X Plane 10 Part 4

X Plane 10 Part 4 : Full Flight Grand Finale!

 I hope you enjoyed the series, but this is the Grand Finale!!! Read the others before you read this. You are going to fly to an airport on the other side of the mountains in Honolulu. Check your map. Once you click the 3 lines, you can modify the flight. Click on it and make sure you are on advanced. Set the crosswind to 15 knots. If it has been on 10 the whole time, good job! You should be able to handle it. Turn up the turbulence a bit. Turn up the rain and set the bottom cloud height to 20000 feet. Storminess can be turned up if you want, but do that another time. Now go back into the game and takeoff at the default runway at the default airport. Turn towards those mountains in the distance. You need to be at about 3000 feet to get over them. Set your flaps to 0° and steeply climb. Use your HUD to figure out if you will hit the mountain. Once you are over the mountains, set your flaps to 10° and push forward. Spiral down till 1500 feet and then set your flaps to 20°. Slow down to 80 knots. Once you go over the little green island in the middle of the water, put your flaps to full. Slow down and hold 65 knots. When you are over the runway, flare. You should have learned that. Taxi and park somewhere and I am going to tell you about something. I have a challenge for you. Try and fly to every airport and land on the same runway. The weather can be different but you cannot cheat. You can do this over any period of time. If you complete it, comment below. Thanks and see you in another series!

X Plane 10 Part 3

X Plane 10 : Part 3 : Cruising, Landing and Using the Map

This is kind off the grand finale of X Plane 10 tutorials but I will do let’s plays on this video. Remember to always read Part 1 and 2. Part 1 is the basics. Part 2 covers takeoff. I will do a comparison document where the computer version competes against Flight Simulator X : Steam Edition. Anyway, always remember to use another device to read this because you cannot multitask in iOS 9 with X Plane 10. Use your PC and remember this is for iPads only. Usually I would say Laptops or PCs only. I guess now iPad users feel special! I am going to land at the long runway at Kilo Bravo Foxtrot India or KBFI. How do I know the airport? Swipe from the far left to the right. There is an arrow there. The map should open. Pinch to zoom and drag to check out the whole map, but your plane will stay in the same place, or if you paused, it will stay there. Click on the blue or red outline or circle of each airport to find out the name. You can click final to be set up on the glide slope, but I like flying full flights. The Cessna has fixed landing gear so you do not need to lower it. Lower your flaps to 10 degrees. As you get closer put it down to 20 degrees and your speed should be 80 knots . When you put it down to 40 degrees, you will slow down a lot and even might end up stalling, so you want to wait till you are very close. Once you cannot see the start of the runway, put your flaps to full. You should be very low! Pilots do something called flaring. I am good at flaring. To flare you must be at 60 knots. When you are close to touching down, pull back gently and put your throttle to idle or 0%. You should gently touch the ground. Push forward to let your nose wheel touchdown. Turn on the brakes and release them at 10 knots. Park anywhere (except the runways or taxiways) and you have finished! If you ran into birds, you would be in trouble. Thanks for reading! Bye!

X Plane 10 Part 2

X Plane 10 : Part 2

 After reading my first post, you must be interested in how to play. Today, I am going to do that and teach you how to takeoff and set up. Click on free flight to go to the screen. Choose your aircraft. You must unlock your aircraft before playing with it. The Cessna 172 will be used for this tutorial, as I use FSX for laptops to play with jumbos! Click the next icon of a mountain to choose your location. Choose Seatac, WA for this tutorial. Choose the weather. Go to advanced mode to set some other fun stuff. I am going to make it sunny and clear. Choose the time of play. I like flying by day. Finally, choose failures. Click set all to working. I think we will talk about failures later as it was made too complicated! When you click fly, you should pop into the screen. Hold it comfortably. That will be the center of controls. You should have learned in the last tutorial how to do things, so if you did not read it, read back as you will not know how to do things. Set your flaps to 10° or dragging down on the button once. The button is in the bottom right of your screen. Now throttle up to full and turn of your parking brakes in the bottom left corner. Use your rudder to control the aircraft. Hit the three lines to pause now. Go to the cockpit view. Watch for 60 knots. Then, you can takeoff. You can go up at 55, but in case you stall out because you are new, we are going to use a 5 knot safety cushion and 60 is on the speed display. 55 is not on it. Once you get 60 knots, point your nose up to 10° by looking in the HUD. Once you start to lose speed, or you are at 1000 feet (our cruising altitude), drag up once on the button. Tap on the near top of the screen and click ALT to hold the altitude. Fly and line up with a runway and then read the next piece, being published tomorrow. If you want to play with your friend, click create server. Choose all the settings and then wait in the lobby. Invite a friend to play and they should get the invitation in Game Center. When he or she accepts, click the check mark in the bottom right. Then click fly if there is an option to load up the multiplayer server. It could also just take you straight into the game. Enjoy playing with your friends and happy flying!