Hi all,

 

I am looking for a general book on fly simming with Jets, and I came across this:

 

http://www.topskills.com/fsbooks_jets.htm

 

I googled the title and author for a review and found nothing. If someone has read it could you please comment? Is it worthwhile? Or if you have suggestion on book or something to begin, I would appreciate it. Much of the complex jet add-on shows how to in tutorials flight and they are specific, I can follow the tutorials and doing the flight, but I feel like I am missing something.

 

Thanks

I don't think the book is a con but I do think it's outdated quite a bit. The stuff they will tell you in that book also looks very basic, it only just includes autopilot functions! Dont buy ;)

The publications by Mike Ray, are the best available:

 

http://www.utem.com/

Yep, Mike Ray is the way.

Hello Vu,

 

The web page you link has review snippets down the right hand side. Have a look, they might be of help.

 

The book is around since about 2002, but I imagine it has been updated a few times since. I reviewed it in 2002 (http://www.flightsim...025-Jet-Simming), and a few others around the same period. At the time I found Bill Stacks' books very helpful. I still have them in my Flight Simming library! I'd say that they fit your criteria of "a general book on fly simming with jets"!!

Hello Vu,

 

The web page you link has review snippets down the right hand side. Have a look, they might be of help.

 

The book is around since about 2002, but I imagine it has been updated a few times since. I reviewed it in 2002 (http://www.flightsim...025-Jet-Simming), and a few others around the same period. At the time I found Bill Stacks' books very helpful. I still have them in my Flight Simming library! I'd say that they fit your criteria of "a general book on fly simming with jets"!!

Thanks Philip for the review link. That was the info that I was looking for. The review snippets at Bill's site is too short and generic. The sample that he gave on his site is also next to useless, as it only show a paragraph or two on each chapter that does not give me anything to judge on the merit of the content. I will now definitely take a look.

 

Thanks

 

The publications by Mike Ray, are the best available:

 

http://www.utem.com/

Thanks Dimitri. It looks like Mike is writing a new book on the 737NG. I am looking forward to it.

Flightsim Deal of the Day has the Mike Ray's Airbus book (normally $89), on sale till the end of the month for $14.95. Thanks to this thread it reminded me to order a copy.

Mike Ray's new 737NG book should be out I hope this year. I had a email from him last year about this time that he was working on it.

 

JeffG

I have some of them but I'm not real crazy about Bill Stack's books. Just my opinion. Mike Ray's are way better. I have all of them and have learned a bunch from reading them.

Flightsim Deal of the Day has the Mike Ray's Airbus book (normally $89), on sale till the end of the month for $14.95. Thanks to this thread it reminded me to order a copy.

 

I did that as well, though I don't have a good A320 sim yet, hoping the two in development now wrap up soon.