User Guide

Flight Simulator
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5. Radial scan the turn coordinator.
6. Return to the AI and adjust the bank (if necessary) to maintain a standard rate turn.
There is no reason to radial scan the MP gauge since you’ve reduced the throttle to flight idle.
7. Keep radial scanning the airspeed indicator and the turn coordinator, making small attitude
corrections until the airplane is established in a standard rate descending turn to the right at 100
knots.
8. Press P to pause the simulation.
What the Instructor Taketh Away, He Giveth Back
When a flight instructor blackens a flight instrument, that’s called partial panel training. Apparently
you never realize how partial you are to an instrument until it’s gone from view. Now it’s time to give
them all back to you. In this final exercise, I want you to leave the labels under the instruments and
practice Step one and Step two of the instrument scan. Your objective is to go from one major attitude
of your choice to another, staying in that attitude only long enough to stabilize the primary
instruments. Go from a climb to straight-and-level flight to a descending turn to a straight climb. You
pick. All I ask you to do is apply the principles for Step one and Step two of the three-step scan.
From the Flights menu, click Select Flight, and choose Tutorial 11, Situation 5.
When you’re ready, have at it. I’ve placed your airplane at 4,000 feet on a heading of 270 degrees.
You’re in the soup (the clouds), as pilots say, so have fun.
In our next tutorial we’ll complete the final step of the three-step scan. This is where we wrap up all
the hard work of establishing the airplane in a new attitude. We trim, sit back, and enjoy the new
attitude we’ve selected, at least until we decide to make another major attitude change.