When you first show an interest at a flying school to learn to fly the instructor will take you up on a trial lesson. Here on the trial lesson the instructor will sit you in the left seat and allow you to fly the aircraft here and there throughout the flight. Point out some things and generally sell you the course. A Private Pilots license course will cost you easily ten grand to get your license..

Introduction to the Cessna 172 for someone who has never seen one before. Flight Training can be very slow and expensive. Whether you fly as a student or fly as an experienced pilot, every hour of flight costs you loads of money. You don’t have much control. Well with VR Flight sim you gain the control. You set yourself up once and practice whenever you want and for as long as you want. Let me be your guide into the VR World. Click below to start learning what you need to know.

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Flight Training can be very slow and expensive. Whether you fly as a student or fly as an experienced pilot, every hour of flight costs you loads of money. You don’t have much control. Well with VR Flight sim you gain the control. You set yourself up once and practice whenever you want and for as long as you want. Let me be your guide into the VR World. Click below to start learning what you need to know.

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I have hundreds of hours P1 on the Cessna 172 I used to have one many years ago at my flying school at Shoreham G-BOOL . She was a tatty old 172N with old avionics and well worn seats but we all loved her. Today I love to fly a brand new 172 in VR for free, I fly in real weather and I go everywhere. I love it.

The 172 is easily the best aircraft in the world for general aviation pilots. If you want to learn to fly do it in a 172.

You do not need a VR headset but it is really worth acquiring one as it brings everything to life and you are there. It is difficult to show you 3D on a 2D screen but trust me it is amazing. I always fly in VR now when I am on a sim. I got mine second hand but I am soooo going to buy a better HD one soon.

Formation Flying with a WW2 Messerschmitt 109.

Flight Training can be very slow and expensive. Whether you fly as a student or fly as an experienced pilot, every hour of flight costs you loads of money. You don’t have much control. Well with VR Flight sim you gain the control. You set yourself up once and practice whenever you want and for as long as you want. Let me be your guide into the VR World. Click below to start learning what you need to know.

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Flight Training can be very slow and expensive. Whether you fly as a student or fly as an experienced pilot, every hour of flight costs you loads of money. You don’t have much control. Well with VR Flight sim you gain the control. You set yourself up once and practice whenever you want and for as long as you want. Let me be your guide into the VR World. Click below to start learning what you need to know.

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To enjoy learning to fly it is best done with the right type of controllers. You can do it with a budget joystick but I recommend this sort of controller, I bought these cheap second hand on ebay.

Ice can build up in your carburetor and cause the engine to stop. Fuel injected engines do not suffer from Icing in this way but is more expensive.

Ready for take off in the Cessna 172 Flight Training can be very slow and expensive. Whether you fly as a student or fly as an experienced pilot, every hour of flight costs you loads of money. You don’t have much control. Well with VR Flight sim you gain the control. You set yourself up once and practice whenever you want and for as long as you want. Let me be your guide into the VR World. Click below to start learning what you need to know.

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Shorter take off with flaps Cessna 172 Flight Training can be very slow and expensive. Whether you fly as a student or fly as an experienced pilot, every hour of flight costs you loads of money. You don’t have much control. Well with VR Flight sim you gain the control. You set yourself up once and practice whenever you want and for as long as you want. Let me be your guide into the VR World. Click below to start learning what you need to know.

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The airspeed indicator (ASI) or airspeed gauge is a flight instrument indicating the airspeed of an aircraft in kilometers per hour (km/h), knots (kn), miles per hour (MPH) and/or meters per second (m/s). The recommendation by ICAO is to use km/h, however knots is currently the most used unit.

The attitude indicator, formerly known as the gyro horizon or artificial horizon, is a flight instrument that informs the pilot of the aircraft orientation relative to Earth's horizon, and gives an immediate indication of the smallest orientation change.

An altimeter is a device that measures altitude—a location's distance above sea level. Most altimeters are barometric, meaning they measure altitude by calculating the location's air pressure. Air pressure decreases as altitude increases.

The heading indicator (also called an HI) is a flight instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the aircraft's heading. It is sometimes referred to by its older names, the directional gyro or DG, and also (UK usage) direction indicator or DI.

The primary means of establishing the heading in most small aircraft is the magnetic compass, which, however, suffers from several types of errors, including that created by the "dip" or downward slope of the Earth's magnetic field. Dip error causes the magnetic compass to read incorrectly whenever the aircraft is in a bank, or during acceleration or deceleration, making it difficult to use in any flight condition other than unaccelerated, perfectly straight and level. To remedy this, the pilot will typically manoeuvre the airplane with reference to the heading indicator, as the gyroscopic heading indicator is unaffected by dip and acceleration errors. The pilot will periodically reset the heading indicator to the heading shown on the magnetic compass

Avionics are the electronic systems used on aircraft, artificial satellites, and spacecraft. Avionic systems include communications, navigation, the display and management of multiple systems, and the hundreds of systems that are fitted to aircraft to perform individual functions.

Introduction the the elevator trim wheel. Changing the setting of a trim tab adjusts the neutral or resting position of a control surface (such as an elevator or rudder). As the desired position of a control surface changes (corresponding mainly to different speeds), an adjustable trim tab will allow the operator to reduce the manual force required to maintain that position—to zero, if used correctly. Thus the trim tab acts as a servo tab. Because the centre of pressure of the trim tab is farther away from the axis of rotation of the control surface than the centre of pressure of the control surface, the moment generated by the tab can match the moment generated by the control surface. The position of the control surface on its axis will change until the torques from the control surface and the trim surface balance each other. Flight Training can be very slow and expensive. Whether you fly as a student or fly as an experienced pilot, every hour of flight costs you loads of money. You don’t have much control. Well with VR Flight sim you gain the control. You set yourself up once and practice whenever you want and for as long as you want. Let me be your guide into the VR World. Click below to start learning what you need to know.

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Climbing away controlling your airspeed and trimming on full power.

how to fly the aircraft straight and level, trim and stay on heading.

Trimming makes the pilots life a lot easier. Power changes and weight shifting will effect trim. Also important is to be able to trim the aircraft for the glide at 70 knots for practicing engine fail drills.

How does an aircraft fly? and what the control surfaces do.

Lowering and raising the flaps. ok so what else happens when you do that?

Pilot trick to fly accurate headings in the circuit pattern.

When you are doing go arounds in the circuit you want accurate headings airspeed and altitude. Here is a trick to help you.

A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is typically a heat engine (although there are also pneumatic and hydraulic reciprocating engines) that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion. This article describes the common features of all types. The main types are: the internal combustion engine, used extensively in motor vehicles; the steam engine, the mainstay of the Industrial Revolution; and the niche application Stirling engine. Internal combustion engines are further classified in two ways: either a spark-ignition (SI) engine, where the spark plug initiates the combustion; or a compression-ignition (CI) engine, where the air within the cylinder is compressed, thus heating it, so that the heated air ignites fuel that is injected then or earlier.

The Lycoming O-320 is a large family of naturally aspirated, air-cooled, four-cylinder, direct-drive engines produced by Lycoming Engines. They are commonly used on light aircraft such as the Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee. Different variants are rated for 150 or 160 horsepower (112 or 119 kilowatts). As implied by the engine's name, its cylinders are arranged in horizontally opposed configuration and a displacement of 320 cubic inches.

You must always be aware that the engine may fail unexpectedly at anytime. It is good airmanship to maintain a safe height and allow yourself time to work out where you would land in the event of an engine fail.

The art of flying Low and Slow is a big NO NO in the aviation world. For good reason too, flying low and slow endangers the aircraft the people in it and property on the ground. You can also be busted for low flying. But flying low and slow will teach you tremendous things about the aircraft you are flying. It can only be done at an airport preferably one with a very long runway. STOL techniques are an art and is much more advanced than at this beginner level but it is good to show you just how good this aircraft is. You may need to land on a road or in a field one day for some reason, and you will need to have the skills to make a low and slow approach for example.

Sometimes we need to fly low and slow especially in we need to get in and out of a tight landing site. This technique will help you to put the aircraft down exactly where you want it.

There is an old type navigation instrument on the aircraft which will point to a radio beacon. This one is situated on an airport. Simply tune in the beacon and if it is in range it will point the way to the airport. Sometimes it has also distance measuring equipment that will tell you how far away the beacon is.

How to track to and from a VOR beacon and cross ref with an ADF NDB.

Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) is an aviation flight category that describes weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by reference to instruments, and therefore under instrument flight rules (IFR), rather than by outside visual references under visual flight rules (VFR). Typically, this means flying in cloudy or bad weather. Pilots sometimes train to fly in these conditions with the aid of products like Foggles, specialized glasses that restrict outside vision, forcing the student to rely on instrument indications only.

The weather conditions required for flight under VFR are known as visual meteorological conditions (VMC). IMC and VMC are mutually exclusive. In fact, instrument meteorological conditions are defined as less than the minima specified for visual meteorological conditions. The boundary criteria between VMC and IMC are known as the VMC minima. There is also a concept of "marginal VMC", which are certain conditions above VMC minima, which are fairly close to one or more of the VMC minima.

This lecture is from the Tornado GR4 course but remains relevant to a pilot of a C-172.

What Air Accidents Investigation Branch does

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch investigates civil aircraft accidents and serious incidents within the UK, its overseas territories and crown dependencies.

AAIB works with the Department for Transport.

As I said at the beginning, I am learning to fly the Tornado GR4 aircraft I downloaded from X plane 11, After just 1 week I am flying, navigating and landing this awesome jet fighter in the dark. There is no limit to what you can learn, so never let lack of money be an excuse. The sky really is the limit. ENJOY and blue skies!

Now that you have done instrument flying in cloud you are ready to have a go at Instrument flying at night. Night flying can be disorienting, sometimes you can see nothing, other times lots of lights. 

Circuit training at night is the same as in the day but this time you see a lot less and rely on the instruments a lot more. The runway is all lit up at night and here you try to focus on approach speed and the approach lights to get the right approach angle.

Learning to use the radio part 1.

How to switch the auto pilot on and off, maintain heading, change heading, maintain altitude, climb and decend.

Chesil Beach sometimes called Chesil Bank, in Dorset, southern England is one of three major shingle structures in Britain. Its name is derived from the Old English ceosel or cisel, meaning "gravel" or "shingle". It runs for a length of 29 kilometres (18 mi) from West Bay to the Isle of Portland and in places is up to 15 metres (50 ft) high 200 metres (660 ft) wide. Behind the beach is the Fleet, a shallow tidal lagoon. Both are part of the Jurassic Coast and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The beach is often identified as a tombolo, although research into the geomorphology of the area has revealed that it is in fact a barrier beach which has "rolled" landwards, joining the mainland with the Isle of Portland and giving the appearance of a tombolo.

The beach curves sharply at the eastern end, near the village of Chiswell, and forms Chesil Cove against the cliffs of the Isle of Portland, and this protects the low-lying village from flooding. It has been the scene of many shipwrecks and was named "Dead Man's Bay" by Thomas Hardy. The beach provides shelter from the prevailing winds and waves for the town of Weymouth, Dorset and the village of Chiswell on Portland.

Simon Jenkins rates the view of Chesil Beach from Abbotsbury along the coast to Portland Bill as one of the top ten in England.

STOL is an important skill to learn. see how slow you can fly the aircraft but avoid the use of ailerons as it could induce a stall.

If you want to land off the grid for some reason you really have to know what the wind is doing. Here is a tip I learned from a pilot smuggler.

Ok so we are flying along and the weather deteriorates so badly that you decide to do an emergency landing.

If the wind speed layer is over 45 knots and you slow the aircraft down to 40 knots, it will appear to be going backwards relative to the ground.

This is the last lecture in the Cessna 172 course. Just for a bit of fun in the sim in X plane 11 see if you can do this.

I was quite surprised how easy it was landing on an aircraft carrier.

Based on the iconic Cessna 172, the C172RG Cutlass features a retractable gear, variable pitch, constant-speed propeller and a more powerful Lycoming O-360-F1A6 engine of 180 horsepower.

Cessna 172RG Cutlass RG

Not the sleekest retractable to be sure, but the Cutlass has a lot going for it; namely, the fact that its based on the Skyhawk.

Sort of an intermediate hybrid between the venerable 172 and the inestimable 182RG Skylane, the Cutlass rode a fine line for the five years it was in production. Its ill-defined market niche, coupled with the advent of the general aviation recession, kept the production numbers fairly low. Indeed, only 1,191 were rolled out of the factory doors.

History
The timing of the Cutlass introduction was unfortunate; it hit the market in 1980, generally seen as the year when the GA slump began. Essentially, the Cutlass was a retractable 172 fitted with a carbureted Lycoming O-360 and constant-speed prop (the same basic power package found on the fixed-gear Cardinal, though with a different variant of the engine).

Though it fell into the same basic class as airplanes like the Arrow, the Cutlass suffered from a power deficit (compared to contemporary competitors) that kept it from vying successfully for that market niche. Cessnas real goal, we believe, was to create a trainer that would step pilots up to complex aircraft. In this role, the Cutlass did well, with sales to the big flight schools.

In terms of configuration, the Cutlass is straight 172, with the exception of the electro-hydraulic landing gear. Wisely, Cessna left off the main gear doors that had proven so troublesome in other retractable singles.

By the time the 1980s rolled around, light aircraft manufacturers had essentially stopped trying to freshen their models every year. The first Cutlass is pretty much the same as the last.

Flight Training can be very slow and expensive. Whether you fly as a student or fly as an experienced pilot, every hour of flight costs you loads of money. You don’t have much control. Well with VR Flight sim you gain the control. You set yourself up once and practice whenever you want and for as long as you want. Let me be your guide into the VR World. Click below to start learning what you need to know.

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Most modern aircraft will not allow the gear to be retracted accidentally on the ground. BUT NOT ALL. Pilots have landed and forgotten to lower the gear or check the green light resulting in a belly landing. I have seen videos of student pilots landing and raising the gear by mistake instead of the flaps.

Cruise power settings.

1. At altitude, set cruise power.

2. Lean by reducing the mixture gradually until the engine runs a little rough. You may see a slight increase in rpm before the engine starts to roughen.

3. Slowly enrich the mixture until the engine smooths out. This is what’s known as a “best economy” setting.

4. If you need to climb, enrich the mixture before adding power if at or above 75-percent power, then lean again at your new altitude.

I wanted to feature a Cessna 172 tail dragger which is a rare animal but could not find one so here is the nearest thing I could find. The Cessna 185. Let us now learn to handle the tail wheel Cessna.

The Cessna 185 Skywagon is a six-seat, single-engined, general aviation light aircraft manufactured by Cessna. It first flew as a prototype in July 1960, with the first production model completed in March 1961. The Cessna 185 is a high-winged aircraft with non-retractable conventional landing gear and a tailwheel.

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To earn a seaplane rating, you must demonstrate proficiency. There is no set level of experience for the rating. Six to eight flight hours is enough time for most pilots to become proficient, but this will vary with each seaplane pilot student and the expectations set by their flight instructor and examiner.

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If you want to taxi to a ramp to exit the water you need to time your arrival with the tide or you may get stuck on the mud for 12 hours.

Here we fly in IMC conditions from the Scilly isles to Lands end.

We fly in bad weather to the Navy airbase at Cauldrose.

Here we are in Sunny Scotland, we fancy going for a fly in the mountains. What are the dangers waiting for us?

"Known ice" involves the situation where ice formation is actually detected or observed. "Known icing conditions" involve instead circumstances where a reasonable pilot would expect a substantial likelihood of ice formation on the aircraft based upon all information available to that pilot.

In aviation, icing conditions are atmospheric conditions that can lead to the formation of water ice on an aircraft. Ice accretion can affect the external surfaces of an aircraft – in which case it is referred to as airframe icing – or the engine, resulting in carburettor icing, air inlet icing or more generically engine icing. These phenomena do not necessarily occur together. Both airframe and engine icing have resulted in numerous fatal accidents in aviation history.

Not all aircraft, especially general aviation aircraft, are certified for flight into known icing (FIKI) – that is icing conditions certain or likely to exist, based on pilot reports, observations, and forecasts. In order to be FIKI-certified, aircraft must be fitted with suitable ice protection systems.

Icing conditions exist when the air contains droplets of supercooled liquid water; icing conditions are characterized quantitatively by the average droplet size, the liquid water content and the air temperature. These parameters affect the extent and speed that characterize the formation of ice on an aircraft. Federal Aviation Regulations contain a definition of icing conditions that some aircraft are certified to fly into. So-called SLD, or supercooled large droplet, conditions are those that exceed that specification and represent a particular hazard to aircraft.

Qualitatively, pilot reports indicate icing conditions in terms of their effect upon the aircraft, and will be dependent upon the capabilities of the aircraft. Different aircraft may report the same quantitative conditions as different levels of icing as a result.

System fails part 1. We have a weather window and we will probably be ok to fly to Inverness from Lossiemouth. But what happens if something other than the weather goes wrong?