July 20, 201411 yr Here's what I found out, and I'm still running through them: They use payware aircraft sometimes. In this case the RealAir Duke (which I really want for p3d) and the Carenado Bonanza (which comes WITH p3d). This causes a few mismatches. For instance, if I use the Baron I bought from Carenado, it doesn't have any ADF radios, and only has the standard FSX GPS. You can't dial in a flight plan on that, instead you have to import one. They use Reality XP, which allows you to dial in everything in the cockpit. I found myself just dialing in the flight plan, and ignoring the ADF since the GPS did the rest. The ILS freq still worked just find as the GNS430 is able to dial into that (can't imaging an aircraft without a VOR/ILS anyway) That all being said, the understanding of flight charts, plans, etc teaches you way more than any YouTube video out there IMO. I'm not even half-way though and one particular chapter is ALLLLL about that. I would've preferred a one-shot cost, since the series is done. But it's possible $25 is a bargain for this much content. The Aviator90 videos were free, so I didn't have any problems with what they were using aircraft or addon wise. It's free afterall. I would like to see a video series that came with a freeware aircraft that could be used as part of the package that is used in follow along videos, but it's possible the cost of that is astronomical. Nathan Allen Pinard Virtual Pilot in Training Composer/Sound Designer www.nathanallenpinard.com
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