Real Pilot VFR Flight Lesson | Microsoft Flight Simulator | Cessna 152

Good morning everyone Brady, here today we are doing a full VFR

flight

from Sedona to Flagstaff. I'm going to explain everything, practically everything you need to know to fly a Cessna 152 in the Microsoft

flight

simulator

from Sedona to Flagstaff. Good summary. Beautiful area to fly, we will go straight to it, we will start at the 152 and then when we get to Flagstaff we will go up to the 172 with the g1000 and do an ifr flight. I have some filters here, I've noticed on the map airspaces and some waypoints here, I think they were initially disabled and for ifr and flight planning and things like that, I recommend turning them on.

I know many of you want to get started. do something small and get ahead in aviation and make sure you're doing things right, so if that's you, I think this video will be great for you now. All I did was go to Sedona, choose to park on the ramp and I set that as my departure here on the map after typing Sedona, I went to Flagstaff, did the exact same thing, chose runway 3 as our arrival and you can see that here I also went and filled up with fuel, maybe you noticed. and I'm doing live traffic live weather I have multiplayer players disabled because I'm doing a tutorial that said I'm pretty sure the weather is beautiful in Sedona today happy to have you on board here we are to get started on the

cessna

152 I'm going to walk you through through everything you need to do to start a very nice view outside the plane here now for flight planning.

I would review the acronym ackerma nw craft. This is an important acronym to know for a pre-flight nw craft means nodums known weather atc delays alternative runway lengths as for alternative routes in case you need to divert due to weather or something like that you need to know your fuel requirements alternative to get to your destination without running out of fuel fuel and takeoff and landing distances what your plane is capable of for takeoff and landing distances that is basic for pre-flight there are also many things you need to do around the plane if you look at my another video some of the things you need what to do before the flight before you get on the plane, let's get right to the point. airnav.com will give you all kinds of information, let's say we're going to Flagstaff and this is the airport we want here, Flagstaff Pulliam. airport napoleon airport we have a sectional chart here we can check our sectional before our flight we know we are here in sedona and that is a class e airspace or flight space whatever you want to call it, it is eco airspace uncontrolled airport let's fly to a controlled class d airport, you see the dotted line around here, it's class d and it has a tower, it has all kinds of additional information here too.

I have a diagram of the airport that is great any time you go somewhere you don't know. This will give you the runway and taxiways and I would actually print it out and have it on the plane if I found a place I wasn't familiar with airnav.com, great resource, let's get back on our plane, let's go ahead and let's turn it on. Atc is decent at this so I don't know how much time I'll spend on it if you click. the yoke you can see everything underneath, I discovered that recently which is nice and we're going to start by making sure our fuel is on.

We can go to the checklist here if you want help, it's always good to use your checklist in Reality anyway, so this will show you where everything is. Test the brakes with our pedals. We'll try them again when we start, so the mixture is completely delicious. We have to finish the carburetor heat and then we can prime if the plane hasn't flown in a while we can give it a little prep, maybe just two or three of those, then we'll turn on the battery and the throttle so prime it a little , is very specific on the checklist.

It says like a quarter inch or something like a half inch but actually just speed up slightly so when we speed up we'll yell clear out the window make sure everyone's clear this guy's a little close hopefully he'll be okay because I don't know how to move it let's go ahead and start it good and start and once we've started we'll go down to about a thousand rpm right here that's about what we're at we're going to idle and we can take the mixture out a little bit because we don't need to have a completely rich mixture when we're at idle, it's better for the engine, normally the avionics would be off and then we'd go ahead and turn. put them in if you don't know your frequencies for the airport again, you can go back to Air Nav.

Get the airport diagram for Sedona. Sedona Airport kz ks ez that will give us our frequencies here. This is an uncontrolled airport so you are on ctaf or unicom this is just a public station for the airport

pilot

s they will make their own announcements about their position and they are responsible for their own traffic separation and it's one two three zero point, there may also be information such as a year. or an atis which is one one eight five two five okay, put both and the radio here, you can do two frequencies and they're actually just so you can switch between the two conveniently so you can select one if you want we have one queued up like when we go to Flagstaff we can activate the tower frequency and then here is when you take it so this is the standby use right now we have the information on standby let's go ahead and activate it so we can listen to the information weather observation automated 1600 wind calm visibility sky condition few clouds 900 feet some watches in the closet 4 thousand five hundred feet temperature two sixty two point one zero c altimeter two nine degree six so go back to our common traffic frequency there and then our altimeter it's two nine or eight six, I think you spoke too quickly, the heading indicator here or also known as the directional gyro should be on our compass and it's set up, note that these are upside down. the 12 here the 15 here 12 here 15 here when you look at it we can go ahead and turn on our taxi light landing light that we would have on when we're taxiing beacon light on we're going to turn on our strobe light and our navigation light when we get to the runway, the wind was calm, normally we would be looking at the windsock to see which runway we should take off on because the wind is calm, sometimes it doesn't

real

ly matter in the a Wasp, it will also tell you the active runway, but we are going to take off on track three here, give it a little throttle here, start our turn, release the parking brake, turn around without trying to hit this guy, oh, almost hit. him, I need to try to stay away from other planes, I don't know why they are parked like that, I did a terrible job parking and I need to slow down my taxi, going too fast there and right this way is where we would do it. make our first announcement for common traffic frequency we would say let's say sedona traffic sedona traffic

cessna

427 whiskey romeo it's hard to get to runway 3 via alpha for a northbound exit and then at the end of your call you could also say sedona traffic again that would be our announcement let's go ahead and turn onto taxiway alpha alpha now when you're taxing you're still flying the plane you're always flying the plane until it shuts down so what that means is that You need to stay on the center line, go at about walking speed, probably going too fast at the moment, try to stay on the center line and you need to have your ailerons in the right place as well as your elevator, so your ailerons should be in the wind, so turn my Put the yoke back on so you can see what I'm talking about, let's say the wind is coming from this direction, the winds are calm right now, but let's say it's coming from this direction while we're working we want our ailerons to be in the wind and the elevator almost neutral now if the wind is at our back let's say the wind is coming from the east like zero nine zero from an angle we want to get away from the wind and go down with the elevator so you want push in and keep the elevator down while you are taxiing, remember that while we are taxiing we are steering our rudder with our feet so we can hold the ailerons however we want, that won't affect us turning or anything like that.

Let's pretend the wind is coming from the west right now about 270. Then our yoke would be against the wind. I could probably lower my seat a little. I guess it doesn't matter. Oh, and these ads. They are also here, so this would be the announcement I made. Kilo Sierra Echo Zulu Traffic Cessna November 427. The Romeo whiskey is rolling towards the runway tree. If you're wondering why you're not getting an answer, it's because there's no tower. You're just advertising. your position to other

pilot

s now, before taking off, we would have done an upward dash, we could do it right here, normally you want to run into the wind and be aware of what's behind you when you're doing an upward dash, we could do a start right here on the 152.

We're just going to relock the brakes with the full mixture and check a few things and make sure everything is working properly. We'll start by going at 1700 rpm. with the brakes on it's about 1700 okay and then we're going to want to check the chargers and what you should do is listen for about a hundred power losses and also see it when we go to the left charger and back to the right. If you see a power loss of about a hundred, then we will check the correct one. Now we're also going to check the carpet, while at 700 rpm we should also have a power loss of about a hundred rpm with the heat of the carburetor.

You can also hear it, we're going to check our alternator here. You should see this light come on and see the voltage drop, which appears to be working. The suction is good. The oil pressure is good and we can lower the mixtures again. We have our trim for takeoff, the trim is just minor adjustments to the elevator, the elevator is what makes you go up and down here, the trim is making minor adjustments, okay, exactly the same control as this, that's another thing that you want to verify. it's your flight controls make sure your ailerons and your rudder are working and it wouldn't be a bad idea to get the flagpole information at this point which you could come back to and you could do this after takeoff if you want we go back to Air Nav and let's check that and we know your Atis is 125.8 and that's what we'll hear first on our flight 125.8 so we can have it on hold.

These things can be a little difficult to use and here we go. now we can announce our takeoff so we're just going to say sedona traffic cessna 427 romeo whiskey is taking off runway 3 direct exit sedona traffic okay once we're on the runway we're going to go full throttle can you need a little bit of rudder to the right to keep the center of the plane, depending on how windy it is, here you could move the ailerons into the wind a little bit, which might also help. We are at a slightly higher altitude, so it is taking a bit longer. than it would be in Florida to get some airspeed and take off at about 55 or 60 knots, you can start rotating, they might want to take our mixture out a little bit, here we go, that will give us better rpm and what do you do.

You can play with the mixture and just keep an eye on your rpm to see what gives you the best performance with that mixture. It is simply mixing the amount of air that is mixed with the fuel, the ratio which is affected by several things, especially your elevation. sea ​​level now we are rising I forgot to turn on the strobe and navigation lights so

real

ly at this point you can enjoy the view for a second of Sedona beautiful Sedona I was there in March amazing place look how beautiful that's amazing amazing so let's go We're going to want to maintain a fairly constant climb here we're going to be climbing in altitude on the way to the flax steps of the flagpole at a higher elevation we're going to start trimming the plane so we're at a better climb rate all that information can be found by typing v velocities the v velocities of a 152 will give you the best climb rate of the airplane best angle of climb best glide speed what speed should you approach at what speed should you land In this airplane we could get a little higher and ascend to about 70 knots. 67 knots.

We could climb to about 67 knots. That will give us our best climb speed. How do you know where the airport is? Someone was asking. To me that's a big question if you're not familiar with an area and you're on a VFR flight and you don't have a GPS how the hell are you supposed to know where the airport is? All you can really do is if you're not going to use a GPS, you have to know the waypoints, you have to know how long it would take you to get to that waypoint based on the wind, based on your ground speed, all the different types of factors in your course. able to know when you're approaching that airport, when you should call the tower, so all of these things are calculated into anavigation log, so there are ways to navigate VFR without GPS.

The thing is, GPS has become so standard. now there's really no reason not to use one, there's nothing wrong with using one, so we can pretend we have four flights on our phone or a little GPS here and just fly with this BFR map here, pretend we have a gps and you can see the airspace here which is normally five miles for delta class, five mile radius here, we want to call about ten, so we'll call very soon and let you know. that we're going to get there first, we're going to want to get the attis , let's get the information, we're going to keep climbing because we're at a pretty low elevation with all these mountains, I'm not exactly sure where my mix is.

It should be, but okay, we have a positive climb rate, we're doing well, now let's call Flagstaff, we'll check the atis first so they know we have the information, visibility, sky condition of the tree, few. clouds at 900 see clouds at 4 100 feet see clouds at 12 500 feet temperature 2-5 2.10 altimeter two nine decimal eight seven visual runway tree in use runway tree and departure very good, so we have Quebec now we can go to la tower miles southwest with quebec to land go straight on runway 3 cessna 7 romeo whiskey they are finally getting enough altitude here to start turning towards the airport i just used this canyon its a little bumpy but not too bad the winds are in calm it's a beautiful day We'll make sure it's on track three so during the cruise we just want to make sure we check, you know, the oil pressure of the mixture rpm, very important, check the oil pressure, very soon we will be able to turn on our landing lights.

Let's go in and do. Make sure your fuel is ready, everything is fine, the other thing is that when you are straight and level, you can check the heading indicator directional gyro with the magnetic compass here and we can probably go ahead and level out soon, we are pushing 8,000 feet, no. You don't need to go much higher since we'll be there shortly, but yeah guys, if you don't have a GPS, it's not very easy to find where the airport is. They know no, they can turn. on your airport indicator to show you where the airports are, but you wouldn't actually have that, you just have to be looking for it and know your landmarks and know how to get there, so we'll get on the runway. three, so we're actually pointing in the same direction right now as the runway sees that we're on a heading of three of zero three, so we can use our GPS as long as we're aligned with the airport and we're coming to all three of us, we're going to be aligned with the runway, we just need to make sure we start in the right place and you can use these waypoints as a reference here for the ifr approaches that these wave points will align you with. the track too, I'm going to go ahead and start trimming down a little bit, use that trim, put the throttle where you want at cruising speed and then use that trim, keep playing with that trim to level out and be able to You're not holding the yoke all the time while you're flying, you shouldn't have to hold the yoke back or push it down all the time you're sailing, just use that trim, trim it down, we should also have some panel lighting.

Somewhere I'm not sure where that is on this plane, if it needed it and our transponder made a big mistake. He forgot to turn it on. It's usually on, which is why I forgot to turn it on because it's usually left in alt mode. Sometimes drivers ask. You have to go ahead and put it in all the modes that will give the tower the most information about your altitude. You'll give them a little more information when it's in the alternate configuration. Sometimes you will be asked to identify what that means. Well, if the controller says you know how to evaluate the identification of the Roman Whiskey 427, press that identification button that will allow the controller to identify where you are on their radar, which will make you flash a little on their radar and help them understand which plane , you're on their radar because there could be other planes around, they just want to make sure they have the right one, so that's just identifying where you are for the controller, we're just going to squawk one, two, zero, zero for you.

We're always going to squawk one two zero zero I don't know why I changed it by accident, we have the track in sight right here, okay, we don't need our GPS anymore, we can start preparing to reach our end. here we are on a bit of a correct basis, if you do those tutorials they will teach you about traffic patterns, so we are on a bit of a correct basis right now for track three, you can go down and on. let's add just one notch of flaps, turn on the landing light, keep it at about 1700 rpm or so and we want our approach speed to be about 70 knots, which is where we are now.

Another thing you could do is look at your frequencies and queue the terrain and queue the terrain frequency for the flagpole because eventually you'll have to switch to that when you land and the terrain is at 121.9, so we could queue it , which could be difficult at times with a little bit of turbulence now that We're coming in to land on a final for Runway 3 at Flagstaff and then when we land I'll do another IFR

lesson

and evaluate the 172 with the G1000. We'll do an IFR flight, maybe even back to Sedona or Somewhere you know I'm trying to make this as short as possible for you and start short instead of doing longer flights so I probably won't go too far if You want to stay tuned and see a little more about how GPS works. it works and all that and a bit of ifr navigation, you might enjoy, it looks like our vor may be working, a lot of people have been asking me about the vor, well in many airports their vor is not operational so you just have to be Be careful with that because vor has become increasingly used for waypoints in a GPS, so unfortunately VR instruments are not used as much now just because they are interoperable at so many airports.

Okay, I made the last flap notch here working slowly. our way down see if we can hold on a little good and we have landing now I can just apply some brakes you could probably get out right here press the flaps we could also turn off our strobe and we want to go down the runway it just stopped me here for some reason, you know, sometimes normally the plane would have continued taxiing quite easily and all you really want to do is pass this line and then we're going to shift to the ground. once we get past this line one two one nine decimal for cessna, stop right here until we get our directions, flying involves a lot more in the way of emergency procedures and checklists, but when it comes to the basics, there's no need to complicate it. a VFR flight is really more about just enjoying the view, let me know if you have any questions for sure.

I would love to answer it. Flagstaff Ground Cessna November 427 whiskey romeo request taxi to parking segment November 427 whiskey romeo taxi to general aviation parking lot using tax Now this is all taxiway alpha. This is a pretty basic airport. Remember if you get confused, check the airport diagram which can help you with directions. You know, another thing you can do is turn on tax assistance. There is nothing wrong with that. If you want to turn on this taxi tape here in navigation aids, go ahead just to make sure you do it right, maybe you can compare what you thought, where you were supposed to go, how it compares to the taxi tape, roll to the general. aviation parking using distance taxes, you know, maybe you turn it on for a second and then maybe turn it off again, maybe you just use it to help you get started if you want to fly the plane on the ground again, make sure your ailerons and elevator are in the correct position according to the wind, if the wind is coming from in front of you, the ailerons should be in neutral wind elevator, if the winds are coming from behind you, you want to move away from the wind elevator towards down and then walk away right now.

The winds are calm so it's making it pretty easy. I don't know if these guys are here to help us park or what, normally you would never navigate around airplanes like this, but I think these guys want to park us, I'm not sure. I'm going to find out that you would never do that in reality, but it's a

simulator

, so that's okay. I'll let this guy park us and we'll turn everything off. I'll engage the handbrake, which this airplane doesn't really do. Actually you would just use shock absorbers or tie downs, maybe some Cessna 152s do have them, but now we can turn off our avionics first, then we want to pull the mixture and make sure the throttle is completely cut off and now we're going to turn. turn off our master battery, you'll want to go to the menu turn all this off turn off our lights, you might turn off the fuel, although a lot of times you just leave it on, at least at a flight school, I've noticed that they don't I don't know what all flight schools do , but we made sure to turn off the key, turn off the magazines, then we would write down our attack time and cook time and that would be logged for the plane so we know the times we flew for how long. our log books and when the annual maintenance inspections and 100 hour inspections are and things like that, so that's really, I hope you enjoyed that quick little VFR flight from Sedona to Flagstaff now, if you want to see another video, let's jump to 172 and do some ifr.

I can't wait to make a lot more real flight videos too, but Microsoft Flight Simulator has me hooked right now and it's been a lot of fun. I also have a Discord channel if you want to join we can go fly together and definitely let me know if you have any questions about this flight or cessna 152 or just aviation in general. I am a private pilot and I would love to help you. I don't know everything. I'm not going to try to pretend I know something I don't know, so yeah, just let me know there's a golf course here, that's cool, if this was your local airport and you had engine failure on takeoff you'd know that there is a golf course. course right here and you'll know your surroundings and be prepared to take into account that you have options to land here, so that's a good situational awareness note for this particular airport.

Very good, thank you very much and I will talk to you soon. you