Creating a Flight

X-15A-2 SE preparing for takeoff at Ely Station.

For your first X-15A-2 flight, let's plan a normal takeoff from Ely Station, Nevada (KELY), runway 18, and a landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base (KEDW). This departure location should give you an almost direct path to Edwards.

Like in a real X-15 mission, we will attempt to land our X-15A-2 SE addon on a lakebed runway, not on the base concrete runway.

Important

• You must be in the virtual cockpit view to operate this addon. The X-15A-2 SE has no 2D panels. If your addon appears to have no virtual cockpit, make sure you have selected the VIRTUAL COCKPIT view in the simulator, not the (2D) cockpit view. The virtual cockpit is available from the "Views" menu item on your simulation platform's top menu bar or by pressing the "F9" key. You can also cycle forward or backward the different views with both the "S" key and the "A" key or you can select the virtual cockpit as the default cockpit view when configuring your simulation platform.

In this section:

Creating a Flight in Flight Simulator X

Creating a Flight in Prepar3D® v1

Creating a Flight in Prepar3D® v2 and later

See also:

Loading a Flight

Useful Information Before Launch