Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots Real World Training

Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0764588222
Manufacturer: Wiley
Average Customer Review: (From 17 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
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.

Customer Reviews

Best training book I have by Mark Fletcher
My opinion is anybody who gives this book less than five stars is REALLY hard to please or has some pet peeve they can’t turn loose of.

I have spent (wasted in many cases) lots of money and time on GA training books in the past and ignored this one for quite a while as “just another book on flying.” When I saw the price drop below $20, I decided to take a risk. Wow! This could be the best training book I have every bought. I hate to be dramatic about that but honestly, I probably have fifteen books of this nature and this is the clearest, most well laid out of any of them. I love the way the authors bring FSX into the training as yet another tool to help you practice your technique. The online material (especially the films) are very helpful too. It is obvious these guys did not write this book because they are “professional authors” but because they really do love flight training.

This book is a labor of love and you would do yourself a disservice by passing it by.

Real World Help by Richard G. Weber
I’ve had all the Microsoft Flight Simulators since 1985 and have always winged it when it came to flying. That works but I never really knew what I was doing. I think this book is the best I’ve seen so far in helping one to learn to fly with the reasons why. Links to downloadable files are an extra bonus that expand the contents. The author also ties his content in with the lessons in the Simulator Program. Very comprehensive coverage.

Near Perfect Complement to IFR Training by Timothy F. Liveright
This book is what I was looking for and did not find in Bruce Williams’Flight Simulator as a Training Aid. The authors are Real Pilots who have painstakingly incorporated their vast experience into a very readable and often entertaining soup to near nuts FSX-based teaching tool. I have been using the book for the last three weeks in preparation for a ten day intensive IFR training course. The proof of the West Cummings book’s success will come with my flying pudding a few more weeks hence when I get checked out. I get the feeling I’ll do ok which will be in no small measure due to the comprehensive and well organized approach taken in the book.

Hightly Recommended for real or simulated piloting.

Own FS-X? Then you need this book! by R. McGee
I’m not a “real world pilot”, and I am not planning to become one. But this book is a terrific resource if you’re into the simulation challeneges that Flight Sim X offers. I’ve owned every Microsoft FS product since the first one, from the early 80’s. Over the years, I’ve been saddened to see that as each release of the software becomes more realistic, the instruction manual grows thinner and more convoluted to use. This book solves all my “Why does this button do?” questions, with room to spare! It is obviously a labor of love for the authors, and it shows. They write with wit, humor, and above all, clarity. Every chapter of this book contains at least half a dozen or more of those “Oh! Why didn’t I know that before?” type of moments. From first flight to IFR, with the concluding chapter on “Virtual Airline Operation”, this is the definitive reference and training guide. It won’t really tell you how FS functions, but if you want to really learn virtual flight, don’t pass this one by! Warning: This isn’t a casual read. You’re expected to read, learn and practice each skill on your own, using customized lessons downloaded from the publisher’s website. But isn’t learning how to fly, or fly better, the reason you bought FS-X in the first place?

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