Flight Simulator Co-Pilot
by Charles Gulick
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| Cover | |
| Title Page | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Pilot Advisories | |
| I. BASIC FLIGHT INSTRUCTION | |
| Flight and Panel Familiarization | |
| While the instructor flies the plane, get aquainted with the instrument panel and the aircraft's control surfaces. | |
| Straight and Level | |
| Learn to recognize the primary flight configuration of straight and level solely by referencing your cockpit instruments. | |
| Standard Climbs and Descents | |
| Climb and descend at specific rates under precise control, with airspeed constant, and with or without outside visual reference. | |
| Standard Turns | |
| Witness a 20-degree turn, followed by entering and rolling out of 25-, 30-, and 35-degree turns. | |
| Climbing Turns | |
| Use your instrument panel and out-the-windshield references to make controlled turns while climbing. | |
| Altitude Management | |
| Understand the techniques specific to your aircraft for maintaining a given altitude within 20 feet. | |
| Slowflight/Normal Cruise Transition | |
| Learn when, why, and how to make the transition from slowflight to normal flight and back again. | |
| Preflight, Taxi, Takeoff, Turns | |
| Learn how runways are numbered and review an actual preflight inspection. Then execute a precision takeoff and climb-out. | |
| Greasing It On | |
| See what a correct landing should look like while you control the aircraft from a preset approach configuration. | |
| Ground Effect | |
| Buzz the hangar at Eagle Field and have a little fun with Slew. | |
| Flying the Pattern | |
| Learn what an airport pattern is and how to fly it—including how to figure pattern altitudes and headings for each leg. | |
| II. NAVIGATION AND INSTRUMENT FLYING | |
| Big Wheels | |
| Fly from New Haven, Connecticut to Boston, Massachusetts in weather, learning how to use your OMNI equipment to arrive precisely at your destination. | |
| Goose Run | |
| Take off from a special airport in Washington, and learn the importance of landmarks while you sightsee. | |
| The Lone OMNI-Ranger | |
| Get more heavily into your OMNI equipment. Learn what to do when you're out of range of a station and how to get on any desired radial. | |
| Moving Right Along | |
| Use what you have learned about flying OMNI by experiencing a practical application of the radial-change technique. | |
| Night Must Fall | |
| Make a dusk takeoff and night flight from Kankakee, Illinois, and test your instrument skills in the dark world. | |
| III. FLYING FOR FUN | |
| Tijuana Taxi | |
| Fly from San Diego, California to Tijuana, Mexico. Continue west toward the Pacific coast to Oceanside. | |
| ILS That Flesh Is Heir To | |
| Lost in an overcast north of Seattle, Washington, execute an ILS (Instrument Landing System) approach to Snohomish County. | |
| On a Roll | |
| Practice aileron rolls over Long Island Sound in New York and learn how to half-roll and fly inverted. | |
| A Cessna Roller Derby | |
| Put Cessna's special roll ability through its paces on takeoff, slowflight, and inverted flight. | |
| The Vegas Notion (Scenery Disk 3) | |
| A first exploration of the Scenery Disks. Get acquainted with Las Vegas, fly over Lake Mead, and continue on to St. George, Utah. | |
| High Water (Scenery Disk 3) | |
| Learn how high altitude affects your aircraft's performance by flying from Bryce Canyon, Utah, over Lake Powell and on to Page, Arizona. | |
| The Cape Caper (Scenery Disk 4) | |
| Experience a “vanishing point” at Cape Flattery, Washington, and make a scenic landing over the Pacific. | |
| Valley Low (Scenery Disk 5) | |
| Discover how to separate mountains from earth in Cessna, then fly between giant peaks and valleys en route to Salt Lake City, Utah. | |
| Honeybee (Scenery Disk 5) | |
| Experience the unique and remarkable history of the Mormon religion and make a scenic flight over the Great Salt Lake. | |
| An Eerie Eyrie of Eagles | |
| In the haunted World War I zone, explore a strange “clone” of Eagle Field. | |
| Space Nocturne (Scenery Disk 2) | |
| Make a night flight from Roswell, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas. | |
| Long Ways Around (Scenery Disk 2) | |
| Learn to do the chandelle, then practice Eights Along a Road, all en route to Las Cruces, New Mexico. | |
| Apple Polishing | |
| Learn turns around a point while flying over Manhattan Bridge and around the Statue of Liberty in Manhattan, New York. | |
| Rock and a Hard Place | |
| Make a hairy short-field takeoff, then fly over Cape Cod and learn the purpose of two NAV systems. | |
| One More Time | |
| Make a further exploration of the riddle of the Eagle Field clones and exchange farewells with Flight Simulator Co-Pilot. | |
| Appendix | |
| Aircraft controls for the Apple II | |
| Aircraft controls for the Atari 800, XL, XE | |
| Aircraft controls for the Commodore 64 | |
| Aircraft controls for the IBM PC | |
| Aircraft controls for the IBM PCjr | |
| Glossary | |
| Back Matter |
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