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Adam Chivers

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  1. Its really excellent and very appropriate for fsx in my opinion, it seems perfectly relevant for jets with fms and things like the c172 glass cockpit which I have been reading the fsx tutorials on today (garmin g1000). I have downloaded all the pdfs for instruments, navigation and so on, I did a great flight today in the standard c172 in very cloud weather using an ILS approach into Newcastle runway 26 using the actual frequency from google (when the morse code sounded I was chuffed) love it when actual data works on fsx In terms of theory though, I am also using flightliteracy.com and I am right back to the basics of aviation, and strictly going through how a plane works in flight and on from there to more basics. After that I will move onto the downloaded material from faa on instruments (which I did have a good half hour read of) and navigation, and so on... feeling much better about it today, plus my books wont be here for at least another 10 days so am glad of the material. And I do finally understand how a course differs from a heading, and how an ifr capable plane can intercept a course using a non sequencing mode, so though I am a way away from that, the foundation is there and I can move onto it one day with a hope of grasping it. Youve been such a great help and the time you did spend helping me has not been wasted
  2. Great advice thanks, I absolutely love flying with the Cessna 172 and have been concentrating on that right back to basics. The FAA stuff is amazing, really in depth but in such a way that it is comprehensible.
  3. I bought these books yesterday and as I should of thought to ask on here I'm concerned if they are too advanced for a beginner. Ive rushed ahead and need to start from scratch, I find the fsx tutorials hard to read id rather use a book Trevor Thoms Air navigation (air pilots manual) And Pooleys Air pilot Manual flying training vol 1 Any good? I am a beginner, a very helpful member gave me some good links and source material which I will read, but I had already ordered these last night so have invested in them too Aiming to be an accomplished flight sim pilot, will these books be ok as I have a tendency to waste a lot of time going down the wrong path and not progressing Thanks
  4. Thanks, sorry I thought it was Inuss who posted that, this forum looks small on my phone. Appreciate it
  5. Thanks Inuss, whats a good way to practice flying with charts and following these instructions once I have learned these books and links you gave me? Should I download real charts and do it that way? My problem has been not knowing where to start. I feel quite bad about taking up so much of your time
  6. Thanks that does help, I think you are right though I am not here yet, I need to go back to the start and learn the basics. But it does make sense what you are saying
  7. You are right thankyou, I thought I knew more than I did. Like I say I have ordered books about navigation so will read them first along with using the sources you have provided. I apologise, I do try to rush ahead out of enthusiasm, but its no good. I will go right back to the basics, learn properly and effectively. Thanks so much for your time I appreciate it
  8. I think I get it now, Ive got a feeling that Ive been incredibly stupid, all headings fixed or not, including a pilots heading are always supposed to be true to fixed NSEW aren't they. Ive been so silly lol Thanks so much for your patience, Ive crammed a lot in my head in 2 weeks and some of the basics get blurry
  9. Thanks, I really need to learn about reciprocals and what that means, so I will study that, If I can get a grasp of all this I will be very pleased. I replied again with a better example, basically I sit and watch people on youtube manually tuning all the headings in the a320 on approach, and I just wonder how on earth they know what to do. So I figured id learn approach charts but I was instantly stumped by this lol thanks
  10. https://www.aurora.nats.co.uk/htmlAIP/Publications/2019-05-23-AIRAC/graphics/106486.pdf Ok so heres a link to a real example of what I poorly tried to demonstrate. It shows a VOR and a fixed heading of 059 degrees for the approach. My issues are as follows... 1.Its 059 degrees from what exactly? 2. In fsx the flight plan will automatically give you a heading from a VOR to an airport but based on your flight plan heading, the heading/radial here is fixed no matter where you are approaching from 3. Would you work out how to get onto this heading pre flight? 4. How would you calculate this heading if you are forced to deviate from the flight plan and back to the VOR on an unplanned heading 5. Sorry if point 4 was what you already answered, trying to understand it still at present Thanks if you can help and apologies for the wishy washy nature of the original post
  11. Hi thanks for your response, I kind of made it up as an example, maybe I will find an actual chart to use as an example. (Sorry about that) I meant the VOR station to be at the airport. I will go over what you said in regards to lining up with the radial, its hard for me to grasp at first glance but I will go over it and try to let it sink in. I am fine with flying vor to vor, but vor to an approach heading confuses me as I am not tuning into anything. Am I correct in thinking that you might fly to that vor from many angles? So you would need to calculate is that correct? Thanks for the links, sorry if there are areas I am missing such as waypoints and stars etc, it just seems to me that planes would fy into an airport vor from different angles, and would then calculate how to fly onto the radial. I got this confusion from doofers youtube video about navigation, his channel is excellent, but he showed a chart for liverpool I think where the vor station was at the airport and it sends you onto a radial. Which made me wonder how would you know what heading to set if coming in at different angles. Thanks for the advice I will take it, as I said vor to vor I am proficient, but other things are confusing me, im 2 weeks in so have a lot to learn. Thanks again
  12. Hi guys, I'm in the stage of learning at the moment and have a question that is bugging me. Say if (for example) you are approaching an airport on a heading of 252 degrees and you are nearing the VOR for the airport. The approach chart tells you to turn onto a radial of 48 degrees upon reaching the VOR, to send you back up the side of the runway (I forget the official term) to then turn back toward the runway into the glide slope and localiser. How would I correctly turn to that exact radial from different approach headings? say if I was approaching the VOR on a different heading of 018 degrees, how would I calculate hitting the 048 radial in that instance? If this is a daft question I apologise, I feel like I am missing an important calculation and a fair bit of knowledge, I have ordered a navigation tutorial book which will be arriving this week. Thanks
  13. I like to pick a random location in Alaska, google airports about an hour away, then do a vor to vor flight or even a gps. I love it, its stunning and obviously playing around with the weather and time of day makes it different each time. Its my favourite thing of all, using atc adds to the fun too and also can be a pain, but it keeps it fun
  14. Hi guys, any idea why during this landing into Liverpool the ILS was never fully locked? I aimed for the star at 2000 as a guide for height and came round under the glide slope. I didnt press Approach until the end of the turn as I wanted to capture the lattitude straighter to avoid the plane veering off course (correct me if I was wrong there regarding that) It seems that the angle would be miles off if im not mistaken I landed manually with little trouble as the glide was pretty accurate anyway (Unless of course the ILS was fully captured but co pilot didnt say, and no dot next to G/s or LOCALISER)
  15. Ok so I tried the unticked dx10 and was still the same unfortunately, but it did however work in windowed mode. So not too bad I can live with that, pressing alt+enter isnt too much of a problem. It appears to be unanswerable, so will have to put it down as another annoying fsx glitch. Anyway, thanks for the help all
  16. Ahhhh I did activate direct x 10, I will try disabling that later this evening when I will be flying again. I don't know what the difference is with having it on or off to be honest. I think they are all dysfunctional actually but will check, I only really noticed on the directional gyro. Yes it was the same aircraft, thanks I will update if it works or not 👍
  17. Hi, thanks for responding, I just had a look and it was already ticked
  18. Hi, I am new to the forum so apologies in advance if I make any mistakes. I was flying IFR on a VOR to VOR in the base game cessna 172. I remember when tuning the heading bug previously, with the mouse scroll, it displaying the correct heading on the heading bug knob itself. Now I find that it isnt, and I am relying on trying to eye it up manually. Which though realistic is annoying, as I have to go to the map to see if I am on the correct heading. So does anyone know why it wont display? Im not sure exactly how to Calibrate it before TO HDG and ALT are set whilst at cruise Altitude Thanks
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