Real Flight Simulator

Benvenuto al manuale ufficiale di Real Flight Simulator.

Video tutorial: www.youtube.com/RORTOS

Menu principale
Interfaccia di volo
Aerei e livree

1 VOLA ORA

Entra rapidamente nel simulatore di volo

1.1 Selezione aerei

Scegli un aereo dalla lista a sinistra.
Cambia livrea (REALE o VIRTUALE) toccando le frecce a fianco del nome della livrea o toccando il nome della livrea per aprire la lista completa.

CONFERMA: Procedi alla selezione della rotta
INDIETRO: torna al menu principale
CREA LIVREA: Procedi alla pagina web RFS Liveries per scaricare i template delle livree (necessita di pacchetto grafico con supporto per file .psd). Istruzioni tutorial: https://youtu.be/FmwjD-TCS4E

1.2 Route Selection

Stringi o allarga la mappa usando due dita, gli aeroporti più piccoli appaiono ad un livello di zoom più alto.
Seleziona un aeroporto sulla mappa toccando il suo codice ICAO o cercalo usando la barra di ricerca ICAO.
Scegli decollo o atterraggio toccando l'icona a destra del nome dell'aeroporto, tocca nuovamente per cancellare.

Tipologie di aeroporti:

HD Airport
SD Airport
LD Airport

HD Airport - Selection

No selection
Start from RUNWAY
Start from GATE

SD/LD Airport - Selection

Start from runway
Land to runway (Taxi to gate if HD Airport)

START FLIGHT: Take control of the airplane
RESET: Clear airport selection
BACK: Back to airplane selection

2 REAL TIME FLIGHTS

Search for real flights and fly them.
Zoom in or out by pinching the map.
Search for a flight on the map by tapping on an airplane.
Check the flight details on the info box in the bottom right corner.

CONFIRM: Go to the aircraft page and select the aircraft livery, then proceed to START FLIGHT
BACK: Back to main menu

3 ADVANCED FLIGHT PLANNER

Plan carefully your flight plan and execute it.

1.1 File selection

Choose an existing plan from the list on the left or choose an option from the top bar.

NEW: Create a new flight plan
DUPLICATE: Create a copy of the currently selected flight plan
EDIT: Edit currently selected flight plan
DELETE: Delete currently selected flight plan
START FLIGHT: Start the currently selected flight plan
BACK: Back to main menu

1.2 Edit/New

GENERAL

TITLE: Insert the title of your flight plan
DESCRIPTION: Insert the description of your flight plan
TAGS: insert any tags of your flight plan separated by space (example: “Asia Rain Singapore”)

DATE/TIME

CUSTOM/REAL: Choose real time or customize with any setting
DATE: Tap on the date to change it
TIME: Move the slider to change it

FLIGHT PLAN

See your planned route. Tap on EDIT to create/change your route

Select departure and arrival airport
Choose DEPARTURE to set the SID procedure (HD airports includes Transitions)
Choose ARRIVAL to set the STAR procedure (only HD airports)
Choose APPROACH to set the landing runway
BACK: to ignore changes
CONFIRM: to set your flight plan

AIRCRAFT: View your currently selected airplane

CHANGE: change your airplane
FUEL: Move the slider to change quantity
PASSENGERS: Move the slider to change quantity
CARGO: Move the slider to change quantity

METAR - DEPARTURE: Sets your departure weather

CUSTOM: move sliders to change weather settings
REAL: real weather conditions
RANDOM: random weather conditions

METAR - ARRIVAL: Sets your arrival weather

CUSTOM: move sliders to change weather settings
REAL: real weather conditions
RANDOM: random weather conditions

4 MULTIPLAYER

Real time Multiplayer

Choose an available server from the list and JOIN, then choose an airplane and CONFIRM.

Zoom in/out to see where other pilots are flying, tap on any airplane to see pilot details. Set your flight plan and START FLIGHT.

5 OTHER OPTIONS

5.1 RESUME LAST ACTIVITY

You can use this button to quickly resume your last flight where you left it.

5.2 SETTINGS

SYSTEM

QUALITY: 3D world detail quality, lower it if you have frame rate or stability problems
NATIVE RESOLUTION: Activates device native resolution (Only Android devices). May decrease frame rate performance
IN FLIGHT UI: ON=in game UI always displayed; OFF=in game UI appears only when touching the screen
CLEAR CACHE: Resets the cache of already downloaded data, clear only when you are having problems with excessive app size or corrupted textures
SATELLITE HEIGHTMAPS: Turn on/off high definition worldwide satellite terrains
SATELLITE TERRAINS: Turn on/off high definition worldwide heightmaps
REAL TIME AIR TRAFFIC: Turn on/off real air traffic presence during activities
LOCAL AIR TRAFFIC: Turn on/off local air traffic presence during activities

SOUND

MASTER SOUND: Set global sound volume
AIRCRAFT: Set Aircraft Volume
EGPWS WARNING: Set EGPWS warnings volume
PILOT MONITORING VOICE: Select pilot monitoring voice
ATC COMMS: Set voice volume of pilot monitoring and ATC Radio comms
ATC OTHER COMMS: Set voice volume of other pilots and ATC Radio comms

ACCOUNT

SUPPORT: Opens your mail client ready to send a support email
PRIVACY POLICY: Check our privacy policy
GOOGLE: Login using your Google account
FACEBOOK: Login using your Facebook account
ID: Your account ID
PLAYER'S NAME: The name will be visible to other players. Choose carefully your name, you will be able to change it only once
PLAYER'S CALLSIGN: Callsign is used for ATC COMMS and to identify your airplane in multiplayer. Callsign must be 4-6 alphanumeric characters

FAILURES

All failures are global and apply to all airplanes.

CUSTOM/RANDOM/OFF: Choose your failures, get surprised by random failures or switch them off
Move the failure list up/down to scroll it and see all available failures
Move the slider of each failure to set it at the desired frequency or move it all the way to the left to switch it off

CONTROLS

SENSITIVITY: Set your control sensitivity, the lower the sensitivity, the smoother the response of the airplane to your movements
INPUT TYPE: Choose your device accelerometer or a virtual joystick. Virtual joystick can be activated in any free part of the screen excluding the HUD area
INVERT VERTICAL AXIS: Switch to normal or inverted virtual joystick's vertical axis

5.3 LOGBOOK

For each activity

REAL DATE: the real calendar date in which the activity has been performed
ACTIVITY DATE: the activity date as set by the flight plan
AIRCRAFT: the airplane used to fly
FROM: Departure airport
TO: Arrival airport
DURATION: Flight time
TOTAL TIME: Total duration of all flights

5.4 GAME MANUAL

Press this button to access this manual.

5.5 RELEASE NOTE

Press this button to read the latest news on the game. Read RFS Release Note.

5.6 ONLINE STATUS

View your online status.

6 SUBSCRIPTION

Real Flight Simulator offers different subscriptions to access all game features.
Please see the comparison table below:

	RFS	RFS PRO
AIRCRAFT HD, Custom liveries, 3D cockpit, working parts, lights	Saab 340 Bombardier CRJ900 Airbus A320-200	All RFS airplanes + Embraer E190 Cessna 172 BAE Systems 146 Airbus A330-300 Airbus A340-200 Airbus A350-900 Airbus A380-800 Boeing 737-800 Boeing 747-200B Boeing 767-300 Boeing 777-300 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner … more coming soon
HD AIRPORTS	35 Airports with High res satellite imagery, lifelike 3D buildings, taxiways and detailed procedures (departure, arrival, approach)	All RFS HD AIRPORTS + Ground and Air traffic
SD AIRPORTS	500 Airports with Runways, 3D buildings and procedures (departure and approach)	All RFS SD AIRPORTS + Local Air traffic
LD AIRPORTS	No	14000 Airports with Runways and procedures (departure and approach) + Local Air traffic
MULTIPLAYER	No	Realtime multiplayer, fly together with pilots from all over the world.
ATC - Air Traffic Control	No	Interactive multi voice ATC procedures and communications
REAL TIME TRAFFIC	No	Real time traffic for the 35 largest airports in the world and their connected destinations
FLY REAL TIME FLIGHTS	No	Jump on any available real time flight and bring it to destination (or wherever you want…)
ADVANCED FLIGHT PLANNER	No	Advanced Flight Plan with multiple options to create / edit / duplicate complex flight plans
SATELLITE TERRAINS	No	High definition worldwide satellite terrains (requires online connection to stream data)
SATELLITE HEIGHTMAPS	No	High definition worldwide heightmaps (requires online connection to stream data)

7 CHAT

Talk to other pilots to improve your flight experience or exchange information about the sim and any other related questions. Choose desired language from the list on the left.

8 IN FLIGHT USER INTERFACE

AUTOPILOT
THROTTLE
MASTER CAUTION
GROUND SYSTEMS
AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
FLAPS
LANDING GEAR
SPOILER
GROUND BRAKE
RUDDER
Change PANEL INSTRUMENTS
Change CAMERA
Custom PANEL INDICATORS
Planner MAP/FMC
PAUSE
COMMS
VISUAL DOCKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM (VDGS)

1. AUTOPILOT

A/P - AUTO PILOT: Tap to open/close the autopilot panel.
NAV - NAVIGATION: Activates auto pilot navigation. The aircraft follows the flight plan. When NAVIGATION is active Speed, Heading and Altitude can’t be manually changed.
APP - APPROACH: Activates auto approach. Available only when airplane is within ILS range.
SPD - SPEED: Keep the button pressed and move up/down to set the speed.
HDG - HEADING: Keep the button pressed and move up/down to set the heading.
ALT - ALTITUDE: Keep the button pressed and move up/down to set the altitude.
VS - VERTICAL SPEED: Keep the button pressed and move up/down to set the vertical speed.

2. THROTTLE: Move up/down to set desired engine thrust.

3. MASTER CAUTION: Shows any active alarm. Tap to reset alarms.

4. GROUND SYSTEMS

: Available only when on ground.; GROUND POWER UNIT - External power supply. Available only when connected to the passenger boarding bridge.; PASSENGER BOARDING BRIDGE - Available only when properly positioned at the gate. Activate it to board/disembark passengers.; PUSHBACK - Available only when stationary, activate it to be pushed back.

5. AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS

: Tap to open/close the currently selected sub-menu.; Keep the button pressed and move up/down to select different sub-menu (SYSTEMS, ENGINES, FUEL).

5.1 SYSTEMS

HUD - switch hud on/off

WP HUD - switch WayPoints labels on/off

AC HUD - switch other AirCraft labels on/off

COMMS HUD - switch COMMS texts on/off

APU - AUXILIARY POWER UNIT: switch APU on/off

ICE - switch deicing on/off

NAV LIGHTS - switch navigation lights on/off

BEACON LIGHTS - switch beacon lights on/off

LANDING LIGHTS - switch landing lights on/off

STROBE LIGHTS - switch strobe lights on/off

5.2 ENGINES

For each engine:

FIRE- Tap once to activate, tap again when ready to use extinguisher, will deactivate automatically after a few seconds if not used.

ENG x N1 xx% - Tap once to start up the engine, ready when green; tap again to switch it off. Displays N1 (Low pressure compressor rotational speed) for each engine.

THR xx% - Move up/down to adjust engines thrust separately.

5.3 FUEL

LEFT TANK - Tap to release fuel

RIGHT TANK - Tap to release fuel

FUEL - Move left/right to move fuel from one tank to the other

6. FLAPS

Keep the button pressed and move up/down to change flaps settings.

7. LANDING GEAR

Press to extend/retract the landing gear. Make sure to have an IAS (Indicated Airspeed) below "VLO" (Maximum landing gear operating speed) in order to extend it.

8. SPOILER

Keep the button pressed and move up/down to change spoilers settings.

9. BRAKE

Tap to switch on/off the ground brake.

10. RUDDER

Move left/right to operate the rudder.

11. Change PANEL INSTRUMENTS

Tap to switch multiple panel configuration.
Keep the button pressed and move up/down to quickly change the panel.
Keep pressed on single instrument for 1 second and move up/down/left/right to customize each one.

12. Change CAMERA

Tap to switch multiple camera views.
Keep the button pressed and move up/down/left/right to quickly choose the desired camera view.

13. Custom PANEL INDICATORS

Keep the indicator pressed and move up/down/left/right to change the indicator type.

14. Flight Plan MAP/FMC

FMC- Flight Management Computer: Open/close FMC panel.
CENTER- Center the map view on your airplane.

FMC panel:

RMV - REMOVE: Select a waypoint from the list and press RMV to remove it.
NXT - NEXT: Select a waypoint from the list and press NXT to make it the next active waypoint.
UP - UP: Select a waypoint from the list and press UP to move it to the upper position.
DWN - DOWN: Select a waypoint from the list and press DOWN to move it to the lower position.
CLR - CLEAR: Clear all waypoints.
DEP - DEPARTURE: Only departure on HD airport. Press DEP to open the SID list, then choose a SID and press SELECT to activate it.
ARR - ARRIVAL: Only arrival on HD airport. Press ARR to open the STAR list, then choose a STAR and press SELECT to activate it.
APP - APPROACH: Active only if an arrival airport exists in your flight plan. Press APP to open the APPROACH list, then choose an APPROACH and press SELECT, then choose the TRANSITION (only HD airport) and press SELECT to activate it.

15. PAUSE

TAKEOFF / LANDING

Choose any of the options available to quickly perform an activity

DATE / TIME

CUSTOM/REAL: Choose real time or customize with any setting
DATE: Tap on the date to change it
TIME: Move the slider to change it

AIRCRAFT

FUEL: Move the slider to change quantity
PASSENGERS: Move the slider to change quantity
CARGO: Move the slider to change quantity

WEATHER: Sets your current weather

CUSTOM: move sliders to change weather settings
REAL: real weather conditions

FAILURES: All failures are global and apply to all airplanes.

CUSTOM/RANDOM/OFF: Choose your failures, get surprised by random failures or switch them off
Move the failure list up/down to scroll it and see all available failures
Move the slider of each failure to set it at the desired frequency or move it all the way to the left to switch it off

CONTROLS

SENSITIVITY: Set your control sensitivity, the lower the sensitivity, the smoother the response of the airplane to your movements
INPUT TYPE: Choose your device accelerometer or a virtual joystick. Virtual joystick can be activated in any free part of the screen excluding the HUD area
INVERT VERTICAL AXIS: Switch to normal or inverted virtual joystick's vertical axis

CALIBRATE: Tap to calibrate and return to your flight
CONTINUE: Return to your flight
EXIT- Leave the flight

If you Exit you will have access to:

EXIT: Back to main menu
TRY AGAIN: Restart your flight
REWIND: Return to your flight as it was one minute before exiting/crashing
REPORT: End of flight report. Will also appear when switching engines off or after connecting PBB (Passenger Boarding Bridge) and engines switch off
REPLAY: Look at your replay

16. COMMS

16.1 ATC - Air Traffic Control

ATC will allow you to manage communications between your aircraft and different air traffic controllers.

Start by choosing the correct frequencies according to where you are located then choose actions according to flight procedures. You will also listen to any communication between ATC and other aircraft tuned on the same frequency.

ATIS - Automatic terminal information service. Reports a continuous broadcast of recorded aeronautical information.

GROUND - Used while on the ground.

TOWER - Used while on the runway, takeoff and final landing.

APPROACH - Used after takeoff and initial landing.

EN ROUTE - Used during flight.

EMERGENCY - Used to manage any aircraft emergency procedure.

- REQUEST NEAREST AIRPORT: make a request for the nearest airport.

- SET PLAN TO NEAREST: set your flight plan to the nearest airport.

- EMERGENCY/URGENCY: to report situation.

16.2 IN FLIGHT CHAT

MAIN CHAT the same chat as the one in the main menu available to all players. Tap on the top left button to change language.

MULTIPLAYER CHAT named after the server you have chosen in multiplayer. Tap on the top right button to filter pilots by distance.

17. VISUAL DOCKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM (VDGS)

Available on any HD Airport. Follow map instructions to reach your assigned gate, then close in to parking area following instructions provided by the VDGS. When correctly parked (OK) the PASSENGER BOARDING BRIDGE will become available.

Aircraft not aligned, move to the left
Aircraft correctly aligned, distance in feets to target area
Target area reached, stop aircraft here
Target area over passed, move back

9 AIRCRAFT AND LIVERIES

Choose an airplane from the list on the left.
Change livery (REAL or VIRTUAL) by tapping on the arrows at the sides of the livery name or tap on the livery name to open the complete list.

CREATE LIVERY: Proceed to web page RFS Liveries to download livery templates (needs graphical package supporting .psd file format). Tutorial video instructions: https://youtu.be/FmwjD-TCS4E

Other languages:

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