Index

A

Aerobatics: Extra 300S; How to perform; Patty Wagstaff Airshows

Aerodynamics: Axes of flight; Center of gravity; Forces in flight; How wings work

AgustaWestland EH101: Flight notes; Flying helicopters; Specifications

Airbus A321: About; Flying; Specifications

Air Traffic Control (ATC): Add-on; Airspace transitions; Airspace, understanding; Altimeter settings; ATC alert messages; ATC, disabling; ATC traffic messages; ATC Glossary; ATC Settings; ATC Window, auto-open; Automated Terminal Information Service (ATIS/ASOS); Autotune, using; Call sign, changing; Clearances, IFR; Helicopter operations; IFR flight; Introduction to; Multiplayer ATC; Phonetic alphabet; Pilot voice, choosing; Pilot voice, turning off; Traffic; Using the ATC menu; Using ATC; VFR flight

Aircraft: Add-ons; Aerodynamics; Changing location of; Display settings; About Flight Simulator aircraft; Flying jets; Flying floatplanes; Flying helicopters; Flying twin-engine aircraft; Flying taildraggers; Fueling; In Flight Simulator; Loading; Piston; Selecting; Sounds; Specifications; Turbine; Weight and balance

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA): About

Air Creation 582SL Ultralight: About; Flying; Specifications

Airplanes (see Aircraft)

Airport: Automated Terminal Information Service (ATIS/ASOS); Operations; Taxiways and runways; Traffic patterns

Airspace: Transitions; Understanding

Airspeed: Displaying indicated or true

Airspeed Indicator: About

Altimeter: About; Errors; Reading; Setting; Settings from air traffic control

Altitude: Types of; Change requests with ATC

Amphibian: Grumman G-21A Goose; Flying floatplanes

Analyzing a flight

Animations

AOPA: About

ATC (see Air Traffic Control (ATC))

Attitude Indictor: About

Audio (see Sounds)

Autobrakes: Using

Automatic Direction Finder (ADF): Using

Autopilot: Using

B

Beaver (see de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver)

Beechcraft Baron 58: Flight notes; Flying twin-engine aircraft; Specifications

Beechcraft King Air 350: Flight notes; Flying twin-engine aircraft; Specifications

Bell 206B JetRanger III: Flight notes; Flying helicopters; Specifications

The Boeing Company

Boeing 737–800: Flight notes; Flying jets; Specifications

Boeing 747–400: Flight notes; Flying jets; Specifications

Boeing F/A-18 Hornet: Flight notes; Flying jets; Specifications

Bombardier CRJ700: Flight notes; Flying jets; Specifications

Bombardier Learjet 45: Flight notes; Flying jets; Specifications

Brakes: Autobrakes

Briefings: On the kneeboard

C

Carburetors: About; Icing

Categories (of flights): Creating; Selecting from

Cessna Aircraft Company

Cessna Skyhawk SP Model 172: About; Flying; Specifications

Cessna C208B Grand Caravan: Flight notes; Specifications

Changing: Aircraft; Airports; IFR destination; Aircraft location by slewing; Scenery; Settings; Simulation rate; Time, date, and season; Visibility; Weather; Wind

Charts: Development of; How to read; Types of

Chat: Multiplayer

Checklists: Kneeboard

Clearances: IFR in ATC

Clicking the Mouse: In the cockpit

Clouds: Creating and modifying layers; Appearance; IFR flight; Types of

Cockpit: Autopilot; Basics; Instruments; Mouse usage in; Radios; Realistic; The kneeboard; Views and windows

Communications: Air traffic control; Radio

Compass (see Magnetic Compass)

Compass Turning Errors: About

Constant-Speed Propellers (see Propellers)

Controlling: Aircraft; Engines; Weather

Crashes: Ignoring or detecting; Sensitivity

Critical Engine

CRJ700 (see Bombardier CRJ700)

Crosswind: Landing in; Setting wind direction; Taxiing in

Cub (see Piper J–3C–65 Cub)

D

DC–3 (see Douglas DC–3)

Date: Changing

Dead Reckoning: Navigating with

Deduced (Ded) Reckoning (see Dead Reckoning)

de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver: About; Flying; Flying floatplanes; Specifications

DG 808S Competition Sailplane: About; Flying; Soaring; Specifications

Display: Optimizing visuals and performance; Settings; Using multiple monitors

Douglas DC–3: Flight notes; Flying taildraggers; Specifications

E

EFIS (see Visual Flight Path)

EH101 (AgustaWestland helicopter): Flight notes; Flying helicopters; Specifications

Engines: Controlling; Engine failures in twin-engine aircraft; Engine failures (setting); Flying aircraft with more than one engine; Jets; Mixture; Piston; Propeller speed; Turbine; Throttle

Extra 300S: Aerobatics; Flight notes; Flying taildraggers; Specifications

F

Failures: Engine failures in twin-engine aircraft; Setting; Control; Engine; Instrument; Radio; System

Feathering Propellers (see Propellers)

Feet: International settings

First-Time Flight Simulator Pilots: Get flying; Step-by-step guide; Help while flying

Fixed-Pitch Propellers (see Propellers)

Flaps: About

Flight: Axes of; Center of gravity; Forces in; Wings and; Stalls and; See also: Flights

Flight Analysis

Flight Briefings (see Briefings)

Flight Controls: Ailerons, rudders, and elevators; Autorudder; Joysticks, yokes, and rudder pedals

Flight Director: Using

Flight Model: Realism

Flight Planner: Creating and editing; Saving and loading a flight plan; Using

Flights: Creating and saving; Planning; Selecting

Floatplanes: de Havilland DHC2 Beaver; Grumman G21A Goose; Flying

Flying: Basic maneuvers; Floatplanes; Helicopters; Get flying; Gliders; Jets; Lessons (about); Taildraggers; Twin-engine aircraft

Forces in Flight

Fuel: Adding; Unlimited

Fuel Injection: About

G

Getting Started: Finding help; Just get flying; Overview; Using menus; Step-by-step guide

GPS: Garmin G1000; Using

Garmin International

Gauges (see Instruments)

Glider (see DG 808S Competition Sailplane)

Global Positioning System (GPS) (see GPS)

Glossary: Air traffic control; General

Goose (see Grumman G-21A Goose)

Graphics: Hardware settings; Improving

Grumman G-21A Goose: About; Flying; Flying floatplanes; Specifications

Gyro

Gyroscopes: Instruments with; Precession; Rigidity in space of

H

Hardware: Graphics; Settings; Troubleshooting; Using multiple monitors; Yokes, rudders, and pedals

Heading Indicator: About

Helicopters: And air traffic control; Flying; AgustaWestland EH101; Bell JetRanger; Robinson R22

Help: Getting flying; How to use; Optimizing visuals and performance; Step-by-step guide; Technical support; Troubleshooting basics; Troubleshooting multiplayer; Using the kneeboard; While flying

Historical Aircraft: Douglas DC–3; Piper J–3C–65 Cub; Grumman G-21A Goose

Hornet (Boeing F/A-18): Flight notes; Specifications

How To: Start flying; Use Flight Simulator; Get help

I

IFR (Instrument Flight Rules): Air traffic control under; Altitude changes; Canceling; Clearances; In flight clearances

Ignition: About and starting

Immelmann (aerobatic maneuver)

Important Skills: Articles on

Internet: Multiplayer sessions over; Resources on

Instant Replay

Instruments: About; Airspeed indicator; Altimeter; Attitude indicator; Basic; Failures of (setting); Gyroscopic instruments; Heading indicator; Pitot static instruments; Turn coordinator; Vertical speed indicator; VOR

J

Jeppesen

Jets: Boeing 737-800; Boeing 747-400; Bombardier CRJ700; Bombardier Learjet 45; Flying; Turbine engines

Joysticks: Troubleshooting; Advanced troubleshooting; Using

K

Key Commands: Changing key assignments; Complete list of; During flight; Top 10

King, John

King, Martha

King Schools: About

Kneeboard: Using

L

Land and Terrain: Adding scenery; Display settings; Highlights

Landings: Basic technique; Floatplane; Taildragger; Jet; Three-point; Wheel; In crosswinds

Landing Gear: Tricycle vs. tailwheel

Learjet (see Bombardier Learjet 45)

Lights: Pilot control of

Living World

Location: Changing airport; Changing by slewing

Logs: Navigation log in the kneeboard; Using a logbook

Loop (aerobatic maneuver)

M

Machado, Rod

Magnetic Compass: Errors; Headings; Navigating with

Maps: Aviation charts; Using the map

Maule M-7 260C: About; Flying; Specifications

Menus: Aircraft; Air traffic control; Flights; Help; Options; Using; Views; World

Messages: Air traffic control; GPS, turning off; Multiplayer chat

Meters: International settings

Missions: Briefings; Compass; Rewards; Saving in progress; Tips for flying

Mixture: Setting; Automixture

Mooney M20M Bravo: Flight notes; Specifications

Mouse: Use on the panel; General use

Moving: By changing airport location; By slewing

Multi-Engine Aircraft: Displaying throttle quadrant; Flying

Multiplayer: Air Traffic Control; Chat; Connections; Flight instruction; Hosting; Joining; Racing; Settings; Shared aircraft; Troubleshooting

Mustang (North American P-51): About; Flying; Specifications

N

Nav/GPS Switch: Using

Navigation: Articles about; Automatic Direction Finder; Using the G1000; Using the GPS; Using the magnetic compass; Using VOR

Network: Multiplayer sessions over

North American P-51 Mustang: About; Flying; Specifications

O

Options: Air traffic control; Graphics; General; International; Logbook; Realism; Scenery; Sound; Traffic; Weather

Overviews: Getting help in flight; How to start flying; The big picture; Using the menus; Weather

P

P-51 (North American, Mustang): About; Flying; Specifications

P-Factor: Effects of

Pedals

Partners

Patty Wagstaff Airshows

Performance: Optimizing

Phonetic Alphabet

Pilotage: About

Pilot Records

Piper J–3C–65 Cub: Flight notes; Flying taildraggers; Specifications

Piston Engines: Basic principles of

Pitot Static Instruments: About

Precipitation: Setting rain and snow

Product Support (see Technical Support)

Propellers: Constant-speed; Controlling; Fixed-pitch; When to feather

Pushback: From parking space

Q

Quick Start: Overview; Start flying

R

Racing

Radio: Displaying; Failures; Navigation; Tuning; Using; Air traffic control

Rain: Setting

Realism: Setting

Recording a Flight

Reference: Air traffic control glossary; General glossary; Key commands

Replay

Rewards

Robinson Helicopter

Robinson R22 Beta II: Flight notes; Flying helicopters; Specifications

Roll (aerobatic maneuver)

Rudder pedals

Runways: Active; Using with air traffic control

S

Sailplane: DG 808S Competition Sailplane; Soaring

Satellite navigation: With the GPS

Scenery: Adding; Display quality; Highlights; Library

Season: Changing

Seeing: Around the airplane and cockpit; Better graphics

Settings: Air traffic control; Display; General; International; Realism; Sound; Traffic; Weather

Simulation Rate: Changing

Skills to Know: Important

Sky: Weather (introduction); Setting weather; Weather themes

Slewing: Key commands for; Overview

Snow: Setting

Soaring: DG 808S Competition Sailplane; Soaring

Software Development Toolkits (SDKs): Using

Sounds: Settings

Special Effects: Smoke, fountains, and fireworks; Waves and water relections; Sun glare; Lens flare

Speed: Changing the simulation rate; Reference tab on the kneeboard

Spoilers: Using to decrease speed

Stalls: About

Support (see Technical Support)

T

Taildraggers: Douglas DC–3; Extra 300S; Flying; Grumman G-21A Goose; In crosswinds; Landing; Piper J–3C–65 Cub; Taking off; Taxiing

Taking Off: Floatplanes; Helicopters; Sailplanes; Taildraggers

Taxiing: Floatplanes; Taildraggers; With air traffic control

Taxiways: Using

Technical Support: Contacting Microsoft

Terrain (see Land and Terrain)

Thermals: Defined; Making visible; Soaring in

Throttle: Autothrottle; Control; Displaying throttle quadrant; On a joystick

Thrust Reversers: Using

Time: Changing time of day; Changing simulation rate

Time Compression

Tool Tips

Torque

Tow plane

Tracking Flight

Traffic: Airport traffic patterns; Setting traffic options; Traffic messages

Training: Flight Simulator as an aid; Flying Lessons; King Schools; Rod Machado; Setting up failures

Trim Control: Using

Troubleshooting: Basics; Controller Basics; Controller Advanced; Multiplayer; Technical support

Turbine: About turbine engines; Turbofans; Turboprops

Turn Coordinator: About; Standard rate of turn

Twin-Engine Aircraft: Critical engine; Critical V-speeds; Engine failure procedure; Engine failure (setting); Flying

U

Ultralight aircraft: Air Creation 582SL

Updates: Technical support

Using Flight Simulator: Overview; Step by step

V

Vertical Speed Indicator: Using

VFR (Visual Flight Rules): Using air traffic control under

VHF Omnidirectional Receiver (see VOR)

Video Hardware: Drivers; Performance; Using multiple monitors; See also: Display

Videos: Recording, playing, deleting

Views

Vintage Aircraft (see Historical Aircraft)

Virtual airlines

Visibility: Weather

Visual Flight Path: Using

Voice: Choosing a pilot voice; Voice communications in Multiplayer; Creating custom voicepacks

VOR: Using; See also: Radio

W

Wagstaff, Patty

Wallace, Lane

Weather: Basics; Choosing; Clouds; Display settings; Dynamic; Precipitation; Real-world weather download; Settings; Stations; Temperature/pressure; Themes; Thermals; Top ten weather concepts; Turbulence, disable effect on aircraft; Turbulence in cloud layers; Turbulence in wind layers; Types; User-defined; Visibility; Wind

Web Resources

Wind: Creating and modifying layers; Setting direction of

Wind Drift: Correcting for

Wings: How wings work

X

Xbox: using an Xbox 360 for Windows controller

Y

Yaw

Yoke: Using with Flight Simulator

Z

Zulu: Time