** > > **4. **Wait for Michelle to do her thing.**** > > **5. **When she’s ready to do your bidding say “Open VA panel”, I > pronounce the letters separately, “Open V A Panel”.**** > > **6. **Michelle should announce that the simulator has been > minimised , and the jolly old VA panel should have focus.**** > > **7. **You could try activating virtual cursor at this point, or > browse mode in Window eyes, a way that consistently works for me though is > to ALT+TAB away from the IYP program, then ALT+TAB back to it. What you > want is virtual cursor or browse mode active with the VA Panel in focus.** > ** > > **8. **Now navigate tables as you would do normally in order to > browse the flights on offer. If you are able to fly it, you’ll see a link > in the last column labelled as available.**** > > **9. **Click the available link which corresponds to the flight you > want.**** > > **10. **Up will pop a screen, I’m a bit forgetful at this point, there > is a link which says something like click to proceed, but it is > self-explanatory.**** > > **11. **So click that link.**** > > **12. **If you’re on track, Michelle will say something about > installing the flight.**** > > **13. **Wait for her to do her thing.**** > > **14. **When she’s done what she needs to, she’ll let you know, and > give you some instructions about loading the flight.**** > > **15. **Say “Close V A Panel”.**** > > **16. **Michelle should say that the simulator has been restored, you > may have to alt tab to it.**** > > **17. **When you get to it, the flight or aircraft you originally > loaded will be chugging or whining away, depends on what you loaded I guess. > **** > > **18. **You’ll load the flight using the FSX menus, don’t attempt to > load using the free flight dialogue, or by double clicking the flight file. > **** > > **o **Hold down the alt key and press F, you won’t hear anything other > than that chugging or whining aircraft, don’t worry.**** > > **o **Press L, the load a saved flight dialogue should pop up.**** > > **19. **Now select and load the IYP flight as you normally would which > will have magically appeared in your flight list if all has worked, if it > hasn’t, crying might be an option, I prefer to shout and swear in such > cases though.**** > > **20. **Michelle will tell you that some kind of synchronisation is > taking place, then that your flight plan is being filed, be patient whilst > she once again does her thing, eventually she’ll wish you a nice flight, at > which point you’re set.**** > > **21. **Flights appear to start in spot view, something which I only > cottoned on to second time round, which is why poor Jordan had to suffer my > questions about sound, so if you don’t want to fly on the outside of your > aircraft, say “cockpit view”.**** > > **22. **Michelle will count down to departure, kick off your checklists > as normal, when she says, and follow Michelle’s advice thereafter.**** > > ** ** > > Good luck.**** > > ** ** > -- AOPA Member No: 06936977