The second in the series and if we get more positive reviews, we will continue in the new year! Join us tonight all you noobies (as Jayne calls them), pilots and flight instructors alike. All are welcome as we tackle the second flight lesson for Jayne, the MSFSofficial Community Manager and Howard’s student in the learn to fly series. It will be live-streamed on the MSFSofficial twitch channel Wednesday, December 16th at 5pm Eastern. https://twitch.tv/MSFSofficial You can download the student kit here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9b53zzw74nwpfjc/StudentPackage.zip?dl=0 If you already have the student kit, you can download the modified checklist here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s5zl8e7tmripc3l/Checklist%20152%20Simulator2021v2.pdf?dl=0 There will also be five fellow student on voice-only to give Jayne moral support during her learning sessions. Once we going flying though, it’s all up to Jayne to handle the plane and learn the skills at hand. Wish her luck and tune in to see all this in action. (the five students on voice are subscribers from Howard’s twitch channel: Forder Flying Club)

Join me today for an insight of this important function of flying Our lesson this week on https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly is the importance of the Run-Up This important procedure on the ground is crucial to a successful flight once we take to the skies. Before tomorrow’s lesson on the MSFSofficial twitch channel with Jayne, we need to understand why we do this procedure on the ground called “The Run-Up” Join me Tuesday, December 15th at 5pm Eastern time for an hour or so and join in the chat session and lesson as we present why and how to do a successful runup before we fly. Ask all the questions that come to mind during the session. Remember, once you transition from follower to subscriber, you get private lessons with Howard using the “shared cockpit” function, just like in the Jayne sessions. Once you see this session on the Run-Up, join us Wednesday at 5pm Eastern on the https://twitch.tv/MSFSOfficial channel as Howard works with Jayne in the second lesson of Learning To Fly: Beginner series. See you there. That’s our callsign in our Cessna 152 as we work with PilotEdge live ATC and cover Lesson 2 of the Beginner Series with Jayne.

Come join the fun as a group of us fly together in the same skies to the famous museum in Oregon Sunday Group fly is being led by our own subscriber: Floxtrot Come and fly with us or watch on December 13th, 7pm Eastern. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly As with all group flying events, we use the “Game of the Year” Microsoft Flight Simulator with all it’s gorgeous photogrammetry scenery for stunning visual scenery as it really is. Our final stop is the famous Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, the home of the one and only Spruce Goose, made by Howard Hughes. An overhead view taken by Floxtrot using the drone camera in MSFS. Notice the “runway” leading up to the museum!

Probably the most important part of your student pilot training Join me Tuesday, November 17th at 4pm Eastern for another in-depth lesson on Learning To Fly using Flight Simulator. In this session, you will learn the importance of obtaining the POH for each airplane you wish to fly and how to extract the important stuff out of them. See you then! https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Discord channel invite: https://discord.gg/jqSmaJcJKq

We start at the Space Coast and land at launchpad 39A to watch the launch Group Fly Sunday, November 15th, 2020 starting at 7pm to fly to the launchpad. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnTofly Be sure to download the scenery once in the stream using !scenery Then grab the server and starting airport information: !fly Then grab the flightplan using !flightplan Will will start at 7pm sharp and head over to the launchpad and land, circling it. After the launch, we go to two other interesting places including some precision flying and landing challenges. Join me and have some fun as we head out together.

I better post them quick before we start our new adventures tomorrow. Check out these photos from last weekend’s group fly: https://myalbum.com/album/xYBwfLJEBQDw Come fly with us this weekend. Chat room choice Visit the stream and fly with us or watch: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

You can have a touchscreen AND a physical knob to control your instruments On Thursday, November 12th, 2100 Zulu, Howard steps us through the installation and configuration of a touchscreen to the cockpit. He will install Air Manager and then add the USB “Knobster” control to manage it all. Siminnovations Knobster does it all. As a second topic on Thursday, Howard will finish the configuration of his firewall and get the shared cockpit functionality working. Then test it for the first time with each of you. You can see where he is heading with this one. Many of you have requested a discord channel so we can all be “on the same frequency” at an airport in multiplayer, then use the shared cockpit when helping each other out with flying or flying lessons. Join in, see how it’s done and try it yourself. Stick around afterwards for a group fly. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly https://www.siminnovations.com/hardware/product/57-knobster Discord channel invite: https://discord.gg/jqSmaJcJKq

Come Group Fly with US in Rome, Italy That’s right, Howard is flying and Elaine is the tour guide as we fly out of Fiumicino airport (LIRF) (Leonardo Da Vinci airport) in Rome, Italy and tour the surrounding hills, then straight into the monuments that tourists flock to see. Along the way there are a couple of landing challenges for those who think they can do it. Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 at 4pm Eastern, 2100 Zulu and we expect hundreds of visitors watching the stream and 50 to 100 planes in the group flying together. Awesome! You won’t want to miss the final landing challenge and group fly of all the planes that make it at St. Peter’s square in the Vatican, just for fun. What a memory this will make. It’s not on my stream; it’s on Microsoft’s Official Flight Simulator stream: https://twitch.tv/MSFSOfficial Once you are there type !fly in chat to get the flight details.

Thousand Islands – Kingston Ontario Canada and Alert, Alert Here it is. In the rush all week with work and streams, I forgot to publish for everyone. https://myalbum.com/album/ChvpUw2FrJf8 Thanks to all who participated. It was a lot of fun. We group fly every weekend at 7am Eastern Saturdays and 7pm Eastern on Sundays.

Come fly with us in a very large group This is the big group fly that could bring from 30 to 100 planes in the air the same time. Once you get there, type !fly to see the flight plan, load it and away we go. I will be using the Icon A5 as we are doing two water landings, plus two other challenge landings. See you there: https://twitch.tv/MSFSOfficial

No, not an official Microsoft feature… yet Join me Thursday at 4pm eastern for the installation and testing of shared cockpit. This is not a Microsoft release, but rather a 3rd party utility most of us have been waiting for. Let’s see how good it is…. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

Join Howard Tuesday, November 3rd at 4pm Eastern for an in-depth lesson and demonstration on how to land properly using a flight simulator. The second-most requested lesson is on landing and airplane in Flight Simulator. For real-world pilots, ground school theory and many hours of practice with a CFI (Chief Flying Instructor) conditions us to automatically enter, adjust and land an airplane. Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 at 4pm Eastern Time, 9pm Zulu https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly For the rest of you who didn’t have the expense and the luxury of private tutor to help you with this in real planes, Howard takes you through the most important parts of a landing. Lesson first, then demonstrations of straight-in or circuit approaches. Instrument landings will happen in another lesson on another Tuesday. No matter what kind of airplane you wish to fly, the principles are the same. In preparation for this lesson, search the Internet for a “Pilot Operating Handbook” or POH of the airplane you regularly fly and wish to land properly. That manual is what every pilot carries in their flight bag and has to legally carry onboard every flight. It will have specific speeds and configurations for your airplane model. Howard will show Cessna 172 examples. See you in the session. -Howard Pilot, Author – Learn To Fly Courses on Udemy.com and Skillshare.com