A saying was given to me by my CFII when I was training: "Remember, your autopilot is always trying to kill you!"

You are the best Flight Instructor on KZread. Here is wishing one day you become a real one. Many thanks for all the informative uploads.

Your entire FSX series is very helpful. Thank you for putting them together.

@Doofer911

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, thanks very much for watching the videos :)

Yes in deed, 700 meter per second (@ 8:58) is steep for a cessna. thank you for this series!

OMG I LOOKED FOR SO MANY TUTORIALS this one is the most clear, the most newbie friendly tut i have ever seen. sucscribed after 1 sec

@Doofer911

8 жыл бұрын

+LikeYou Welcome to the channel! glad I could help :)

I'm relying on you now Doofer. Love your presentation and teaching skills. I turn to you for all your available tutorials. Thanks again.

@Doofer911

6 жыл бұрын

I'll do my best to continue to improve the quality and value of future videos. Thanks very much for your support :)

Hello from Germany. Thanks for the great tutorial on the autopilot. You did it very nicely and explained clearly. I will certainly look at some other viedeos from you . Once I have more information or to inquire about specific areas. Greetings from Germany

Great video, can you do one similar to the autopilot in the pa32 saratoga. I have that plane from carenado but the auto pilot looks different from all the others I've seen and i can figure out how to use it.

Your videos are so informative and easy to watch, I use them for backing up information and consolidating understanding for my Air Cadets, keep it up, we are able to fly our simulator with more in-depth understand. Thanks

@Doofer911

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, I'm honored that my videos are good enough for Air Cadets to learn from! Thank you :)

@ChadMcFarland_CanadaEHTeam

5 жыл бұрын

@@Doofer911 - I know this video is older now, but I'm a former pilot (CPL 2003). Never did end up working in the post 9/11 industry unfortunately. Have just started playing FSX and am enjoying re-learning all the things I've forgotten. Your videos are in many ways better explanations than I had in ground school. Probably because learning from a video and seeing the simulator in action clicks a lot easier than trying to visualize how it should work or look. Makes me want to get back in the air again. Some of the best times of my life was learning to fly. Thanks for the vids and the information!

Another Doofer911 Brilliant instruction video. thanks

@Doofer911

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it :)

I would just add that I think you are doing a great job. Pat on shoulder.

I just love VFR. Literally fly anywhere

Greetings -- great video; nicely done. If I may point out one small error, at 8:58 you state that the default climb rate in the Cessna is 700 meters per second. It's actually 700 feet per minute. (700 m/sec is about Mach 2.0, LOL!)

@rmsjr74

8 жыл бұрын

(fyi, I did notice that you do correctly state it as feet per minute later in the video. :-) )

@Doofer911

8 жыл бұрын

+Rob Shearman Jr. haha a Cessna going at Mach 2! Yeah there's probably plenty more mistakes like that in my videos! Just trying to fly, read and explain all at the same time, my mind kinda gets muddled sometimes. But hopefully everyone knows what I mean!

@rmsjr74

8 жыл бұрын

+Doofer911 not just *going* mach 2, but *climbing* at mach 2, haha! :-)

@Doofer911

8 жыл бұрын

+Rob Shearman Jr. Yeah I was flying one of them new rocket powered Cessnas, you not seen them?! :P

@kobra444gaming4

6 жыл бұрын

sonds like a personal problem

Can you please do one on the carenado caravan ex I don't know how to enter the gps mode. Help please.

Great stuff!

Just got back into FSX. I recall an issue that I have rediscovered... I have buttons on a button box mapped to the AP. When I use those buttons to activate the AP heading or Altitude the heading snaps to current heading and the altitude snaps to current altitude erasing the desired settings I had input to the AP. If I mouse click on the relative AP buttons it works as intended and the aircraft responds to my AP inputs. Thoughts? Thanks! Dave

I think a good way to describe the difference between course and heading is this. -- the course would be like the amount of degrees you are planning to fly or the direction it wants you to fly, and the heading would be like the actual physical movement of the aircraft banking to a certain heading on 10, 20, or 30 degrees.

@Doofer911

6 жыл бұрын

Nope, the movement of the plane is "Rolling", the plane will "Roll" to a "Bank Angle" of 10, 20, 30 degrees. Heading is the direction that the nose of the plane is pointing, Course is the direction the plane is flying over the ground and isn't necessarily the same as the Heading. For example, if you're flying with a crosswind, you have to angle the plane into the wind and the plane will drift sideways through the air, therefore the Heading and Course would be different.

When I activate the autopilot, the plane points the nose down for a few seconds before going nose up to hold the vertical climb. Is that a glitch, or does the plane do that in real life?

Hey Doofer excellent video as usual! Could you make one for beginners on how to learn to fly in FSX from beginning to end. For example when I replicate your Inverness flights I have no problems. Rod Machado ground school is excellent but the tutorials are bug filled frustrations that could put you off flying altogether forever! Why do you use an add on Cessna. Are the controls better You get the gist of what beginners need?

@Doofer911

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, if you follow the "FSX Tutorials Series" playlist on my channel, that will take you from the absolute basics of flight simulation as if you've never flown an aircraft ever before, and every video is designed to build your knowledge of flying little by little.

love your video

everytime I switch on my autopilot master switch ( CMD A ) my 737 begins to tumble out of control...can someone list the exact steps for activating simple autopilot straight and level flight...thanks

Good Video. Thanks

why is it in some planes the AP will not show 500ft increments for altitude only whole thousand feet numbers?. BK AP.

Good video...but show example.of flight in Airbus also as you did in Cessna...

All your views are great..... Have you ever considered doing one on DC3's ? bob saunders

@Doofer911

8 жыл бұрын

+Bob Saunders I don't normally go for the older planes but I might try a video with one. It is such an iconic aircraft after all!

New sub here! Awesome video, it really helped!

@Doofer911

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad, mission accomplished! haha

That was helpful to see the various vfr and ifr scenarios for the atc. Something I shied away from.

Another very useful vid but I would suggest that you enlarge that radio stack to make your moves even clearer. My final gripe for June!

@Doofer911

9 жыл бұрын

***** Thanks for the constructive criticism, I'll definitely learn how to enlarge parts of the video to make button clicks/mouse movement more prominent :)

@Kyrelel

7 жыл бұрын

I believe he means that you should press Shift+2 to bring up the radio stack in a "pop up" window

Thank you for this video about the AP. It is very helpful. The aircraft (C-172) I have been using for training has an AP just like the one in the video, but I've never received any instruction on it. I don't know if it is so simple as some would say, but I guess in aviation I don't want to think that anything is simple. I mean, I don't want to underestimate even the simplest equipment and lead to an incident. I liked your point about one needs to use the AP within the aircraft's limitations. This reminds us how important it is the basics we have learned. If you don't mind me asking, I would like to know how to change the VS on the AP in the aircraft. Is it the same UP and Down bottoms for the altitude? The video only show how to do it on the simulator. I appreciate it.

@Doofer911

6 жыл бұрын

*DO NOT USE THIS VIDEO AS INSTRUCTION FOR A REAL AP UNIT!* Speak to your instructor about using a real world Autopilot unit. The Autopilot in FSX is a simpler version of real world autopilots and they work quite differently. In *FSX*, the up and down buttons are used to adjust the Vertical Speed.

Can you please do a video about the autopilot in the A2A Simulations Cessna 172?

@Doofer911

8 жыл бұрын

I might do, I know that it functions completely different to the default autopilot.

@okhouri

8 жыл бұрын

+Doofer911 Thanks a lot. You owe it to us considering that i bought after seeing you use it :)

How do I I set both values of target altitude/VS in the real plane with just one set of up/down buttons (3:30 bendix autopilot type)? Thanks, Petr :)

@Doofer911

5 жыл бұрын

It would be best to consult the Owners Manual for a real Bendix King Autopilot control panel. It doesn't work the same as it does in FSX, I know that much.

very useful

How can i calculate of define the vertical speed in simple planes ?

@OLGMC

7 жыл бұрын

Mohamed Faysal For a normal (comfortable) 3° descent angle it's very simple, just multiply your ground speed by 5. If you are flying 100kt , you would aim for a 500fpm descent. If your main concern is to lose X feet in X time than just take the formula V(speed, in this case your VS) = D (distance, in this case your feet that you want to loose) divided by T (time, in minutes). If you want to loose for example 4500ft in 5 minutes you take a 900fpm descent (4500/5).

Hi Doofer. Again from sunny Cape Town. I hope you can help me out. When flying the A2A 172 in level flight and press the Auto pilot button the plane just starts shooting up like a rocket. I have read the manual so many times and cannot seem to find anything. It seems as if there is some sort of preset and whenever I engage the AP it just does it own thing. I have watched your tutorial re AP (several times many times) and gone through your steps. But F%&***&% nothing works. Steam edition of FSX

@Doofer911

7 жыл бұрын

The A2A Autopilot doesn't function like the standard FSX version. If I remember correctly, you need to dial in your target altitude, select "Arm" then select a vertical speed.

Hello. So what is the use of Flight Director? And I still cannot get the meaning of 0.00 shown in the speed box? What is it? ((I can't get it probably because I cannot understand the difficult English. Maybe typing it out will be clearer for me)) Thanks for your great video!!!

@Doofer911

8 жыл бұрын

+King Lim Pang The Flight Director will draw some crosshairs on the Attitude Indicator. This is to help you manually fly the plane to the Altitude and Heading you want. As for 0.00, that is the Mach speed of the aircraft. During the Cruise phase of flight, the speed is usually measured as Mach speed rather than Knots. For example, a plane might fly at Mach 0.75 during Cruise.

@kinglimpang8067

8 жыл бұрын

+Doofer911 I see. So the cross shown in the altitude indicator is given by the data you put in the autopilot box?

what's the intro you use?

@Doofer911

7 жыл бұрын

It's a custom made one my friend made. He was studying how to use After Effects I think so he made me an intro as a little project to test himself. You can find some more of his work here: kzread.infovideos

Nice Tuto 911

@8.58 you said vertical speed it would be 700 meter / Second, correction that would be 700 feet/minute

Thanks

@Doofer911

7 жыл бұрын

No prob :)

My autopilot has suddenly started to work in increments of 1,000 instead of 100 any ideas?

How you change verticalspeed in real chesna. sure you cant click displays :)

@Doofer911

7 жыл бұрын

Press the "Up" and "Dn" buttons ;)

@JarppaGuru

7 жыл бұрын

Haha I guess so😃

I know you all couldnt find find a heading switch in the cessna and confused :D