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Instrument Simming 21st Century
INSTRUMENT SIMMING 21st CENTURY
Simulate instrument flight like a certified pilot!
Learn About
- Instrument flight definition and description
- Rules regarding instrument conditions
- Aviation Instruments
- Instrument procedures and charts
- Instrument flight plans
- Planning and preparing instrument flights
- Taxiing and taking off by instruments
- Flying en route by instruments
- Arriving and approaching by instruments
Rules Regarding Instrum... INSTRUMENT SIMMING 21st CENTURY
Simulate instrument flight like a certified pilot!
Learn About
- Instrument flight definition and description
- Rules regarding instrument conditions
- Aviation Instruments
- Instrument procedures and charts
- Instrument flight plans
- Planning and preparing instrument flights
- Taxiing and taking off by instruments
- Flying en route by instruments
- Arriving and approaching by instruments
Rules Regarding Instrument Flight
- Visibility
- Airspaces
- Flight types
- Aircraft requirements
- Pilot requirements
Flight Plan Requirements
- Mandated content
- Fuel calculations
- Filing with ATC
Flight Restrictions
- Take-off minimums
- Weather minimums
- Landing minimums
Instrument Procedures
- Standard instrument departures
- Standard terminal arrivals
- Instrument approaches
Instrument Charts
- En route
- Airport departure, arrival, and approach
- Reading instrument charts
- Where to get instrument charts
A Comprehensive Manual
- Nine distinct chapters
- Two appendices
- Instrument-flight exercises
- Definitions of acronyms and abbreviations
Find Needed Information Quickly And Easily
- Well organized and clearly written
- Divided into relevant chapters
- Supported with images and tables
- Headings and lists throughout
- Step-by-step instruction
- Written in plain English
- Convenient format
Wide Application
- For all home flight simmers
- For anywhere in the world
- For any home flight-simulation program
- Microsoft
- X-Plane
- P3D
Written and Published by Professionals
- Experienced flight simmers
- Certified pilots
- Trained writers and editors
Common Compatibility
Readable with any program that reads portable document format (PDF) files such as:
- Adobe
- Nitro
- Kindle
- Libre
- Nook
If your e-reader displays PDF files, it will display Instrument Simming 21st Century.
Particulars
- Dimensions: Standard A5:
- 148 mm by 210 mm
- 5. 8 inches by 8. 3 inches
- Ebook file size: 4. 4 mb
- Self-extractihng EXE file size: 6. 5 mb
- Instructions included
- 157 pages
Includes Free V-Speed Card
- Most common general aviation V-Speeds
- Minimums, maximum, and optimums
- Listed by abbreviation, alphabetically on one side
- Listed by abbreviation, by relative speed on other side
- Clearly described
- Applies universally, not to any particular aircraft
- Free with purchase of this flight-sim book
Includes Official Flight Planning Form
Use this handy printable form to lay out your required IFR flight plans before filing them into your simulator.
Focus and Limits
Instrument Simming 21st Century describes and explains advanced aviation knowledge needed for truly realistic instrument simulations. It applies to most aircraft, airports, airspaces, and simulators. It does not focus on any particular airport, aircraft, airspace, or simulator.
This manual is for home flight-simulation computer programs. It is based on real aviation laws, regulations, and procedures so home flight-simulation enthusiasts can maximize their enjoyment. Because some aspects of home flight-simulation games are not exactly like real-world aviation, some information in this book is not exactly like real flight. That is why Instrument Simming 21st Century is not intended for and should not be used for real-world flight or lessons. No liability is accepted for any misuse of this manual. – Bill Stack, author
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Satisfaction Guaranteed
A lot of time and effort has been invested by me and others toward making a quality product that is useful to people. Any book with physical defects will be replaced at no cost. If you can show that the content of Instrument Simming 21st Century is not as described, your money will be refunded. If you find facts that you believe are in error, please let me know so I can evaluate them. – Bill Stack, Author
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Jaydee´s Efb - Checklist App
This addon integrates an app into the defautl MSFS 2024 EFB, which allows you to show all the checklists I created.
This is similar to my Ingame Toolbar Checklists Mod, which is available for free on flightsim. to.
The only big difference, besides the integration into the EFB instead of the toolbar at the top of the screen is, that the EFB APP also works in the career mode, at least for now.
I cannot guarantee that this will always be the case, since MS/Asobo could one da... This addon integrates an app into the defautl MSFS 2024 EFB, which allows you to show all the checklists I created.
This is similar to my Ingame Toolbar Checklists Mod, which is available for free on flightsim. to.
The only big difference, besides the integration into the EFB instead of the toolbar at the top of the screen is, that the EFB APP also works in the career mode, at least for now.
I cannot guarantee that this will always be the case, since MS/Asobo could one day decide to supress or disable EFB apps in career mode too, like they did with other regular mods.
This addon contains no checklists itself, but only the pure EFB APP integration. All checklists are streamed from a server and new checklists added by me, will be shown automatically in the mod.
All checklists and the Ingame Toolbar Checklists Mod will always be availaible for free on flightsim. to.
My checklist collection includes over 50 handcrafted checklists with procedures mainly created for beginners. Some of the checklists are also available with inverted colors to be used as kind of a dark mode
If you want to see a complete list of all current checklists, check out the free toolbar version.
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K-fs-sim-tool On Sale
This application is for use with flight simulators.
K-fs-sim-tool is a cross-platform aviation utility app designed to assist with:
- Top of Descent Calculation
- Required Descent Rate calculation
- ETE & ETA Calculation
- METAR & TAF Retrieval
- Airline Flight Code finder ( Airline ICAO/IATA codes, call sign, etc. )
- Route Finder (where to fly?)This application is for use with flight simulators.
K-fs-sim-tool is a cross-platform aviation utility app designed to assist with:
- Top of Descent Calculation
- Required Descent Rate calculation
- ETE & ETA Calculation
- METAR & TAF Retrieval
- Airline Flight Code finder ( Airline ICAO/IATA codes, call sign, etc. )
- Route Finder (where to fly?)
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Kinetic Assistant+
Kinetic Assistant is a SimConnect utility that covers missing simulation or gameplay elements of the Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020). Desktop application read sim variables and return adjusted values (like speed and rotation) back into the game to simulate some specific conditions, uplift inside of artificial hotspot for example. Also it can insert objects into the game, like AI tow planes.
Currently, these features are available: Winch, Tow, Hotspots, Catapult and Arresting gear, NMEA... Kinetic Assistant is a SimConnect utility that covers missing simulation or gameplay elements of the Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020). Desktop application read sim variables and return adjusted values (like speed and rotation) back into the game to simulate some specific conditions, uplift inside of artificial hotspot for example. Also it can insert objects into the game, like AI tow planes.
Currently, these features are available: Winch, Tow, Hotspots, Catapult and Arresting gear, NMEA data exchange. All of them have limitations, so please read the description for each below.
* Kinetic Assistant has ALBATROSS competitions app integrated. All flight plans, weather presets and other kind of data related to race events are property of their authors, you are not eligible to republish them anyhow without author approval.
* Fully compatible aircraft:
DG808S (freeware, available on msfs. touching. cloud)
Discus2C (freeware, flightsim. to).
* Partially compatible aircraft: any native or legacy MSFS glider or carrier based aircraft.
* Hotspots data provided by thermal. kk7. ch and maps. openAIP. net services.
Package includes
* EXE application (installed . NET Framework is required)
* Towplane tracks – can be used on any runway, just choose takeoff direction properly
* Detailed PDF manual
* KineticPanel – MSFS toolbar with navigation and quick control buttons (winch, push, tow), spiral and birds for hotspots, animated ropes and winch vehicle.
Key features
a. Winch is the simplest way to get your glider into the air. You can select rope length and elasticity, winch speed, initial acceleration, rope damage and random failures chances.
b. You can replay the existing towplane route or create your own. Or just ask your friend to tow you on his favorite aircraft (but multiplayer towing has limitations). Available settings: connection point (nose, CG, tail), rope elasticity and damage. Also you can ask your crew to push you to the runway (no animated people though), use control device to move and rotate.
c. Simple replay tool to record towplane and glider flights, then replay single aircraft or several at once.
d. Catapult is a perfect option to take off from a small piece of land or aircraft carrier – set initial speed and prepare for launch. Any aircraft eligible for the catapult.
e. Arrestor gear can be used for aircraft carrier landings or emergency landing training on the usual runway. You can use any aircraft, actual tailhook presence is not required.
f. Hotspots are areas with updraft wind active during daytime, which can hold your glider in the air for a much longer time. You can load real life API hotspots or create your own map in LNM. Hotspots can be used together with native thermals (appear under wide clouds during hot temperature) and ridge lift (reflected wind).
g. You can connect external gliding application (like XCsoar) with MSFS by NMEA protocol to receive basic information about the flight – location, altitude, airspeed etc.
h. You can see other pilots, which uses KineticAssistant or ALBATROSS as well, on the world map
i. You can teleport to any selected location/altitude on the world map immediatelly
f. You can install and load any ALBATROSS Racing flight plan with related weather preset and participate in competition or perform training without need to care about best time.
Detailed description available on official website
How to install and launch
- Unpack archive content into Community folder or add-ons folder used by your favourite add-on manager app
- Launch “Kinetic Assistant. exe” file that inside of touchingcloud-tools-kineticassistant folder
- Launch Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
- Choose aircraft and start the flight
- Press CONNECT button in the program window
- Choose the tab you are planning to use
- Activate features of the selected tab
- You can bind hotkeys with required buttons if you are not willing to leave program on the screen
How to uninstall
Delete touchingcloud-tools-kineticassistant from Community folder.
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Kingair 350 Control Tuning New
- This addon works on the tires and suspension (contact with the ground) in an improved way to provide a realistic immersion as happens in real life.
- The second part works on the surface controls, leaving smoother control, without jerks in the controls, which you can notice as soon as you take off with your plane.
- The plane's rudder rolls more smoothly, pulling and lowering the nose is less risky, making the flight more realistic and enjoyable, close to the real world command... - This addon works on the tires and suspension (contact with the ground) in an improved way to provide a realistic immersion as happens in real life.
- The second part works on the surface controls, leaving smoother control, without jerks in the controls, which you can notice as soon as you take off with your plane.
- The plane's rudder rolls more smoothly, pulling and lowering the nose is less risky, making the flight more realistic and enjoyable, close to the real world command of this plane.
NEWS CT MODS 1. 0. 0
- WEIGHT AND BALANCER
- CONTACT POINTS
- FLIGHT TUNING RUDDER MODS
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Kneeboard
Kneeboard is a fully VR compatible, in-game navigation log,
document viewer, moving map, notepad and calculator for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
With this addon you can now recreate a flight to the last detail
realistically or use it for your pilot training.
With this tool you can quickly create a navigation and weather log, write down the instructions you receive from the controller, perform calculations or view maps and checklists, especially in VR.
Features:<... Kneeboard is a fully VR compatible, in-game navigation log,
document viewer, moving map, notepad and calculator for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
With this addon you can now recreate a flight to the last detail
realistically or use it for your pilot training.
With this tool you can quickly create a navigation and weather log, write down the instructions you receive from the controller, perform calculations or view maps and checklists, especially in VR.
Features:
- Fully VR compatible
- Accessible via an in-game panel
- Teleport
- VFR Navigation log
- IFR Navigation log
- Weather log
- Documents Viewer
- Moving map (incl. airspaces, navaids, hotspots. . . )
- Flightplanner
- Geosearch
- Display of active VATSIM and IVAO stations with their frequency
- Notepad (writable with the mouse)
- Virtual keyboard
- Avionics calculator
- Edit Navlog inside your desktop browser
- Save / Load Navigation log's
- Flightplan import
- Change easaly the application colors
- Create your own application colors
Installation:
Please download and install the newest Kneeboard Server application from https://www. gsimulations. com.
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Landing Challenge Creator
Hi pilots !
Proud to present the Landing Challenge Creator for Microsoft Flight Simulator !
Landing Challenge Creator is simple yet powerful.
With this amazing tool, you will be able to create, with few clicks as possible, all the landing challenge you want in any configuration !
You can choose airport, weather, planes, you can customize text and picture displayed, configure your plane as you want (power, flaps, fuel, gear, ILS if airport does have one. . . )
You can also... Hi pilots !
Proud to present the Landing Challenge Creator for Microsoft Flight Simulator !
Landing Challenge Creator is simple yet powerful.
With this amazing tool, you will be able to create, with few clicks as possible, all the landing challenge you want in any configuration !
You can choose airport, weather, planes, you can customize text and picture displayed, configure your plane as you want (power, flaps, fuel, gear, ILS if airport does have one. . . )
You can also add some failure to your aircraft such as engine failure, flaps, gauges. . .
Challenge yourself and practice your favorite landing ;)
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Landing Rate On Sale
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Legacy Weight & Balance
We’re bringing back a classic! The Legacy Weight & Balance Panel is now available for MSFS 2024, giving you a familiar and efficient way to adjust fuel, payload, ballast, and CG directly—all in one place. Designed for quick, intuitive adjustments, this updated version blends the simplicity of the original with a modernized look that fits seamlessly into the sim. Whether you prefer a streamlined workflow or just love the classic approach, this panel is here to make weight and balance adjustme... We’re bringing back a classic! The Legacy Weight & Balance Panel is now available for MSFS 2024, giving you a familiar and efficient way to adjust fuel, payload, ballast, and CG directly—all in one place. Designed for quick, intuitive adjustments, this updated version blends the simplicity of the original with a modernized look that fits seamlessly into the sim. Whether you prefer a streamlined workflow or just love the classic approach, this panel is here to make weight and balance adjustments easier than ever. A perfect complement to your flying experience!
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