Microsoft^® Flight Simulator X For Pilots: Real World Training

by Jeff Van West; Kevin Lane-Cummings

• ISBN13: 9780470183311
• ISBN10: 0470183314
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Get ready to take flight as two certified flight instructors guide you through the pilot ratings as it is done in the real world, starting with Sport Pilot training, then Private Pilot, followed by the Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, and Air Transport Pilot. They cover the skills of flight, how to master Flight Simulator, and how to use the software as a learning tool towards your pilot's license. More advanced topics demonstrate how Flight Simulator X can be used as a continuing learning tool and how to simulate real-world emergencies.

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Credits

Acknowledgments

Preflight

Intro: Why Use Flight Simulator for Real-World Flying?

Why We Fly

How to Use This Book

Procedure training vs.. Scenario-Based Training

What's on the Website

Flight School Setup

Installing FSX

Looking At What's New In FSX

Getting the Right Hardware

Processor, Memory, Video Cards

Monitors

Flight Controls and Headsets

Adjusting Performance Settings

Organizing Your Cockpit

Key Flight SIM Commands

Use of Slew For Practice

Using the FSX Built-In Flight Lessons

Selecting a Real-World Flight School

Aircraft Types

Environment

Instructor

Costs

Introductory Flight

Working with Your Flight Instructor

FSX as Part of a Lesson

Shared Cockpit

Using the Practical Test Standards

Plugging in the Pilot Communities

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

First Flight in the Piper J-3 CUB

Flight Fundamentals for the Pilot

We All Have Our Limits

The Four Fundamental Gaits of Flight

Visualize Your Control Surfaces

Trim

First Flight in the CUB

Start the Engine

Taxi

Takeoff

Practice the First Three Gaits and Trim

Make Turns

The Tail's Balancing Act

Fly Once Around the Lake

Approach the Airport

Land

Rollout

Takeoffs, Landings, and Go-Arounds

Key Points for real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Sport Pilot

Ground Reference Maneuvers

The Effects of Wind

A River of Ai

Heading, Course, and Track

Ground Reference Maneuvers with Wind

Coordinated and Uncoordinated Flight

Ground Reference Maneuvers Flight

Rectangular Course

Turns Around a Point

S-Turns

Steep Turns

Crosswind Takeoffs

Forward Slip

Sideslip and Crosswind Landings

Ridiculous Winds

Maximum Demonstrated Crosswind

Worst Crosswinds-Kona, Hawaii

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Airport Operations

Uncontrolled and Controlled Airport Operations

Airport Procedures

Radio Communications

Other Aircraft

Airport Weather and Notices

Post Mills to Lebanon Municipal

StartUp

Taxi and Takeoff

Approach and Landing

Depart for Lebanon

Approaching Lebanon

Land and Taxi

Take the Cub to Beantown

Key Point for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Old-Fashioned Navigation

Planning a Trip

Reading Charts

A Route From A to B

Dead Reckoning

Pilotage

The FSX Flight Planner

How High to Fly

Fly Left, Look Right

Who Owns This Airspace?

Moving Loads, Burning Gas

A Multileg Flight Using Pilotage

Take Off and Turn South

Seriously Dead Reckoning

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Emergencies

In-Flight Emergencies

Immediate-Action Emergencies

Urgent Situations

Emergency Training

Power-Off Descent

Rapid Descent

Oddball Emergencies

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Performance Takeoffs and Landings

Aerodynamics of Performance

Takeoff and Landing Calculations

Rate and Angle of Climb and Descent

Short-Field and Soft-Field Procedures

Short Runways

Off-Airport Operations

Yet Another Runway Surface

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Slow Flight, Stalls, and Spins

Taking It Slowly

The Aerodynamics of Slow Flight

The Separation Begins

Stalls with a Twist: Spins

Taking the Cub For a Spin

Slow Down

Power-Off, or Arrival, Stalls

Departure, or Power-On, Stalls

Now for Some Spin

Catching the Bus

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Inst

Private Pilot

First Flight in the Cessna 172SP

Transition to the Cessna 172SP

Modern Aircraft Instruments

The Flap About Flaps

Other System Differences

Checkout Flight in the CESSNA 172SP

Engine Start

Radios Use

Taxiing and Runup

Takeoff and Climb

Basic Maneuvers

Approach and Landing

Advanced Maneuvers

Performance Takeoffs and Landings

Emergency Procedures

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Radio Navigation with Tradional Avionics

Follow the Invisible Road

Finding the Beacon

Flying a Radial

But How Far Away Are You?

Flying with GPS

Flying Cross-Country with Radio Navigation

Off You Go

The First Turn

North to Duluth

Giving George the Controls

Direct with GPS

Getting Unlost and Going Elsewhere

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

First Flight with the G1000

Welcome to the Age of Glass

A Distributed System

The Primary Flight Display

The Radios

The Multifunction Flight Display

G1000 Cross-Country

Getting Set Up

Taking Off

Staying on Top of Things

Using VORs

Try It with a Crosswind

No Wind Vector?

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Night Flight

When Darkness Falls

Vision and Illusions

Night Flying Techniques

Lights

Emergencies

Night Flight in the Cessna 172SP

Departure

On Course

Arrival At Flying Cloud

Night Flight in the G1000

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Weather

Weather Theory and Data

Weather Hazards

Weather Controls and Effects

The Joy of Scud Running

Scud Run In Cessna 172 With G1000

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Maximizing Performance

Quick, Clean, and Cool

No Replacement for Displacement

A New, Blue Control

Stuff Hanging Down and Sticking Out

Introducing Flight Profiles

Fly Fast In a Mooney

Getting Everything in Position

Pouring on the Colas

Climb, Clean, Cool, Communicate

Picking Up Speed

Coming Downhill

Combinations Count

Going Down and Slowing Down

Arriving at the Airport

Approaching for Landing

Landing

Mooney Under Glass

Key Points for real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Instrument Rating

Basic Attitude Instrument Flying

Fly in the Clouds

IFR Ground Checks

The IFR Scan: Attitude Is Everything

The Autopilot

IFR Weather

IMC Flight in Mooney Bravo

Basic IFR Maneuvers

Advanced IFR Maneuvers

Heading Home

IFR Flight With Garmin G1000

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

IFR Flight

Flight Plan Creation

ATC and Flight Plans

Instrument Charts

Departure Procedures

En Route Operations

Arrival Procedures

IFR Flight to a Visual Approach

Preflight

Flight

Departures, Holds, and Arrivals

Flight Plan

Departure

Hold(No Wind)

Hold (Wind)

Arrival

Garmin G1000

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Instrument Approaches

The Final Miles Between Heaven and Earth

The Instrument Approach Plate

VOR Approaches

Localizer Approaches

The Big Kahuna: ILS Approaches

Down Through the Muck: Flying Approaches

A VOR at KPAE

A LOC at KAWO

An ILS at KPAE

String PAE AWO BFI Together

Do it With Wind

Key Points for r45eal Flying and FSX Built-Ins

GPS Approaches

No Ground Station Needed

A Basic GPS Approach

Overlay Approaches

RNAV Approaches

GPS Sensitivity

Using the GPS

Fly Some GPS with a Six-Pack

KSHN GPS Rwy 23

RNAV Rwy 34 Approach at KFHR

The VOR or GPS Rwy 6 at KHQM

Instrument Approaches on the G1000

GPS Rwy 1 at KPWT

ILS 17 at KTIW

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Additional Instrument Approaches

More Ways to Get Around and Down

NDB Approaches

DME Arcs

Localizer Back-Course Approaches

Visual and Contact Approaches

Circle to Land

Multiple Approaches-Calm Wind

An NDB at KTIW

A DME Arc at KOLM

A Back Course at KSLE

A Contact Approach at KBFI

Multiple Approaches-with Wind

NDB Approach with Wind

DME Arc with Wind

LOC BC Approach with Wind

Combo with a Side of Wind

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

IFR Emergencies

IFR Emergencies in Theory

Partial-Panel Flying

Other AIMC Emergencies

Recovery From Unusual Attitudes

Lost Communication

IFR Emergencies in Practice

Partial Panel

Electrical Failure

Unusual Attitude Recovery

Unexpected Emergencies

Key Point for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Commercial License

Multiengine Flying in the Beechcraft Baron

Flying Multiengine Airplanes

Redline and Blueline

Some Other Baron Points

Getting Up to Speed in the Baron

Taxi the Twin

A Lean Machine

The Takeoff Briefing

Patience, Patience

Flight Profiles for the Baron

Baron on the Gauges

Doing Performance Takeoffs and Landings

What Makes the Field Short?

Crosswind Approaches

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Commercial Flight Maneuvers

Loading and Performance

Weight

CG and Aircraft Performance

Flight Maneuvers-Flight on Pylons

Commercial Flight Maneuvers

Steep Turns

Slow Flight and Stalls

Weight and Balance Flight Testing

Single Engine-Only Maneuvers

Steep Spiral

Emergency Approach and Landing

Chandelles

Lazy Eights

Eights on Pylons

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Flying with one Feathered

One Engine Down

Single-Engine Aerodynamics

Engine-Out Procedures

Single-Engine Approaches and Landings

What's Happening Here?

Single-Engine ILS.

Flying with One Feathered

One Engine Down

Single-Engine Aerodynamics

Engine-Out Procedures

Single-Engine Approaches and Landings

What's Happening Here?

Single-Engine ILS

Single-Engine GPS Approach

Single-Engine Crosswind Landings

Additional Single-Engine Work

Engine Failure on Takeoff

VMC Demo

Drag Demo

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Atp And Beyond

Multiplayer

Sharing the Virtual Skies

How Multiplayer Works

Getting Into Multiplayer

Hosting a Multiplayer Session

Setting Up Shared Aircraft

Joining a Multiplayer Session

Playing Well with Others

Let's Chat

Radio Chatter

Flying with Other Airplanes

Flying with Another Pilot

Climbing into the Tower

Your World, Their World

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Virtual Airlines and Online Flying

Virtual Airlines

Finding a Virtual Airline

Hubs and Pilot Bases

Moving Up the Ranks

Multiplayer

Online Flying

Starting Out

Communication

Training and Experience

Real (Virtual) Controllers

Events

Key Point for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Virtual Air Traffic Control

Pushing Tin

Software requirements

Becoming a Controller

The Radar Screen

Communication

Working With Other Controllers

ATC Positions from the Ground Up

Clearance Delivery

Ground Control

Tower (Local) Control

Approach (and Departure) Control

En Route (Center) Control

Key Points for Real Flying and FSX Built-Ins

Conclusion

Pelican's Perspective

Index

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