i cannot get this flight simulator off the ground.
this is turning out to be nothing more than an exercise in frustration.
i am trying to fly multi engine aircraft. i can't see the tachometers, or any other engine instruments, i can't see the props. i have no way of telling if any more than one of my engines are running. the on site search engine is worthless. it has never brought me to anything that was any help.
at this point, i am convinced this software is worthless shit.
i regret every second of the time i have wasted on it.
i had intended to install it onto my newest, most powerful computer which is running Linux, but that machine has no web connection. i am waiting on help to get it installed there. (i have programing experience in DOS, FORTRAN, and Basic. none in Linux)
in the meantime, i installed it on my old Dell Latitude E6400 running Windows 7. i thought i had it working, but the next time i attempted to use it, 4 of the 6 aircraft i had added were gone. i have no access to the other two.
i cannot get out of the Cessna it opens to.
i cannot see anything obvious wrong in the file structure.
please DO NOT refer me to the manual. it is Dyslexic unfriendly in the extreme.
what i want to do is use the Flight Gear simulator to learn whatever it can teach me about amphibious aircraft takeoffs and landings. if there is no way i can do that with a Linux machine that is not connected to the web, please let me know. if that is the case, i can stop wasting my time.
(then i can go back to easy stuff; particle physics, quantum mechanics, Relativity, unification, and if i want something really easy, rocket science.)