Fly Your Simulator Like Real-World IFR Pilots!

• Learn instrument flight rules
• Understand requirements and restrictions
• Use crucial aviation instruments
• Make, file and use IFR flight plans
• Use instrument en route and approach charts
• Follow take-off and landing minimums
• Fly cross-country entirely on instruments
• Perform holding patterns and procedure turns
• Execute prescribed approach procedures
• and much, much more!
• Only US$16.95  $14.95 for 160 pages of advanced knowledge!

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Instructions supplied with flight-simulation programs
skim the surface of what a flight-sim pilot needs to know.

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COMPLETE DESCRIPTION AND EXPLANATION IN ONE BOOK!

Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots explains how you can find your way around without seeing anything out your windows! Start by recognizing what instrument flying is and isn't. Learn about instrument flight requirements and restrictions. Learn how to use your aviation instruments. See how to use instrument flight charts and plans. Plan your flights as required. Fly en route and in holding patterns totally on your instruments. Approach for landing without seeing anything on the ground.

Learn About Correct Instrument Flying

Make your instrument flights as realistic as possible by using the same methods used by real airline, military and instrument-certified general-aviation pilots. Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Simulation Pilots explains it all in one compact book.

Knowing What Instrument Flight Is and Is Not

Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Simulation Pilots clarifies the exact nature of instrument flight and clears up misunderstandings about this subject. Most people call it "IFR," which stands for "Instrument Flight Rules." But instrument flight extends beyond the prescribed rules into procedures, practices, techniques, charts and navigation. You will learn exactly what constitutes instrument flight and what does not. From this, you will be able to determine whether you need to fly on instruments or abide by instrument flight rules. It's clearly laid out for you.

Adhering to Requirements and Restrictions

You will learn the requirements and restrictions that pilots must follow when flying on instruments so you will understand them fully. These requirements apply to visibility, airspaces and aircraft. Additionally, certain restrictions tell pilots what they cannot and must not do when they fly IFR. Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Simulation Pilots also provides you an easy-to-use checklist for determining when to fly on instruments.

Using Aviation Instruments

Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Simulation Pilots explains the use of relevant cockpit instruments so you can build your instrument-flying proficiency. After all, you will have no other source of information telling you your position, heading, altitude and other crucial information when you are flying in clouds, fog and other visibility-restricting conditions. Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Simulation Pilots distinguishes the three main types of aviation instruments -- navigation and aircraft -- then thoroughly explains each one flight. And it shows you the professional method for scanning your instruments for maximum effectiveness.

Using Charts and Flight Plans

Learn the major types of instrument flight charts -- departure, en route and approach -- so you can lay out your instrument flights as real pilots do. Understand the types and major features of flight plans that instrument pilots use so you can plan and control your instrument flights professionally. Without these crucial documents for every instrument flight, you'll fly around aimlessly -- having no way to know how to get where you need to go. It's all explained and depicted in your Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots.

Planning, Taking Off and Departing

Plan your routes, check your aircraft, use take-off minimums, climb out on instruments and depart the airport's airspace -- the way real instrument-rated pilots do. Learn how to trust your instruments, because you will have no visual information sources. It's all clearly explained.

Flying Enroute and Holding

After leaving the airport's airspace, you will fly en route to your destination without seeing much of anything out your windows. From your Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots, you will learn how to select and fly at optimum altitudes, use the best airspeeds for climbing, follow air traffic routes, perform instrument flight maneuvers and intercept navaid radials and bearings -- exactly as instrument-rated pilots do. Moreover, you will learn how to enter and fly in established holding patterns. It's all clearly explained in your Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots.

Approaching for Landings

When you arrive at your destination airport, you will align your aircraft for landing without seeing any ground references at all. Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Simulation Pilots explains how to follow the prescribed instrument approach procedures for any airport that provides them. You will learn about initial approach fixes, procedure turns, decision heights, missed approach points, missed approach procedures and much more. You will also learn about the many types of instrument approaches, including NDB, VOR, GPS and Circling.

Find Needed Information Quickly and Easily

Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots is organized and laid out for your easiest use. Information is divided into relevant chapters, and chapters are organized into easy-to-follow sections. Headings and captions help you find information quickly. It's fully indexed for quick reference.

Clearly Written and Easy to Use

Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots is written by expert flight simmers and professional aviators, then published by an experienced training enterprise to help you learn by reading and doing. Policies, procedures and practices used by professional real-world pilots are explained in straight-forward, easy-to-follow English. Visual aids help you grasp the principles, and easy-to-follow exercises help you apply the concepts and methods for experience and learning.

Graphical aids are easy to read, understand and use.

For All Flight Simmers

The flight principles, procedures and practices explained in Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots apply to all aircraft -- general aviation, commercial or military -- as well as all flight-sim games. It's comparable to flight training manuals that apply to all aircraft, including the popular and special ones. We can't write one book that explains every specific aircraft, and we can't write a separate book for each airplane, either. So we explain the most common general-aviation aircraft in this book, and readers can easily adapt our explanations to the specific aircraft they're flying. Frankly, anybody who cannot adapt fundamental navigation knowledge to specific simulators lacks the right stuff for flight simming.

For Anywhere

Whether you are in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia, Europe or the Pacific Rim, Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilotsis for you. It is based on real aviation rules, principles, procedures and practices that general-aviation pilots use around the world. The only exceptions are those few aviation laws and regulations unique to your country.

For Home Flight Simulation Exclusively

Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots is written exclusively for flight-simulation pilots. It's based on real aviation textbooks and manuals -- with the relevant material emphasized and the irrelevant material omitted. You will not need to flip through pages and pages of technical aviation texts, because that work has been done for you. You won't have to skip over irrelevant materials, because they have been omitted for you.

Peek at the Book:

Simmers Rave About It

Use the book that flight-simulation pilots have bought, used, learned from and been totally satisfied with.

• "I haven't seen anything else of this quality."
• "Nice concise compilation of material."
• "This is a perfect book for people who don't want to pay for expensive ground school."
• "This book is really good. Thank you."
• "Great work!"
• "A good value for the cost."

Frequently Asked Questions

Three questions are frequently asked about our books:

How Many Pages?

Your Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots has 166 pages. We publish knowledge in compact books. We don't publish bound sheets of paper with words and pictures on them. If this manual quickly and easily provides you the knowledge you seek and if it answers your questions as a flight simmer, then it is of value to you regardless of the number of pages it has. The compactness of our books is a feature that our readers appreciate deeply.

Are the Graphics in Color?

All the graphics are monochrome, as is true with nearly all aviation and flight-sim manuals. The books we publish provide knowledge, information and skill for a reasonable investment. Our graphics are carefully designed to convey concepts quickly and simply at minimal cost. Flight simmers who buy our books appreciate this feature, so we do not waste time and money trying to dazzle them with expensive and unnecessary colors.

Does the Book Contain Charts?

No. We are trainers who publish how-to and reference books to help flight simmers enjoy their hobby as much as possible. Our books have examples of charts for demonstration and learning, but we are neither a publisher nor a supplier of charts. If you are looking for charts, check out the charts suppliers listed on our links site. NOTE: There is no such thing as a single book that contains all the airways, navaids, approach plates and so forth for the entire world. It would be too heavy to lift!

A Message From Your Author

Realistic flight simming requires knowledge and adherence to professional requirements and practices. Simmers who jump into their cockpits without these basics are needlessly frustrating themselves. Simulate flight realistically by knowing what you're doing and by doing what real-world pilots do. -- Bill Stack

What a Bargain!

All this relevant and useful information in a compact book for your easy use is only US$16.95 US$14.95 plus nominal shipping and handling. Who would have thought all this knowledge and guidance could be such a bargain?

Your Satisfaction Is Guaranteed!

We believe so strongly in Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots that we guarantee your satisfaction. If you are not satisfied with your book for any reason, we will replace it or refund your purchase price. What could be safer than this?

V-speeds are a series of velocities designated by aviation authorities. Some are minimums, some are maximums, and some are optimums. For example, Vne means the designated velocity should never be exceeded (it differs for each aircraft).

Your V-speed card lists the most common general-aviation V-speeds in two easy-to-find ways -- alphabetically on one side and by velocity on the other side. Each V-speed is identified by name and abbreviation and explained in clear language. The cards are a handy size for using right at your flight simulator.

NOTICE:

Like all our flight-sim books, Instrument Flying for Flight-Sim Pilots is for noncombat flight-simulation computer games, only. Although many of the principles, procedures and practices could be applied to combat flight simming, this book focuses on private and commercial aviation. It is not for real-world flying at all. We accept no liability for any misuse of our flight-simulation manuals.

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