In this video, we fly the flight as planned from takeoff to touchdown completely in foggy weather and with just the instruments of the Cessna 152 in Flight Simulator 2020.
Thank you so much for making this guide. I did my first IFR flight with ILS landing, and it was so much fun (and actually worked!). I would love to see a glass cockpit tutorial with a G1000.
For those who wanna kick up the realism one more notch? Identify those stations before using them. Click the Nav1 and Nav2 buttons on the audio panel and match the morse code you hear to the proper tones as depicted on the charts. Second, keep those turns to standard rate. Use the tick marks on the left and right of the turn coordinator to keep 2 minute turns, which is standard rate. Third, use the crossing radials from Madison to identify fixes (i.e Pinet) on the approach as a cross check to the glide slope intercept.
I found this cool website that teaches you morse code really quickly. morse.withgoogle.com/learn/ I was pretty excited yesterday when I was able to identify the fix point to begin my ILS approach using intersecting radials.
Dude you were a 6.09k subs now your at 6.18 I think you will hit 7 by the end of today and also keep doing what you're doing your vids a better than a lot of top youtubers
I've been a flight simmer for years, but only flying modern military jets in DCS. Your tutorials have been absolutely invaluable to someone with no idea how to plan a point to point flight or navigate without GPS. Thanks so much
Oi I just wanted to say thanks for making this. I planned and successfully executed my first IFR flight around my birthplace today thanks to this video. Navigating using nothing but dials and noodles is a lot of fun and makes you feel like you’re a part of the machine, so to speak. Thanks for giving me the ability to experience something like that. Maybe I’ll do it in a real plane some day...
I’ve been trying to figure out all this stuff on my own and your videos have been super helpful and informative. I would love to see the glass cockpit version but honestly watching this makes me want to fly the 152 a little more.
I've only recently purchased fs2020 and have been aimlessly gaming around with a xbox controller and real world landmarks. But after watching your video on autopilot basics I am hooked. Watching this video has made me incredibly impressed and keen to learn to actually simulate "fly". Brilliant youtuber, thank you. Just ordered hotas too 🤣
On my PPL training, I find these tutorials very useful as i am working a head of my self learning to fly IFR on MSFS. Excellent training video. Many thanks
Fantastic tutorial 10/10. Fly a 787 with complex avionics, no problem. Fly a 152 IFR with just cross hairs, OMG hell no. You want that needle to move so badly so you way over bank. Needle starts to move so you level out. Needle is now raging across center, so you bank the other way in an attempt to bring it back and you are like "Oh god please stop in the middle". Then it doesn't and now you're skiing with an airplane. The proper method makes perfect sense. You have to take small bites and wait. I am learning so much from your videos! Thank You.
@@Jack-gp1ng fd2sim has full tutorials on the 737 and they are fantastic. A Boeing is a Boeing. Not much different between all the 7s. Airbus, is a very different beast.
William Richardson I would also like to see this done with the G1000. I have not had success yet with displaying two VORs on the display and getting the GS to work. Also does MS sim 2020 have a place with all the frequencies to look up and a low altitude IFR map?
That brings back so many memories doing my IFR training in the late nineties.. All on steam gauges. There really weren't any glass cockpits for small GA aircrafts back then.
Can't believe that after years/months of not understanding IFR it is suddenly making sense. Found your measured way of talking very soothing and easy to understand. Not tried the complete flight yet but will do it shortly. After I get familiar I will also try the same flight in some other aircraft just to see how I get on, I like the King Air 350i. I Will make sure I look at your other videos.
Great video(s) ! I'm very new to this and thanks to you, everything makes sense, thanks so much ! I'm gonna try and redo the exact same flight and practice before trying to plan my first trip from one of my french local airports.
Fantastic video and very clear. One thing I may have missed, how many degrees of flaps did you deploy during your landing and, if you used more than 10 degrees, when did you deploy those (I know the first round came at the beginning of the approach)?
I dunno if this is correct, but after the first 10 degrees I have been deploying them as needed to slow me down as I’m trying to stay in the glideslope. I’m not sure there’s a set time you’re supposed to deploy them.
Great tutorial.. I'm curious how many people new to Flight Sim (or flying) threw in the towel after realizing what's involved in IFR flight. I'm looking forward to the next video.
Absolutely fantastic video. I've been to that airport before. You explain everything so very well and man I feel like I learned quite a bit. You have a way of explaining everything that makes it so much easier to understand and follow.
"I'm the person that said whee in turbulence in an airliner" LOL SAME. Many years ago, my mom was freaking out in a particularly rough spot while in a 777. I was mean and told her to look out the window at the tip of the wing lol
I managed to figure this out, I’ll try to explain. The radio tunes you to a point, and the dial tunes you to a course (radial?) towards or away from that point. So when he was flying away from Hampton, he set the dial to the course he wanted to fly away from it, so the noodle (as he kept calling it) would keep him on a line between the course he wanted to fly and the point that the radio was set to (Hampton). It took me awhile to figure that out.
Thanks for part 2! Really enjoyed seeing you fly this flight plan after you've planned it in the last episode. Would love to see this flight done with a glass cockpit as I'm curious how one would deal with only having one CDI at a time. Cheers!
this was super helpful. something I'd like to know more about: IFR steers you well clear of any obstacles like mountains, etc, right? imagine you are flying in the mountains on a cloudy day and want to make a landing at an airport in a valley. How accurate do you have to be with these maneuvers to ensure you don't hit any terrain? I'd really like to see a more "complicated" IFR flight where you have to clear terrain (so probably in a Bonanza or something) and then take an approach into a valley airport. But this was already super helpful and taught me to fly IFR without the autopilot 😂
maybe an interesting route could be landing and takeoff from Lake Tahoe or Kelowna - the charts are pretty interesting as they have some unique maneuvers to get up/down in altitude
The airways have width in the US its 4NM each side (8NM total) and in Europe its 10NM total. There are also altitude restrictions. ifr flying is used to avoid exactly what you mention in your example.
I learned that I can use one VOR to establish two legs by using two different radials to and from the VOR respectively. One thing is I didn't hear you talk to ATC while using IFR. I've gotten lost following their instructions.
I follow everything you did except the headings. Out of the airport i would of gone 86 degrees, but i think i when you went 60 so you didn't fly to the center of the vor. I don't know why you came up with 105 degrees after Hampton. could you explain thanks It was a great tutorial it did help a lot.
Fantastic series! Thank you! Could I take away some of your joy of not having to communicate on the radio for your ILS tutorial, and let us know when and what you'd be communicating to ATC during the flight?
Great tutorial! Question: When flying east to Hampton, why do you call it the "105" radial when it would seem to me to be the "285" inbound? After you cross Hampton, then you would be on the "105", right? Thanks!
Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Yes, radials "radiate" from a beacon. If you are on, for example, the 045 radial, you are north-east of the beacon. Therefore, he was flying on a bearing of 105 degrees towards the beacon and on the 105 radial once he had flown over it (which means, as you said, that he was flying the 285 radial inbound). I think confusion arises when people set a course on the CDI, see a TO flag displayed on it, and automatically assume they on on the radial of the selected course. In this video's example, he set a course of 105 on the CDI and, as he was flying towards the beacon, the CDI displayed a TO flag. However, since he was west of the beacon, he couldn't have been on the 105 radial, even though the CDI would appear to indicate that he was. (Confusion also comes from people like me trying to explain things! ;) ) If the CDI is set to a radial's bearing, and your course matches that bearing, you are only flying that radial when the CDI displays a FROM flag. In the same way, you are following the same radial if you are flying a course reciprocal to the radial's bearing with the CDI displaying a TO flag. If your course matches the radial's bearing, and the CDI displays a TO flag, you are following the reciprocal radial inbound. AFAIK, if ATC asks you to intercept a radial, they will expect you to follow the heading away from the beacon, unless they specifically tell you to intercept an inbound radial.
