Product Description

Winner of PC Pilot Magazine Classic Product Award: "Brilliant!"
A team of Flight Instructors who talk to you, giving you immediate, detailed advice on your flying technique. Unique scoring system rates all phases of flight: taxi, take off, cruise, approach, landing and much more. Your flights and their scores are tracked in full detail in your own FSFlyingSchool logbook. Submit your best scores to the FSFlyingSchool web site to show off your flying skills to the rest of the world. Focuses on airmanship and recording your achievements. Track your progress as you improve. Career Analyzer provides an in depth analysis of all flights flown with FSFlyingSchool. Unique graphic display examines over 70 different aspects of the pilot's performance. Use the Career Analyzer to find areas of your performance which need attention and concentrate on getting them just right. From a Cessna 172 landing in a thunderstorm to an FMC controlled flight in a 747, FSFlyingSchool can handle them all. Instant tests of your airmanship: ask the instructor to immediately test your skills. File a flight plan - follow it to score more points. Large selection of options allow you to configure FSFlyingSchool your way.

New features in FSFlyingSchool2009:
Evaluates landing with or without ILS at any runway in the world
Automatically creates FSFlyingSchool profile for any powered airplane
Pilot Briefing Tool analyzes all flights to find patterns of performance which need improvement
Option to monitor correct use of aircraft lights
Instructors now give additional warnings before mistakes are made
Instructors have many new helpful and entertaining phrases
Aircraft Failures integrated into scoring
Option to monitor correct use of aircraft engines
Engine fires
Monitors use of emergency communications
Enhanced Help
Instructor optionally reports failures
Sound device selection

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1778 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: FSInventions
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• Massively enhanced new edition of the award winning Flight Simulator Add-on
• Team of TALKING Flight Instructors accompany you on any flight anywhere in any airplane
• Winner of PC Pilot Magazine Classic Product Award: "Brilliant!"
• Used by THOUSANDS of Flight Simulator Pilots
• Takeoff, fly and land anywhere and get a detailed evaluation

Customer Reviews

You can learn to fly better with this product!
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2AHWNIVO4NPKL FSFlyingSchool2009 (FSFS2009) - what a product! Great new version of the already great add-on for FSX and FS2004. Here's my video review with notes on some of the great new features - enjoy!

Flying Higher and Even Better than before
I thought the original FsFlyingSchool was pretty much flawless. Shows how much I know. They've only gone and...... Read on......

I always experience a feeling on ambivalence towards any update of any product I use - and the more I use that product, the greater the ambivalence; on the one hand there's the excitement at the prospect of new features but, on the other hand, there's the worry that the producers have tried to fix something that wasn't broken and, in the process, have destroyed what you liked about the package.

It was with great relief that I discovered that nothing has been 'broken' in the shiny, new FsFlyingSchool; it was with something approaching joy that I discovered that the update was well worth waiting for. Everything that I had thought was 'pretty much flawless' has been improved - often to a significant degree.

There's an incredible degree of balance to this program. There's enormous depth but there's never a feeling of pedantry (or nerdiness). Instructions and advice is clearly and simply given and all is pitched just about perfectly. The default instructor reminds me uncannily of my first (and only) driving instructor (this guy had me passing my driving test after six one-hour lessons); the voice is calm and relaxing but, at the same time, authoritative and reassuring. I have always tended to 'play' at flight sims - I don't have enough time to REALLY study (and, anyway, I do this to relax) but I can already see this program taking me up a ladder of achievement. There are a vast number of goals to aim for - even if it's just a word of praise from the instructor. It makes the whole experience more..... I'm not sure if this is the correct word but, to me, it fits .......and that word is 'worthy'. It gives a sense, not just of DOING SOMETHING, but actually achieving something in the process. You do something, you see what your something was, how you achieved that something (in incredible detail) and how you could have done that something better.

You can learn to fly a wide range of perfectly servicable, well-maintained and jolly accurately reproduced aircraft. You can also learn to fly a wide range of BROKEN aircraft (some of which would give Health & Safety cause for concern). The thrill of bringing in an aircraft that has developed a number of faults is something to be greatly savoured

Added to this, depending on mood, there's another game to play. Normally I see how much I can do to improve (lots) but, at other times, it is fun to try to see how much I can get away with. The answer is 'not much'.

And it's ALL so rediculously enjoyable. I've said before (and don't mind repeating) MicroSoft ought to be paying these guys.

A superb program. I read a review of this program in another place and that reviewer claimed that he had almost offered his instructor a cup of coffee - I'm waiting for mine to offer me one - in the next version perhaps?

Great just got better!
They made it better!

I've already had shedloads of fun with FSFlyingSchool and it has really improved my flying skills with Flight Simulator.
Besides which it's lots and lots of fun.
Now that they've added a load of new features, well, who would fly without it...?

The team (instructors) are now cutting us all a bit more slack because they give lots more advice before you make a mistake that will cost you points. So listen well. And you get extra points now if you have dealt well with the simulated aircraft failures that FSFS can throw at you to keep you on your toes. As if that wasn't enough, you can also have them watch how you use your engines, and emgergency comms. They'll even tell you what's failed when it does!

You can now land at any runway in the whole world and the instructor will know how well you did, whether you approach it visual or with the ILS. It recognises all planes now - you don't need to enter more details unless you want to tweak the details that FSFS has already sorted out for you. There's the Pilot Briefing Tool which is like a school report! It looks at all your areas which are 'excellent' or 'may need improvement' or 'should try harder!' Great stuff! If you really like being serious, you can have your instructor (my favourite is MrSmith) monitor how you are using your aircraft lights - this is a challenge all by itself if you fly like me!

If course if you already have FSFlyingSchool (the original version up to version 1.9.2) you can just buy the upgrade - this is a really good deal I think.
FSFlyingSchool2009 Upgrade Flight Sim for Microsoft Flight Simulator X FSX and FS2004

So, all in all, a great improvement of an already great add-on for Flight Simulator X (FSX) and for Flight Simulator 2004 (FS2004).

Start your engines!