Do you know that in FlighGear there are MacroTIcons or what we call nowadays MacroEmojis ?. Those are a set of mnemonic character strokes ( keyboard inputs ) capable to get you into a menu option, a dialog box, set your nav freq, your daytime, etc.
One example is to get access to the fuel and payload dialog very quickly in a fanny and effective way by tipping.
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:Df
EXPLANATION: Note that is case sensitive. We type
: in order to access to the command mode (a direct command mode). Just next we type
D (capital letter) D means dialogs, just next again we type
f that means fuel.
For more complete list of MacroEmojis for FG just type
: you'll see the command Mode Box. USE TAB TO SEE OPTIONS.
PROBLEM: For some reasons your aircraft can't climb further, you have lost speed, the autopilot is trying to maintain alt by trimming. You are now in a difficult situation over trimmed and loosing speed very quickly, you are now falling down, you have time to disconnect app but not enough to trim back to neutral again and get the control of your aircraft.
SOLUTION Quickly type this macroEmoji
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:fia
This command will trim back to neutral. Now you can try to get back full control.
: open command mode,
f means flight controls,
i stands for initialize, and
a stands for aileron. However a better way to memorize this command is calling it as
:fia standing for
fiabilityCause FG is not perfect we haven't yet the :lol command.