FlightGear Flight Academy

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?)

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