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From the Inside Flap
It's the next best thing to being up there
Why use Microsoft Flight Simulator for real-world flight training? Because it gives you the best possible head start and enables you to learn at your convenience. Flight Simulator provides scenario-based training that lets you practice handling almost any situation. It offers advantages you don't even get in a real planethe option to set up any kind of weather or equipment failures, stop midway and redo a procedure, or get the view from outside the airplane. FSX isn't a game. It's a training mission for virtual and real aviators alike.
- Install Flight Simulator and set up a training program from Student Pilot through Airline Transport Pilot
- Use the custom flight lessons on the companion Web site to prepare for actual flight training
- Practice the fundamentals of flightstarting the engine, taking off and landing, and performing pre-flight checks
- Learn to handle different types of aircraft
- Experience the effects of wind and weather
- Prepare for emergency situations and learn to navigate by both old-fashioned and modern methods
- Communicate with air traffic control
- Build practice time that can help you prepare for license exams
From the Back Cover
It's the next best thing to being up there
Why use Microsoft Flight Simulator for real-world flight training? Because it gives you the best possible head start and enables you to learn at your convenience. Flight Simulator provides scenario-based training that lets you practice handling almost any situation. It offers advantages you don't even get in a real plane―the option to set up any kind of weather or equipment failures, stop midway and redo a procedure, or get the view from outside the airplane. FSX isn't a game. It's a training mission for virtual and real aviators alike.
- Install Flight Simulator and set up a training program from Student Pilot through Airline Transport Pilot
- Use the custom flight lessons on the companion Web site to prepare for actual flight training
- Practice the fundamentals of flight―starting the engine, taking off and landing, and performing pre-flight checks
- Learn to handle different types of aircraft
- Experience the effects of wind and weather
- Prepare for emergency situations and learn to navigate by both old-fashioned and modern methods
- Communicate with air traffic control
- Build practice time that can help you prepare for license exams
About the Author
Jeff Van West is a certified flight instructor in both single and multi- engine aircraft and editor of the professional pilot magazine IFR. He has written training curricula for both computer simulation and general aviation programs.
Kevin Lane-Cummings is a pilot, flight instructor, educator, and technical communication professional. He has worked for aerospace megacorporations, science museums, flight schools, public TV stations, and Internet publishers.
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Product details
- Publisher : Wiley; 1st edition (June 1, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 752 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0764588222
- ISBN-13 : 978-0764588228
- Item Weight : 2.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.38 x 1.7 x 9.25 inches
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I like the full color photos of the Figures in the book. I can read the instruments!
I couldn't find the files until i looked up wiley.com in these reviews.
kludger wrote " I was able to find the files 10/1/2011 at the publisher's Wiley.com website by searching the book title and going to the "Downloads" section, all the original FSX flight files and charts as well as the bonus chapters. Great value!"
Enter the name of the book @ wiley.com in the search box, it will show the name of the book as you key it in.
Chose the book, then see Downloads of the far left of the screen.
I downloaded all of it, then converted the .tiff files to .jpg (with a freeware Bulk Image Converter) to cut the size by 80 percent.
By JOHN D on October 23, 2019
I like the full color photos of the Figures in the book. I can read the instruments!
I couldn't find the files until i looked up wiley.com in these reviews.
kludger wrote " I was able to find the files 10/1/2011 at the publisher's Wiley.com website by searching the book title and going to the "Downloads" section, all the original FSX flight files and charts as well as the bonus chapters. Great value!"
Enter the name of the book @ wiley.com in the search box, it will show the name of the book as you key it in.
Chose the book, then see Downloads of the far left of the screen.
I downloaded all of it, then converted the .tiff files to .jpg (with a freeware Bulk Image Converter) to cut the size by 80 percent.
As I skip ahead to the present day, I think about what it would've been like to have this book growing up. It's basically like having a certified flight instructor sitting next to you at all times, whose brain you can pick whenever you have a question. I bought this book about 4 years ago since I hadn't flown in real life for awhile, so I could refresh my memory on things that I knew I had started to forget, but also I bought it just to have. I never imagined the amount of information it'd have in it. The book begins with the most basic information from the physics of flight, to teaching you how to conduct a GPS approach. You will also learn how to read an approach plate and land in one mile visibility with an ILS approach. It also is such a great source of reference for just anytime you want to read-up on something you already know about and apply it with practice on the simulator. It also has a really good section for helping to learn some of the basics of the "glass cockpit," in the event you're about to be transitioning from the old gauges to the Garmin-1000!!!
I now have twins who will be sitting behind the yoke in the computer room soon. My boy has actually already grabbed it a few times, but at 19 months he's not quite there yet...haha But when the day comes, this book will basically allow me to be his flight instructor. The information in this book is worth thousands of dollars when you consider the cost of a flight instructor ($22 an hour in 2002-03 was cheap compared to what they probably are now). I recommend buying this book for any person who has a simulator, whether you're new to flying or a veteran. If you're planning on pursuing aviation in real-life, it will save you A LOT of money long-term, since you won't have to practice so much on a real plane!
And this book covers it all! I look to it for advice on every aircraft I want to fly, and study it for clues every time I want Flight Simulator to do something new. There are several things I didn't even know Flight Simulator <i>could</i> do that I've picked up from just leafing through this great manual.
Top reviews from other countries
Well, if you're looking at it you're probably like me, getting a little too 'James May' about computer flight sims. Nonetheless, I couldn't afford a replica cockpit, or a new house to put it in. What's the next step? - More challenge. I enjoy the built in learning centre training sessions, I enjoy following instructions and feeling the achievement on completing them and this book is full of this.
I forced myself to follow the book in order and not just skip to 'my' cesna plane bit, or the heavy metal (which there is little on to be honest). This is because this book is about learning how to fly, not learning how to input coordinates and flicking a switch. The beginning chapters of the book shove you in a cub, which I had neer flown, as I thought it boring. Actually, I loved it. With the most basic cockpit you're forced to fly trully visually, take in the scenary and take in theory and skills. I learnt lots of new skills following the first sections and it feels great completing the 'missons', there really is a sense of achievement. The book has some anecdotes, but for the most, it's all about flying. If it's not telling you what to do, it's explaining why you're doing it, you know, wax on wax off style.
My copy is covered in highlighter pen and page markers. If you love that, you'll love the book.
I have found a very useful further addition to FSX is PlanG (an entirely independent and separate free download). PG version 3.1.1 effectively gives you world-wide charts for the airports etc you are going to find in FSX - brilliant for VFR flight planning, giving all VORs, NDBs, Airports, Frequencies etc .. although the real time mapping link to a running flight in FSX proved a bit too much for my old PC.
The two together - good fun!
Not a fault of the book but I found the extra content download instruction within the book is slightly inaccurate as it appears the publishers website has changed. You need to go to WWW.wiley.com - then search using the book title - you will then see the download link beside the book description.
The extra content includes the training flights, videos, and lots of charts and airport diagrams and so on that real world pilots might use when attempting the flights in the book. Some of this is found in the book, but the downloaded file allows you to print them or see them in a more usable size. There are also some 'bonus' chapters that obviously could not be included into what is already a packed book.
A superb resource for the FSX user.
Personally I find the manual great to use, and good value to boot.
It has its own tutorials that you can easily setup, gives guidance (take off speed, stalling speed, flap settings, trim settings etc) and then talks you through the full scenario (as well as the personal, real life, experiences of the authors). I can guarantee that without this book/manual FSX would only be half the game experience (unless of course you are an experienced MS Flight Simmer)
Well worth considering, you may need to be at the game screen whilst "browsing" the book to understand some deeper points but even so, if you fancy an armchair browse, this book is good for that too.



