Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots Real World Training
by Van West, Jeff; Lane-Cummings, KevinEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-06-18
Publisher(s): Wiley
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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.
Author Biography
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.
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 | |
| Whata??s on the Website | |
| Flight School Setup | |
| Installing FSX | |
| Looking At Whata??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 Taila??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 | |
| Part II | |
| Chapter 3 | |
| 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 | |
| Chapter 4 | |
| 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 | |
| Chapter 5 | |
| 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 | |
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