Hello Tyler, good to see you here!
My name is Hadi, and as the name suggests, I'm from Iran, a country in
middle east.
I will help you to get setup, and will try to answer your questions as
clear as i can. If you got a skype, We can go on skype and speak on
there, so i could help you better with your questions.
First of all, about flight simulation in and it's setup in general, at
beginning it looks very hard and comprihensive. Do not worry about
asking questions over and over, because that helps you to build a
great simulation environment. As you learn more things, you will enjoy
flying, and your flights become more enjoying and professional. A
little patience is also required as you won't learn all the things
over one night, and You will do lots of testing and searching to
achieve a great pleasure in flying and simulation.
Now let's go over your questions!
1. I believe that the gold edition has accelleration pack inside it,
and when you install the accelleration pack, it will be patched to
service pack 2. so you do not need to buy anything else. I myself have
the deluxe edition, so i had to download the service packs myself.
2. Microsoft flight simulator is perfectly accessible with jaws. You
just need to learn how to work with it as it's not clearly designed
for main keyboard navigation, so at the beginning it's a little weird,
but once you learn how to work with it's Interface, it's all great.
Itsyourplane Itself is not friendly with JAWS and NVDA, so you have to
pull off some tricks to access it's interface, but you really do not
want to work with it's interface allot, because all of the functions
is controled by voice.
3. regarding the system requirements. I advise you to run microsoft
flight simulator on your mmain PC, which has a good CPU on it. If you
install it on a weak laptop, you will experience lag and freez
sometimes, and if your laptop is extremely weak, the flight simulator
will crash during your flight.
You didn't put in your laptop's specifications, So i'm not sure about
it. But microsoft flight simulator itself takes more than 10gb, and
later on when you install more add-ons like voice packs and other
aircrafts, it becomes bigger. You want to make a stable environment,
and by that i mean you want to have the simulator installed for a long
time, with all the add-ons on it, with itsyourplane and your voice
profiles, so consider this one before making your choice.
Here's the conditions:
If you want to test how the software works, Or if you want to see how
flight simulation is, and just play around with things, install it on
your laptop.
If you want to dive right into flying and have a stable flight
simulator without worrying about re-installation, install it on your PC.
It requires lots of CPU power at the first place. You do not need a
powerful video card, but it helps if you got it. and microsoft's
flight simulator is a 32-bit software, which means that it can't use
more than 4 gigs of memory.
4. For getting starting, I can have a talk with you on skype and
explain things about FSX itself. by the way from now on, i refer to
microsoft flight simulator X as FSX simply.
You can also do googling, listen to youtube videos, listen to
Robert's videos as well.
Here's my skype ID:
hadi.gsf7
I will add you on skype if it doesn't matter, so i can help you better.
Also, if you got any more questions, ask awaaay
Cheers
Hadi
On 5/30/2014 9:57 PM, Tyler Wood wrote:
Hi, everyone.
I guess I should start off by introducing myself. My name is Tyler.
I'm a blind guy in Canada who heard of flight simulator and
itsyourplane working together to enable a visually impaired person to
fly, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
I took the plunge and bought flight simulator x, but first a few
questions.
Does the gold edition come with service pack 1?
Do I need to buy the accellerator pack with the gold edition as well
or does it come with it?
Now in terms of itsyourplane and flight simulator, how is it with a
screen reader? Particularely jaws for windows and NVDA?
What are the system requirements of itsyourplane? For some reason I
can't find them on the website.
And finally the most important question - where do I get started? I'm
completely new at this, and the manual seems to indicate that you
should have a basic knolidge - but what if I don't?
I'm debating what to instal this on, I'm not sure how much space it
will take up. For giggles, I want to try installing it on my asus
transformer book t100, but is it more than 10 or so gb in size?
I'm sorry for all the questions that I can probably find if I looked
hard enough; I'm probably looking in the wrong place.
If anyone thinks it would be more effective in answering me via other
communications like skype, i'll include my contact details below. I'm
extremeley excited to try this out and get as close as I can to
flying other than grabbing hold of a joystick and sitting in a real
cockpit.
For anyone interested, my main system is a custom built machine with
an AMD fx8350 and a Radion 6450 graphics card and 16 gb of ram - will
the Graphics card be enough to handle this? Or does that matter with
me being blind?
Thanks for any and all help. Contact details below.
email: tcwood12@xxxxxxxxx
skype: the_conman283
I do have a team talk server which is publically available and all
default ports at
wolftech.redirectme.net
My twitter is wolfman1360
You can use my email for i messages as well.
Thanks!
Tyler
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