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My second flight and a few observations. I created and loaded a flight plan into FSFlying School. Instructor thought I should be preparing to land
shortly after takeoff although I had 100 miles to go. She kept reminding me to change the mixture for landing. She did comment that we had reached
cruise but that didn't stop her from mentioning the mixture. I ignored her, did nothing, and she commented on my good mixture adjustment.
She did note the appropriate way point so she was aware of the flight plan. I did read the manual and will go back to it as I might be missing something.
Initial impressions are mixed at this point but I'll keep trying as it does seem like a good concept.
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Jim1245 (11/10/2010)
My second flight and a few observations. I created and loaded a flight plan into FSFlying School. Instructor thought I should be preparing to land
shortly after takeoff although I had 100 miles to go. She kept reminding me to change the mixture for landing. She did comment that we had reached
cruise but that didn't stop her from mentioning the mixture. I ignored her, did nothing, and she commented on my good mixture adjustment.
She did note the appropriate way point so she was aware of the flight plan. I did read the manual and will go back to it as I might be missing something.
Initial impressions are mixed at this point but I'll keep trying as it does seem like a good concept.
Jim1245
Great that you have found FSFS. In my opinion - being a very happy user of FSFS - its the best tool for improving your flyingskills ever made for MSFS.
Now to your confused Instructor.
It seems like you have a few settings set to auto, both in FSFS and in your Flight simulator.
In FSFlyingSchool you can, under the pilots tab, check or uncheck automatic detection of cruise- and landingmodes. While its nice in the beginning that you can have MsAviatrix to do this for you, most pilots chose, pretty soon, to uncheck those settings, so you have control over when you are in what mode.
If you are in cruisemode and are very low, the instructor (actually the green line of text) will ask if you are about to land. This is only a question and is meant to make you aware that you are cruising too low, or have forgotten to advance to landingmode.
Regarding the mixture. If you are above 3000 feet MSL in a piston aircraft, you will need to adjust the mixture to obtain maximum RPM - this is described in the manual. You need to do this regardless of your current flightmode. Now - if MsAviatrix then comment on good mixture setting, I do suspect that you have "automixture" checked in your Flight simulator settings. If you want control over this also, then uncheck this feature in the Flight simulator settings.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark
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| Ole: Thanks for helping another FSFS pilot.  You've covered it all - I cannot add anything.
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Thanks for the advice. Flights now smoother and less confusing. Also changed instructors...she was rather annoying.
Couple of questions:
I have a msg - FSFS2010 runways data not present - Although I thought I updated it ???
Also, when I try to view the Log Book, I get a "File Not Found" message. I would like to save and print it out so I would
appreciate help with that.
I am flying the C172 and uploaded my, not very good scores, under Jim1245, but can't find them. Is there any way
to search w/o wading through all the scores?
TIA
Jim Barbieri
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It appears that I am not saving any flight information as everything is blank.
But I don't see any way to save it before exiting...must be missing something..again.
Please help...
Thanks
Jim Barbieri
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| Jim: Not sure where you are at in your resolution of issues so I will start here... If you are not getting flights recorded in your log book it is almost certainly because as far as the instructor is concerned your flights are not actually ending at any point.  The manual has full details on this, but until you hear the instructor say "OK - we're starting a new flight!" the current flight is not over.  By default (as it is shipped) FSFlyingSchool will end the current flight when you stop after a landing, but you can change this so that the flight ends when you put the parking brake on or when you do all that and also cut the engine and fuel. It is when folks change these settings that the mystery of "no log book entries" usually occurs.  Just make sure that you are ending the flights the way the settings require and you should be fine. You can check the settings at the Flight Plan screen in FSFS. Please let us know how you get on.
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