View source for The Space Traders Flight Training Manual

[[File:Classic Elite - Flight Trader's Manual.png|300px|thumb|right|Ian Bell's own copy]]

'''The original 64 page Instruction Manual.'''

Created by [[Robert Holdstock]], [[Ian Bell]] & [[David Braben]] for the very first game, [[Classic Elite]].

'''Contents:'''<br>
'''*1 Introductory Data'''
:::Interior of a Cobra Mk III
:::Your rating as a combateer
'''*2 Navigation and Flying'''
::Flying and navigational controls
::Leaving the space station
::Making for your target world
::Travelling to other galaxies
::Docking procedure
'''*3 Interplanetary Travel'''
::In-flight combat
:::Controls and tactics
:::Likely enemies
::Equipping the Cobra Mk III
:::Weaponry and non-combative equipment
:::How to buy the equipment for your ship
'''*4 Intergalactic Trading'''
::How to trade
::Advice to traders
::Alternatives to Trading
:::Piracy
:::Bounty hunting
:::Asteroid Mining
:::Free Space Cargo
:::Illegal Trading
'''*5 Political Profile of the Universe'''
::Consequences for Trade (not all political states are detailed here)
:::Corporate States
:::Dictatorships
:::Anarchy Planets
::Alien races (not all are detailed here - ''eg'' reptiloids)
:::Bird-forms
:::Amphiboids
:::Felines
:::Insectoids
'''*6 Observer's Guide to Ships in Service'''
::Adder
::Anaconda
::Asp Mk II
::Boa Class Cruiser
::Cobra Mk I
::Cobra Mk III
::Fer-de-Lance
::Gecko
::Krait
::Mamba
::Moray Starboat
::Python
::Orbit Shuttles
::Sidewinder Scout Ship
::Thargoid Invasion Ships (with remote controlled fighters)
::Transporter
::Viper (Police Ship)
::Worm class Landing Craft
'''*7 Pilot's Log'''

You can download your own copy from [http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/index.htm here].

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