I normally prefer to use the keyboard for selecting FS5.0a menu options,
but I was becoming frustrated at: 

1. The lack of standardization in certain selections
2. The need for switching from one key to another in going through menus
3. Having to use a certain key to choose an option and a different key for
   the same option when used as a 'hot key'.

If this does not seem clear, let me provide some examples, in reference to  
the original FS5.0a menus:

1. Within the EFIS dialog, one uses 1 and 2 to choose VORs, but in Navigation
   Radios, one uses letters.

2. One chooses Airports with the A key and the following selection (for Area)
   is made with the C key.

3. Simulation Speed's hot key is R, but D is used on the menu.

Other non-standard terms are used, such as Create (in Weather), whereas pro-
grams normally use New.

So I started fiddling around with some menu options, changing words, spacing,
etc... in order to achieve something that I found easier to use from a 'key-
boardist' point of view; I had to take some liberties, notably the changing
of Autopilot to Zutopilot, but it grows on you... Many changes were so easy
to arrive at, that one wonders why things were not done differently in the 
first place!

To use these new menus, simply overwrite the file FORN-000.FRN in your main
FS5.0a directory with the one supplied herewith. You should naturally save
the current (original) FORN-000.FRN, in case you do not like what you'll see.

N.B. This work was done after the 5.0a patch was installed, and so I do not
know whether it would work with the 5.0 version.

The first version (94/8/15) of my revised FORN-000.FRN contained no known
defficiencies (which is a fancy programmer's term for 'bugs').
This second version contains what I consider further improvements, particu-
larly in the "Time and Season" menu.

The original forn-000.frn file is copyrighted by BAO and MS (we all know
who they are) and my mods in no way constitute an attempt at jumping that
claim.

Toronto, 94/10/20

    carlos.coimbra@westonia.com
or  carlos.coimbra@odxabbs.tor250.org
and ILINK or RIME simulator conferences