Great! Excellent! Well worth the money. Very detailed instructions and how-to examples, with plenty of explanations and pictures to help. Nicely done.

Whether you're wanting to learn game play or of aviation, this book beautifully intertwines the game with reality. Want to learn how to climb? Read the manual. Want to learn how to climb and why it climbs? This is your manual.

As I write this review, I think back to when I was a kid who had a passion for aviation in the early/mid 90's, and taking off in the Learjet from old Meigs Field along the Chicago waterfront. It was nothing fancy, and there were no yokes and rudder pedals connected to the computer...just the arrows on the keyboard, F4 for full throttle, etc. And what felt like 5fps if you were lucky (rolling eyes). But in 2002, when I started pursuing my PPL, I was able to take basic concepts from even those times of clicking the arrows, and applied it to real flying. At 10.5 hours, my instructor signed me off for solo flight, since I had been able to pick things up so quickly, and I definitely give some credit to the flight simulator growing up.

As I skip ahead to the present day, I think about what it would've been like to have this book growing up. It's basically like having a certified flight instructor sitting next to you at all times, whose brain you can pick whenever you have a question. I bought this book about 4 years ago since I hadn't flown in real life for awhile, so I could refresh my memory on things that I knew I had started to forget, but also I bought it just to have. I never imagined the amount of information it'd have in it. The book begins with the most basic information from the physics of flight, to teaching you how to conduct a GPS approach. You will also learn how to read an approach plate and land in one mile visibility with an ILS approach. It also is such a great source of reference for just anytime you want to read-up on something you already know about and apply it with practice on the simulator. It also has a really good section for helping to learn some of the basics of the "glass cockpit," in the event you're about to be transitioning from the old gauges to the Garmin-1000!!!

I now have twins who will be sitting behind the yoke in the computer room soon. My boy has actually already grabbed it a few times, but at 19 months he's not quite there yet...haha But when the day comes, this book will basically allow me to be his flight instructor. The information in this book is worth thousands of dollars when you consider the cost of a flight instructor ($22 an hour in 2002-03 was cheap compared to what they probably are now). I recommend buying this book for any person who has a simulator, whether you're new to flying or a veteran. If you're planning on pursuing aviation in real-life, it will save you A LOT of money long-term, since you won't have to practice so much on a real plane!

I received my pilots license in 1955. The book was a gift for my Grandson who has shown an interest after taking him on a flight recently. The book seems to cover all the basics which will be good reading for anyone interest in acquiring a license to fly. I acquired some 4600 hours over the years
and I hope he will be "addicted" to all the pleasures I have had over the past 61 years.This book is a very good introduction to flying.

This is one of the best how-to books on MSFSX I have read. It ranks up there with any number of awesome youtube videos in its explanation of flight concepts, flight and system dynamics, and the possibilities and limitations of MSFSX default aircraft and systems. It takes a gradual, systematic, step-by-step approach from relatively simple, single-engine aircraft through multi-engined aircraft with simulations of relatively modern and complex instrumentation systems (communications, GPS and glass cockpits, for example). If one follows the book's approach section by section in flying the MSFSX aircraft, by the end of the book, the reader has progressed to a Boeing 737, is capable of flying trans-continental or even trans-oceanic flights in a simulated real world environment. The included flightplans and lessons are both clear and concise. I'd recommend this book for anyone trying to learn more about using MSFSX rather than just "yanking and banking" a plane on the Easy setting.