User Guide

Flight Simulator
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straight-and-level flight. Remember to use the techniques you learned from the
previous tutorial (attitude, power and trim). Once established in the new attitude,
begin with Step two of the three-step scan. Radial scan the primary instruments.
Use Step two to make small attitude adjustments on the AI for a precise climb at
80 knots on a heading of 270 degrees. Give it a try.
1. Press P to activate the simulation.
2. Scan Step 1: select the attitude (about 14 degrees nose-up pitch), power
(full power) for a straight climb, then adjust the trim.
3. Scan Step 2: start at the AI and radial scan the heading indicator.
4. Return to the AI and adjust the bank (if necessary) to maintain a heading of
270 degrees.
5. Radial scan the airspeed indicator.
6. Return to the AI and adjust the pitch (if necessary) to maintain 80 knots.
7. There’s no need to radial scan the MP gauge since you’re climbing with full
power and that means throttle full forward. On some airplanes you don’t
climb with full power. Therefore, you may need to radial scan the MP gauge
at least once to ensure the power is set correctly.
8. Keep radial scanning the heading indicator and airspeed indicator, making
small attitude corrections until the airplane is established in a straight climb
at 80 knots on a heading of 270 degrees.
9. Press P to pause the simulation.
There you have it. Knowing ahead of time what instruments to look at for precise
control of your attitude takes the mystery out of flying instruments.
Now let’s try a level flight turn.
A Level Flight Turn
From the Flights menu, click
Select Flight, and choose
Tutorial 11, Situation 3.
All but the primary
instruments for a level turn
are blackened out (Figure 5).
I want you to enter a left turn
at 4,000 feet and begin Step
two of the three-step scan by
Figure 5
Standard Rate
Turns
Standard rate turns
allow the airplane to
change headings at a
rate of 3 degrees per
second. In Tutorial 10
I suggested you make
turns at 20 degrees of
bank. That’s perfectly
fine, but for greater
precision, I want you
to make them at a
standard rate. Do this
by adjusting the bank
until the wing of the
turn coordinator’s
airplane is on the
second white index mark
as shown in Figure 5.
Now the airplane
changes heading at
precisely 3 degrees per
second. A standard rate
turn gives you a sense
of how long it takes to
complete a turn. After
all, at 3 degrees per
second, it takes two
minutes to make a 360-
degree turn and one
minute to make a 180-
degree turn.