Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Game Walkthrough and Guide

With the tenth air simulator from Microsoft everything returns to the circles of its own – enthusiasts “fly away” for a long time and firmly, lovers rise to digital heavens, and interested in caution look at large, hard and, must be a very difficult game.

Slowly and gradually developers make the game available for those who, maybe, and fond of aviation, but sees all these menus, joysticks and devices for the first time. To facilitate the doubting player the road to the virtual sky will help this guide with the passage of all gaming missions.

I will not try to scare technical terms, deepen into aerodynamics or in complex principles of appliances landing. Instead, I will give the foundation, I will tell you about new, updated and old airplanes and tell me how to go missions.

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Twenty excellent machines

Excursion to the technique presented in the simulator we will start with the motodeltaplan and the easiest single-engine aircraft. Then we turn to the business model, talk about passenger turboprop aircraft and business jets, about large airliners, to touch the helicopters, finish the conversation with historical airplanes, glider and airplanes on floats.

For your information: In general, in the game twenty-four aircraft, not counting certain variants of colors and livray. But three of them differ only in that instead of the usual dashboard, the Garmin G1000 navigation system is installed on them, and the fourth – Maule M7 with mounted skis.

Air Creation Buggy 582SL TRIKE

Maximum speed: 87 mph (140 km / h)

Cruising speed: 50-75 mph (80-120 km / h)

Engine: 64 L. from.

Useful download: 204 kg

Motodeltaplans (in the spaciousness of deltales) – an amazing family. They look like toys and do not look like real planes, although it is planes on fact.

From ordinary deltaplanov in them left the original control when the pilot moves not aileron, but the deltavid wing itself turns. The game developers included a deltlet to the simulator for two reasons: first, it flies low and slowly, giving the player an opportunity to consider the advantages and disadvantages of new landscapes. Secondly, they are very easy to manage, although Motodeltaplan has its own characteristics, sometimes unexpected and unpleasant. What can you do – you need to get used to the absence of tail plumage.

PIPER J-3C-65 CUB

Maximum speed: 85 mph (137 km / h)

Engine: 65 L. from.

Service ceiling: 11,500 feet (3505 m)

Range: 190 miles (306 km)

Useful download: 245 kg

Piper Cub – “Canary with a motor”, small, funny and yellow plane, who fell into the game not for stunning flight qualities, and for “beautiful eyes”. Used at the end of the thirties of the last century for the training of military pilots and since then has become a symbol of classical aviation.

It is lightweight suspension (TailDragger), subject to all terrestrial diseases of two-wheeled aircraft with tail support. However, in the air he is very obedient, and to fly on it – one pleasure. Note that its technical characteristics – useful loading, speed and horsepower engine – almost no different from these modern deltalet.

For your information: “Service ceiling” in aviation is the height in which the aircraft without a released mechanization with the speed of the optimal set of height with all operating engines will be recruited 100 feet per minute. The conclusion is simple – it is possible in principle to climb and above, but usually do not need.

Cessna Skyhawk SP Model 172

Maximum speed: 126 mph (234 km / h)

Cruising speed: 124 mph (230 km / h)

Engine: 180 L. from.

Service ceiling: 14 000 feet (4267 m)

Range: 638 Maritime Miles (1183 km)

Who does not know “Cessna”? “Cessna” know and love everything – from pilot professionals and lovers worldwide to the editorial board. A simple and reliable car, the most massive private aircraft, which in forty years was released by an impressive circulation – more than 35 thousand copies.

An ideal machine for training flights – No wonder it is on it, you will pass the first lessons of Ron Mahado, and the first, the most simple game missions. Cessna Skyhawk – this aircraft I boldly name the easiest to master in the game. “The plane flies himself” – it is about him.

For your information: The speed in the game is measured by nodes, marine miles per hour. One node is 1.852 kilometers per hour. Also one node is 1.15 standard imperial miles per hour.

Maule M-7-260C

Cruising speed: 164 nodes (264 km / h)

Engine: 260 L. from.

Service ceiling: 20 000 feet (6096 m)

Range: 600 Marine Miles (1092 km)

Useful download: 377 kg

Another newcomer in the MSFS series – just throw one glance on it to understand: this is a very unusual plane. It is small and compact with big chassis means, it has “permeability” and is designed for landing on unprepared sites and very short take-off stripes. He “Puzzled”, as the German “Storm”, means, can boast of excellent carrying capacity. Yes, the tailing – but they live with it, but look at this engine and on this six-kilometer service ceiling!

I would call this plane with a modern option Piper J3, However, Canada’s pilots have recently and more often prefer his old de Havilland DHC-2, Especially since the plane can be put on the float, and in the game there is an option with mounted skis (and one very difficult mission for it).

Driving this aircraft in the game is easy, except for absolutely wild and wayward frills on Earth. If you do not give it to take off your tail, then everything will be fine – and the cabbage will provide an excellent overview from all sides.

MOONEY M20M “BRAVO”

Maximum speed: 253 mph (407 km / h)

Cruising speed: 224 mph (361 km / h)

Engine: 270 L. from.

Service ceiling: 25 000 feet (7620 m)

Range: 1050 Maritime Miles (1945 km)

Useful download: 535 kg

The view from the aircraft is simple outside and not too presentable in (for the latter you can sing designers and artists). And by the way, in front of us – the most high-speed screw single-engine aircraft. It rises to such heights where not every two-strand will take. Pilot at an altitude of seven thousand meters so as not to lose consciousness in the sparse air, it is necessary to use the oxygen mask.

We playing the simulator, the oxygen mask does not threaten, but the speed of this aircraft can easily play with a novice pilot of a dick joke on the landing – you can simply do not have time to “collect instruments in a pile”. Mooney Bravo speed is good in order to work on it maneuvers and landing before transplancing on large and solid aircraft. If he had done more than another virtual cabin…

Beechcraft Baron 58

Cruising speed: 200 knots (370 km / h)

Engine: 2 h 300 l. from.

Service ceiling: 20 688 feet (6306 m)

Range: 1569 Marine Miles (2906 km)

Useful download: 732 kg

Beautiful plane, really good, hell! Especially developers managed chrome coca screws – looking at them, you can also sit. It’s hard to believe that this plane is more than thirty-five years old – it looks so modern.

Two engines are not only additional power, but also reliability, and for us – the ability to exercise in flights on a chic two-door plane, especially since flying on it is very simple. This plane is one of the three for which you can choose the option not with a conventional dashboard, but with a new-fashioned control system and navigation Garmin G1000 About two computer monitors. And this is a completely different story.

Extra 300s

Maximum speed: 200 knots (370 km / h)

Cruising speed: 178 knots (330 km / h)

Engine: 300 L. from.

Service ceiling: 16 000 feet (4877 m)

Range: 415 marine miles (769 km)

Useful download: 283 kg

Maximum allowable overload: +/ -10 g

Extra 300s – Synonym for top pilot, air acrobatics (Aerobatics). It was created specifically to twist all these barrels and loops – a very lightweight and durable composite material glider, multiplied by a three-pump engine.

This plane is most adapted for air pilot, and more, notice, for nothing. It is used worldwide on the Airshow (Patty Wagstaff Airshows – Official Microsoft Partner for Simulant). You probably have ever seen on sports channels exciting reports from competitions on these small airplanes, in which “Extra” fly with a huge speed between the inflatable barriers placed on the highway, passing the pilotage tricks. This is a kink, heavenly slalom – a stunning spectacle.

In one of the gaming missions, you yourself can try to go through a relatively simple highway from ten pairs of barriers. And you will understand that it is not for nothing that this mission was put in the last in the section “Expert” – only one can confidently pass it on maximum realism,.

And all because it is also very difficult to control them in the airlimulator. For a beginner, this is a whole Rodeo – an aircraft is very sensitive and maneuverable, he strives to “jump out” from under the “saddle”. Just imagine what torque time creates a three-grade engine – as if it is not installed on the plane, and the light glider is attached to the engine.

In general, who wants to master the aerobatics will have to tinker with Extra 300s. But the result is worth!

Cessna Grand Caravan C208B

Maximum speed: 175 knots (324 km / h)

Cruising speed: 164-175 knots (305-324 km / h)

Engine: 675 L. from.

Service ceiling: 22,800 feet (6950 m)

Range: from 5.1 hours (10,000 feet) to 7.2 hours (18,000 feet)

Useful download: 1814 kg

Caravan… camel… Blades… All this is associated with something reliable, leisurely and lifting – this is exactly that we appear in front of us Grand Caravan C208B, a small passenger aircraft, designed for 14 people and a cargo. Even the flight range by the aircraft is displayed “in camel” – in hours, and not in kilometers.

It looks unpainted by the airplane – with a cargo compartment under the fuselage, it resembles a pregnant removal. Manage this “truck” is easy. All you need is patience and some attention to the inertia of a heavy machine, “suspended” to relatively small wings.
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