Hi Tyler, To create a Flight, Do the following: Create A Flight Plan: Alt P and go through those steps Once back on the Free Flight page: Alt S Saves the flight and creates the flight. Alt L will bring up the load flight page and I hope this is a bit of a help. Jordan From: bvipilots-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bvipilots-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler Wood Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 9:52 PM To: bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bvipilots] Re: some newbie questions Hi, I got IYP running and installed with no problems - making sure the right directories were shared and what not. Now comes the fun part where I can't find my head. I'm trying to create a flight plan, which I think I've done, but the flightdeck manual is telling me to create a flight (.flt file). Hitting alt f for file menu doesn't work in FSX, in fact, there is no menu bar that I can see. I'm also trying to find a list of voice commands (in html would be easiest for me if possible)? Also, for a blind person, how do you set up a microphone trigger keybinding in itsyourplane? I think I see where to do it but can't get it to stick - or take action, at all. Also, later on, would this be a big deal to instal FSX on a bigger drive than my 120 gb ssd? I really like what I'm seeing so far - so far the only thing that's going wrong is just me being confused more than any software. I managed to get music turned down in FSX, and that's about all I can think of. I might need someone to guide me through this just so I'm not so lost. I watched a lot of the youtube videos before all of this too. thanks a lot for everything so far. On 5/30/2014 6:48 PM, Robert Cezar wrote: Hi Tyler. To start, go to the IYP site located here: http://www.itsyourplane.com Click on the link at the top entitled: BLIND PILOTS CLICK HERE That will take you to this page: http://www.itsyourplane.com/html/blind.asp Scroll that page and click on: SITE MAP Clicking that link will take you here: http://www.itsyourplane.com/html/sitemap.asp Scroll the site map page for the link entitled: Install IYP System Clicking that link will take you here: http://www.itsyourplane.com/html/install.asp At the top of the installation page, there are 2 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT items. They read... Please read this IMPORTANT INFORMATION BEFORE starting your installation. and We also STRONGLY SUGGEST that you WATCH THIS VIDEO PRESENTATION. respectively. Click those links and carefully follow the instructions. If you require assistance setting up the sharing and security settings, I am certain one the guys will be delighted to help you. Regards, Robert On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Tyler Wood <tcwood12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi there, I figured that out. Ended up getting it. What are my next steps? thanks Tyler On 5/30/2014 4:26 PM, Jordan Gallacher wrote: Hi Tyler. There maybe two product keys perhaps. I have to becareful to use the correct one for FSX and then use the correct one for FSX Acceleration. Jordan -----Original Message----- From: bvipilots-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bvipilots-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler Wood Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 4:21 PM To: bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bvipilots] Re: some newbie questions Hi, Ok - had my first problem and not sure what to do about it. After entering my 25 digit product key for flight simulator X, I get the following error: Invalid Product Key The product key entered is incorrect or invalid. Please retype the correct product key. OK This is the product key direct off the little slip of paper I got with the disk, which I bought new off Amazon. Disabling widnows firewall didn't help - so I tried disabling security essentials for a spell which didn't help either. Anyone have any ideas? On 5/30/2014 2:00 PM, Hadi Rezaee wrote: 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 Blind and Visually impaired Pilots mailinglist //www.freelists.org/list/bvipilots To post a message to the list, send a message to bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send a message to bvipilots-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put the word unsubscribe in the subject of your message. For other options such as digest, send a message to bvipilots-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put the word help in the subject of your message. 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