Swift Installation Instructions (and video tutorial)

Hello John and all interested pilots,

this is great and many thanks to you, John, for the detailed instruction and all the work to get into this. I have a quite good idea how much time you have spent as I have done the same to get to know the Swift potential from FlightGear view. Not everything is easily self explaining.

May I add a few ideas as Flightgear pilot for Flightgear users?

- Swift only works from FlightGear 2020.x onwards

- very important for Flightgear pilots to check the Flightgear button in the swift setup process, as John put it.

- in the mapping tool: if you "force reload "FG"" you'll probably get all your aircraft as "Stored own models", i.e. the ones you have downloaded to your aircraft folder and the ones that are stored in your FlightGear 2020.x/data including the whole lot of AI aircraft.

- again in the mapping tool: while selecting the active model set (as far as I have found out up to now) it is only sensible to copy the models with a tick at "DB" and "mode", these are the ones that can be detected by the program on the server while flying together. It is no fault to copy the whole lot.

- for the typical SPA multiplayer flight the choice in the Swift Database for Flightgear is rather restricted (as compared to the huge variety of AI airliners), an alternative is suggested. Therefore you'll probably end up seeing other twins as PA 34 Seneca and singles as Cessna 172. Be prepared to have these downloaded beforehand.

- give it a try and have fun flying together with our SPA fellow pilots.

Oswald