Feed

A quick post because I wanted people to know I have set up a feedburner feed for FS Ground School. I don’t know if I can put a widget on my word-press blog, so here it is in text for those of you who want can copy it into your favourite RSS subscriber. I’ve already [...]

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Trim

Here’s something I had heard bits of before but never really paid much attention to it. I think part of why I ended up using the auto-pilot in flight sim previously rather than hand flying was because of that mistake. Trim is essential, I see now, and after a few flights utilizing it I could [...]

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A Short Flight

The beauty of FSX is that there’s no need to worry about making mistakes because there are no consequences. While learning the PPL through FSX this is a vital tool because it means that rather than get bogged down with a lot of theory I can get out there and put it into practice. That’s exactly [...]

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Further Effects of the Main Flight Controls (Part 2)

Following on from the previous post about Yaw and Roll being linked, likewise Pitch and Airspeed is also linked. To put it simply – a basic fact that everyone probably already knows – if you dive in a plane the airpeed increases and if you point the nose up it will slow down. But what [...]

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Further Effects of the Main Flight Controls (Part 1)

Now that we’ve got the idea of how each of the main flight controls work, it’s time to see the secondary effects each one has and how they influence each other. The whole point of this blog is to share my experiences with following the Air Pilots and Manuals for a PPL in FSX and hopefully helping [...]

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