When your airplane has finished loading in X-Plane, press Enter for XPlaneNetworkData2 to begin receiving data from X-Plane. Airspeed, heading, altitude, throttle setting, vertical velocity, vertical vector, and bank angle will show. The XPlaneNetworkData2 window disappears when it loses focus, but can be put back by pressing Alt-Tab. On your computer keyboard: Press 1: Add and/or show a destination. Press 2: Offset from ILS course and ILS glideslope altitude at your location, OR if ILS not showing, then offset from current route course. Press 3: ILS horizontal/vertical bars. Press 5: Ground Speed. Press 6: Feet Above Ground Level. Press 7: Angle of Attack. Press 8: Bank angle at current airspeed for the turn from downwind to final approach. Press 9: Show All 3 Trim settings. Press K for Knots, or again for Miles/Hour. Press . to pause/un-pause X-Plane. You can change the speed ratio. CTRL-1, -2, -3, -4. or -5 changes it to 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, or 16x. Change trim incrementally with the Arrow keys (nose up, down, roll left, right), but only if: 9 was pressed to show trim settings; the small-screen HUD is selected (see below); MOVE isn't showing (see below). Autopilot: A, S, H turns on/off altitude, speed, and heading hold. It's my autopilot (not X-Plane's). The following numbers must be typed in on your computer's Number Pad: Type in a heading number followed by D (e.g. 123 D (for degrees)). H will show. Type in an altitude number followed by F (e.g. 2500 F (for feet)). A will show. Type in a speed (in knots) followed by K (e.g. 150 K (for knots)). S will show. Type in pitch degrees followed by P. The default is 5. Type roll degrees followed by R. The default is 30. My autopilot can handle more. You can enter a single decimal number for pitch or roll (e.g. 1.5). Y turns yaw damping on/off. It also zeros roll trim and pitch trim when turned on. Press the 9 key to see Pitch, Roll, Yaw trim, plus the effect of yaw damping on plane's heading vs. plane's course. Roll also affects the plane's course, but yaw trim is ususally necessary for propeller-powered planes. You can pre-program D, F, and K. Type in a number and then press CTRL-D, CTRL-F, or CTRL-K. Then later you will only have to press D, F, or K for them to take effect. If you want to make less than 10 degrees autopilot heading change, a default divisor of 30 can be decreased to a smaller number for fast planes, so try entering smaller numbers on the number pad and then pressing the J key. The F-4 needs a 1. Don't forget to go back to the default by entering 30 on the number pad and then J To do much more, you'll have to create a new folder in Windows: C:\\Users\Public\X. This folder will hold any files you create for XPlaneNetworkData2, AND you'll have to create sub-folders of that folder if you want to keep different files separate. To create destinations to fly to, after you've selected an airport and runway in X-Plane, and the plane's on the runway, press the 1 key to open either C:\\Users\Public\X or the sub-folder of your choice. Add a new filename to the folder. This will convert the plane's data to runway data and put the new destination's data in that file. Press the 1 key again to see the name of the airport, the distance to it, and a small circle on the big circle indicating its relative position (and with a line from it indicating the runway's direction). And, when you're on a final approach to that runway, press the 3 key to see ILS cross-bars. This uses my ILS function, and doesn't need a radio. BUT it's really a flight director for an ILS. It will take you to a 200 foot ceiling and a half a mile visability landing. For the actual and very accurate ILS, see the next paragraph. N turns on/off my autopilot if the ILS flight director is selected. N for autopilot ILS doesn't use pitch trim, so before you turn it off, add a lot of pitch up trim. Be careful, it's simplistic. The ILS glideslope needs to be close to the plane's vertical velocity, and a bank needs to be within 90 degrees of desired heading. Be ready to turn it off... To fly a more accurate ILS, you'd need to select the opposite runway at that airport in X-Plane. This program will use that data in combination with the first runway in order to use X-Plane's more accurate xyz 1-meter orientation instead of X-Plane's latitude, longitude, and altitude. SO, while you're on the runway you selected by pressing 1 , go to Flight Configuration in X-Plane and put your plane on the opposite runway. THEN in XPlaneNetworkData2, press SHIFT and the 1 key. XPlaneNetworkData2 will then add this second location of the plane to the destination file for that airport. NOW you can press 3 and then SHIFT (after releasing 3) to see the more accurate ILS cross-bars. N works here. To help with aircraft carrier landings, if you add an empty file that you've created (in Windows Notepad), with the name CARRIER.dta, to your destinations folder, and then select it as the destination, XPlaneNetworkData2 will show ILS cross-bars that will take you to the #2 wire. The glideslope here is 3.5 degrees to make up for the 30 knots of the carrier. N works here, but only the pitch. To stop showing destination location data, add another empty file with the name EMPTY.dta to your destinations location folder. Select this to stop showing that data. To see VOR info, create a file in Notepad named VOR.txt and put it in C:\\Users\Public\X. In that file, using information from AirNav on the Internet, write the name of the VOR, followed by its lat/lon. For example, SANF 37.6194853/-122.3738936 for the San Francisco VOR (first 4 letters capitalized). NOTE that the lat/lon is copied from the lat/lon in parentheses. A full-screen map along with the HUD circle can be displayed. Press M to show/not show it. BUT you need to load an airport on the small screen first. Then when you go to full-screen, you'll see that airport, the plane, and any other airports, VORs, or fixes you created on that screen. Going to full-screen also will put the next route fix (if there is one) on the small screen when you go back to it. You can add any number of runways, VORs, and fixes to the map and create departures/routes/arrivals. BUT FIRST, you'll have to create a folder named C:\\Users\Public\X\DeparturesArrivals.txt to save the data. You can add additional runways when on the full-sized screen by pressing 1 Press the right mouse button (without lat/lon showing) to place a VOR that you put in C:\\Users\Public\X\VOR.txt. Press the left mouse button to create a fix at the mouse location. It can either be stand-alone or part of a route. It can be placed inside the square symbol of a VOR, because a route has to be created from fixes. If you assigned a crossing altitude, when you move the mouse over it, the altitude will show. To measure distance & bearing, hold the ctrl or shift key down, press the left mouse button and move the mouse. Delete a fix by moving the mouse pointer over it and pressing the Delete key. The data from this will be used in the small XPlaneNetworkData window as fixes or VORs to fly to/from. Route fixes will be shown in the order you created them (press the spacebar or backspace to change to another one). The current route fix you're flying to will show as a red dot. With a route showing, the assigned heading to the current route fix will show above current magnetic heading, except when the current route fix is a radius from a VOR, in which case the current bearing to that VOR will show. To help put and keep the plane on an arrival/departure route, press: I for the same vertical line that's used for an ILS. E for an extended route line (or runway). If you press T , the next route fix (like spacebar) will be selected and will show the bank to maintain until you're within 50 feet of the route, at which time the T will disappear. Repeat for next route leg. This won't work on VOR radials or arcs around a VOR. N will turn my autopilot on/off to follow the turn to the route and then the route itself. N stays on if T was selected first and turns off at the last route fix. N will cause T to turn back on at 1 NM from the active route fix, and make the next turn. Pressing the 3 key for an ILS approach also stops information from the full-sized screen from being shown. If your plane is off the map, its bearing and distance will show at the top of the screen. Scroll the map with the Arrow keys, and zoom with PageUp and PageDown. Hold the CTRL key down to change by 10x. Press L to see/stop seeing latitude & longitude at the cursor as you move the mouse. You could make your own VOR at a lat/lon on the map and put that lat/lon in VOR.txt. You'll probably have to move and/or zoom the map to make lines from a VOR or the arc around a VOR show up properly. The data is saved in a text file in C:\\Users\Public\X\DeparturesArrivals when you select a different airport in the small HUD window and when you close XPlaneNetworkData. If you open it in Notepad, you can change numbers or delete a line or swap lines. But be careful -- it's in an EXACT format. The one odd entry is northing2. If easting2 is 0, then northing2 is actually fix distance in the upper 16 bits, and fix bearing in the lower 16 bits. The map screen is oriented true north up, but all numbers and lines are magnetic heading or courses. You can move a plane ANYWHERE in XPlaneNetworkData. You have to select a destination first (press 1). BUT moving it anywhere causes the plane's altitude to increase because the earth is round. To move the plane, open the full-screen map with the mouse pointer where you want the plane to move to, and then press the MIDDLE mouse button (the mouse wheel). The plane will try to go to the destination airport's altitude plus 3,000 feet when you press that button. The move will be improved with more presses of the middle mouse button at the desired location. You can change that 3,000 feet to any number by entering any number on the number pad before pressing the middle mouse button. To move the plane's heading or altitude, press the + key. "MOVE" shows when this capability is active. The arrow keys move the plane. Press the - key when you finish moving the plane so you can move the map.