Instrument Flight Basics
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- This lesson teaches you the critical skill of how to fly your airplane by only looking at the instruments using the "Control and Performance" method.
This video teaches:
- Classification of Instruments
- The Control and Performance method
- Primary vs Supporting Instruments
- Instrument Scanning Technique and Errors
- Demonstration of basic maneuvers in Instrument Flight
Comments and feedback are always welcome, so if this video helped you out hit the like button and let me know in the comments below. Cheers! 
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Awesome video very useful and interesting, alot of sim pilots ignore this aspect and this can separate the best pilots from the good pilots
The best flight tutorials around! I honestly think flight sims should have a direct link to this channel on their main menu.
By far!
i love these videos because they can really help aspiring pilots transition from sims to real aircraft. fantastic work
Thanks Qiang, as I am someone who came to be a real pilot with only sim experience previously that's good to hear :-)
Best video I've found on control and performance. Getting ready for CFII this week. Really nice to hear you lay out all the information a CFII should be giving their student.
Best of luck with the checkride!
Don't know about Air Combat tutorials but your basic instrument flight tutorial is really simple and dam good. Love it.
This is useful even when driving a motorcycle or a car!
Very clear, very precise. Super valuable ressources as always.
Well I dunno how useful it could be in a car...but definitely airplanes! :-)
You are an absolute gem brother. Learned the backbone of my digital aviation knowledge from you and I always come back to refresh. Hope you are making good progress since your post saying you'd be MIA for a while. Be safe in your travels, friend.
Thanks Toxic, yeah I've been busy with RL flying but I'm always around to some degree depending on the workload!
One of the most useful videos your put out. Keep up the excellent work
Thanks Haurdead, it's something I think sim pilots tend to not worry about doing properly so I'm glad to have done it :-)
So very useful. I know when to keep my eyes in the cockpit but this tutorial will help me be more efficient during those times. The climbs and descents were particularly interesting.
I hope it does help you fly better Corsair, so give it a try and let us know! :-)
Top quality information and instruction as always!
Meriwether Thanks! It’s the same thing I would teach my students, so I tried hard to show how I would be looking around. In reality my eyes move much faster and peripheral vision plays a part, but what you see is a good starting point
Nice video. Looking forward introduction of P-47 and turbo system. Thank you for your contribution.
I can't believe I missed this video. I need to rummage through your videos again. as always good stuff.
Side note, a while back I decided to fly by instruments only. I even put a thick cloud cover to keep myself from cheating. In about a 30 minute flight, I went vertical twice. Anyway, by the end of the flight, I learned what to look at to keep a level flight and to do maneuvers.
Yeah this one is kind of hidden, I may have to make a series using MSFS to show this kind of basic stuff in a more traditional sense. If you're not accustomed to flying IFR it's definitely difficult!
Thank you very much for your high quality content
Much appreciated MrCarvion, thanks!
Very cool video. Thanks for posting.
These videos are so helpful. Thanks so much!
Cheers Karl, glad you liked this one! It's an important skill to learn and can definitely help you survive if someone chases you into clouds :-)
Just what I needed, thank you!
No worries, I hope it helps you stay under control within the clouds!
Great stuff my friend!
This probably was and is my favorite channel on all things air combat theory related. I wonder how you're doing, brother. Hope you are all well. Wish you strength and courage on all your paths.
Thanks Stieglitz, I appreciate you checking in :-) I'm doing great, moved to Boston just over a week ago now and am getting everything sorted out here before I can start making content again. It won't be long until I'm back up and running though
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So glad to hear, man. Wish you all the best and a quick and smooth transition to your new life. And while you're there, throw some tea over board for me, will ya?! Cheers*
+RequiemBoS *Instrument layouts have evolved with the gauges.* U. S. aircraft circa 1940 would stack the airspeed and altimeter to near left of the attitude gyro, vertical speed and ADF bearing to far left, tachometer and manifold pressure to near right, engine pressure/temperature and fuel quantities to far right. The turn and slip was usually below the attitude gyro, and the directional gyro could be either above or below the attitude gyro. Today's jets have some of the instruments combined; the modern attitude director indicator places the slid-skip ball and yaw rate needle at the bottom. Some modern secondary performance gauges (e.g. the vertical speed and angle-of-attack in the USAF/Lockheed Martin F-16C) are actually 1/2-3ATI sized to fit gaps around the airspeed/Mach, altimeter and ADI.
Fantastic video!
Hopefully you can use it help escape one day, not a whole lot of pilots are comfortable flying solely by instruments :-)
I really like your content. Reminds me of the great Ironhand DCS lessons. Very professional.
Thanks Hank, as a flight instructor I'd be doing you guys a disservice if I didn't keep up a semblance of professionalism in these videos LOL
Good work on this. I like the method for eyeing the gauges.
Thanks for the feedback Jughead, I wasn't sure it would work initially when I thought of doing it that way (as my scan is faster than what I show) but it appears people like it so that's good :-)
As always Great Stuff Requiem....
Thanks Jerry, hope all's going well with you mate :-)
Instrumental to fly through clouds, without virtual horizon the ground comes in fast!
Yeah it does. An average statistic of an untrained pilot flying in instrument conditions has them surviving about 3 minutes until they die.
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very useful! i always wondered how to do that properly
Now you know! It might save your "virtual" life one day :-)
1) How to execute smooth, IFR leveling off, if a plane has no variometer? Like Bf-109?
2) German fighters like Fw have variometers in m/s anyway, so I think they used different rules of thumb for IFR leveling off?
Without a VSI you'll have to watch your altimeter and control the rate at which the needle approaches the desired altitude. Basically don't let it go crazy fast...
Like it? I LOVE it!!
Good to hear Rap, it's definitely one of the skills in flying that takes practice and patience to be good at. You rarely see missions requiring it in Il-2. In Flying Circus though it's even more useful as an escape maneuver (if you really need it) because of the lack of many of these gauges, so very few people can attempt to follow you through an overcast layer.
@@RequiemsACTL Ahhh... YES! I see where you're coming from on that one. What with this and armed with my new (phew!) VKB stick I shall get right onto it and master the art (SO much better than the T.16000!!!)!! The only thing my ancient brain has a BIT of problems with is quickly ID-ing the Russian gauges but I guess that's just a bit more of a looking at before takeoff eh?
Well done video! We could have used that on last Sundays ACG flyout :D
HungrigerHugo89 Bugger! Sorry for being a week late! Haha
Thanks for all these outstanding videos, you presentations are so clear and consistant, make learning and applying the tips much more efficient
@@hammeringhutch9613 thanks! I try hard to keep what I do nice and consistent so no matter what video you watch you will know what to expect :-)
Thanks for useful tutorial. BTW why don't you have your slip indicator perfectly centered ?
The joys of flying on a computer swivel chair which can make precise adjustments harder sometimes, so what shows as centered makes my body feel pretty crooked at the time. I'll just accept the minor error as it's a lower priority than maintaining heading/altitude/airspeed accurately. Much easier in RL. Of course, nobody is perfect though so that's another good reason too LOL
You must be a great pilot being able to fly so well on a wobbly chair. As for me my rudder is a helicopter-style VKB T-rudder which works be pressing the ball of my foot while my heel rests on the floor so it doesn't cause my chair to wobble (because I also have a swivel chair). And as a nice bonus helicopter-style rudders are more accurate because a heli pilot needs to make more frequent & precise tail-rotor adjustments. Furthermore my joystick is screwed-down on my desk. It takes about a minute to screw/unscrew it so it is not too bad. When all your flight gear has no slack it does make a huge difference, at least for me.
@@wheelwrightpl9429 Ah ok that sounds pretty good. My pedals are the MFG crosswinds and my HOTAS is loose on the desk so things can get interesting sometimes! Hoping to be able to make a proper simpit one day with everything set in position to not worry about it anymore.
I'm looking to buy IL-2 BoS, but have some questions. First off, do the AAA fire at you when you approach them in IMC? Secondly, what is the extent to which radio navigation is modelled in the game? As far as I know it has some representation of NDB systems, but some (mostly German) aircraft seem to have navigation instruments which display glide slope, is this modelled or not?
Thank you for your time.
Hey Siim. I believe line of sight is implemented for the AI airplanes, but I'm not sure about the AAA. The radio navigation is simple at the moment with simple NDB types. The glideslope indicator on the AFN-2 for example doesn't work yet.
To clear that up a bit, AFAIK it functions both as a glideslope indicator for the Lorenz landing system and signal strength indicator for the AFN-2. I'm not an expert on this however, so I might be mistaken.
Thank you for your timely reply, it seems I have some testing to do then. :)
would be great to have an ep before this explaining the instruments themselves
Sure I could do that. That topic is a bit more theory heavy than usual though.
I find myself focusing on one instrument too much. I need to remind myself to scan !!!
Yep you really do sometimes, when you neglect the other instruments the airplane ends up doing what it wants and not what you want. It doesn't take long to end up in trouble if you're not careful
Life expectancy of ANY visual-only trained pilot in zero visibility instrument meteorological conditions.
45 seconds.
While this is a very good "hot" tutorial, it promotes a pile of crap. both methods have practical problems. When you teach and watch students learn, you see what works best and thats the pragmatic approach. Never mind the theory, what enables you to do maneuvers best. In most parts of flight including S&L, Airspeed is primary pitch in reality, because its the first indication of a change in attitude that cannot be seen on the AH. Then its the VSI before the Altimeter. Miss the Airspeed, then you might see the VSI and last comes the Altimeter before that AH.