Why use Microsoft Flight Simulator for real-world flight training? Because it gives you the best possible head start and enables you to learn at your convenience. Flight Simulator provides scenario-based training that lets you practice handling almost any situation. It offers advantages you don't even get in a real plane—the option to set up any kind of weather or equipment failures, stop midway and redo a procedure, or get the view from outside the airplane. FSX isn't a game. It's a training mission for virtual and real aviators alike.

• Install Flight Simulator and set up a training program from Student Pilot through Airline Transport Pilot

• Use the custom flight lessons on the companion Web site to prepare for actual flight training

• Practice the fundamentals of flight—starting the engine, taking off and landing, and performing pre-flight checks

• Learn to handle different types of aircraft

• Experience the effects of wind and weather

• Prepare for emergency situations and learn to navigate by both old-fashioned and modern methods

• Communicate with air traffic control

• Build practice time that can help you prepare for license exams

Use stunning visuals to practice in any conditions

Master expert-level, high-performance maneuvers

Companion Web site

Visit www.wiley.com/go/flightsim to find sample flights for each lesson in the book, demonstrations of flight maneuvers, and two bonus chapters.

About the Author

Jeff Van West is a certified flight instructor in both single and multi-engine aircraft and editor of the professional pilot magazine IFR. He has written training curricula for both computer simulation and general aviation programs.

Kevin Lane-Cummings is a pilot, flight instructor, educator, and technical communication professional. He has worked for aerospace megacorporations, science museums, flight schools, public TV stations, and Internet publishers.