This game is my first flight simulator and I'm enjoying it a lot so far. This video is really interesting and definitely helps understanding the basics.
for me, its the first one ive actually played, and ya i could see why its perfect for us beginners, i mean its practically thefirst one to implement an actual guide mote (all assists) so you can get used to it then gradually go to true to life mode
Fantastic!!! This tutorial is one of the best I have seen. Thank you very much for posting it. The use of the circular "zoom" tool is something I have never seen before and is extremely helpful. I did however sense that you seemed hurried. I believe you explained it by saying you didn't think viewers would stick around for a long video. I would argue that serious simmers will most definitely watch a long tutorial if it is of high quality and informative. Your tutorials are most welcome and I hope you continue. If you wish to limit the length, perhaps you can narrow the focus of each video, thus producing a larger number of detailed tutorials of limited length. As you undoubtedly know, MSFS does not have a user manual and we simmers are looking for guidance. Thank you for filling that need.
Thanks man, I’ll do just that in the next video! I’ll slow down! Thanks for the constructive criticism! It’s always welcome and improves the channel. So thanks for contributing! 😀
You're right that serious simmers will stick around but it's more important that this kind of teaching reaches newcomers to simmers and new pilots. I think the length was perfect in terms of not feeling overwhelming to that audience.
Took my ground school 45 years ago, and I'm really enjoying this, as it it clearing 45 years of cobwebs out of my memory. It's amazing the things you remember when your life can depend on your actions. Thank you for walking us through this, I'll be sharing your videos with my daughter as she learns to fly now.
You are organised. However just being organised does not make a good teacher. You abide by 'no question is a silly question' and so you explain everything. You use humour. You show us you're human by sharing your mistakes. All in all, this makes us feel included and important and that is what makes a good teacher. Thank you for being a good teacher.
I have been an FSX/P3D sim fan for years. I never really got the hang of the nose up/down vs. power to get my climb and descent correct. I think it had to do with not really being able to visualize the cowling like FS2020 does. Your video made a lot of concepts that I have read about in flight training books come to life. Please continue this series as it has been very instructional, much more than words on a page. Thanks and looking forward to the next in the series.
The amount of lift and/or downforce from the tail is variable at any speed. However, increasing airflow over the wings (with more speed) causes lift and this raises the nose.
I don't mind an hour of this at a time actually. It's the detail that interests me and understanding the finer points. Although I have been simming for years on XP, with MSFS2020 I feel the urge to take a more study level approach, as I've decided to do my PPL course next year (Covid permitting), so it's a great idea to base your video tutorials on the PPL course, thank you. BTW I find the way you deliver the videos very humorous and fun, but still professional. I think your subscriber base will increase quickly with this style and content. Nice work.
Very instructional, feel way more dynamic and less repetitive robot-ey like the default training tutorials Will watch this while trying to do it myself
I am Private Pilot in the US and this tutorial is absolutely excellent. It’s almost as good as real training, explanations of everything with perfect. Super job sir.
Brilliant! Really enjoyed it and it's a treat to get a glimpse at the PPL exercises from an actual instructor. Looking forward to the next episode, thanks very much.
Excellent. I have been casual flight simming since the '80s. Your tutorial is taking me to a new level of understanding of flight mechanics. Thanks and keep them coming.
I’d love it if you could walk us through the G1000 aircraft. I completed the default tutorials and can fly VFR fine but am struggling with the more advanced navs on the GA planes. Don’t think anyone has made a tutorial yet.
Hi Gripper, great tutorial! As someone who has done some real flying in my younger days and been flying simulator for a number of years I still found this video valuable to watch. Thanks much appreciated! Should be extremely helpful to new simmers.
This video was massively helpful for me! I have 0 experience with flying and I learned so much from this! Please continue the series! I look forward to your next videos :D
This is great and is what is lacking currently, would love to see more like this and a dedicated video for each navigation or way of flying (VFR and IFR). Keep them coming, easy to listen to and understand.
Top drawer stuff Gripper, I'm looking forward to following your mini-series with great interest, even though I've been simming for some 10 years now. Thoroughly enjoy and appreciate your content, thank you.
Fantastic video, gripper! Very informative, and definitely helped me out. I was having the hardest time keeping level flight, my plane just keeps bouncing up and down like crazy, even when I applied trim. Going to try the two inches below the horizon bit. Please make more like these, this was fantastic!
Great tutorial, have been flying alot of aircraft reasonably alright but after watching this it has put everything in place for me on achieving a much smoother flight and I can now fly with my little finger on the yolk and not like a bouncer grabbing a drunken man lapels and throwing him out of a nightclub. Thank you so much. My landings are 60% better also whatever plane I take to the sky. 🙂
Great run-through. It's always useful to refresh knowledge, there's always something new to learn. I've spent about 12h in air so far and I'm having a blast! And sharing it here on youtube as well, without commentary so far though. Your channel and content is top notch, keep up the awesome work!
Nicely done. It's good that you start with the basics. A lot of you tubers forget this and concentrate on the instruments. I remember back in the 70's when I was getting my PPL I had a hell of a time keeping constant altitude during cross countries. Instructor kept saying keep you eyes outside quit concentrating on altimeter and vertical speed. The way he cured me of this was to cover up the altimeter and VSI for extended periods. From then on I had no problem with constant altitude. His actions reinforced that site picture was important.
Thank you for this, only flight simming i've done before this is about 2 years of DCS, and coming into a general aviation sim for the first time, this kind of video is very helpful on the things that I wouldn't otherwise know. Keep them coming!
Oh god, yes, please, more! ;) Would be good to have everything explained, checklists, procedures, ATC, all the knobs and dials :) . I know the information is out there in the manuals, pdf's different tutorials for different sims, but it would be good to have it all in one place.... :)
Brilliant, thank you. I've been struggling understanding what the mixture does and this was really helpful, I hope if I can learn to pitch for speed it will help me learn to approach better. Really great video and looking forward to more.
Literal perfection. The most I’ve gone with simulators is ETS2 (which isn’t really that much of a simulator, honestly) and curiousity got me with MFS 2020 so I had a nosey, usually just winging it after the in game tutorial through trial and error using tutorial videos for certain things. But this? You’re actually engaging and genuinely enthusiastic to the point where normally I start to “switch off” with other tutorials for this despite still continuing to watch/listen that you pull me back in (it might be your accent but I’m from Northern Ireland, so haha) and start focusing again on what’s actually being said. The whole landing process was/is melting my head to the point where it feels impossible but how you explained it in this video it was like a lightbulb just went off above my head when it finally clicked.
For someone just getting into the flight simulators, this was a great vid. Please keep doing them! Its what microsoft should have in the game. I think there are a lot of people that got this sim because of how awesome it looks and the idea of modeling the entire earth, but need people like you to show us how to fully enjoy it. Thanks again.
All the comments reflect the need for you to continue on these tutorials, as I like them as well, Thanks so much for the easy language and basic controls and operations.
Wow, this is a quality tutorial. By looking at the comments, this is already a hit. FS2020 is my first flight sim and so far I enjoy this very much and want to learn everything, including basic physics. As a beginner with a few hours of flight only, i struggled a bit with the pace but, i can always backup a bit when necessary. Keep up the excellent work!
You promised these tutorials, and you delivered! This is an excellent video for people like me who are just starting out on FS2020. Learned a lot from just this tutorial as you made it easy to understand the basic dynamics of flight. I hope there are more to come! Thank you!
This was immensely more helpful than the MS instructor. I knew less than zero a week ago but after just a few of your videos I’m becoming much more confident. I’m finding the info intake is like drinking from a fire hose but like everything else it gets easier with repetition. Thanks.
Congratulations on this amazing video, cant tell you how much I'm looking forward to all your other tutorials. 45 yr old UK never played a flight sim before and i have just fallen in love not just with this game but with aviation. Always scouring TH-cam for pilot videos. Thanks and keep safe.
I have been watching a ton of FS2020 videos as I am preparing for this sim. Your videos is by far the most educational I've seen this far. Very calm and collected. Not as shouty as some other content creators. I rarely hit that notification bell, but in this case I do! Don't want to miss a single video. Great work!
You are an excellent instructor! It's absolutely worth watching, also for the "experienced" simmers, as you are explaining in a good mix of basics and some more detail. Please go on, as it's great to have one complete training "from a to z" by the same instructor, who really knows what he is talking about. Great job, thanks a lot! I hope you'll complete this series.
M0RE please! This is just what I’ve been looking for: a way to learn more about real flying with an understanding of where a simulator differs. It will also give new flyers a sense of direction on progression rather than just flying aimlessly. Thanks so much!
A huge thanks for putting up this type of tutorial in an easy to understand way. Not to mention your amusing way of presentation makes it even more entertaining. Please do continue with such tutorial for your loyal simulated student pilots 👍
thanks I've watched a fair few youtube tutorials for other sims in the past but its priceless to be getting this content from a real instructor, pluss something about your delivery makes it easy to take in / remember, you are a good teacher
Great video. I am an X11 simmer, but I think most of the MSFS2020 crowd and people interested in simming in general enjoy and want to learn how actual, real flying principles work to learn as close-to-life as we can.
This was great! I've been taking an on-line ground school and this session was the next best thing to being in a real plane. It helped tie the controls together and actually see the effect of each of the controls individually. Perfectly done. Looking forward to more sessions. You have a great way of explaining things and keeping it "light". Love your channel and your narration. Just installed my Flight Simulator yesterday. Haven't yet ventured into it. Need to get a yoke and rudder on order to get the full experience - still shopping around for best fit. Thanks - keep up the excellent work!!!!
Well done. This is essential for new sim pilots...and useful revision to those of us with a little more experience. I struggled to find anything like this when I first started out. Every video I could find seemed to be aimed at semi-experienced pilots. It took a fair bit of trial by error and a little iffy prior knowledge, mixed with much watching of online videos from different 'experts' to gain the simple basics that you have provided in just 30 minutes. I remember thinking at the time why had no one made a step by step video for novices as if they were working towards their PPL. Your videos are aways a pleasure to watch. Thanks
Super happy to see this video project. Sight Picture and Out the Window attention was especially well done. SUGGEST A PROPER YOKE. I am sure you agree that proper hardware is key to realistic control inputs. So....I would suggest you invest in the Honeycomb yoke or, even better, the YOKO yoke. The latter having been reviewed on your channel. My direct experience says that CH Products and Saitek yokes just won't deliver the standard needed to support real world flight training. You can get by with your HOTAS but a good yoke is going to provide a better platform for this project. My YOKO yoke combined with the MFG Crosswind rudder pedals do an outstanding job in all ACS maneuvers on the C172 in X-Plane 11 with the REP expansion reality pack. My sim is quite demanding, especially in high alpha (AOA) maneuvers, but overall very accurate regarding control inputs. My simulator's sole purpose is to support my real world flight training. The YOKO yoke + MFG rudder pedals and some other peripherals (TQ / Trim Wheel / Flaps Switch) are serving extremely well. My CFI/CFII has the Honeycomb and is very satisfied with the inputs. Some owners need to calibrate their Honeycomb. Mark from Almost Aviation has a comprehensive video on how to activate the hidden factory calibration code for the Honeycomb. PLEASE consider. Thanks. Your viewers will surely benefit from this rigorous study of this FS2020 C152. Will follow your series closely.
HUGE help. I've never flown before, never played a flight sim before. I've done the tutorials but there are so many things that come standard to those that play flight sims that I just don't know about - like how do I maintain elevation? How many RPMs should I aim for, what should my speed be when approaching for landing... you've answered that type of stuff. Some of this is elementary but your in depth of it gives me confidence and makes my actions more decisive..... which is EXACTLY what I am looking for. THANK YOU FOR THE FLIGHT LESSONS, Keep em comin!
And on this topic - I really hope that eventually we get to tutorials for each plane... I'm messing around with the Cessna now but I'd like to graduate and learn to actually play with the interior of the plan on the others eventually.
Thank you for this. Although I'm new to the sim and can do basic controls, I found the explanation of the heat and mixture very helpful. If anything I'm just struggling on the VOR and autopilot
Thank you so much, this helped alot with understanding alot of things the ingame tutorial lacked such as mixture. First time for flight siming for me so again thank you.
That was extremely useful for this novice simmer. Thanks. As a novice I would be very interested in a run down on the basics of the G1000 in the 172. Pushing buttons a random isn’t working for me. 😜
Thanks for the tuition. Your pitch and rythme is great, very easy to listen and I’ve learned an awful lot. The training that comes with MSFS is okay, but the explanations are a little shallow. You’ve helped me understand more in 30 minutes than I have learnt in a years worth of sim flying. Thanks once again for your help and look forward to learning more with you over the next few months. Regards, Mark
Great video. Very useful. I have been a casual / occasional user of Flight Sim for years. One thing I could never master was in some of the jet challenges the tower would request that I descend and reduce my speed. Something that I could never achieve. I think having watched this I may now know how to do it! I can't wait for the next lesson. Also looking forward to videos regarding set ups etc. Many thanks.
Love it. Really helpful. Please continue with these. Some feedback on what was helpful specifically, on style, and on what could be even better. Positive feedback: - love that you know your stuff - all the 'little stuff' - the detail - that you know, explain, and point out is really helpful. For example - you pointed out the white arc on the airspeed indicator. This was referenced in the tutorial and I couldn't figure out what white arc she meant. You've clearly shown it here and now I know not to put flaps down until airspeed is within this arc. Brilliant. ... (what else don't I know *quiety freeks out*) - tips - things like 'you should be smooth' with the contols, no jerky movements, control with your finger tips - all of this is super valuable. - you explained primary and secondary effects of control input changes. Excellent - understanding the cause and effect, both primary and secondary, helps to link up the dots. Until now, the simulation just felt random and weird and those stange movements were unexpected. Now I know to expect them and how to counter them. There must be loads more of this insight which I for one am v.interested in understanding. - You provided detail about the items on the instruments. I'd love to know what ALL of the stuff is for, why it is there, the times that it is used, how it is used etc. I figure each instrument in itself could be a 10-15 minute video? Would be all over that. - You point out the differnce between the sim and real life - this is valuable. I imagine that there are many of your views that are playing with the idea of getting a PPL IRL., so they'll be naturally interested in the diff. btw. real life and sim life flying. - you commented on the qualities of the aircraft itself - this is interesting content right out of the gate. Style and meta feedback: - You are aware that you are making this content for TH-cam and not for a real life flight lesson. This is strong; lean into this. - You could go slower - maybe 10% - and break up the videos into shorter 20min chunks. Going slower would make you sound even more authoritative. I'd watch that - your students will vibe off your confidence : ) - Your tone and delivery remain in the 'entertainment' space, which I think is well judged. Even better if... - Well, honestly, I'd like more detail - however, I'm an info junky, so take that with a pinch of salt. - please do continue to provide this resource. It is appreciated. - niche situations might be interesiting e.g how would you handle an engine cut out - what would you do to land 'safely'? - you mentioned that this is the tip of the iceberg - I want to know it all! Great job, mate. Keep them coming : )
This is awesome. I’m new to flight sims and the fs2020 flight lessons is all I had. Keeping a picture and not staring at your instruments is something I didn’t do and I think it just made it harder to stay level.
Thanks Gripper. I've been simming for 20 years and this is a great refresher course and I suspect will break some bad habits of mine. Saving for a new rig so I can run FS2020 at its best but will put your tips into practice on my old FSX for a few months.
Fantastic video, just wanted to give a +1 to the other commenter who wanted a tutorial for the g1000. Perhaps after you get done with this sereis, id love to see a tutorial for it. Im getting very proffecient with the 172 guage version but anytime I jump into the glass cockpit version, it feels like information overload.
I'm no experienced simmer but I've got the basics of flight down. I've got about 20 hours on MSFS 2020 so far and about 6 hours on X-Plane. I started off with the basics in a Cessna doing the X-Plane tutorial. Then my PC couldnt handle running a 737 so i gave up on flight sims til MSFS2020 dropped. The glass screens pretty much simplify having multiple analog gauges onto a single screen which could have multiple pages/tabs. However all of the important info you need is readily available on the screen (assuming you're taking off from the runway, doing a cold start the screen pops up the same except there could be some more input you'd need to do for your flight plan but i havent tried so hopefully someone else could add to that. Basically, I'm not familiar with the aircraft you're talking about but most of the glass panels work in similar fashions. (assuming there are multiple panels, if there's only one this panel might have a splitscreen function where half of it shows instrument data and the other half is a VFR map) On the left side you have IAS, on the right you're altimeter, in the middle of course is your plane's relative position to the horizon. There's additional information but you wont need to worry about that unless you're engaging autopilot or are following a VFR GPS course (which in that case, if you have the flight plan loaded from the main menu, its automatically inputted into the GPS). This panel may also include topographical data, instrument info about flaps, trim, etc however that's not universal and some models have those as either additional glass panels or analog gauges. So just mouse over a lot of the cluster panel to see what's what (enable tool tips they help). There may also be a compass rose (digital) on the screen but likely you'll have an analog compass. Those are about the basics you need to know for the glass panels is that you only need it for instrument data. You wont need to touch them much until you get into learning them IMHO and even then MSFS 2020 simplified the panels by limiting the options you can click. If it's a dual panel where one shows your aircraft's speed, etc and the other screen is a VFR map the map screen will also have multiple functions for weather and traffic. Some are touch screen some aren't, you'll be able to tell on most models which is which, the knobs make it obvious. Basically it compresses all the info you need from multiple gauges/panels onto one or two. Flying the plane is fundamentally the same. Except the AP functions work different on different models and AFAIK right now some AP systems are sorta buggy due to launch issues and theres like 5 buttons on the AP console i still havent figured out cause i'm too lazy to google them. Basically if you can fly an analog* plane you can fly one with glass panels. I hopped right out of the tutorial Cessna into a 737 to do the JFK landing challenging in a head wind. But I'm not experienced enough yet for such a large plane with 15 knots of headwind coming in on a short approach while my game is loading and trying to gain FPS. I can take-off and land in good conditions fine though. *I say analog because these planes have no digital clusters or even a VFR map on the console, which imho while they're more simplistic and easier to learn on, their information is more spread around and requires more visual focus than the glass panels do which can feel like information overload when you transition to the digital gauges.
@@Kenneth-hk7lt very goot input, thanks a lot... But PLEASE edit your text a but and add some "returns". It's so much content, its very hard to read at the moment. Dont get me wrong, i think your content is very good.
I'm not new to flightsims but I had to watch this and you are really down to earth (no pun intended) when it comes to teaching, loved watching it! Keep up the good work!
The "Pitch for Speed and Power for Rate of Descent" formula has helped me massively! Thank you! I'm really looking forward to any future content in this playlist. Subscribed and liked!
Fantastic. I'm new to flight sims and understand many of the principles of flight but this really helped explain a lot of "Why and how?" questions I have regarding the basics.
Great video thanks, I've got some flight knowledge but have been struggling to find this type of instruction online that I can apply directly to my FS2020 simulator experience as it isn't a 100% match to the 'real world' tutorials out there. Keep up the great work, I'm really looking forward to the next instalment, just don't wait too long to publish it please!
Orbx gave a very pr reply to the issue. I dont think i will buy from them even if they fix the issue. This just show they will skimp out on a decent product if they are able to. The only reason they are 'fixing' things is cuz they got called out on it. So no. No 'good on them' for fixing what should never even have been a thing
Excellent. I knitter it’s a simulator but this felt more like a “real” flight lesson, which is exactly what I’m looking for. I hope you continue these. Cheers
I've been having fun "acting" like a pilot in FSX without knowing anything about flying other than the primary and secondary control surfaces. Even though a lot of people find the base tutorials lacking in depth, it's far more in-depth as to what FSX gave us. Some proper community resources could bring a lot of us closer to the real thing than we'd ever be able to afford.
The new lessons are fine but it's not true to say they're more in depth than FSX. FSX had excellent ground school materials and very in depth long lessons by Rod Machado, which are actually closer to this lesson in terms of length and depth of information (as well humour). FS2020 teaches you nothing about control surfaces, instruments, radio, navigation etc but that was all there in FSX.
I like this. An orientation of the different aircraft would be nice. I've already had it where I switched planes & didn't know where things were or how to use different instruments (ie the glass cockpits in some planes). I also did not know the rpm indicator was way over there!
A brilliant video as always, thank you! Really glad you're doing such comprehensive tutorials now. The thing I find trickiest to get right is trimming. I imagine that part of actually easier in a real plane as you can feel what the yoke is doing? Looking forward to more of these!
Yup agreed with most other posts, exactly what I was hoping for, i wondered what you were doing over there last night, seen you online in game in the 152, so now I know. Great work again keep it up.
Shot of Kiribati in the intro, see what you did there ;) Really liked the pitch for speed and power for rate of descent, I think I had already got into some bad habits when landing, I will be sure to interoperate this information going forward. Brilliant tutorial Thanks!
Great video. The format was great and despite I having a little knowledge I found I learn't a few things from this video. In particular that the navigation compass is actually a factor of 10 degrees and greater clarity on the actual effects of things like using the flaps. It would be great to have support for two people flying in the cockpit together, I feel this would flight training a lot better and I have posted on the FS forum suggesting it. Looking forward to some more series and hope to see you in the skies.
Even the brief talk about the mixture is extremely useful. I turned the auto mixture on, because it kept yelling at me about it and I had no idea what to do. I'm really looking forward to a landing tutorial. The sim says I've survived most of my landings so far, but I'm pretty sure most of the planes would have to be repaired. :)
In FSX Multiplayer you could both share one cockpit and take control just like the real world. Start a multiplayer Session as you usually would. Then When you Select your Aircraft (The one you want to fly) Make sure that "Share my Aircraft" is Checked. Now have your friend join you're Multiplayer session and go to the Briefing Room (it doesn't matter what aircraft he selects) now have him click on the "join Aircraft" button next to your aircraft. Now enter the session and ta-da you sharing an aircraft (You can press "Shift + T" to transfer Control Between Players.) I hope the new flight sim has this.
Subscribed! Good instruction. Don't be afraid to get more detailed and take more time; people who want to really learn will not only have patience but will enjoy it. Do you teach intro to acrobatics?
This was awesome, THANK YOU so much! The tutorials in game are rubbish and your explanations are so much better. Please please keep going with these tutorials, I’ll watch any and all that you do. And as others have said, once we’ve got through the basics of the 152 together, it would be great if you could help explain the more complicated nav functions in the next planes up (the Garmin thingy). Thank you again, you’re the best.
This game is my first flight simulator and I'm enjoying it a lot so far. This video is really interesting and definitely helps understanding the basics.
for me, its the first one ive actually played, and ya i could see why its perfect for us beginners, i mean its practically thefirst one to implement an actual guide mote (all assists) so you can get used to it then gradually go to true to life mode
MOre of this flight training pls.. HUge thanks!
Fantastic!!! This tutorial is one of the best I have seen. Thank you very much for posting it. The use of the circular "zoom" tool is something I have never seen before and is extremely helpful. I did however sense that you seemed hurried. I believe you explained it by saying you didn't think viewers would stick around for a long video. I would argue that serious simmers will most definitely watch a long tutorial if it is of high quality and informative. Your tutorials are most welcome and I hope you continue. If you wish to limit the length, perhaps you can narrow the focus of each video, thus producing a larger number of detailed tutorials of limited length. As you undoubtedly know, MSFS does not have a user manual and we simmers are looking for guidance. Thank you for filling that need.
Thanks man, I’ll do just that in the next video! I’ll slow down! Thanks for the constructive criticism! It’s always welcome and improves the channel. So thanks for contributing! 😀
Agree. Details are appreciated. Patience required
You're right that serious simmers will stick around but it's more important that this kind of teaching reaches newcomers to simmers and new pilots. I think the length was perfect in terms of not feeling overwhelming to that audience.
Took my ground school 45 years ago, and I'm really enjoying this, as it it clearing 45 years of cobwebs out of my memory.
It's amazing the things you remember when your life can depend on your actions.
Thank you for walking us through this, I'll be sharing your videos with my daughter as she learns to fly now.
You are organised. However just being organised does not make a good teacher. You abide by 'no question is a silly question' and so you explain everything. You use humour. You show us you're human by sharing your mistakes. All in all, this makes us feel included and important and that is what makes a good teacher. Thank you for being a good teacher.
Thanks Gripper, another great video, I’ve been flight simming for years and still learnt stuff, looking forward to more training episodes.
I have been an FSX/P3D sim fan for years. I never really got the hang of the nose up/down vs. power to get my climb and descent correct. I think it had to do with not really being able to visualize the cowling like FS2020 does. Your video made a lot of concepts that I have read about in flight training books come to life. Please continue this series as it has been very instructional, much more than words on a page. Thanks and looking forward to the next in the series.
Airflow over the tail causing downforce making the aircraft pitch up. Such an aha moment. Thank you!
The amount of lift and/or downforce from the tail is variable at any speed. However, increasing airflow over the wings (with more speed) causes lift and this raises the nose.
@@stealthystevie Yeah, that make even more sense. Thanks for ruining my aha moment :)
I don't mind an hour of this at a time actually. It's the detail that interests me and understanding the finer points. Although I have been simming for years on XP, with MSFS2020 I feel the urge to take a more study level approach, as I've decided to do my PPL course next year (Covid permitting), so it's a great idea to base your video tutorials on the PPL course, thank you. BTW I find the way you deliver the videos very humorous and fun, but still professional. I think your subscriber base will increase quickly with this style and content. Nice work.
I think so too!
Very instructional, feel way more dynamic and less repetitive robot-ey like the default training tutorials
Will watch this while trying to do it myself
I am Private Pilot in the US and this tutorial is absolutely excellent. It’s almost as good as real training, explanations of everything with perfect. Super job sir.
First time with a flight sim... I've been eagerly awaiting your tutorial videos. Thank you so much; this was super helpful! :)
Brilliant! Really enjoyed it and it's a treat to get a glimpse at the PPL exercises from an actual instructor. Looking forward to the next episode, thanks very much.
Excellent. I have been casual flight simming since the '80s. Your tutorial is taking me to a new level of understanding of flight mechanics. Thanks and keep them coming.
I’d love it if you could walk us through the G1000 aircraft. I completed the default tutorials and can fly VFR fine but am struggling with the more advanced navs on the GA planes. Don’t think anyone has made a tutorial yet.
Michael Jones and the G530 and G430 in the C172. I’m struggling with that contraption
I agree fully!
Yes, yes, yes, please also do those all in detail for the bit more advanced lessons.
Yes ! Please !
I second this. If you can do a G1000 tutorial that would be hugely appreciated.
Hi Gripper, great tutorial! As someone who has done some real flying in my younger days and been flying simulator for a number of years I still found this video valuable to watch. Thanks much appreciated! Should be extremely helpful to new simmers.
This video was massively helpful for me! I have 0 experience with flying and I learned so much from this! Please continue the series! I look forward to your next videos :D
This is great and is what is lacking currently, would love to see more like this and a dedicated video for each navigation or way of flying (VFR and IFR). Keep them coming, easy to listen to and understand.
Awesome tutorial, exactly what I was looking for and couldn't find, you are a great instructor, thanks for doing this. Brilliant !
Top drawer stuff Gripper, I'm looking forward to following your mini-series with great interest, even though I've been simming for some 10 years now. Thoroughly enjoy and appreciate your content, thank you.
Fantastic video, gripper! Very informative, and definitely helped me out. I was having the hardest time keeping level flight, my plane just keeps bouncing up and down like crazy, even when I applied trim. Going to try the two inches below the horizon bit. Please make more like these, this was fantastic!
Have not flown an aircraft for many years. Your refresher video is perfect for oldtimers like me.
Great tutorial, have been flying alot of aircraft reasonably alright but after watching this it has put everything in place for me on achieving a much smoother flight and I can now fly with my little finger on the yolk and not like a bouncer grabbing a drunken man lapels and throwing him out of a nightclub. Thank you so much. My landings are 60% better also whatever plane I take to the sky. 🙂
Oh Brilliant Christopher! I'm delighted, more exercises to follow so! Thanks so much for commenting, and joining! : )
Great run-through. It's always useful to refresh knowledge, there's always something new to learn. I've spent about 12h in air so far and I'm having a blast! And sharing it here on youtube as well, without commentary so far though.
Your channel and content is top notch, keep up the awesome work!
Nicely done. It's good that you start with the basics. A lot of you tubers forget this and concentrate on the instruments. I remember back in the 70's when I was getting my PPL I had a hell of a time keeping constant altitude during cross countries. Instructor kept saying keep you eyes outside quit concentrating on altimeter and vertical speed. The way he cured me of this was to cover up the altimeter and VSI for extended periods. From then on I had no problem with constant altitude. His actions reinforced that site picture was important.
Thanks. Good job. I look forward to your coming lessons. Especially on engine starting, stopping, NAV and Comm
Thank you for this, only flight simming i've done before this is about 2 years of DCS, and coming into a general aviation sim for the first time, this kind of video is very helpful on the things that I wouldn't otherwise know. Keep them coming!
Oh god, yes, please, more! ;) Would be good to have everything explained, checklists, procedures, ATC, all the knobs and dials :) . I know the information is out there in the manuals, pdf's different tutorials for different sims, but it would be good to have it all in one place.... :)
Brilliant, thank you. I've been struggling understanding what the mixture does and this was really helpful, I hope if I can learn to pitch for speed it will help me learn to approach better. Really great video and looking forward to more.
You absolutely should make more of these videos! Very informative and also good to watch!
This was fantastic and fun. Will definitely watch more vids like this! You really demystified a lot for this newbie. Thanks and keep it up!
Literal perfection. The most I’ve gone with simulators is ETS2 (which isn’t really that much of a simulator, honestly) and curiousity got me with MFS 2020 so I had a nosey, usually just winging it after the in game tutorial through trial and error using tutorial videos for certain things.
But this? You’re actually engaging and genuinely enthusiastic to the point where normally I start to “switch off” with other tutorials for this despite still continuing to watch/listen that you pull me back in (it might be your accent but I’m from Northern Ireland, so haha) and start focusing again on what’s actually being said.
The whole landing process was/is melting my head to the point where it feels impossible but how you explained it in this video it was like a lightbulb just went off above my head when it finally clicked.
Great tutorial quick and concise , your a natural teacher.
Keep them coming learning so much thanks.
For someone just getting into the flight simulators, this was a great vid. Please keep doing them! Its what microsoft should have in the game. I think there are a lot of people that got this sim because of how awesome it looks and the idea of modeling the entire earth, but need people like you to show us how to fully enjoy it. Thanks again.
I enjoy your training style. Enjoying the training session and look forward to future sessions. Keep up the good work.
Incredibly helpful man, keep em coming!
All the comments reflect the need for you to continue on these tutorials, as I like them as well, Thanks so much for the easy language and basic controls and operations.
Wow, this is a quality tutorial. By looking at the comments, this is already a hit. FS2020 is my first flight sim and so far I enjoy this very much and want to learn everything, including basic physics. As a beginner with a few hours of flight only, i struggled a bit with the pace but, i can always backup a bit when necessary. Keep up the excellent work!
You promised these tutorials, and you delivered! This is an excellent video for people like me who are just starting out on FS2020. Learned a lot from just this tutorial as you made it easy to understand the basic dynamics of flight. I hope there are more to come! Thank you!
Perfect introduction. I learnt quite a bit as a new simmer.
Brilliant tony! The good stuff in coming, like Landing etc. : )
I love these tutorials... Do you teach in a flight school?
This was immensely more helpful than the MS instructor. I knew less than zero a week ago but after just a few of your videos I’m becoming much more confident. I’m finding the info intake is like drinking from a fire hose but like everything else it gets easier with repetition. Thanks.
Congratulations on this amazing video, cant tell you how much I'm looking forward to all your other tutorials. 45 yr old UK never played a flight sim before and i have just fallen in love not just with this game but with aviation. Always scouring TH-cam for pilot videos. Thanks and keep safe.
I have been watching a ton of FS2020 videos as I am preparing for this sim. Your videos is by far the most educational I've seen this far. Very calm and collected. Not as shouty as some other content creators. I rarely hit that notification bell, but in this case I do! Don't want to miss a single video. Great work!
Excellent video, really helpful. Appreciate the work you put in. 👍
You are an excellent instructor! It's absolutely worth watching, also for the "experienced" simmers, as you are explaining in a good mix of basics and some more detail. Please go on, as it's great to have one complete training "from a to z" by the same instructor, who really knows what he is talking about. Great job, thanks a lot!
I hope you'll complete this series.
M0RE please! This is just what I’ve been looking for: a way to learn more about real flying with an understanding of where a simulator differs. It will also give new flyers a sense of direction on progression rather than just flying aimlessly. Thanks so much!
A huge thanks for putting up this type of tutorial in an easy to understand way. Not to mention your amusing way of presentation makes it even more entertaining. Please do continue with such tutorial for your loyal simulated student pilots 👍
Very good tutorial. Good demonstration of the “effects” caused by power changes and control surface movements.
thanks I've watched a fair few youtube tutorials for other sims in the past but its priceless to be getting this content from a real instructor, pluss something about your delivery makes it easy to take in / remember, you are a good teacher
Thank you for this video! This is what I am looking for - a structured way to learn flying in MFS2020. Keep it up :)
Great video. I am an X11 simmer, but I think most of the MSFS2020 crowd and people interested in simming in general enjoy and want to learn how actual, real flying principles work to learn as close-to-life as we can.
This was great! I've been taking an on-line ground school and this session was the next best thing to being in a real plane. It helped tie the controls together and actually see the effect of each of the controls individually. Perfectly done. Looking forward to more sessions. You have a great way of explaining things and keeping it "light". Love your channel and your narration. Just installed my Flight Simulator yesterday. Haven't yet ventured into it. Need to get a yoke and rudder on order to get the full experience - still shopping around for best fit. Thanks - keep up the excellent work!!!!
Well done. This is essential for new sim pilots...and useful revision to those of us with a little more experience. I struggled to find anything like this when I first started out. Every video I could find seemed to be aimed at semi-experienced pilots. It took a fair bit of trial by error and a little iffy prior knowledge, mixed with much watching of online videos from different 'experts' to gain the simple basics that you have provided in just 30 minutes. I remember thinking at the time why had no one made a step by step video for novices as if they were working towards their PPL. Your videos are aways a pleasure to watch. Thanks
Cheers. It did help clear things up, I'm a complete novice and the training missions are pretty vaugue. I'll be rewatching tomorrow whilst playing.
really helpful & informative! This what I hoped for as a beginner simmer - thank you & continue with the lectures, please!
Super happy to see this video project. Sight Picture and Out the Window attention was especially well done.
SUGGEST A PROPER YOKE. I am sure you agree that proper hardware is key to realistic control inputs. So....I would suggest you invest in the Honeycomb yoke or, even better, the YOKO yoke. The latter having been reviewed on your channel. My direct experience says that CH Products and Saitek yokes just won't deliver the standard needed to support real world flight training.
You can get by with your HOTAS but a good yoke is going to provide a better platform for this project.
My YOKO yoke combined with the MFG Crosswind rudder pedals do an outstanding job in all ACS maneuvers on the C172 in X-Plane 11 with the REP expansion reality pack.
My sim is quite demanding, especially in high alpha (AOA) maneuvers, but overall very accurate regarding control inputs. My simulator's sole purpose is to support my real world flight training. The YOKO yoke + MFG rudder pedals and some other peripherals (TQ / Trim Wheel / Flaps Switch) are serving extremely well.
My CFI/CFII has the Honeycomb and is very satisfied with the inputs. Some owners need to calibrate their Honeycomb. Mark from Almost Aviation has a comprehensive video on how to activate the hidden factory calibration code for the Honeycomb.
PLEASE consider.
Thanks. Your viewers will surely benefit from this rigorous study of this FS2020 C152. Will follow your series closely.
HUGE help. I've never flown before, never played a flight sim before. I've done the tutorials but there are so many things that come standard to those that play flight sims that I just don't know about - like how do I maintain elevation? How many RPMs should I aim for, what should my speed be when approaching for landing... you've answered that type of stuff. Some of this is elementary but your in depth of it gives me confidence and makes my actions more decisive..... which is EXACTLY what I am looking for. THANK YOU FOR THE FLIGHT LESSONS, Keep em comin!
And on this topic - I really hope that eventually we get to tutorials for each plane... I'm messing around with the Cessna now but I'd like to graduate and learn to actually play with the interior of the plan on the others eventually.
Thank you for this. Although I'm new to the sim and can do basic controls, I found the explanation of the heat and mixture very helpful. If anything I'm just struggling on the VOR and autopilot
Love this! I really hope you keep going through "basics" and then on to more advanced stuff and on to the 747/a380
I've been flight simming forever and enjoyed the refresher!
You’re a terrific teacher; a great balance between detail and pace. Thank you.
Excellent tutorial mate, a good refresher too for someone who hasn't flown in flight sim for a few years. Top notch! 👌🍻
Success with Orbx. Fair play.
I'm a private pilot and yah reaction review is doing a great job this, this what i learned from my PPL
Thank you so much, this helped alot with understanding alot of things the ingame tutorial lacked such as mixture. First time for flight siming for me so again thank you.
Fantastic lesson. I learned everything in one hourish that took me two lessons in a C-152.
Great basic lesson was taught to use the horizon/ aiming point in both Cessnas and Wessex V helos many moons ago. Nice clear and off to practice it
That was extremely useful for this novice simmer. Thanks. As a novice I would be very interested in a run down on the basics of the G1000 in the 172. Pushing buttons a random isn’t working for me. 😜
Thanks for the tuition. Your pitch and rythme is great, very easy to listen and I’ve learned an awful lot.
The training that comes with MSFS is okay, but the explanations are a little shallow. You’ve helped me understand more in 30 minutes than I have learnt in a years worth of sim flying.
Thanks once again for your help and look forward to learning more with you over the next few months.
Regards,
Mark
Great video. Very useful. I have been a casual / occasional user of Flight Sim for years. One thing I could never master was in some of the jet challenges the tower would request that I descend and reduce my speed. Something that I could never achieve. I think having watched this I may now know how to do it! I can't wait for the next lesson. Also looking forward to videos regarding set ups etc. Many thanks.
Love it. Really helpful. Please continue with these.
Some feedback on what was helpful specifically, on style, and on what could be even better.
Positive feedback:
- love that you know your stuff
- all the 'little stuff' - the detail - that you know, explain, and point out is really helpful. For example - you pointed out the white arc on the airspeed indicator. This was referenced in the tutorial and I couldn't figure out what white arc she meant. You've clearly shown it here and now I know not to put flaps down until airspeed is within this arc. Brilliant. ... (what else don't I know *quiety freeks out*)
- tips - things like 'you should be smooth' with the contols, no jerky movements, control with your finger tips - all of this is super valuable.
- you explained primary and secondary effects of control input changes. Excellent - understanding the cause and effect, both primary and secondary, helps to link up the dots. Until now, the simulation just felt random and weird and those stange movements were unexpected. Now I know to expect them and how to counter them. There must be loads more of this insight which I for one am v.interested in understanding.
- You provided detail about the items on the instruments. I'd love to know what ALL of the stuff is for, why it is there, the times that it is used, how it is used etc. I figure each instrument in itself could be a 10-15 minute video? Would be all over that.
- You point out the differnce between the sim and real life - this is valuable. I imagine that there are many of your views that are playing with the idea of getting a PPL IRL., so they'll be naturally interested in the diff. btw. real life and sim life flying.
- you commented on the qualities of the aircraft itself - this is interesting content right out of the gate.
Style and meta feedback:
- You are aware that you are making this content for TH-cam and not for a real life flight lesson. This is strong; lean into this.
- You could go slower - maybe 10% - and break up the videos into shorter 20min chunks. Going slower would make you sound even more authoritative. I'd watch that - your students will vibe off your confidence : )
- Your tone and delivery remain in the 'entertainment' space, which I think is well judged.
Even better if...
- Well, honestly, I'd like more detail - however, I'm an info junky, so take that with a pinch of salt.
- please do continue to provide this resource. It is appreciated.
- niche situations might be interesiting e.g how would you handle an engine cut out - what would you do to land 'safely'?
- you mentioned that this is the tip of the iceberg - I want to know it all!
Great job, mate. Keep them coming : )
Thank you for this! It really helps understand the basics.
This is awesome. I’m new to flight sims and the fs2020 flight lessons is all I had. Keeping a picture and not staring at your instruments is something I didn’t do and I think it just made it harder to stay level.
Thanks Gripper. I've been simming for 20 years and this is a great refresher course and I suspect will break some bad habits of mine. Saving for a new rig so I can run FS2020 at its best but will put your tips into practice on my old FSX for a few months.
Brilliant Ben, I'm delighted you enjoyed it and it helped! More to come! : )
Fantastic video, just wanted to give a +1 to the other commenter who wanted a tutorial for the g1000. Perhaps after you get done with this sereis, id love to see a tutorial for it. Im getting very proffecient with the 172 guage version but anytime I jump into the glass cockpit version, it feels like information overload.
I'm no experienced simmer but I've got the basics of flight down. I've got about 20 hours on MSFS 2020 so far and about 6 hours on X-Plane. I started off with the basics in a Cessna doing the X-Plane tutorial. Then my PC couldnt handle running a 737 so i gave up on flight sims til MSFS2020 dropped. The glass screens pretty much simplify having multiple analog gauges onto a single screen which could have multiple pages/tabs. However all of the important info you need is readily available on the screen (assuming you're taking off from the runway, doing a cold start the screen pops up the same except there could be some more input you'd need to do for your flight plan but i havent tried so hopefully someone else could add to that. Basically, I'm not familiar with the aircraft you're talking about but most of the glass panels work in similar fashions. (assuming there are multiple panels, if there's only one this panel might have a splitscreen function where half of it shows instrument data and the other half is a VFR map) On the left side you have IAS, on the right you're altimeter, in the middle of course is your plane's relative position to the horizon. There's additional information but you wont need to worry about that unless you're engaging autopilot or are following a VFR GPS course (which in that case, if you have the flight plan loaded from the main menu, its automatically inputted into the GPS). This panel may also include topographical data, instrument info about flaps, trim, etc however that's not universal and some models have those as either additional glass panels or analog gauges. So just mouse over a lot of the cluster panel to see what's what (enable tool tips they help). There may also be a compass rose (digital) on the screen but likely you'll have an analog compass. Those are about the basics you need to know for the glass panels is that you only need it for instrument data. You wont need to touch them much until you get into learning them IMHO and even then MSFS 2020 simplified the panels by limiting the options you can click. If it's a dual panel where one shows your aircraft's speed, etc and the other screen is a VFR map the map screen will also have multiple functions for weather and traffic. Some are touch screen some aren't, you'll be able to tell on most models which is which, the knobs make it obvious. Basically it compresses all the info you need from multiple gauges/panels onto one or two. Flying the plane is fundamentally the same. Except the AP functions work different on different models and AFAIK right now some AP systems are sorta buggy due to launch issues and theres like 5 buttons on the AP console i still havent figured out cause i'm too lazy to google them. Basically if you can fly an analog* plane you can fly one with glass panels. I hopped right out of the tutorial Cessna into a 737 to do the JFK landing challenging in a head wind. But I'm not experienced enough yet for such a large plane with 15 knots of headwind coming in on a short approach while my game is loading and trying to gain FPS. I can take-off and land in good conditions fine though. *I say analog because these planes have no digital clusters or even a VFR map on the console, which imho while they're more simplistic and easier to learn on, their information is more spread around and requires more visual focus than the glass panels do which can feel like information overload when you transition to the digital gauges.
@@Kenneth-hk7lt very goot input, thanks a lot... But PLEASE edit your text a but and add some "returns". It's so much content, its very hard to read at the moment. Dont get me wrong, i think your content is very good.
I'm not new to flightsims but I had to watch this and you are really down to earth (no pun intended) when it comes to teaching, loved watching it! Keep up the good work!
I was saying "Power, Attitude, Trim" in my head seconds before you demonstrated it.. awesome video, man!
You're doing a great job Gripper. It's been a helluva long time since I learned to fly but this is all spot on!
Thanks a ton Brian! I'll continue with these exercises! Thanks for becoming a member! More to come!
The "Pitch for Speed and Power for Rate of Descent" formula has helped me massively! Thank you! I'm really looking forward to any future content in this playlist. Subscribed and liked!
This is the way the flight training should be in the simulator. You do an excellent job.
Fantastic. I'm new to flight sims and understand many of the principles of flight but this really helped explain a lot of "Why and how?" questions I have regarding the basics.
Great video thanks, I've got some flight knowledge but have been struggling to find this type of instruction online that I can apply directly to my FS2020 simulator experience as it isn't a 100% match to the 'real world' tutorials out there. Keep up the great work, I'm really looking forward to the next instalment, just don't wait too long to publish it please!
Orbx gave a very pr reply to the issue. I dont think i will buy from them even if they fix the issue. This just show they will skimp out on a decent product if they are able to. The only reason they are 'fixing' things is cuz they got called out on it. So no. No 'good on them' for fixing what should never even have been a thing
Thank you, Pitch for Speed, Power for rate of descent is a good reminder.
Keep these tutorials up. The pacing and explainations are great.
Excellent. I knitter it’s a simulator but this felt more like a “real” flight lesson, which is exactly what I’m looking for. I hope you continue these. Cheers
Have been simming for years, found this to be a great straight forward explanation for those new to simming. 👍
I've been having fun "acting" like a pilot in FSX without knowing anything about flying other than the primary and secondary control surfaces. Even though a lot of people find the base tutorials lacking in depth, it's far more in-depth as to what FSX gave us. Some proper community resources could bring a lot of us closer to the real thing than we'd ever be able to afford.
The new lessons are fine but it's not true to say they're more in depth than FSX. FSX had excellent ground school materials and very in depth long lessons by Rod Machado, which are actually closer to this lesson in terms of length and depth of information (as well humour). FS2020 teaches you nothing about control surfaces, instruments, radio, navigation etc but that was all there in FSX.
I like this. An orientation of the different aircraft would be nice. I've already had it where I switched planes & didn't know where things were or how to use different instruments (ie the glass cockpits in some planes). I also did not know the rpm indicator was way over there!
A brilliant video as always, thank you! Really glad you're doing such comprehensive tutorials now. The thing I find trickiest to get right is trimming. I imagine that part of actually easier in a real plane as you can feel what the yoke is doing? Looking forward to more of these!
Many thanks. Helped immensely. 10/10
Yup agreed with most other posts, exactly what I was hoping for, i wondered what you were doing over there last night, seen you online in game in the 152, so now I know. Great work again keep it up.
Good stuff Nemisis Wolf! I've got to organise something so I accept only members into the SF Network. I'm working on that! Thanks so much man! : )
Great stuff, keep it coming 🐱🏍
Shot of Kiribati in the intro, see what you did there ;) Really liked the pitch for speed and power for rate of descent, I think I had already got into some bad habits when landing, I will be sure to interoperate this information going forward. Brilliant tutorial Thanks!
Love the content. This is the good stuff. Thanks!
Great video. The format was great and despite I having a little knowledge I found I learn't a few things from this video. In particular that the navigation compass is actually a factor of 10 degrees and greater clarity on the actual effects of things like using the flaps.
It would be great to have support for two people flying in the cockpit together, I feel this would flight training a lot better and I have posted on the FS forum suggesting it.
Looking forward to some more series and hope to see you in the skies.
Even the brief talk about the mixture is extremely useful. I turned the auto mixture on, because it kept yelling at me about it and I had no idea what to do. I'm really looking forward to a landing tutorial. The sim says I've survived most of my landings so far, but I'm pretty sure most of the planes would have to be repaired. :)
In FSX Multiplayer you could both share one cockpit and take control just like the real world. Start a multiplayer Session as you usually would. Then When you Select your Aircraft (The one you want to fly) Make sure that "Share my Aircraft" is Checked. Now have your friend join you're Multiplayer session and go to the Briefing Room (it doesn't matter what aircraft he selects) now have him click on the "join Aircraft" button next to your aircraft. Now enter the session and ta-da you sharing an aircraft (You can press "Shift + T" to transfer Control Between Players.) I hope the new flight sim has this.
Subscribed! Good instruction. Don't be afraid to get more detailed and take more time; people who want to really learn will not only have patience but will enjoy it.
Do you teach intro to acrobatics?
This was awesome, THANK YOU so much! The tutorials in game are rubbish and your explanations are so much better. Please please keep going with these tutorials, I’ll watch any and all that you do. And as others have said, once we’ve got through the basics of the 152 together, it would be great if you could help explain the more complicated nav functions in the next planes up (the Garmin thingy). Thank you again, you’re the best.