How to prepare for private pilot training using flight sims.

All the bases covered here, pretty good. Long story short, treat the sim as if it were real as much as humanly possible, practice everything you reasonably can, and you’ll be way ahead. Key parts of this include keeping some avgas in a coffee mug nearby and a sweaty old shirt right next to you, to simulate the old man sweat of your instructor. Extra points if you can get a stale and creaky old seat out of a Corvair to sit on. That’s as real as it gets.

The most golden 40 minutes of wise instructions on the subject. Ill save and rewatch this one.

Excellent video! I just got into siming with X-Plane 11..got my set-up up and ready including Oculus Quest 2 for VR flying. I plan to eventually get my private license in a year or two. I will have more questions to ask later but now thanks to your video I know what to focus on. I really appreciate you making this post!

This video is super accurate to my experience going from sim to PPL and then going back to some sim time. Great words for people wanting to get into this and trying to plan their resources.

Thank you Bro. This 40 minute video I swallowed without even noticing that time passed. Such a good video

I'm wanting to start my flight training sometime in the next few years and this is a great video! I've been using the vatsim network to get more confident with using the radio while practicing my patterns and talking to real people. It's going to be a while before I can afford to go, but I definitely appreciate you sharing your experience transitioning from flight sims to irl flying.

Most helpful information I have received from anywhere. Thank you

Just started my flight training. I think this video helped explain a lot of good resources to use as I go through flight school. Great video.

Thank you for the video, Im starting my flight training sometime early next year after I finish my diploma so I'd like to use the time before my flight training starts to learn as much as possible and this video helped immensely

I’m a student pilot as well and discovered this channel trying to find some videos on the v35 before I bought it can’t tell you how useful your videos are for implementing the sim and real life training! Keep doing what your doing your channel is definitely underrated!

Great vid, thanks. While watching this video, I purchased a flight simulator, downloaded the pilot's handbook of aeronautical knowledge, bought both high & low wing visualized flight maneuvers handbooks, and decided that I'm definitely going to try & get a pilot's license.

Very helpful and a great reference for what I was looking for!

Thanks. The pilot bug just got me. I appreciate this, you pointed me to the right direction in terms of resources. Was watching with lots of pausing and note taking and searching for the resources needed. I now understand the actual structure to use during my simming days till I start my training. Based on this found, I an online ground school course. Funny enough, I found this video while looking for tutorials on coordinated flight, which was an activity I was struggling with in MSFS.

this was great I hope you have done more of these videos this way my 1st video of yours I watched thanks for book recommendations and other channels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks very much for posting this video . I have about 17 hrs of real world flying working on my private. to my surprise learning to fly can be very stressful. i had so much problems with muscle memory ,radio communication just to name a few. My instructor said i need to Sim . I had no clue about the community of flight simulators. He gave me his Logitech Yoke ,rudder and throttle set just to get started. since then I've been using my sim like the way you insist on how to in this video . I have added foreflight to help with situation awareness and the use of Pilot Edge for ATC communication . I'm reading all the books you mention except the maneuvers handbook which i just ordered . Thanks again for all the tips and advise to prepare for private pilot training.

Thank you for sharing this video is excellent for those who want to use the sim for real world ppl applications.

I disagree to stop using the sims when you start flying but the important aspect is knowing how and what to be using in the sims that will help to reinforce what information you are learning in flight school! Muscle memory is critical as a pilot!

Interesting video, I can see a lot of effort went into it. Many thanks.

👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 Excellent video. Thank you so much for your knowledge and wisdom. Thanks for your time and effort guiding us beginner's.

great video man, gonna start training next month and i have been flying in simulators too