This series is just what I need after an minor toe op I'm resting up with family unable to fly till Friday night, could say it's just what the doctor ordered :D
Wanted to say thank you, and hello from Western 🇨🇦 Canada! I've been flying Microsoft Flight Simulator since version 2.0 on my Commodore 64 (was actually the entire reason I wanted a computer) and have love every new version they designed. However, it's been a while, and wanted a refresher course, and this was perfect. :) Thank you for taking the time to make this video for us all! 😃
Basics videos are always great. No matter how long you've been (pretend) flying there's always something new to learn that you've either never heard before or it never was said the right way to click. Using the cowling and the horizon to gauge t/o pitch is something that seems so basic, but it's new to me!
Flying VFR is in many ways, flying out the window and its relatively possible without a single instrument in the cockpit... so you use references for angles and positions :) basics of flight always have backups :D
I enjoyed watching the basics, I already know this stuff but it's always good to go back and watch. Can't wait for your future videos in this series so I can fly like a professional in flight sim😎
A great little tutorial for new sim pilots. I have to admit I am on top of all that except for the origin of Starboard which was cool to learn. I have a simpler rule for remembering that port is on the left (they both have 4 letters) but it is not as much fun as your empty bottle of port.
Hey AV angel, I saw you recently hit 5000 subs! Congrats! But honestly, I was surprised by that number. You deserve way more. As a flight simmer working on a real pilots license, you have been immensely helpful. You’re right, to get to a real license, you need more information. But it can be so intimidating! The way your videos break things down is fantastic. I’ve made an effort since to like all of your videos to encourage TH-cam to show you to more people. I love what you do and I hope it brings you success! May you reach 50.000 soon!
Great info, hope you consider doing more like this, all old dogs can learn new tricks, and I seem to learn at least one new thing from all of your videos I watch, weather it how to do something, or a review of an aircraft. Thanks Avangle, looking forward to your next video!
This was a fantastic tutorial! Learned some great bits about vacuum tubes and the origins of starboard/steerboard. Can't wait for the upcoming lessons!
I don't expect every video to be totally new to everyone, but I hope some new people find it helpful, though as you point out, there's always some little tips to gain!
Nicely done Rachael, I think that’ll really help people who are new to flying in the sim. You where very clear and informative, good job darling. As Rachael said flying isn’t all that hard, just learn the basics she’s teaching here, keep things smooth and practice. Most importantly have fun, flight is truly amazing and this simulator really does give you that feeling. One of my big tips to new pilots is practice flying patterns, it teaches you to maintain altitude, to keep control of your speed, to plan your movements and to keep your plane coordinated. When you learn to fly irl, they make you do lots and lots of patterns and it really does help get you settled in the air. Great video Rachael, I’m looking forward to this series. Love you - 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Katherine🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Always loved planes, can’t wait to join the RAAF, always loved flying planes in games and sims, so genuinely Thankyou for helping me take the next step 👏
Good video - I hope to see you cover more advanced topics in the future. As someone that's in the intermediate zone I tend to think that's the harder area to break out of. There's good selection of entry level beginner videos.. a few that start to cover VOR and IFR, and then blamm you have people telling you to manually enter a flight plan into an Airliner's nasa computer and calculate fuel and weight, program minimums and capture RNAVs and have the auto pilot land the plane for you.. I feel there's some kind of a gap in the tutorials to help people transition from learning to "control" the plane to learning to navigate, automate, communicate.. or cover the stuff that's not really in the sim, but would be done in a real world situation. One of my favorite pay ware mods for Xplane was the REP ( Reality Expansion Pack ) because it added in a number of things that I had never done in a flight sim. like checking the fuel for water, or the gear for damage or wear and paying for replacement parts or having a persistent plane that was in the same condition that you left it in from the last session. I remember parking the plane at the end of one session and then jumping in the sim a few days later only to find the battery was dead because I hadn't shut down the electrics properly and it used the system's clock to track the time even when I wasn't in the sim. -- I'd really wish someone would do something like that for MSFS because it really changed my approach to the sim. The annoying pre/post flight checks actually had consequences and watching your maintenance bills rack up due to bad habits, or hearing your engine start to sputter because you ran it too hard or neglected to choose a oil suited for your climate really added something. Granted there is appeal to a simulator's lack of consequences, but it's a great change of pace when you get a taste of them.
I agree somewhat, a persistent condition would be cool, and I expect with time we’ll get complex addons that work that way too like fsx had. Remember xplane and fsx had years and years of development. Plan to cover many topic but have to hit the basics first… it’s kinda required to go in order
I agree - REP in X-Plane 11 is very good. The first time I encountered such a simulation was with the A2A aircraft in FSX; their walk-arounds were excellent. The Just Flight Pa28s have a persistent state option (enalble 'State Saving' in 'Aircraft Options' in the EFB) - they're not to the same level of systems monitoring that the A2A and REP simulations give, but the fuel levels, oil level, controls, battery charge etc will all be the same as the last time you flew the aeroplane with the option enabled. I don't think they take into account time away from the sim or simulate aspects such as fuel contamination or airframe degradation, though.
Very excited to follow along with this tutorial! Love your videos! Is there anyway to get wind reports when selecting runway in the world screen. I want to get in the habit of selecting the right runway for takeoff and land. Thank you SO much and keep up the great work!
Thats exactly the video I would have needet a year ago ^^ Absolutly in love with your content Any plans on doing some trips in the Islander again? I really adore this little bird since I saw your review about it
Awesome start to the series! Two questions on taxiing: 1) How do you maintain a speed of 10-15 knots when the airspeed indicator really doesn't seem to move or have enough detail when taxiing? I always end up looking at the external view. :( 2) How do you taxi with such tight turns? Maybe I need real rudder pedals with toe brakes? I only have a single joystick which I twist for steering. Or is there some combo of power, brakes and steering that does the trick?
It’s an eyeball thing you just need to keep the indicator from moving much and you’re fine. Basically taxi at a quick jog. As for turns yep, bit of differential braking helps the turn . I’m used to taxiing a Cessna on grass, nose steering is relatively ineffective on old Cessnas on grass lol
Excellent tutorial! It was mentioned that the bottom of the white arc is the max flap extension speed. Av stated that it is 110 knots. Am I missing something? It appears to be approximately 90 knots by looking at the airspeed indicator.
Nice nice girl, Its always good to refresh basics again, and i learned some new things. not sure where i heard it from (could be wrong) but when on the crosswind / downwind legs should you use your wing tip (or another reference point like a wing strut) as a guide line so the the wing tip (or reference point) is in the line of sight with the runway so you fly your parallel you keep the same distance away? thank you.. And like yourself i much prefer steam gauges / bush planes etc. Flying a modern full class cockpit aircraft is like someone driving an automatic car. no thanks.
I think glass is overcomplicated for beginners and teaches lazy habbits too... so i teach in steam.. and yes, wingtip is a great reference for distance. thank you!
Excellent video. I just bought a gaming PC and will install MS Flight Simulator. I want to learn how to fly using the simulator. Videos like this one are very helpful.
Not too bad of a video, take this info lightly as he said tho. I’m not a cfi, but I am a pilot in training who just got their solo papers. Basics here are great, but be careful not to form bad habits if you are using sims to train for real life flight, lots of procedural stuff was missing from this video, checklist stuff, before starting engine, before taxi, engine run up, before takeoff, during takeoff, and such. Pattern altitudes, you are supposed to start your descend on downwind. He was also way too low on final. You would never be that low on final Irl. There’s also specific speeds you rotate the plane, ascend at with flaps at take off config, and speeds to ascend with flaps up (cruise) as well as rpm configurations for cruise, ascending and descending. Pattern was very long as well. Just be careful, great beginner stuff here, just some of it was quite sloppy. Just don’t wanna see any prospective pilots form habits that aren’t easy to get rid of. Also keep the nose wheel up or most of the weight off of it during landing and rolling after touchdown. Descent checklist, GUMPS, cruise checklist. All important stuff. I highly reccomend looking up the checklist for your aircraft you are flying in game, it will tell you all of this stuff and more. Not a half bad demo, but just remember to take this info lightly, which I want to clarify I know he said in the comments, cheers!
Firstly, she ;) Secondly this isn't intended for real world flying as I explain, its overly simplified for new simmers intentionally. I'm not going to fog people with details in a beginners guide. The last thing new people need is 4000 points on how to start their aircraft and enjoy the sim. Its a grounding as I explain.
I'm a little impatient, did you continue the Learning to fly series? I find in my Facebook communication, that a number of people have a harder time learning to fly a helicopter. Just watching video's I feel its quite easy but all the navigation radios throw me off...hard to just study the process. Buttons all over the panel! Just an idea.
I learned flight sims by figuratively poking it with a stick,which is how I learned to use my PC along with a bit of reading..................................
This series is just what I need after an minor toe op I'm resting up with family unable to fly till Friday night, could say it's just what the doctor ordered :D
Get well soon!
Wanted to say thank you, and hello from Western 🇨🇦 Canada! I've been flying Microsoft Flight Simulator since version 2.0 on my Commodore 64 (was actually the entire reason I wanted a computer) and have love every new version they designed. However, it's been a while, and wanted a refresher course, and this was perfect. :) Thank you for taking the time to make this video for us all! 😃
Cant wait for a vor ,adf tutorial ;) great job!
Brilliant, thank you " no port left in the bottle" is how I remember it also, looking forward to the next one.👏
Great video looking forward to more
Basics videos are always great. No matter how long you've been (pretend) flying there's always something new to learn that you've either never heard before or it never was said the right way to click. Using the cowling and the horizon to gauge t/o pitch is something that seems so basic, but it's new to me!
Flying VFR is in many ways, flying out the window and its relatively possible without a single instrument in the cockpit... so you use references for angles and positions :) basics of flight always have backups :D
Its been almost 20 years since I was flying one of the planes I owned. This is a great review, thanks
Thank you, it was very refreshing to listen to your lesson.
I enjoyed watching the basics, I already know this stuff but it's always good to go back and watch. Can't wait for your future videos in this series so I can fly like a professional in flight sim😎
Thanks! Helpful overview. Looking forward to more.
Clear and well organised, just like your reviews - great stuff. Looking forward to the next videos in the series.
Much appreciated!
Looking forward to this series. Thanks for doing this.
Hope you enjoy it!
This going to be a ripper of a series , learned a few tips here on the first episode , Thanks AA !
Thanks Dave!
A great little tutorial for new sim pilots. I have to admit I am on top of all that except for the origin of Starboard which was cool to learn. I have a simpler rule for remembering that port is on the left (they both have 4 letters) but it is not as much fun as your empty bottle of port.
Well it’s empty now hehe
Thanks you, great tutorial ! 👍
Yay, the tutorial. Thank you so much.
One of... had to start at the beginning here... need to do this in order of increasing complexity with a general 'understanding' ahead of it.
Hey AV angel, I saw you recently hit 5000 subs! Congrats! But honestly, I was surprised by that number. You deserve way more. As a flight simmer working on a real pilots license, you have been immensely helpful. You’re right, to get to a real license, you need more information. But it can be so intimidating! The way your videos break things down is fantastic. I’ve made an effort since to like all of your videos to encourage TH-cam to show you to more people. I love what you do and I hope it brings you success!
May you reach 50.000 soon!
Thanks! I only started this channel in September 2020, so I'm really excited to have grown this much. Just glad people aren't hating on me!
very nice keep creating the videos
Very well done......teacher !!
Cant wait for more of this 🙏🏽🇩🇰
Rachael you are a great teacher
Thanks Andrew
Great info, hope you consider doing more like this, all old dogs can learn new tricks, and I seem to learn at least one new thing from all of your videos I watch, weather it how to do something, or a review of an aircraft.
Thanks Avangle, looking forward to your next video!
I plan to Garry thank you :) I wanted to start at the beginning to go in order of sorts... :)
Been waiting on this! Thank you!
Youre extremely knowledgeable. Love your work
I’m no expert but I try my best
More like this pleaseeeeeee 🙏🏼
Awesome lesson, thank you!
This is going to be a great series... Thank you AvAngel ;-)
You’re welcome!
This was a fantastic tutorial! Learned some great bits about vacuum tubes and the origins of starboard/steerboard. Can't wait for the upcoming lessons!
I don't expect every video to be totally new to everyone, but I hope some new people find it helpful, though as you point out, there's always some little tips to gain!
Nicely done Rachael, I think that’ll really help people who are new to flying in the sim. You where very clear and informative, good job darling. As Rachael said flying isn’t all that hard, just learn the basics she’s teaching here, keep things smooth and practice. Most importantly have fun, flight is truly amazing and this simulator really does give you that feeling.
One of my big tips to new pilots is practice flying patterns, it teaches you to maintain altitude, to keep control of your speed, to plan your movements and to keep your plane coordinated. When you learn to fly irl, they make you do lots and lots of patterns and it really does help get you settled in the air.
Great video Rachael, I’m looking forward to this series.
Love you - 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Katherine🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Always loved planes, can’t wait to join the RAAF, always loved flying planes in games and sims, so genuinely Thankyou for helping me take the next step 👏
Any time!
“Ladies, Gentlemen, and Sukhoi Superjets” this is gonna be a great series.
I'm glad someone spotted that :D
Good video - I hope to see you cover more advanced topics in the future. As someone that's in the intermediate zone I tend to think that's the harder area to break out of. There's good selection of entry level beginner videos.. a few that start to cover VOR and IFR, and then blamm you have people telling you to manually enter a flight plan into an Airliner's nasa computer and calculate fuel and weight, program minimums and capture RNAVs and have the auto pilot land the plane for you.. I feel there's some kind of a gap in the tutorials to help people transition from learning to "control" the plane to learning to navigate, automate, communicate.. or cover the stuff that's not really in the sim, but would be done in a real world situation.
One of my favorite pay ware mods for Xplane was the REP ( Reality Expansion Pack ) because it added in a number of things that I had never done in a flight sim. like checking the fuel for water, or the gear for damage or wear and paying for replacement parts or having a persistent plane that was in the same condition that you left it in from the last session. I remember parking the plane at the end of one session and then jumping in the sim a few days later only to find the battery was dead because I hadn't shut down the electrics properly and it used the system's clock to track the time even when I wasn't in the sim. -- I'd really wish someone would do something like that for MSFS because it really changed my approach to the sim. The annoying pre/post flight checks actually had consequences and watching your maintenance bills rack up due to bad habits, or hearing your engine start to sputter because you ran it too hard or neglected to choose a oil suited for your climate really added something. Granted there is appeal to a simulator's lack of consequences, but it's a great change of pace when you get a taste of them.
I agree somewhat, a persistent condition would be cool, and I expect with time we’ll get complex addons that work that way too like fsx had. Remember xplane and fsx had years and years of development. Plan to cover many topic but have to hit the basics first… it’s kinda required to go in order
I agree - REP in X-Plane 11 is very good. The first time I encountered such a simulation was with the A2A aircraft in FSX; their walk-arounds were excellent. The Just Flight Pa28s have a persistent state option (enalble 'State Saving' in 'Aircraft Options' in the EFB) - they're not to the same level of systems monitoring that the A2A and REP simulations give, but the fuel levels, oil level, controls, battery charge etc will all be the same as the last time you flew the aeroplane with the option enabled. I don't think they take into account time away from the sim or simulate aspects such as fuel contamination or airframe degradation, though.
Very excited to follow along with this tutorial! Love your videos! Is there anyway to get wind reports when selecting runway in the world screen. I want to get in the habit of selecting the right runway for takeoff and land. Thank you SO much and keep up the great work!
Not in the world screen, but its best to start on a parking spot, lets you grab atis and find out :)
Thats exactly the video I would have needet a year ago ^^
Absolutly in love with your content
Any plans on doing some trips in the Islander again? I really adore this little bird since I saw your review about it
I do plan to yes 👍
Awesome start to the series! Two questions on taxiing:
1) How do you maintain a speed of 10-15 knots when the airspeed indicator really doesn't seem to move or have enough detail when taxiing? I always end up looking at the external view. :(
2) How do you taxi with such tight turns? Maybe I need real rudder pedals with toe brakes? I only have a single joystick which I twist for steering. Or is there some combo of power, brakes and steering that does the trick?
It’s an eyeball thing you just need to keep the indicator from moving much and you’re fine. Basically taxi at a quick jog. As for turns yep, bit of differential braking helps the turn . I’m used to taxiing a Cessna on grass, nose steering is relatively ineffective on old Cessnas on grass lol
Excellent tutorial! It was mentioned that the bottom of the white arc is the max flap extension speed. Av stated that it is 110 knots. Am I missing something? It appears to be approximately 90 knots by looking at the airspeed indicator.
I was going off the stated Cessna numbers for the model, might be a derp on the model here for the arc,
This version of the Cessna 172 (no G1000) is only in the premium version not the standard version of MSFS.
I know, I mention this, but glass doesn't make for good learning... the principles apply to any GA aircraft.
Nice nice girl, Its always good to refresh basics again, and i learned some new things.
not sure where i heard it from (could be wrong) but when on the crosswind / downwind legs should you use your wing tip (or another reference point like a wing strut) as a guide line so the the wing tip (or reference point) is in the line of sight with the runway so you fly your parallel you keep the same distance away? thank you..
And like yourself i much prefer steam gauges / bush planes etc.
Flying a modern full class cockpit aircraft is like someone driving an automatic car. no thanks.
I think glass is overcomplicated for beginners and teaches lazy habbits too... so i teach in steam.. and yes, wingtip is a great reference for distance. thank you!
Excellent video. I just bought a gaming PC and will install MS Flight Simulator. I want to learn how to fly using the simulator. Videos like this one are very helpful.
You’re welcome!
Thank you
Nice
Not too bad of a video, take this info lightly as he said tho. I’m not a cfi, but I am a pilot in training who just got their solo papers. Basics here are great, but be careful not to form bad habits if you are using sims to train for real life flight, lots of procedural stuff was missing from this video, checklist stuff, before starting engine, before taxi, engine run up, before takeoff, during takeoff, and such. Pattern altitudes, you are supposed to start your descend on downwind. He was also way too low on final. You would never be that low on final Irl. There’s also specific speeds you rotate the plane, ascend at with flaps at take off config, and speeds to ascend with flaps up (cruise) as well as rpm configurations for cruise, ascending and descending. Pattern was very long as well. Just be careful, great beginner stuff here, just some of it was quite sloppy. Just don’t wanna see any prospective pilots form habits that aren’t easy to get rid of. Also keep the nose wheel up or most of the weight off of it during landing and rolling after touchdown. Descent checklist, GUMPS, cruise checklist. All important stuff. I highly reccomend looking up the checklist for your aircraft you are flying in game, it will tell you all of this stuff and more. Not a half bad demo, but just remember to take this info lightly, which I want to clarify I know he said in the comments, cheers!
Firstly, she ;)
Secondly this isn't intended for real world flying as I explain, its overly simplified for new simmers intentionally. I'm not going to fog people with details in a beginners guide. The last thing new people need is 4000 points on how to start their aircraft and enjoy the sim. Its a grounding as I explain.
I'm a little impatient, did you continue the Learning to fly series? I find in my Facebook communication, that a number of people have a harder time learning to fly a helicopter. Just watching video's I feel its quite easy but all the navigation radios throw me off...hard to just study the process. Buttons all over the panel! Just an idea.
I did a couple more yes :) I have one on radio nav in fact :)
I learned flight sims by figuratively poking it with a stick,which is how I learned to use my PC along with a bit of reading..................................
This is a great series, but I suggest speaking a bit slower. :)