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I bought this book ,partly based on other peoples reviews , crap,,, I wanted something to help my real world flying , possibly help me to practice ifr , while using FS X , this book is rubbish , I've since bought ms "FS X for pilots REAL WORD TRAINING " by jeff west and kev cummmings ,still only half way throught it and it's every thing this book isn't ,it GREAT , oh and if your new to FS X it'll tell you how to set it up and how to use it ,
Provides deeper understanding of available features and resources within FS. Certainly a nice addition to MS FS.
nevertheless, worth reading. A comprehensive book that seems to spend a lot of time justifying the use of PC based Flight Sims for pilot training. I possibly expected more on how to use the Flight Sim program than there was.
If you are buying a book that is real-aviation oriented, West's book is a must have, this I would takea pass on. I bought this book at the same time as Jeff Van West's book, andI found that even though the latter makes you go download the missionsfrom the Wiley website, they were still much more useful. The lessonson the CD with this book had no more structure than say something Imight have saved while flying.
While there are loads of example flights that let you practice departures, enroute navigation, arrivals, and approaches, there is little discussion and preparation for these examples. I bought the book with accompanying CD to help me prepare for real world IFR training in a single engine G1000 aircraft. It would seem that the book might then be quite good for instructors who are already familiar with these concepts.All in all, while well organized and obviously written by a devotee of FSX, it failed me in my IFR training. For rank beginners to MS FSX, the first half of this book, while a bit lengthy could prove helpful. My major criticism is that the book makes a fairly big jump to what could have been more substantive and useful information.
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