ASA On Top Software

This brand new version introduces an improved flight control interface, to allow users more control over the program�s response to their flight control (yoke/joystick) inputs. Pitch and roll sensitivity can be fine tuned independently, giving pilots greater control over how the aircraft feels.

Also new is integrated dual-monitor support. Users with a second monitor and Windows Extended Desktop enabled can take advantage of this feature by starting the program using a new, additional desktop icon! This Instructor�s Station version utilizes the second monitor as an instructor�s station from which an instructor, flying buddy, or safety pilot can monitor the progress of the flight in both plan and profile views, change the weather, and invoke a variety of realistic failures.

The On-Top IFR simulator is fully updated to reflect today�s Technically Advanced Aircraft (TAA) with the inclusion of a Garmin G1000-style glass cockpit primary flight display (PFD) in the Cessna 182. A Reality XP Garmin 430 GPS is now available in the Cessna 172, Mooney, Bonanza and Baron aircraft. Also included with On Top is FlightPrep�s PlateView program, providing electronic approach plates for U.S. airports. This is a much-requested item and pilots will now have the approach information at their fingertips for their flight simulation sessions.

Features:

On Top includes an accurate rendering of ten aircraft � Cessna 172 Skyhawk, Cessna 182 Skylane, Cessna 182R Skylane RG, Piper PA-28-161 Warrior II, Piper PA-28R-201 Arrow IV, Lancair Columbia 300, Mooney MSE, Beech Bonanza V-35, Beech Baron 58 Twin, Beech 1900 Twin Turboprop.
Each aircraft has panel options � pilots can choose an HI or HSI, an ADF or RMI, add a moving map or GPS, an attitude indicator or flight director. Fly a conventional 6-pack cockpit or a glass-cockpit featuring a G1000-like PFD.
Fly any approach in the world with the worldwide database. View the approach plate with a click of a button using FlightPrep's PlateView program.
Simulate truly realistic flights by programming the weather to suit your needs. Set up conditions that replicate the forecast for your next flight; set up the weather to improve, deteriorate, or change randomly to add unpredictable turbulence, ceilings, clouds, and winds.
Set instrument and equipment malfunctions to fail predictably or randomly to maximize emergency procedures training.
Flight information is recorded and mapped for every flight in overhead and profile views. Save and replay these flights for later evaluation, or re-fly portions of the flight under different conditions.
Users can challenge themselves with hard IFR weather, systems malfunctions, and engine failures, while the venture outside the narrow channels of training days to get more out of their instrument ticket.

At the heart of On Top you'll find five of the most popular aircraft ever built. There's a Cessna C172, C182 and C182RG, and Piper's Warrior and Arrow. Also included are the Lancair Columbia 300, the Mooney MSE, and Beechcraft's Bonanza V-35, Beechcraft Baron 58, and Beech's 1900D twin-turboprop. Each model utilizes precise flight dynamics algorithms, right down to the deadly assymetrical thrust you'll experience should you lose an engine in the Baron.

Now, you can test your skills against the reality of single-engine IMC in a light twin, or a twin-engine turboprop. This and other aircraft setup parameters are available for all aircraft.

Beech 1900 on short final

Each aircraft panel is rendered with a next-generation graphics technology that makes every gauge, pointer, tick-mark and knob on your panel as true-to-life as a computer can create. Couple the "Photo-realistic" graphics effect with On Top's precise mimicry of real aircraft instrumentation and you're as immersed in your simulated flights as you are in your actual flights.

There's realistic sound effects, like radio idents, marker beacons, gear and flap extension, and tire sounds. You'll find panoramic out-the-window views, accurate runway lighting and haze layering. You'll even see the rivets across your wings as you look right or left on a circling approach, all with enough realism to make you sweat.

It's About Flexibility

Full instrumentation, like programmable GPS, HSI, RMI, Moving Map and auto pilot is just half of it. In On Top, you decide what instruments you fly with, and you decide where they'll go. Some IFR sim makers decide years before you ever get your copy what kind of equipment you'll fly with and where it will go in your panel, but in On Top you can change it every time.

Weather Configuration Panel

On Top's Real-World Weather is as variable as tomorrow's weather. Define winds aloft and then surface winds, then dial in degree of swing and speed of gusts. Create turbulence, cloud bases and visibility with as much variability as you can handle, so you'll never know if you'll have to fly the missed approach until you get to the bottom of the funnel. And best of all, make your virtual conditions stable, deteriorating, improving or randomly changing, over any given time frame.

It's About Learning From Every Flight

System Failures Configuration Panel

In the real world, getting your procedures down pat with a methodical and practiced scan is just the beginning, and there's always more to learn. Are you ready for a vacuum failure on a bumpy IMC night? IFR simulators of the past have always had some sort of instrument failure capability, but those failed instruments just rolled over and died. The designers of On Top wanted you to recognize an imminent failure, cope with it and survive, so they created Realistic Instrument Failures. As chillingly real as failures in actual flight, each of these is modeled after the way instruments actually behave. A failed vacuum system will slowly tumble your gyro instruments, daring you to follow them into the ground. Program the system or instruments you want to practice failures on, over any time period, or let the computer generate failures at random. Either way, you'll heighten your awareness every time you fly.

Map Configuration Panel

When it's time to review and learn from your experiences, On Top's map screen will give you all the information you need to be your own best judge. Whether it was an IFR cross country, an ILS into O'Hare or an NDB approach into a local one-hangar field, every detail of your flight track and profile is there. Replay your flight, save your flight, or back up a flight to any point along the track and shoot it again. If you make a mistake, or simply want to lower the weather parameters, you can re-fly any flight or approach right from the map.

It's About Compatibility

Digital Calibration Utility - Main Screen

On Top now supports more types of flight controls, including digital consoles. Its new digital interface, built into the calibration utility, has been upgraded to accommodate this new capability.

It's About Giving Instruction

On Top's Instructor screen

On Top supports dual-monitor computer stations. Thus, when running an "extended desktop" in Windows, On Top can display any of the "setup" windows on one monitor, while the other monitor displays the airplane's cockpit. Instructors benefit by being able to monitor and conduct the flight, as it happens, without interrupting it to make setup changes, and individuals benefit by not having to interrupt their flight to check progress, or make changes.

It's About Training

Both ASA and Precision Training Software are dedicated to flight training, and know that flight simulators are no longer about "boring holes through the sky." They're about immersing yourself in the most challenging environment anywhere�IMC.

For Instrument Pilots: Practice for any approach, any possibility, with state-of-the-art simulation technology that includes high-performance single and even multi-engine aircraft.

Real-world fidelity is the key in On Top™, an IFR simulator with stunningly accurate flight dynamics, every U.S. airport and navaid, photo-realistic graphics, Real-World Weather and the first true-to-life instrument failures ever designed for a PC. ASA has teamed up with the software engineers at Precision Training Software to give every pilot the "virtual arena" he or she needs to practice their hard-won skills of scan, procedure and spatial awareness.

Minimum System Requirements

Widows-compatible processor (AMD or Intel), 800 MHz or faster
Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional (32-bit version only)
This software is Vista-Compatible
Minimum 256 MB System RAM
400 MB available hard drive space (minimum install)
CD-ROM drive (4x or faster for minimum install)
DVD-ROM drive required for adding PlateView regions (up to 2.2 GB for all US regions); a DVD-ROM drive is not required to run On Top without PlateView
DirectX Version 9.0c, (included on the OT9 CD)
Direct-X compatible video card with 32 MB minimum video memory
Monitor and video card driver supporting 1024x768 minimum screen resolution
Windows DirectX-compatible sound card and speakers
DirectX-compatible sound card and speakers
Mouse or other compatible pointing device
Joystick or yoke

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