THE HANGAR IN GENERAL
The hangar is your base for buying helicopters and equipment, and for getting promotions. Get to know and love your hangar.
Your home away from home.
In any city, you have one assigned hangar: the one where you begin. You can land at other hangars, but you won't be able to perform any activities in them. Walk into your hangar by pressing Ctrl-H while you are on the tarmac near your hanger.
Note: If the city you load has no airport, one is automatically built at the southeast corner of the city.
Inside
Maintenance
Engines need fueling, damage needs repairing, windshields need cleaning and rotorheads need checking. All this happens when you land, exit your copter, then get back in. Bring your copter back to the ground every now and then and let the mechanics work their magic.
Buy only what you need.
Note: You can get maintenance for your copter anywhere, but the farther you are from your hangar, the higher the cost of maintenance. Bob's Gas Delivery ain't cheap.
If you run out of gas while flying, use the Auto-Rotation maneuver or you'll crash big time. There's an Auto-Rotation exercise at the end of this lesson.
Catalog
You must be in the hangar to buy equipment and copters from the Catalog. Press Ctrl-C or click on the Catalog button to open the Catalog.
Prices for equipment and copters are as posted. No negotiation is necessary, and no sales tax is added.
Any equipment you buy fits on any copter you own, and is automatically installed on whichever copter you choose to fly.
Click on the equipment or copter you want, then click "buy."
If you can afford it, it's yours.
To close the catalog, click on the "Done" button.
Logbook
The Logbook records the missions you have completed. You must be in the hangar to open the Logbook. You can press Ctrl-M, or click on the Logbook button.
Summary
Now you can take off, fly, dispatch, use your tools and land. You can jump into the missions if you want and try your hand at saving lives and property, or you can play it safe and do the following exercises.