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 9: Show All 3 Trim settings. Press K for Knots, or again for Miles/Hour. Press N if on ILS course and glideslope to use my autopilot. Press T for accurate bank to intercept a route or ILS. N will use my autopilot to continue the turn. Both T and N will turn off at course capture. Press . to pause/un-pause X-Plane. 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 correction on plane's heading vs. plane's course. Roll trim could also affect 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. The F4U Corsair needs a 3. You can change the speed ratio. CTRL-1, -2, -3, -4. or -5 changes it to 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, or 16x. 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, 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 for a landing. For a very accurate ILS, see the next paragraph. N turns on/off my autopilot if ILS is selected. It doesn't change trim, so be aware of this when turning it off. The ILS cross-bars need to be close to centered when turning my autopilot on. 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 for elevation 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. ILS changes to xILS. 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. 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 fix/VOR info, create a file in Notepad named fixVOR.txt and put it in C:\\Users\Public\X. If VOR: 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. If fix: Same source for a fix, but in AirNav it will look like this: 33-03-26.210N 117-08-16.360W Write the fix name in lower case letters, e.g. lakee 33-03-26.210N 117-08-16.360W (so lat/lon will be converted). VOR radials are replaced by fixes, which are more accurate since magnetic varation changes over years and VOR radial angles aren't changed very often, if at all. 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 edit a saved data's file. Move lines, delete lines, and change numbers (carefully). 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 fix or VOR that you put in C:\\Users\Public\X\fixVOR.txt. Press the left mouse button to create a fix at the mouse location. If you assigned a crossing altitude for a fix, 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 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 your current magnetic heading. If you press T , the next route fix will be selected (like spacebar) and will show the bank angle to maintain until you're within 50 feet of the route (or ILS course), at which time T and N are turned off. N works here. To help put and keep the plane on an arrival/departure route, press: C to use my heading autopilot to fly the active fix heading. T will automatically turn this on. Works with arc, too. E to show an extended runway line in the small HUD circle view. At 1 NM from the active fix, H turns off and T turns on (making the next fix active). Pressing the 3 key for an ILS approach also stops data 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'll probably have to move and/or zoom the map to make route lines and/or an arc show up properly. The map screen is oriented true north up, but all numbers and lines are magnetic heading or routes. 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 above the ground to any altitude by entering it 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. If you're creating a departure-route-arrival, make it for the arrival airport, and start the flight from the departure end. 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; MOVE isn't showing. When landing on an aircraft carrier, the touch-down elevation may not be right for the plane you're flying, presuming the cross-bars are centered at hook touch-down at the #2 wire. To change this from the default of 0, press Shift-number (0 thru 9) after carrier has been selected and not on the carrier deck. To make that number negative, press X. I use 3 for F4 -1 for F4U -1 for F4F 4 for T-7A Negative moves plane down. To make an autopilot landing on a carrier, press N when the crossbars are centered and on the carrier's center-line. Angle-of-Attack should generally be between 6-something and 8-something degrees on touch-down. To tell XPlaneNetworkData that your plane uses 2 engines, press Shift-2 when the plane is on the ground or carrier deck.