by Keiyn » Sun Jul 09, 2017 12:06 am
After watching all of the pilot edge workshops (relating to VFR) and spending countless hours researching a myriad of things related to VFR navigation, airspace, sec charts, ATC comms etc etc I am very comfortable planning VFR flights correctly and communicating with ATC. I putter around in my Skyhawk and have a great time on PE, but I feel I'm being held back considerably on the realism by not knowing how to properly operate the damn airplane. Flaps? I hardly every use them and just throw 10 degrees down sometimes when landing not having a clue if I should be doing that. Proper climb rates and airspeeds? I have no idea, sometimes I full throttle it the whole trip, it works I guess. When to lean the mixture? When to use what beacon lights? How to operate and utilize all the instruments? Nope, nope, and nope. Can someone link some good full guides about operating airplanes and proper procedures? I'm just a hobby sim pilot so a more laid back guide vs an intense manual will suffice just fine, and at the very least will give me good ground to build on and research topics myself.