I used Flightgear at beginner level over 10 years ago. I now want to try again, because my grandson showed interest in the MS Sim demo (with the flour bombs).
I opened it a couple of days ago, and tried to get it started. But it seems that I now need to do a lot of real-life things that a pilot would do. I seem to remember that I only needed to nudge the throttle and it rolled off. I closed the program.
Now, after a couple of days, the "Fly" button at lower left of the window is not available - greyed out. Also, I noticed the mention of "Autostart" a couple of days ago, but I can't find it now.
I tried Tools > Restore defaults to reset anything that I might have done 2 days ago, but the "Fly" button is still not available.
I would be grateful for any info on these two issues.
Thanks.