Getting Started

New to Aces High? These steps get you from installing the game to your first flight.

1. Download and install the game, then create your account.
2. Set up your joystick or mouse and your video.
3. Practice offline first: on the main menu pick Offline Practice.
4. Go online: Online Arenas, pick an arena, choose a field in the tower, a plane in the hangar, and launch.
5. Learn the keys in flight and the autopilot.

Crew Chief and the Getting started panel

Crew Chief, your AI helper, talks you through each new place the first times you reach it. The Getting started panel that appears with him lists these lessons:

• Tick a lesson to hide it; click its name to hear it again.
• Tick Don't show any lessons to hide them all; the panel closes and stays away.
• To bring the lessons back, use Reset lessons in Options > Preferences > Crew Chief.

Ask Crew Chief anything by holding R and speaking, or by typing on radio channel 6. See Crew Chief Settings.