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Gooday,
The Instruction manual p35 says that instructor can only identify the key Control-Shift-Space to start circuit training if 'you had already achieved the required landing and flight scores'. So how can I practice landing if the command wont let me take off in order to do a circuit to land? PLease point me to the page.
Neal
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Neal (6/8/2010)
Gooday,
The Instruction manual p35 says that instructor can only identify the key Control-Shift-Space to start circuit training if 'you had already achieved the required landing and flight scores'. So how can I practice landing if the command wont let me take off in order to do a circuit to land? PLease point me to the page.
Neal
Neal
The circuits in FSFS are the most challenging task of all. Therefore, before you can do circuits, you have to prove that you can handle flight and landing to a certain point - the minimum scores stated in the manual.
Those scores must be achieved in normal flight. Then - when you have achieved the scores in normal flights/landings, you get access to flying circuits.
The minimum scores are not that hard to do, and circuits are very fun as well as challenging, so get at it, and have fun.
Ole
Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark
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Thank you,
but I am lost. I want to do many circuits like I did many, many years ago in a real Cessna with a real instructor (my wife could not afford to keep me, so I had to quit) so that I can practice landings over and over. But I have to get in the air to practice perfect landings. I can pullback the stick and waffle around but there has to be a more systematic way.
Neal
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Neal (6/9/2010)
Thank you,
but I am lost. I want to do many circuits like I did many, many years ago in a real Cessna with a real instructor (my wife could not afford to keep me, so I had to quit) so that I can practice landings over and over. But I have to get in the air to practice perfect landings. I can pullback the stick and waffle around but there has to be a more systematic way.
Neal
Neal
If its "only" landings you want to practise.... then what you can do is to place yourself at a runway you want to land on. then press "Y" (slew mode) then position your aircraft a few miles back, get the aircraft ready for landing (speeds, flaps gear, etc...) Press pause, press "Y" again (un-slew) then save the flight in FS.
Now you connect FSFS (if you chose an ILS landing you need not file a flightplan - but if you chose a visual landing you have to file a flightplan for the airport you chose) When FSFS is connected, make sure you are in landing mode - and land. Get your evaluation, and if not satisfied, reset the flight (you will get back up ready for landing where you saved the flight - paused)
then connect FSFS again (remember to re-file the flightplan if needed) and land, and land, and land.....
That is an easy way to practice landings...
Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark
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| Hi Neal: In addition to Ole's advice, I will add this. Circuit mode in FSFS can be thought of as "practicing flying circuits very precisely", which no one will have a hope to do unless they can do a fairly good basic flight and landing in FSFS. FSFlyingSchool is not a set of lessons - FS already has that - and so I recommend that you pick an airport and fly circuits there, but not in FSFS circuit mode. Just take off, climb to around 1000 feet above the field, fly a big loop around toward where you started, give yourself a good 3 - 4 minutes on final approach (so it's not too busy) and land again. Or just fly short flights between two neighboring airports. Mr Smith and his friends will be watching you closely, but not with the unforgiving intensity that comes with circuit mode.  In addition, I also recommend that you land using ILS!  Yes - this is not what you'd do in the real world, but it will help in FSFS to get you used to flying with FSFS.  In FSFS you can land at any runway which has ILS (and using the ILS signal) without filing a flight plan - just tune NAV1 to the ILS and set NAV1 OBS to the runway heading. Such approaches are often easier than visual approaches as you just follow the needles in the aircraft and land. Once you get the hang of that - try some visual approaches. Let us know if you have any questions.
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