

Buy Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots: Real World Training by Van West, Jeff, Lane-Cummings, Kevin online on desertcart.ae at best prices. ✓ Fast and free shipping ✓ free returns ✓ cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. Review: Good content , bad quality - Quality of paper and pictures are not good! But the content is ok Review: I bought this book after attempting to wade my way through the FS 2004 Pilot Training Tutorials and then upgrading to FS-X. What an excellent book! It is a shame that it seems that the only reason previous reviewers marked down to 4 stars from 5 is the lack of colour illustration. If you read the text you find that you can download all of the book's illustrations along with an enormous amount of other information and flight senarios from the publisher's website - problem solved. Now to the book - the FS tutorials start you in a Cessna - I found this plane twitchy and difficult for a beginner to handle (or maybe it's just me) - the book starts you in the Piper Cub - a much more primitive (and easy to fly) option. It is a very uncomplicated plane and teaches you a lot about "seat of the pants" flying rather than too much dependence on using instruments. The authors (real pilot trainers) say that they find people coming to real flying from FS keep their eyes too much on the instruments and not enough out the window. I think the Cub goes a long way to solving this (and it's great fun to fly). The Cub is great for sightseeing flights, but you can't really do the Himalayas as they're mostly beyond its service ceiling. There is a great deal more in this book about the realities of flying in the real world and dealing adverse conditions that the documentation and training in FS don't deal with. They also explain a great deal better about how to control the planes. This book is written for FS-X but I think it could be used in FS-2004 as all the planes used in the book are in both versions of the software. You would have to be aware that some of the key commands differ between the two versions and I haven't tested whether or not the flight senarios are compatible. 700 plus pages and loads of megabytes of downloads of pure gold. I have no hesitation in give 5 stars (and more if I could).
| Best Sellers Rank | #65,472 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #19 in Video Game Design #65 in Video Game Strategy Guides #74 in Aerospace Engineering |
| Customer reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (630) |
| Dimensions | 18.8 x 5.33 x 23.37 cm |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN-10 | 0764588222 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0764588228 |
| Item weight | 1.05 Kilograms |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 752 pages |
| Publication date | 3 July 2007 |
| Publisher | Wiley |
O**A
Good content , bad quality
Quality of paper and pictures are not good! But the content is ok
T**W
I bought this book after attempting to wade my way through the FS 2004 Pilot Training Tutorials and then upgrading to FS-X. What an excellent book! It is a shame that it seems that the only reason previous reviewers marked down to 4 stars from 5 is the lack of colour illustration. If you read the text you find that you can download all of the book's illustrations along with an enormous amount of other information and flight senarios from the publisher's website - problem solved. Now to the book - the FS tutorials start you in a Cessna - I found this plane twitchy and difficult for a beginner to handle (or maybe it's just me) - the book starts you in the Piper Cub - a much more primitive (and easy to fly) option. It is a very uncomplicated plane and teaches you a lot about "seat of the pants" flying rather than too much dependence on using instruments. The authors (real pilot trainers) say that they find people coming to real flying from FS keep their eyes too much on the instruments and not enough out the window. I think the Cub goes a long way to solving this (and it's great fun to fly). The Cub is great for sightseeing flights, but you can't really do the Himalayas as they're mostly beyond its service ceiling. There is a great deal more in this book about the realities of flying in the real world and dealing adverse conditions that the documentation and training in FS don't deal with. They also explain a great deal better about how to control the planes. This book is written for FS-X but I think it could be used in FS-2004 as all the planes used in the book are in both versions of the software. You would have to be aware that some of the key commands differ between the two versions and I haven't tested whether or not the flight senarios are compatible. 700 plus pages and loads of megabytes of downloads of pure gold. I have no hesitation in give 5 stars (and more if I could).
G**E
il volume è una delle migliori vie d'accesso al volo, simulato o meno. espone gli argomenti senza mai essere troppo prolisso, andando sempre al punto, come i veri manuali operativi. portato a casa con l'obiettivo di andare un pò più a fondo nel volo simulato, può essere anche un'ottima preparazione pre-corso se in futuro volete portarvi a casa anche un brevetto vero. Consigliato
J**O
El libro llegó en excelentes condiciones.
M**R
Hier kann ich mich nur den Vorbewertern anschließen, es handelt sich heirbei um ein wirklich gutes Buch. Da ich vor kurzem mit dem FSX angefangen habe, wollte ich auch ein Buch haben, welches einem die Technik hinter dem Fliegen auch sehr gut vermitteln kann. Ich habe mir einige Bücher angesehen, darunter auch dieses. Dieses Buch habe ich mir erst zum Schluss angesehen, da ich eigentlich unbedingt eines in deutscher Sprache haben wollte. Denn ich habe mir direkt das Add-on für die 747 gekauft und war doch ein wenig mit den Schaltern im Cockpit überfordert. Das Buch ist in einem sehr verständlichen und leichten Englisch geschrieben. Klar, Fachbegriffe muss man gelegentlich nachsehen, aber das ist ja auch normal, wenn man fach fachfremd ist. Es erklärt einem erst einmal die grundlegenden Prinzipien des Fliegens. In den ersten Kapiteln wird man nach und nach an die Technik und Instrumente herangeführt. Ein ganz klarer Vorteil ist, dass man sich die Übungskapitel auch für den FSX herunterladen und durchspielen kann. Das macht die ganze Sache dann auch noch einfacher. Egal ob es ums Wetter, die Kartennavigation oder Spritberechnung geht, es werden zu jedem Thema verschiedene Links von Webseiten aufgeführt, die einem dabei helfen können das Ganze besser zu verstehen und auch einzusetzen. Es ist wirklich gut, dass man alles recht gut lernt und gleichzeitig auch versteht und sofort einsetzen kann. Es gibt zahlreiche Programme die einem die Arbeit natürlich abnehmen und alles vorberechnen. Aber als Anfänger sollte man die Geräte auch alle verstehen und auch manuell bedienen können und genau das wird hier vermittelt. Man ist allerdings nicht gezwungen sich von Kapitel zu Kapitel durchzuschlagen, aber als Anfänger ist es empfehlenswert. Ich denke mir auch, dass es für Fortgeschrittene sehr interessant ist. Nochmals kurz in Stichpunkten zusammengefasst: + sehr leicht verständliches Englisch + Technik des Fliegens wird ausführlich erklärt + logischer Kapitelaufbau + Lernkaiptel sind download- und im FSX durchspielbar (finde ich persönlich wirklich super) + ausführliche Erklärung der einzelnen Instrumente und Bedienelemente im Cockpit + Links zu bestimmten Themen werden aufgelistet und auch kurz erläutert. Negative Punkte kann ich bis jetzt noch keine finden, da meine Fragen bisher alle geklärt werden konnten.
R**V
Simply the best there is. Extremely detailed and nice lessons
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