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FS2004 flying lessons - useful training or not?
EHM-1465 Dominic:
Hi everyone,
I've been doing a bit of VFR flying on EHM tours recently and this made me think I should really complete the flying lessons included in FS2004 - I started them when I first got it but didn't get past the private pilot checkride... :'(
So I've just started on the Commercial lessons, and I've replaced the default Beech Baron with our VFA one (and I've repainted it blue - sorry Robert but I'm not very keen on brown ;D )
In fact, I've replaced the aircraft for all the lessons with EuroHarmony ones... The lessons are quite useful - reminding me of lots of good flying tips I've forgotten.
My question to everyone is, have others completed the lessons and what did you all think of them?
I think it could be a useful extension of the Virtual Flight Academy, if EHM pilots were able to practise their basic flight skills on EHM aircraft and it's the easiest thing in the world to change the aircraft you fly the lessons in...;)
So, what do you think? Useful training aid or annoying distraction...?
EHM-1821 Javier:
hi dom1! i do not know if it is really too useful but it helps to prepare u for bad situations.however, the bad part is that if u land properly without mr rod machado saying that u can land, it is considered a crash.
by the way,how do you replace the aircraft?
EHM-0654 Murray:
Dom(inic),
Definitely useful, but my own opinion is that actually completing the PP checkride was made too difficult in FS2004.
I've been considering going back and doing the checkride now that I've got a couple of years flying in FS2004 under my belt, figure I might actually be able to complete the tight turn now.
EHM-1703 Philip:
Hey everybody, Murray is going back to school! That makes him a mature student! :P
EHM-1465 Dominic:
Dear 1821,
If you want to replace the aircraft in the lessons with another one all you need to do is go into your main FS2004 folder, open the Lessons folder and in that you'll see other folders for the different 'licence' types - "comm" for commercial pilot, "instr" for the instrument rating...
Open the folder for the lessons you want to practice and you'll see lots of icons, you should find that there will be three with the same name for each lesson and checkride, and of these one will be a weather file marked .wx at the end, one will be .abl (the adventure language that lets Mr Machado talk to you...) and the other should have a plane icon and is the one you want - the .flt file.
Open this file up with Notepad or some other text editor (right click over the icon and select 'Open with' then scroll down to Notepad). Once it's open scroll about halfway down the file and you should see a section marked [Plane.0]
In this section is the name of the aircraft that the lesson will use ie Aircraft=Beech Baron 58.
All you need to do is change this to the name of the plane you want to fly instead, which you will find in the relevant aircraft configuration file (aircraft.cfg) in the folder of the plane you want to fly. Look in the 'title' line:
eg [fltsim.0]
title=Beech Baron 58
Copy the title and paste it into the section of the .FLT file and save it, then next time you try that lesson your chosen aircraft will be there...
One word of caution, many of the lessons are set up around the power settings and speeds of a particular aircraft so if you change it to a different type, you probably won't be able to complete the lesson !! It is useful for changing to a different livery though...
Hope this helps,
Dom
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