Real Pilot VFR Flight Lesson | Microsoft Flight Simulator | Cessna 152

I used to be a ramp agent like the two guys standing there. I also used to stand around aimlessly, daydreaming. sometimes the aircraft would be getting pushed out without me paying attention and watching the wings. Microsoft got the NPCs right in this.

I can't even begin to thank you enough for this video. My whole life I wanted to be a pilot. Dad was in the USAF for 22 years, so I grew up on military bases with flight lines. I took all the hard math and science classes to get an appointment to the AF Academy, but developed type-1 diabetes at age 17, half-way through my junior year of high school. Life-time ban on being a pilot. Fast forward 35 years later. I have a BS in electrical engineering (so no dummy). But the dream of flying never left me. Just bought MS FS 2020, and it is amazing. But it has one MAJOR FLAW. The tutorials for absolutely novice, zero experience people wanting to fly are simply nonexistent. The tutorial videos on the software are marginal at best. And they do nothing to teach IFR (hint: next video, if you haven't done one already?). And they certainly do nothing about jets. This is my first ever flight simulator. How could a company like Microsoft do this? I'm sure they figured there would be KRplusrs who would do what you are doing. But for the first month or two there were nearly zero resources. And most KRplusrs that posted videos assumed you had at least some level of experience. They all used terminology/acronyms that only pilots and other flight industry people would know. It has been a world of frustration for me. Subscribed!

This is a great tutorial, thanks. MSFS 2020 really needs more tutorials in game.

Thank you so much, one of the best MSFS tutorials on youtube, keep doing more!

Thank you for this, you went through everything and didn't leave out ATC (which I joked about being an entirely different language). I have taken a few discovery flights, bought a yoke, throttle, and rudder pedals for this sim. Initially my pilot father took my 13 year old up and I got to ride in the back of the Cessna 172. I enjoyed every moment and wanted to learn more. So my son and I downloaded the flight sim today and were co-pilots for one another. :) Thank you again, very informative, and for simplifying what seemed overwhelming while in the windy air. I look forward to future videos.

As a flight sim newbie and aviation enthusiast, I found this tutorial incredibly detailed and informative.
Thank you very much; it really is one of the best I've ever watched.
Now, let me figure out how to do all this with my xBox controller! lol

Thank you for this. Very helpful! I like your teaching style and how you share the finer details casually which is very relate-able.

I've been watching a few of your videos the last couple of days, all great stuff. This one is excellent. I've worked in aviation most of my adult life (30+ years), not as a professional pilot, but have flown some. I think you'd be a top notch instructor.

Just subbed after watching this ...great video ,
Clear ,consice and confident but mostly about your calmness in explaining things 😀👍
I'm looking forward to catching up on all your other video's
Thanks

Awesome vid. I have about 6 IRL (in real life) flight hours, and just recently got MSFS with a yoke. This video does a great job explaining exactly what needs to happen before, during, and after the flight!

Best video I've seen in many years! Congrats Brady!

Thank you for this video tutorial . Great instructions, very precise and concise.

Thanks alot, that's what I was looking for, performing the aircraft like a pilot and professionally, one
more time thanks a lot!

This is the best instructional video I have seen. I have subscribed. Thank you for this.

Hey man, great content, thanks! I'm playing MSFS for GA stuff, so this is really great. Looking to watching your G1000 tutorial next

Very practical, accurate, and informative. Thanks a lot.. This is awesome instruction, thanks for walking us through it in details!.

Thanks man! Student pilot from LA. Just finished building my flight sim to help me learn. This really helps out

This is awesome instruction, thanks for walking us through it in details!

Great video Brady! At Sedona, the taxiway doesn't extend all the way to end of runway 3. For student pilots, in this case, you would continue to taxi down the runway to reach the threshold of runway 3 then do a 180 turn to line up to use all available runway for takeoff. Especially at high density altitude you want to use all available runway!

Really love your tutorial, I'd rather listen and get help from a real pilot flying the sim rather than a gamer. Thanks I lot, I have a better understanding now. I've been simming for many years and a part time student pilot as well.

the landing was superb! Bravo!

Awesome video, learned so much and am going to go copy this exact flight!

Thank you Brady, helpful and fun

Thanks Brady, a real hands on tutorial. Got the feeling we were there. Did not catch the reason why you said Quebec to land but I ll sort it out. And Arizona is superb.

Good tutorial, regarding the parking brake on the 152 it’s the knob on the far left 👍🏻

Very practical, accurate, and informative. Thanks a lot.

Excelent video! and very clear! thank you!!!

It's not taking so long time because of how high you are. Yes it does actually affect because there is less air particles but I'd say it's mainly that you use no flaps which caused it. Thanks also for this amazing tutorial! Keep up the great work man.

Great video from a real pilot's perspective. Thank you!

Fantastic tutorial. I'm saving this one!

Just got back into flight simulation with MSF2020 and I love it. VFR is actually fun now with the amazing graphics. Hope you make more tutorials, I really want to understand the ins and outs of flying the 152. Then on to the 172 and bigger prop or turbo prop planes. Thanks for the video, I subbed.

Thank you for this great intro! Watched it while waiting for Microsoft Flight Simulator to download.

Thanks for this video! Precise and concise!

amazing how realistic it is

Grato pela instrução, por sua didática!
Atenciosamente, Bones - Curitiba, Brasil

Very nice tutorial and well explained, learned a lot from this. I'm looking forward to the next tutorials! (How to use auto pilot and VOR)

Brilliant!! Very informative

Great video! As I just purchased Flight Simulator 2020 to aid to my flying practice I wanted to get rid of the yoke for it's in front of instruments I need to see. Bumba! you just showed me the simplest thing. Much to learn still. But Nice to see your flight plan and learn where the buttons are. Thank you!

It was a nice flight and good video, well done.

Great Video- without GPS or Before GPS pilots navigate using their Antenna's. Most have basic VOR's, NBD's or Dead Reckoning etc. or Straight up Old fashion flight planning with visual waypoints & use your compass headings and true course to steer with winds.

Great the best vfr tutorial I’ve seen many thanks

King Aviation School videos did a VFR cross country where John King flew from San Diego to Sedona. He said landing at Sedona was like landing on an aircraft carrier since it was up on a plateau.

Awesome video :) Looking forward to more! Just a little tip: you can use your scroll wheel when setting frequencies on the coms/navs, which I find much easier.

Attitude + Power = Performance

This is so helpful. Thank you

thanks captain.I really enjoyed !

Man, I just bought MSFS 2020 and I'm struggling on understanding everything about it. But I'm glad to have run into this video to help me out a bit. I just wish I knew it all works in the different locations of the simulator.

I know this is a couple years old, but, this was absolutely amazing instruction. Thank you. I’m just getting back into Flight Sim and am trying to finish the in game lessons. Those with your instruction will have me flying comfortably in no time. Too bad you don’t do virtual lessons. Thanks again

Great tutorial. Keep up the good work.

Thank you!!! This was GREAT!

Learned a tonne from this video, thanks!

Great video ... very informative commentary. Well done Sir.

Bro using the VOR is so fun tho bro! G1000 are game changers but sometimes on these short flights that VOS or ILS is soooo satisfying

you can navigate VFR with out landmarks or gps as well. its easy, just climb into the holding pattern over your take off airport then turn base into the heading you need for your destination. you should've already calculated the approximate time in your nav log based on distance and estimated ground speed based off of conditions.

Top class !! Thanks.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Very helpful thanks !!

Thank you for this. Exactly what I was looking for. A great overview.

Great video man. I learn a lot from your videos. Obviously MSFS2020 has a training going from Flagstaff to Sedona. There’s a lot of information to be picked from that training and I’d like to see how you would fly that and follow their objectives so I can improve my score. ThanX again.

Thank you ! nice video

Thank you for sharing.

good stuff...lots to remember..

Really nice 👍

that was a sexy landing lol!! Wish I had u for my MS Simulator teacher cuz I need one badly lol!

Cool video thanks

Great video with the C152 in a beautiful area. In real life this would be a somewhat dangerous flight to undertake in a C152. The climb power of this aircraft becomes weaker at 7,000 feet, and on a summer day you're getting maybe 300 fpm. You'd have to plan the route out in advance to make sure you didn't get boxed into a canyon, and you're have to go on a calm day to avoid the turbulence. Good instructional video on the C152, though.

stunning graphics! Can't wait to be able to afford a new pc to run msfs 2020. Until then, I'll continue to use FlightGear 2020.

thank you

Hi,
Great video. I'm not a real pilot but whenever I have been on a flight in a Cessna the only time I notice the spinning prop is during taxi or lower rpms. When at cruise or high rpm the only indication of a prop is a faint outer arc. In all versions of MSFS the "flickering" prop at high rpm or during cruise throws off the illusion of speed and gets somewhat annoying. I wish Microsoft would get this fixed . It isn't noticeable as much in exterrnal view as it is in cockpit view. Otherwise a great sim with great scenery.

Loved this! Any advice about how far above airport level to begin descending/vertical speed?

Did you land with or without Flaps?
Btw. nice tutorial, now you've got one more sub👍

Great video!! Lovely to see how to use MSFS as a real sim rather then a more game_mode! Thanks!
Only thing I would do I think is to look up specific airport arrival spec's and particulair the elevation. What I learned so far is to enter the field +1000 AGL so therefore you'd have to know it's altitude before.
Do you agree on that?

VOR cross check radio info to get your degree of location position

Thanks for the tutorial. I'm using it to practice commercial maneuvers to supplement RL instruction on a 152. Overbanking tendencies seem to be much more tepid. I need 5 degrees of bank to start my Lazy 8s in order to achieve proper overbanking at the 45 and 90 degree visual checkpoints. IRL it's like 2 degrees at most.
Did you have a high gust factor? Your approach speed into the round out was 80. Usually it's about 60 under normal circumstances.

Great video.looking to buy sim any advice or one in mind.

Great video! Just a quick question, what is that black stick covered in gold on the front side under the throttle?

Stalled on approach over some trees and scrambled to increase throttle like it was real life.

Great video! Thank you.
And I have question regarding approach and landing.
It is not necessary to enter airport pattern before landing?

Thanks for the video.
Many of us own the Standard Version of FS20, can you do tutorials with Cessna 172 Garmin?
Good job!

@17:50 Having got my private VFR license back in 2003... I have to say likely 50% of the lessons were related to navigation. I wonder if they still teach it like that or if students just rely on GPS? I haven't flows a 152 in 20 years, this brings me back... god I hated the 152 compared to the 172, it felt like you were flying a lawn mower. I wonder how many 152s are still out there? They were getting rare back in the day, at least in my area.

I am getting back into flying. Purchased Pedals & a Home for at home training. Do you think Microsoft Flight Simulator will be enough to learn how to navigate instruments, VORS, and freshen up with controls. Obviously gotta supplement real training as well, but the goals not to waste money when it can be learned easier somewhere else

very nice, im coming from DCS and IL2 sturmovik, just firing missiles and dogfighting, but now im realy interested in doing this as real as you can from my home cockpit, its very fun, but one question, should you have adjustet your mixture before takeoff to get optium power, since the elevation of the runway is almost 5000feet? would this have been done irl, or is every takeoff 100% mixture no matter what

Great video! One question though. How can you tell in which direction the wind is blowing at your arrival airport? I understand in this case, you can use the ATC, which tells you to land at runway 3 (so at 30 degrees) and not 21, which would be the same runway but in the other direction. Am I right?
But how do you do this with an airport with no ATC? I once flew over an airport with no ATC to look for a windsack, but couldn't find any.

Thanks for the video. How do you know where to stop climbing? Or how do you know your cruise altitude?

Just started this on console and all this is completely overwhelming

I find it very difficult to enter the traffic pattern when I'm flying in from another airport. Especially if they have multiple runways. Perhaps you could do a video on MSFS2020 on the different techniques/ ways pilots do this as well as the various challenges that could arise during an approach (came in at the wrong angle/etc...).

A few technical inaccuracies, but pretty good instruction for a private pilot! Go get your Commercial and CFI! :)

Yes, that's the plane I love to fly in MSFS thanks to this walkthrough. You taught me to fly. Thanks.

Hi, not a pilot here. Great video! Really informative. One question though, I noticed that before you landed, you set the plane to flaps 1 at about 90 knots. I think I saw/read somewhere that you should be at 81 knots or less to add flaps on a C152. Do you know if in real life, would adding a notch of flaps at 90 on a C152 actually damage your plane?

Please info about which speed by landing and where the indicator is. Thank you !

On the subject of taxiing a general aviation airplane deflecting the ailerons and positioning the elevator for “wind”. I’ve seen a number of these instructional videos and seldom is it explained WHY we are doing this. Instead there are rote instructions given for when the wind is from such and such a direction put the ailerons and elevator is this and that position. Here is the issue and this is WHY we are doing this. These airplanes are relatively light weight. As the wind speed in and around the airport surface you are taxiing on gets stronger, or you happen to taxi behind a larger propeller or jet airplane with high velocity exhaust or prop wash, it is possible for that high velocity wind to get up under the wing or under the tail and flip these relatively light weight airplanes over. If it doesn’t flip the airplane over then the wind coming from the wrong direction can pick the tail up high enough, compressing the nose of the airplane low enough, to have the propeller strike the ground. In order to minimize the chance of either of these undesirable occurrences happening we are going to position the ailerons and elevators in such a way to give as little of a target for a gust of wind to do either of those things. When it’s possible, facing into the wind, we are going to use the flight control to apply pressure to keep the wind and tail down rather than having them lifted before we are ready for flight. The stronger the wind and gusts are when you are maneuvering a light general aviation airplane on the ramp/taxiway/runway the more important it is to understand how positioning your flight control surfaces can help mitigate the chance of the strong surface winds causing damage, or loss of control while taxiing, by placing the airplane in an attitude you do not want it to be in.

Nice video... But... Unfortunately we found that Cessna 152 in MSFS2020 is like a toy :( X-Plane 11's default C172 + REP is the best for training. In our group 1 pilot (Poland), 1 instructor (CYHU) and a pilot student-pilot (CYHU). We widely use the X-Plane Cessna + REP for virtual training before real flights.

Great video. Can a person fly a real Cessna in the first attempt, after thorough practice in simulator?

5:05 main avionics switch should be off before cranking the engine

On the sectional chart, how can you tell what Class airspace it is? Is there a legend? I'm new to simming, have about 50 hours in, and have been learning the Vatsim network, but the thing I seem to be screwing up the most is knowing what airspace I"m in and those rules. This video is outstanding. Thank you.

Wow, this was an amazing video. I got a yoke and msfs after seeing your real life cessna 152 flight. Applied everything I remember from that and made a few touch and go, so much fun.
I can now enjoy flying in my home country with a Cessna 152 at least in sim :) I took a lot of notes from this video but also have a few questions if you have time and would like to answer. Thanks so much even if not, you have been helpful a lot.
My questions;
- I see the altimeter always shows the height from the sea level, is there any instrument to check absolute altitude during flight?
- How would you check the current wind during the flight?
- On the descent, is the plane losing altitude only with flaps and reduced throttle? Do we not need to do pitch down?
- What is a recommended throttle level on descent and short final? How to decide on that? Currently my landings look like a landing from GTA V :D

thats great but i cant find that map at the beginning , you don't say what you press to get it , mine looks different ? , great vid though

Hi handsome, more videos please. Thanks 🎉

In a flight sim is there ever an issue with the mags, elevators etc when you go through the pre-flight checks?

This on pc or xbox really interested in getting the flight sim but need to know what to get computer wise and control wise. As keen on getting my ppl