How to Fly an Airplane : Descending a Plane Touch & Go

deneisameindianaren Says:

Jun 13, 2010 - I am not a pilot, but can somone tell me why he tapps the brakes just when he is taking off again?

atvmaster281 Says:

Jun 13, 2010 - to stop the wheels from spinning sometimes you can feel the vibrations from them turning so quickly and it makes the airplane very shaky

deneisameindianaren Says:

Jun 14, 2010 - Thanx!

basketballrox20 Says:

Jun 15, 2010 - I wanna be a pilot but i haven't started my lessons so getting some useful tips to practice on the simulator is great help. Good job guys keep it up. Happy flying!

ZeranZeran Says:

Jun 23, 2010 - When he said "Reduce power cause we have a BIG updraft..."what would happen (theoretically ofcourse) if the wind just stopped and he the plane wasn't going fast enough? Just curious :)

armani9300 Says:

Jul 23, 2010 - Great videos ,i have don 9 hours so fare on a Piper ,but it is a long way to go.It is fun to fly with this light planes ,so if you have a chance go for it ,you will love it.

deanow2007 Says:

Aug 3, 2010 - If i were you, i would quit flight sim..I used to play it and i found it completely different to that of a real plane..My instructor told me this and i never went on flight slim as much as i used to

pennywise000 Says:

Sep 9, 2010 - I play Microsoft Flight Simulator X a lot and would like to know how is is it different from real flying? Can you say that, for example landing in a real-life situation is harder or simpler than in a sim?

kickass5 Says:

Sep 14, 2010 - to b honest with u. fsx has a come a long way from 2004. tha way tha planes handle in tha air. its beautiful very realistic. but in real life, wind variations tha winds speed and slow so majority of tha time there is at least a breeze then a gust after. remember this for all pilots air is never 100% stable NEVER! keep practicing on tha sim then wen u really got tha hang of it, go up in a cessna 172 in real life its a lil pricey but worth it dude. nuttin like real life. good luck.

m37386 Says:

Sep 16, 2010 - /watch?v=bcZyfrXexfI&feature=related

goucv Says:

Oct 16, 2010 - Why tap the breaks on take off? I've heard that on a few videos on youtube. It's quick but he mentions doing it in this video.

StratMatt777 Says:

Oct 25, 2010 - Normally you tap the brakes on a retractable gear airplane prior to bringing the gear up. When the tires are spinning the centifugal force causes them to have a larger diameter- on a some airplanes the larger tire diameter can scrape the side of the wheel well (I think on some kind of Beechcraft?). On this 172, assuming it is fixed gear (since most are and he never mentions gear) I'd tap the brakes only if there were an annoying vibration from an unbalanced wheel and tire.

StratMatt777 Says:

Oct 25, 2010 - Landing a real airplane is harder because your alignment with the runway has to be perfect and wind can be variable and unpredictable in real life. In a real airplane if you get too slow, drag builds up and you can slam on the ground. This lack of induced drag may be FSX's biggest fault, but I love FSX (I use it to practice instrument flying). In real flying you use your peripheral view (which you cant do in FSX) to judge sink rate- so that IS easier to do in a real airplane.

StratMatt777 Says:

Oct 25, 2010 - As long as you understand aerodynamics and that FS doesn't model them accurately (especially induced drag, stall & critical angle of attack) you don't have to quit FS. Understand that FS planes dont build up as much drag as they slow (being on the back side of the power curve). Also you can't just keep pulling back more and more and more in the flare to get a soft landing because you will eventually tail strike and reach the critical attitude and stall and slam on the runway. - a CFI

StratMatt777 Says:

Oct 25, 2010 - With the sun shining there was heat radiating off the vegetation below... if those updrafts suddenly stopped the airplane would start to get just a little bit lower than desired so then he'd increase the throttle from idle back up to the normal approach setting of 1500RPM. When you are flying into a headwind (the relative wind that makes your wing make lift)... if it suddenly stops (very rare) then you have a serious problem and add full power for the sink. That is "wind shear".

April4th1984 Says:

Dec 22, 2010 - @Coolboez305.  Sectional charts.

HawkEYEcinema Says:

Jan 9, 2011 - when you said that you were parallel to the runway, you were perpendicular

TheSt777n Says:

Feb 11, 2011 - Flying a plane. As easy as G.T.A.

TheTenderhooligan Says:

Mar 26, 2011 - I think you were looking at the wrong runway... There were two runways perpendicular to each other, so they were parallel to one runway and perpendicular to the other.

gerry7man555 Says:

Jul 25, 2011 - looks easy crash respawn!

igopknow Says:

Aug 7, 2011 - took me 16 days to do it lol

SuperLouis12 Says:

Oct 30, 2011 - best channel ever

powerone10 Says:

Jan 8, 2012 - the runway (ONE-EIGHT) is parallel to him. Which is the same runway that the other plane was landing on final approach at.

DiCairo Says:

Apr 29, 2012 - can anyone tell me what was used in this video to record radio transmissions. I hate using the camcorder's mic to record conversations, and it can't record ATC or other aircraft calling

tonus888 Says:

May 21, 2012 - Nice vid, thankyou