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First solo: a quick-start card, a DEMO that demos, and a trackpad stick 9a4a5df

CONTROLSUX The quick-start card over the cockpit: throttle, brakes, rotate, gear, mouse stick, manual

First feedback from a new pilot on a MacBook: "can't get off the ground." Fair — the sim never told you how. Three fixes. Every launch now opens a quick-start card with the handful of keys that get you airborne (W to firewall the throttles, B brakes off, pull back at 150 knots, G gear up, ? for the full manual) — it fades by itself, closes on a click, and has a don't-show-again tick for veterans. The DEMO menu item actually demos now: it hides the menu and plays the attract loop full-screen until any key brings you back (previously it did exactly nothing, since the demo jet was already flying behind the menu). And the mouse stick grows up: press Y, then click the screen to capture the cursor — pointer lock turns relative movement into stick deflection, which is how the Amiga original flew and, crucially, the only way a trackpad can.