... perform ground taxi on earth: Call up the AP panel, press AP on, select IAS 15 kts, press SPD button (aircraft accelerates), select a taxi heading in the heading reading field, press HDG button. Planes: Please enable autocoordination (Realism menu entry, FS2004).
... change the indicated values in the IAS, HDG, VS, ALT reading fields: Please left-click either into the left or right half of the appr. field to change the reading. You may also hold down the mouse button for continuous change. You can also use SHIFT or CTRL keys while pressing the left mouse button to increase / decrease speed of change. HDG and ALT fields have little turn buttons, VS has a slider. Please left-click left or right of these turn-buttons or into the upper or lower half of the slider to increase or decrease the readings.
... change the radar-range of the EFIS screen
Please click (left mouse button) right or left besides the EFIS radar range button (upper right corner). You may increase the range stepwise to a range of 100 nm.
... select a target on the EFIS panel:
Click (left mouse button) onto any target on the EFIS screen. Now there should be a yellow circle around the target. Press 'NAV' on the APPanel to navigate to this target. You can see the distance to the target displayed on the APPanel. If you want to select further (follow up) targets, click with the right mouse button onto up to 3 targets. The will have a green circle with a read number. FSPilot will now (1) fly to the primary target and then (2) fly to the first follow up target, then to the next.
... quickly enter a NAV target into FSPilot:
You are flying in the Frankfurt area. The ATC controller instructs you to 'fly towards Spessart NDB, I say again papa sierra alpha NDB'. Where is this ? FSPilots: simply enter a 'select PSA' into the text input field (command input) of the AP panel and press 'return'. Press NAV. Say 'wilco, PSA NDB'. Done.
The other controller instructs you to fly to 'RIDAR intersection'. FSPilots: simply type 'select RIDAR' and press return. Done.
Note: For this to work, the requested target does not need to be on the EFIS panel, but must be 'in range' - distance: 300 nm or less from your current aircraft position.
... take off in a helicopter with FSPilot:
See lesson, click here.
... use FSPilot in a fixed winged aircraft inflight (Newbie):
Please see this lession.
... switch meter and feet units of Altitude and VS: You can switch between meter and feet units display in AP's main panel by CTRL+leftclick on the ALT button. This will also change the VS indication to ft/minute.
... switch between m/s and kts units : You can switch between meter/sec and kts units display in AP's main panel by CTRL+leftclick on the SPD button.
... modify the elevator trim: Elevator trim can be directly modified from the AP panel.
... quickly enter the current heading in the heading reading field: Right-click on the heading reading field to quickly define the current heading here