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| Hello me hearties, I am new to this forum and I want to greet everybody. By way of introduction, I am a middle-aged guy with an irrational love for flying in FS2004. I bought FS Flying School 2010 this last weekend and I am impressed with this product. I have a few simple questions, that I hope the gurus from FSFS 2010 will be able to asnwer in a snap. Question 1: So I make flight plan in FS 2004 and load it on FSFS 2010. My "instructor" dude is nice enough to guide me from waypoint to waypoint. That is just wonderful. However, there is a problem: suppose my instructor gives me a heading to fly to an intersection (not a VOR/NDB) for my next waypoint and the winds blow me more than 3 miles from the intersection. My kindhearted instructor never tells me to readjust my heading to correctly intercept the next waypoint, so I end up flying blind unless I check the FS 2004 map. But to a hardnose like me, that is like cheating. So is there a way I can get ocassional heading and course updates from my instructor so I can accurately intercept the next waypoint? Question 2: What's the deal with the instructor asking me about how far is the destination or where am I going to put down the ship in case of an emergency? How the heck am I supposed o know?? Even if I knew the correct answers, how am I supposed to answer these questions to my instructor in FSFS 2010; or are they merely rhetorical questions?? Thanks for any guidance. Sid
Sid the Heavy Metal Flyer
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sid2009 (1/4/2010)
Hello me hearties,
I am new to this forum and I want to greet everybody. By way of introduction, I am a middle-aged guy with an irrational love for flying in FS2004. I bought FS Flying School 2010 this last weekend and I am impressed with this product. I have a few simple questions, that I hope the gurus from FSFS 2010 will be able to asnwer in a snap.
Question 1: So I make flight plan in FS 2004 and load it on FSFS 2010. My "instructor" dude is nice enough to guide me from waypoint to waypoint. That is just wonderful. However, there is a problem: suppose my instructor gives me a heading to fly to an intersection (not a VOR/NDB) for my next waypoint and the winds blow me more than 3 miles from the intersection. My kindhearted instructor never tells me to readjust my heading to correctly intercept the next waypoint, so I end up flying blind unless I check the FS 2004 map. But to a hardnose like me, that is like cheating. So is there a way I can get ocassional heading and course updates from my instructor so I can accurately intercept the next waypoint?
Question 2: What's the deal with the instructor asking me about how far is the destination or where am I going to put down theship in case of an emergency? How the heck am I supposed o know?? Even if I knew the correct answers, how am I supposed to answer these questions to my instructor in FSFS 2010; or are they merely rhetorical questions??
Thanks for any guidance.
Sid
Hi there Sid the Heavy metal flyer.
Like the rest of us, a dedicated flightsim nut! Thats cool. Your greetings go right back to you, and you are among a whole bunch of middle aged guys. 
Your questions!
1) When you make a flightplan consistent of several waypoints, (and being a heavy metal flyer) I assume you can follow your route, with the help of what ever you have in the plane, Autopilot for instance, or GPS, charts or whatever you prefer to hold you on course. Wind will certainly put you off course if you dont do something to keep you there.
When you fly with an instructor from the FSFS team, its very true that he/she will tell you the heading to the next waypoint, but thats exactly what he/she does. give you the heading to the next waypoint! Its not an autopilot you get or a navigational aid, I´m afraid. its a hardazzed guy keeping a very keen eye out for what you do, when flying.
If you choose waypoints that is not NDB/VOR´s you must use your usual means of navigational aids. The instructor only gives you that one heading, pr. waypoint!
2) The chatter! The instructor will from time to time provide remarks/questions that is not related to the actual flying"skills" you are showing at that time. Those questions are meant as chatter. You can not answer them, and the instructor does not await an answer. Consider it the instructors way of keeping you on your toes, so you keep having those questions in the back of your head. So you always try to be aware of where you are, what you could do in case of emergencies, and how far you are from the destination. Have you got enough fuel, will daylight last until landing.... and such! 
I read somewhere: The art of practise! The amateur does it in order to get it right. The professional does it to never have it go wrong!  Thats what I think of when I get those remarks from the instructor. I cannot stop from checking the fuelrate, checking my GPS for how long Im from the destination, and all that, even though Im sure of it before he asks.
OK?
- and hey - welcome to this forum. Please hang around in here and keep us posted once in awhile, as to what you experience with FS and FSFS!
Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark
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| ..Question 1: ………………… However, there is a problem: suppose my instructor gives me a heading to fly to an intersection (not a VOR/NDB) for my next waypoint and the winds blow me more than 3 miles from the intersection Hi Sid The tongue in cheek answer must be does your instructor do your flight planning for you?  Ie Calculating course, track & heading from the wind direction and speed. Thought not, lazy b####rs these instructors So to get round the problem you will need to calculate your true heading for each leg so that you track the correct course along the ground. Presumably you do not have access “Flight Computer” to do this calculation for you so here are two links to help you out. The first is to a replication of a “Flight Computer” used in http://www.vandeenensupport.com/projects/rs/index.html Instructions http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Graphic-Flight-Computer-to-Find-Ground-Speed-and-True-Heading and the second is to a “Flight Computer” Emulator (easier to use, just enter the course you wish to fly, the wind direction & speed and it gives you a true heading to fly to achieve that course), the choice is yours. http://www.csgnetwork.com/e6bcalc.html Hope this helps, it all adds to the realism Biggles
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