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Fly!: training Articles |
There is diversity among the Fly! users. For sure, we can classify them into two basic categories: the ones piloting in real life and those who don't.
This statement made, and what now ?
The ones who don't pilot would like the "others" to share part of their know-how, not because they would like to become Captain at Air France, but because they like the maximum realism into their favorite sim.
The question has been forwarded onto the Fly Forum and has provided the idea to open a part dedicated to training (exclusive for simulation).
The objective of this page is to assemble the "lessons" made by "those who know and who'd like to share their knowledge". The completion of this page will follow the input proposed from the french Fly! community.
Fixed domains: VFR flights and procedures, IFR flights and procedures, flightplans, navigation logs, standard approaches, and more...
The request is huge, the page will live depending on the response.
Finally, as stated in a popular wisdom, to retrieve waterflow, first start the pump, Fly.Simvol contributes to the common effort by proposing the first lessons: start your engines !
Lesson 1: (author René Birot)
Simplified procedure to calculate heading corrections caused by wind.
This Excel 7 documents contains 2 pages: a navigation log (make a hardcopy to allow manual entry of data) and the correction calculation page.
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Log_Nav.zip (10 Kb) |
Lesson 2: (author René Birot)
First part of a possible great series: the procedure dialog.
To allow "students" to train, those lessons will stick to a common location (Rennes airport) a common airplane (The Cessna 172SP, by preference the Rennes based F-GPFA), and regarding the common instructor...
The title of this lesson: "A local flight in controlled area - the departure".
The folder contains a Word document and terrain charts related to the lesson. The CTR chart is intended for future lessons, but allows to situate the airport zone into the whole Rennes area.
ATTENTION: a good understanding of the lessons, requires a basic knowledge of the aeronautical terms.
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L01-decoll.zip (163 Kb) |
Lesson 3: (author René Birot)
The second part of the series: the dialoges and procedures.
Reminder: to allow "students" to train, those lessons will stick to a common location (Rennes airport) a common airplane (The Cessna 172SP, by preference the Rennes based F-GPFA), and regarding the common instructor...
The title of this lesson: "A local flight in controlled area - the standard circuit".
The lesson starts at the end of the previous lesson: departure has happened ! We are in front of the first circuit.
Have a good look at the path onto the provided chart, the turns are located as in reality.
The interesting part is managing the dialog with the tower and meanwhile performing a continuous parameter modification of this brief flight.
The most in this lesson: the complete aircraft checklist !
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L02-tdp.zip (968 Kb) |
Lesson 4: (author René Birot)
The third part of the series: the dialoges and procedures.
Reminder: to allow "students" to train, those lessons will stick to a common location (Rennes airport) a common airplane (The Cessna 172SP, by preference the Rennes based F-GPFA), and regarding the common instructor...
The title of this lesson: "the first "nav" from Rennes towards Redon".
A "nav", is prepared by :
- The chart at 1:500 000 (Nr. OACI 941 "Aeronautic French Nord-West de IGN) for the flightpath and the visual references
- The chart at 1:1 000 000 (SIA French Nord-West) to note the transition of regulated zones
- The manual: "Addendum to aeronautic charts" from SIA to note the constraints of regulated zones
- A document to fill-in: the "Navigation log"
- The meteo file
and don't forget to have at hand : the aircraft board documents containing the airworthness certificate, an updated license (or an authorisation to fly solo under instruction), a medical certificate, and logbook.
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Departure "on 28" at Rennes |
A mirror view towards Rennes |
Arrival at Redon |
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lesson_4.zip (425 Kb) |
Lesson 5: (author Laurent Claudet)
First lesson of a new series regarding the landing.
Lesson objectives: every student pilot knows the landing as the most challenging ! Indeed, it's fairly easy to perform correct departures already from the 2nd or 3th flight lesson, and to quickly manage aircraft control in the air (coordinated turns, stabilized flight, stalls, ...). Before initiating the first "solo" navigation (lesson 4), we need to practice a lot of landings, with or without crosswind, in order to obtain a nearly perfect control of this major act intended to return to surface, your plane and above all yourself (which should be easy because of gravity) but also in a perfect state (and here starts the challenge). On top of that, it's fine to practice landings, but it's even more rewarding to practice them in varied conditions (cross wind, light rearwind, limited visibility by frontal sunlight...). Often, instructors state that accelerated trainings frequently lead to pilots who didn't encounter those various situations.
This lesson has the title: help aimed at landings
Typical for this lesson is the fact that it's created by a pilot who flies only virtual, and that we are all allowed to applaude him, because the theoretic and practical informations provided are at the level of whats in the best handbooks or his instructors explanations. Of course the lessons are imagined situations created in Fly! and easy reproduceable.
In the next lessons, the adventures (files .RIO) allow us to enter the "situation" as many times as required to manage the technic.
Before loading the lesson (provided in .doc Word 2000 format like the previous ones), a brief overview of terms employed in this document:
- FPM feet per minute (information retrieved from the VSI indicator)
- Incidence angle between wings and flightpath
- Pitch angle between aircraft's longitudinal axis and the horizontal
- AOA angle of attack (of the wings)
- Path angle between the horizontal and the aircraft's path in a vertical plane
- Slope
optimal landing angle of 3 ° (or 5%) with horizontal
- Variometer the equipment indicating the vertical speed in feet/minute (Fpm) (or VSI, Vertical Stall Indicator).
- Ground speed GS: the speed over ground, whereas the anemometer only indicates airspeed.
To allow smooth follow-up of this lesson, download the next files:
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Landing
Help_doc.zip (144 Kb)
contains the complete lesson |
* Never close the window LndHlp after having opened the axis window: if it has occured, shutdown Fly! with the close button on the upper right, otherwise a PC reboot is mandatory.
As an option a superb Dll which allows a fixed point vision of the flight evolution:
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RnwCam_2.zip (29 Kb) the special ROTW camera (it's the beta version 1.0 for Fly!, it deletes and replaces the previous version) |
Fly-by of the C172SP "FA" over the special ROTW camera
This dll provides a supplementary fixed camera allowing your take-off and landing vision from a new point of view (initially it was intended the runway border, afterwards I realised it was too limited as a position). It's the icing on the cake regarding flight lessons. But of course its use isn't limited as such.
The commands are as follows:
Ctrl up : Aircraft view from its altitude
Ctrl down : Aircraft view from the airport
Ctrl left : Zoom decrease for each camera
Ctrl right : Zoom increase for each camera
Ctrl keypad + : zoom 0.99 ratio
Ctrl keypad - : zoom 0.00 ratio
Ctrl home : Actual zoom and base airport
Ctrl page up : Altitude increase of the altitude camera only
Ctrl page down : Altitude decrease of the altitude camera only
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Lesson 6: (author Laurent Claudet)
Crosswind landing
Lesson objectives: providing all theoretic and practical indications permitting a correct landing in the runway axis and remaining on the ideal slope.
The lesson has in attachment an explanatory file Landing Help2.doc, a DLL permitting to place user choosen markers on the aircraft's windshield (LandMark.dll).
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landing_02.zip (420 Kb) |
Its new commands:
Ctrl up : Aircraft view from its altitude
Ctrl down : Aircraft view from the airport
Ctrl left : Zoom decrease for each camera
Ctrl right : Zoom increase for each camera
Ctrl keypad + : zoom 0.99 ratio
Ctrl keypad - : zoom 0.00 ratio
Ctrl home : Actual zoom and base airport
Ctrl page up : Altitude increase of the altitude camera only
Ctrl page down : Altitude decrease of the altitude camera only
Lesson 7: (author Laurent Claudet)
No wind landing
Lesson objectives: usage of the windshield markers (LandMark.dll) together with the landing help window (LndHlp.dll) and with the RIO files.
This exercise comes after the 2 first lessons of the series (and uses some files of the previous lessons, which should have been installed already).
The difficulties are increasing: after becoming familiar with the windshield markers and with strong headwind landing, now we get onto the special landings.
Exercise 3 (preceding the third part of the explanations) is intended at placing the pilot in front of a major diffilculty: how to prepare his landing and which strategy to use in order to avoid obstacles at the beginning of the runway.
(The famous pin of the Hawaiian isles is protected ! and the farmers don't bother about landing aircraft !!).
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Required files:
* in the "Module/PC" directory
LndHlp.dll (landing help window)
LandMark.dll (windshield markers)
eventually RnwCam.dll for the fun (ROTW camera)
* in the "Art" directory
LandMark.pbm
LandMark.act
* in the directory "Flynow" (to be created in the Fly! directory if it's not there already)
EXERCICEs_1*_2*_3.rio
LndNav1t.bmp *
Lnd_Nav1.bmp *
Lnd=Nav1.bmp *
Lnd=Nav2.bmp *
Lnd=Nav3.bmp
(* those files are contained in part of the zip exercices_1_2.zip)
Before starting adjust following settings:
- graphic resolution 1024 x 768,
- deactivate rotor effect (for better horizontal stability)
- remove the dll "turbulences", if wanted, it's possible to use it again afterwards
- load the skyhawk from blanc for adjustment
- zoom at 3.20
- save the actual window position (For example: Shift F1; it's easier to use as a reference),
- Adjust trim sensitivity at 1% "linked" as required
- Adjust key acceleration at 100% "linked" as required
Finally, open the menu and acces the window "Immediate flight" and choose: EXERCISE_3 from user scenario's.
You are at 3,5 NM on an approach towards PHMK (Molokaï at the Hawaiian isles, 470 ft altitude) at about 2000 feet.
The choosen runway is the 23; it's 1500m long.
The settings at the start are:
- Course 270 (airport at the feft)
- Trim 26% up
- Mixture fully rich
From the start of the scenario don't forget to put 1800 rpm or 50% power...
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EXERCICE_3.zip (49 Kb) |
Lesson 8: flight using radio-electric instruments (author Azzurro)
In front of many demands coming from people new to flight simulation and without real pilot training (yes, it exists, it's even a majority), Azzurro, the southern Simvol, has compiled some pages allowing newbees to survive with honor.
Indeed, the training is very illustrated, and nobody will be surprised the training aircraft is the famous PA28 Warrior, the 160 hp four seater of ROTW.
Here we go : click here for lesson 8 !
IFR lessons : (author Koala)
Koala is a professional air traffic controller (actually on a French military base, and in
a near future he will become a civil air traffic controller).
In this lesson, he provides the
elements to practice IFR instrument flights.