Flight Simulator 2020: Real world pilot normal Cessna 152 circuit tutorial! 

I can land pretty good In msfs in the 152 but I'm no pilot, and I've been wanting to learn more about correct procedures etc, this tutorial was perfect, straight forward and simple to understand without being boring. Thank you.

Very helpful, thank you. I am low hours PPL student, just starting in the circuit. It's a shock to find yourself at capacity doing the same things you did in the practice area!

Brought back some great memories. Completed my PPL at Wellesbourne. Scenery is stunning! And the Vulcan is iconic!

Many thanks for your superior knowledge on this aircraft. I've been flying IFR in the sim for most of the time, but I thought I'd like to try VFR. The 152 is a great aircraft for learning the basics, and I found that keeping the trim steady is quite difficult at first, but I got there in the end. Next I'd like to try VFR navigation. Once again, thanks for your video.

Aw Wellesbourne… I’m learning there at the moment and doing circuits so this has been superb to help with all the things needed to remember to do all checks, direction and landing tips.. we are told to put 3rd flaps down a bit earlier but hey sometimes I don’t even remember to do that when I turn onto finals yet ! Sooo much to learn but your video has really helped to embed it all. Thanks you

What we need now , including sweet love, is a nice set of floats to attach to the Skyhawk....or the bush planes...

Really well done tutorial. The best I've seen, with no waffle. If I'd been up with you IRL, I'd buy you a pint. Learning in MSFS 2020 and got quite attached to the 152! Happy Landings!

Just watched again to refresh my memory. I solo'd a few months ago but have hardly flown since. Wx looks good for solo consolidation tomorrow so I'm flying the chair 😎. Thanks for posting the best circuit video I've seen!

Thank you so much for putting this together, it's such a great learning resource!

Nice vid ExPat. Looked very smooth, and yes you'r right, flaring that thing is so much easier in real world.

5:03 you clotheslined that dude with your wing lol

Really enjoyed your calm & methodical explanation. Always something to learn from videos like these. Thank you for posting.

Great tutorial - thank you for taking the time to share this with us. I noted you kept carb heat applied all the way to touchdown - my (simulated) training was to remove carb heat at a height of about 300' so full power was available in the event of a go-around. Any thoughts on that?

Excellent video, explained nice and crisp, to the point, I am doing circuits now a days flying Tecnam P92. I am using Cessna 152 in MSFS 2020 to practice the best rate of climb speed and grade 1 turns and landings. I was looking for such video I happy that I have found it. Thank you once again for taking the time and sharing your knowledge.

Thanks for posting this, was just the clear tutorial I was looking for. Currently installing the simulator to my PC. Will definitely be referring back to this very soon.

FS home pilot: "oh shit, theres a bus on the way, i better brake and go around" Real world pilot: "we'll just drive through that annoying bus". 5/5

Great lesson. It is good to have in an English accent. Plus a view from the pilot's seat so as to get the picture.

Hey man, nice video! Could you let me know some of your graphics settings because your sim looks great! Cockpit and landscape look really detailed and you aren’t getting any lag by the looks of it Thanks

Brilliant. As a student PPL who's recently gone solo this is the best example I have come across of a realistic circuit flown in a flight sim - be that MSFS of XP. No offence to anyone, but real world pilots fly completely differently to armchair simmers (not surprising really). I really appreciated watching this video which demonstrates the kind of practice I could do on a sim. Thanks!

❤ great. I am surprised that ‘one white-one red’ on approach would make it not possible to reach the runway without engines? I thought all approaches and circuit heights especially the glideslope 3 degrees was designed so that you could reach a runway dead-stick in an emergency? I must have been wrong. I have not seen it written anywhere, I just assumed it. Watching this video showed me how variable circuits can be even in the same aircraft. I suppose it depends on the place and the instructor. My instructor told me about a guy who used to land planes with a constant throttle setting right to above the runway threshold. It was not his method but he told me other methods were possible.

Helpful video.

Very good. Thank you, Sir. From Rio - Brazil

I doing flight training but is the c 172 or 152

Hi, do you fly with a sidestick? And if so, what are your sensitivity settings in sim? My joystick is really sensitive when flying cessna and I would really like to know is it normal or, if not, mayby try to change sensitivity, so it would fly better.

how do you know what runway your supposed to be on and how do you even know where that runway is?

It is shame that despite being most used aircraft for GA training no reputed developers gave it consideration it deserve.

Did you have to manually turn the radios off before recording this startup or did you find a way to make the default state of the aircraft radios off? I've been trying to figure out in the files how I could change the default state of the avionics/radios since typically the radios shouldn't be on when starting the battery. Great video btw, thanks for sharing your knowledge about the C152, think I will adjust my checklists accordingly. EDIT: Seems it may be from the mod you are using C152X? Is this mod still compatible with modern versions of the game? EDIT #2: After some investigating it seems C152X is now known as JPLogistics C152. Going to give this a try and see how it does. EDIT #3: Just to report back in case someone else reads this, yes JPLogistics C152 fixes this issue.

Hi from the UK! I am a real world pilot too, and would like to get into sims. However, I know NOTHING about them and a bit of a technophobe. I own a windows 7 laptop which you put coal in, and my mobile is 8 years old!🤣 What sort of expense would I be looking at to get a set up like yours, I assume four figures? P.S was that a VR headset? Best regards Stu

So helpful thank you!

Many Thanks, What Simulator is it ? Can it help a bit to a low hour student Pilot?

awsome video man. would you say it handles like the real thing?

very good

Excellent video! I'm a complete novice, how do you know which direction the wind is going?

If you set your altimeter to zero at field elevation, won't that mean that your transponder is broadcasting the incorrect altitude?

I am using the honeycomb alpha yoke and i turn the key to start than the engine stutters how can i fix this?

Nice Video

Is a right hand pattern common in the UK?

How did you get the low volt light working?

WHAT CONTROL ARE YOU USING

praise the lord. we are safe on the ground.

Such a good video since I like to fly the virtual plane as real as possible for hopefully my pursuit to a private pilot license. Thanks for sharing your advice for newbies like me to follow.

Nicely done. Thank you.

Interesting and enjoyable. Thank you.

Nice video with good commentary

Am I the only one following you through the checklist as well? I’m currently going through my PPL lessons so this tutorial is quite handy to keep my mind up to speed! Thank you.

This was just what I was after - thanks

Excellent video. Thx.

I know this video is over two years ago, but I do have a singular question. How do you know, how long to fly a upwind/downwind/basewind leg? As a Flightsim flyer no real world experience, I struggle so much with this. Do you count? Or just 'wing it'?

Excellent instructions! Thank you! In VR, one has the runway in sight at all times, as in real world. I can hit the numbers every time 👌😉

Nice job on the video. As a point of interest on when to remove flaps after landing. It is not to difficult to control an airplane on the ground after touching down during calm conditions. The challenge is during crosswind conditions meeting or exceeding the pilots experience. Its handling as quickly as possible the transition from a flying vehicle to a ground vehicle and GA training airplanes suck as ground vehicles. GA manufactures do not recommend taxing with the flaps down and yet there are some pilots who have taken the position its OK if you have just landed and you are taxing to exit the runway. The last time I looked the Cessna 152 isn't anywhere close to the weight of a 737 taxing off the runway with flaps down, its closer to a kite. How I handle a landing is after the nose wheel has touched down at the slowest possible speed I raise the flaps to transfer as much weight of the airplane from the wings to the landing gear. In other words I want the airplane as far away from flying speed as possible. Once I have the airplane at a taxi speed I can maintain control, I will exit the runway. Learn to transition from flying speed to taxing speed as quickly and safely as possible in mild crosswind condition so on those not so good flying days you can handle the landings associated with strong crosswinds.

Great video and instruction thank you. Just wondering if there are any other flight sims that offer good lessons and tutorials now that I have completed MSFS 2020's tutorials. I really want to learn more about landing patters and procedures!

Before you start taxing, add the power, Move forward and apply the brakes to verify that the brake system is working properly.

Sir I need some screenshot from cessna 152. I do not have good computer to buy this game. Can I ask you for help?

Hello from Bournemouth, Dorset. Your not missing much in the UK

55 knots is too high a rotation speed.. You need to rotat at closer to 47-50 knots.

This is great, thank you!

Excellent video, very well explained. Thanks.

I was taught to fly in the UK and was taught to reduce power at the end of the runway downwind not on base. Perhaps it was just a local thing?

Is it normal for the cessna to stray to the left when taxiing? Great video.

Perfect video, thank you very much! Much appreciated.

Excellent sir

Thx

VERY GOOD GUIDE...SALUT

👍really good vid, subscribed hope we will see more informative tutorial vid in future