Thanks and Newbie questions

[machie]

Hi All,
First, a huge I mean HUGE thank you to the developer and the entire staff at Pilots edge. I flew my first flight yesterday and what a joy--I wanted to jump up and kick my heels together but I was too busy flying and navigating my Mooney M20 from KSBP to KSMO ---This was a VFR flight with flight following and I felt that I was in my real life, Good Old Reliable Mooney 51m! I am an old retired flyer who is past what I consider to be a safe age to fly by myself---I can still fly (I trekked to the Everest base camp 2 years ago) but I know in my heart that prudence requires that I only fly with two pilots onboard these days.

My sim flight using Pilots Edge was very very realistic yesterday and I made a few ATC errors yesterday--forgot to mention the runway number when cleared to land at Santa Monica, and asked for vectors to the airport while under flight following--was told that this was "Non-Standard"---but the controller did (like in real life) tell me that the airport was about 15 miles at my 10 o'clock position.

I feel like a California Millionaire---I can jump in any plane I like and fly it all around the Pilot Edge world!!!---A piper Pawnee--a Classic Cessna 195 a SR22 or a Southwest 737----this is about as cool as it gets. I have done very little real life flying during the past few years and my last real life flight into actual IMC was over 8 years ago---I cannot wait to start knocking off the rust---winter is coming--cannot wait to crank up Opus and fly around IFR in the California skies.

I have one Newbie question---can someone help my by explaining the PE geographical boundary’s---I mean where can we fly?

Again---- such many many thanks as I can muster!!!!

Cheers

Dorn Cranert

[wmburns]

I have one Newbie question---can someone help my by explaining the PE geographical boundary’s---I mean where can we fly?

You could fly anywhere in the whole wide world. However you won't get ATC coverage outside of the PE coverage area.

Have you reviewed to following?

http://www.pilotedge.net/pages/operatin ... rvice-area

For an interesting lesson, you could ask for flight following and just pick a direction of flight to see what happens. Recommend choosing a fast plane so that it won't take too long.

Welcome aboard.

[machie]

Thanks for the link to the Plot edge area---this is great--plenty of complex areas for any VFR/IFR and still the ability to fly the Big Iron to Vegas and SFO

Cheers

Dorn

[Ryan B]

Asking for a vector to the airport while flying VFR is NO ERROR at all... in fact I respect pilots more who ask me if they're unsure and need help, rather than fly to the wrong airport and look like idiots.... SoCal has a lot of airports and sometimes in very close proximity (and even some that look quite similar), and you might accidentally fly to the wrong one once in a while. If unsure just ask, simple as that.

Welcome to PE!! It's a valuable tool and I'm trying to get some of the controller/pilots at work to use it more often...(I don't speak for PE I'm just another pilot online but do work ATC in Duluth MN and hold a PPL ASEL)

[Cyrus]

Hi Dorn,

Welcome to the best thing to ever happen to the world of flight simming... hands down.

There's a handy little website set up and maintained by a PE member, Ken, that helps you with planning and flying a route. It's free and very easy to use....

There's a brief discussion about it here (or just search 'myflightroute').

The site itself is here.

See you in the SoCal skies!