User Guide

Getting Certified
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Instrument Rating
Just like in the real world, getting an Instrument
Rating in Flight Simulator 2000 will make you a
more versatile pilot. You’ll also be able to take
better advantage of Flight Simulator’s navigation
and weather features. You’ll do your instrument
training in the same aircraft you used for your
private pilot certification, the Cessna 182S. While
the basic maneuvers are the same, this time you’ll
learn to perform them solely by reference to your
instruments. You’ll also master the art of the
instrument scan and learn the intricacies of flying
instrument approaches.
There are few thrills in aviation like taking off into
the clouds, flying for a few hours, and breaking
out with a runway at another airport directly
ahead. By the time you finish your instrument
training, you’ll be capable of getting from here to
there in almost any weather. Here are the steps:
As an instrument-rated Flight Simulator 2000 pilot
your flying is now more precise. Give some of the
Intermediate Adventures a try, and see how you
do.
Task to Complete
Tutorial 10: Attitude, Power, and Trim
Tutorial 11: Radial Scanning the Primary
Instruments
Tutorial 12: Trimming Using the VSI and
Monitor Scanning the Big 6 Instruments
Tutorial 13: Understanding Approaches
Tutorial 14: Flying a VOR Approach
Instrument Lesson 1: VOR Hold, 182S
Instrument Lesson 2: VOR Approach with
Procedure Turn, 182S
Tutorial 15: Flying an ILS Approach
Instrument Lesson 3: ILS Approach,
Straight-In, 182S
Instrument Lesson 4: ILS Approach with
Procedure Turn, 182S
Instrument Rating Checkride
Description
Start learning the basics of flight by reference to instruments.
Further your understanding of instrument flight and the “scan.”
Learn how to reduce your workload by using trim and your peripheral
vision.
Discover the different approaches to the runway when flying on
instruments.
Learn how to use a VOR to get to the runway.
Practice instrument flying by “holding” like the airliners over the
Richmond, Virginia, VOR. You’ll be flying the Cessna 182S in Visual
Meteorological Conditions (VMC).
Take the Cessna 182S through a full VOR approach to the Flying Cloud
Airport near Minneapolis, Minnesota, in VMC.
Learn the art of “flying the needles” to the runway, using an Instrument
Landing System (ILS).
Guide the Cessna 182S down an ILS approach to Space Center Executive
Airport in Titusville, Florida, in VMC.
Fly a full ILS approach in the Cessna 182S to Long Island Mac Arthur
Airport in Islip, New York, in VMC.
Take an Examiner for a cloudy ride in the Cessna 182S. Pass, and you’ll be
awarded the Instrument Rating.