User manual

DodoSim 206 FSX User Manual

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4. Position Light switch - This switch controls the aircraft’s external position lights. (The red

port and green starboard lights, plus the white light at the far end of the tail boom.)

5. Instrument Light switch - This switch turns the cockpit lighting system on or off and is for

use at night or other poor lighting conditions.

Important note: In a real aircraft, this is a variable knob allowing the lighting intensity can

be set. FSX has no inherent variable intensity ability and so this knob is used only to turn

the lights either on or off.

6. Anti-Collision Lights switch - This switch controls the aircraft’s external hazard beacon,

intended to attract another pilot’s attention who may not have yet spotted the helicopter.

7. Heater rotary / Difficulty setting - The heater rotary is used to set and display the DodoSim

206 FSX’s current difficulty setting. There are 5 difficulty settings, where 1 is the easiest

and provides for the fewest advanced features, and where 5 is the hardest and provides

for all advanced features. (Refer to the “Difficulty Levels” section for details on what

dynamics and features apply to each setting.)

Important note: Note that FSX mission creators have the ability to force and lock this

setting as they see fit. If you try and change the difficulty setting in a mission where the

creator has forced and locked it, the rotary icon will be overlaid momentarily with a red

cross. When the mission either ends or is exited, you will regain control of the setting.

Clicking on the ‘+’ side of the rotary increases the difficulty level. Conversely, clicking on

the ‘-’ side of the rotary decreases it.

8. Generator Field - This CB isolates the generator from the main electrical bus. Whilst out

the generator is unable to supply electrical power to recharge the battery.

9. Generator Reset - Ordinarily used to isolate the generator reset circuitry, and though

implemented, this CB serves no function in the DodoSim 206 FSX.

10. Dir/Gyro switch - Ordinarily this switch is used to slave the heading indicator gauges to the

gyro. It is switched off until the pilot has aligned the heading indicators to the magnetic

compass, at which point it is switched on and the indicators will maintain heading based

upon the gyro output. (Gyro drift occurs over time, so regular re-synchronisation to the

magnetic compass is required.) Though implemented, this switch serves no purpose in the

DodoSim 206 FSX.

DodoSim FS9 Advanced 206 users: The Dir/Gyro switch no longer controls the advanced