Lessons driving me crazy

**kennethpardue** · 08-02-2003, 05:24 PM

As part of my own personal 'settling in' process for a new version of Flight Simulator, I like to go through and complete all of the flying lessons. However, they appear to be extremely buggy in this version!

I'm on the 3rd lesson of Student Pilot. Mr. Machado seems to like to make the airplane do really nutty things while trying to 'show me' how to do it. First, while he's demonstrating a climb, he goes WAY beyond the 13 degree limit, and causes the VSI to go through the roof, finally settling back to where it should be.

Then, he wants me to do a power off descent at 90 knots, all the while after saying, 'You'll only have to lower the nose a degree or three to do this'. To do hold 90 kts, with complete power at idle, I have to have like 10 degrees nose down! His instructions about the flaps aren't quite dandy, either. Half the time, the lesson breaks because I have to descend too fast to give him time to say what he needs to say because I'm having to hold such a nose down attitude.

Then, when climbing back to 5,000 feet, he nearly stalls the plane! Pretty consistently every time, too!

Now's the #####, I'm supposed to make a idle power descent while turning. Well, I do that, turning to the right at 20 degree bank while descending to 4,000. He doesn't instruct me (unless I'm really being deaf/ADD here) to turn to the left when I reach 3,000, but I read that on the screen. Well, I do that, and only a glimpse of the message "Fantastic Job!" flashes on the screen before going away, and from there on I'm set on a collision course with a mountain in the distance waiting for good ol' Rod to tell me something (apparently he's passed out from me making such steep descents!).

Thoughts/observations on this?

Kenneth

**eacevedo** · 08-02-2003, 06:00 PM

I'm waiting that some reviewer like Andrew Herd or other sim experts make a review or some comments about the lessons and features for new flight simmers in this new version of Flight Simulator.

Are the lessons the same from FS2002 or were they improved? What about quality and what kind of faults they have?

It sems that nobody take care of new fellows that want to go into this fascinating world of flight simming.

regards

eacevedo

**evh347** · 08-02-2003, 07:08 PM

There have been some observations earlier:

Lessons in general:
http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID21/2089.html

ATP Checkride
http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID21/1715.html

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...0a18b677a8.jpg

**kennethpardue** · 08-02-2003, 08:56 PM

Oh yeah, one other thing... I might add that good ol' Rod tells me to go ahead and start lowering a notch of flaps after my airspeed drops below 110 knots, even though the required speed is 100 knots, and I've already been yelled at for not having my speed at 90 knots!

Kenneth

**kennethpardue** · 08-03-2003, 11:00 AM

Another lil' inconsistency: on Student Pilot Lesson 5, Takeoffs, Rod tells me after the lesson is completed that I can exit the lesson by pressing the escape key or restart by pressing the semicolon key, but it doesn't give me that option because it automatically ends after he finishes his little speech. I'd expect more attention to detail from Microsoft.

Kenneth

**Flying_Scott** · 08-03-2003, 11:20 AM

Hmm,

This sounds interesting, I did one lesson to see how they were and I did EXACTLY what he told me and he's like keep the nose level(or something along those lines) when I had it perfectly level in straight and level flight! He finally said Oh you aren't getting this, we'll move onto the next part. It kind of frustrated me so I took the First Solo ride and passed it. Although it showed the Private Pilot certificate, hmmm?