Product Description

A Pilot's Guide for Gamers

·All 50-plus missions and tutorials are outlined and examined
·Learn the basics of flight, from taxi and takeoff through challenging
landings
·Learn how to combine the stunning power of the Learning Center and Free
Flight Ability with real-world flight situations
·Explore exciting new ways to use Flight Simulator X, from flying air
rallies to functioning as an Air Traffic Controller
·Quick reference hotkey insert card included

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #216601 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

Referral book for the Learning Center
It's remarkable that this book has 271 pages. There's hardly any (additional) information in it. Almost every section has phrases as "We recommend visiting the Learning Center for more information" and "If you want to become highly versed in [subject], visit the Learning Center".
Then, this book has a lot of page-filling text that does not add any useful information at all. It simply tells you what you already see (e.g. "There are four main weather areas: Weather Themes, Real-world weather (Static), Real-world weather (updates every 15 minutes), and user-defined weather". Yes, we see that on the screen, thank you.)

The only positive thing about this book is the 'Quick Reference Card' that can be taken out. But then again, you can download such a card from many FS websites.

Really, no stars at all. YOU DONT NEED THIS BOOK
So what you'd hoped for was a book written by someone who was an experienced user, and could tell you the little wrinkles and 'tips' that you need to know and which would save you hours of searching through the different sections and screens of MSFX.
BAD NEWS, THIS BOOK IS NOT IT. THIS BOOK IS NOT THE ONE YOU NEED.

This book is not something you'd have beside you as a reference 'help me' as you develop your 'flying' skills in MSFX. At best this book is 'advertising' eye candy.

Another is how do you find out if there is any way to write/store the radio frequencies, and add VFR reference points (visual clues you're on the right course) to your flight plan? Who knows? There should be but this book wont tell you.
I could go on. I've been getting to grips with my version of MSFX for a fortnight now (about which later) and this book does not provide a single answer to any of the questions I wanted/needed answering and contains no advice worth the name. But it does have some nice pictures, and its all very positive.

Disappointing
I have to say the guide is very poor, it has some very nice pictures and a few usefull facts and figures, what it does not do is tell you how to navigate, fly or go into any depth about the aircrafts systems. My advice is save your money and do what the author continually says in the book "Consult The Learning Centre". Very disappointing.