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The '''FlightGear Flight Academy''' is a virtual school that teaches how to control an [[aircraft]], read maps and charts, use navigation facilities and instruments, do standard procedures and everything else needed by a pilot. | The '''FlightGear Flight Academy''' is a virtual school that teaches how to control an [[aircraft]], read maps and charts, use navigation facilities and instruments, do standard procedures and everything else needed by a pilot. | ||
Revision as of 20:10, 3 April 2014
The FlightGear Flight Academy is a virtual school that teaches how to control an aircraft, read maps and charts, use navigation facilities and instruments, do standard procedures and everything else needed by a pilot.
Contacts
- The Forum Topic
- IRC channel #fg_school on irc.flightgear.org
Check FlightGear IRC channel on how to join an IRC channel.
What you need
- Aircraft: Cessna C172P (with Dual control)
- Scenery with the airport (specify) where the flightschool is based: (which scenery square?)
How lessons are performed
Reading materials
- FAA Airplane Flying Handbook
- Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
- Flight Simulator Navigation
- FlightGear VFR Cross Country Tutorial
- FlightGear IFR Cross Country Tutorial
- Examples For Various Flight Instruments
- FAA Glider Flying Handbook
- FAA Rotorcraft Flying Handbook
- FAA Instrument Flying Handbook
Studying plan
Private Pilot Lessons
- Aerodynamics
- Emergency Descent
- Slow Flight (Minimum Controllable Airspeed)
- Rectangular Course
- Soft Field Landing
- Steep Turns
- Take Off
- Emergency Approach
- Go Around
- Normal Landing
- Short Field Landing
- Stalls and Spin Awareness
- S-Turns
- Turns About a Point