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  1. There's no automated ATC in Flightgear, so I'm guessing what you've been listening to is the ATIS (automated weather reports) - whenever the comm is tuned to it, you will get to hear it, the solution is simply to change frequency or to switch the comm off. As for the simplified engine starting procedure - try a different (less realistically modeled) plane than the C-172p - for many it's as easy as 'magnetos on, press 's'' - and some even start with engine running - if you 'just want to fly' a bit, the planes on the upper end of the 'realistic systems' scale are probably not going to be a joy. I'm not completely sure about the C-172p, but there might be an 'Autostart' procedure available as well (?) - have a look at the menu items, it's been a while since I've flown it.
  2. For common HW models there should be existing configurations around, but basically you can just edit the input device files as needed. http://wiki.flightgear.org/Writing_Joystick_Code:_Part_1 According to this, for sensitivity you need to change to a higher value.
  3. I fear you have to contact Octal450 (the engineer of the IDG autopilots) in the FG forum - I understand the IDG series is generally fairly complicated, and I have no flight experience on any of these birds, so this is over my head. You'll find him generally rather responsive to questions.
  4. It really depends on what you want. FG is an OpenSource product, which means it doesn't make profits by being sold, which in turn means the ability to sell or market it doesn't influence development. That means that it comes with some features out of the box which might be somewhat hard to get otherwise (out of the box a detailed light scattering model in the atmosphere, the ability to let it drive 10 screens of a cockpit from multiple graphics cards, the ability to connect to a tablet to a running session via http and use that as an instructor station to monitor performance and cause failures,...) but also that (dependent on what you want) you may need some time to learn configuration etc. and you may need to write some xml to get your control HW supported properly. Quality of airplanes varies correspondingly compared to a product that needs to be marketed - some are just rough and unfinished by people who enjoy tinkering a bit, others at the high end couldn't be marketed because they require you to train like for the real thing before you can get anything done and only few people put up with that. Since it's free, you can just download the package and make up your mind whether that's what you want or not. (And please don't call it a game - the JSBSim code driving the flight dynamics is a research and industry tool, benchmark-tested against NASA simulation codes and FG is (among other things) developed for research and industry applications,...)
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