Sooo... I'm new. Don't jump down my throat if the answer is a hard no. I've just been searching the sight and don't see what I was looking for. I'm looking for a forum to post to that is all about tutorials. I am a content creator on youtube and I would love to post, get feedback and help people out. I totally understand if there is no such forum on here, but I figured I would ask.

You could ask the Avsim mods whether they'd be open to the idea of creating a "Tutorials" sub-forum. There's already a "Hints, tips & tricks" sub-forum, but tutorials are different.

I tend to scour YouTube for tutorials, but to have them in one place here, on a popular FS-related board would be a great idea IMHO.

Edited January 2, 20215 yr by Adamski_NZ

Agree, a subforum could be useful for beginners. I would have used it when I started playing with Fs 2020 !

Writing a tutorial is more difficult than editing -> uploading a video on Youtube, but a rich text tutorial (with links, screenshots) is worth 100 videos.
Reading is not so difficult, much faster than finding the video time corresponding to what is on focus for us ...

A text tuto has no intro/end you find on many video tutos ( time consuming, useless)

I do NOT understand why so many people publish video tutos ! Are we so lazy ? Are we unable to read and understand books ?
More advantages  from books over videos when learning is the subject.

There is a sticky on the start page of this forum

 

8 hours ago, ctdlg said:

do NOT understand why so many people publish video tutos ! Are we so lazy ? Are we unable to read and understand books ?
More advantages  from books over videos when learning is the subject.

I hate video tutorials, especially ones with loud over the top you tubers, riddled with ads. I’d much prefer to read pdf documents. 

The official MSFS forum has a section about tutorials and guides. You can contribute there while waiting for further directions here.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/c/guides/new-pilot-help-guides/167

Well for someone who knows just enough to get themselves in trouble if they tinker too much with the mcdu like last night trying to put the entire flightplan (MKJP-KMIA) in manually from my simbrief printout and failing spectacularly for various reasons. Yeah it would be nice to have a repository of decent tutorials. I found one regarding my issue but the crew became illegal and the flight got cancelled since i took too long to figure everything out! 😫

Edited January 2, 20215 yr by Maxis

I love video tutorials, provided they're done well. Not everybody "learns" the same. I'd rather see someone doing what I'd like to know, than sit and read a lousy manual written by a wannabe engineer. Different strokes for different folks. A YouTube tutorial series would be a welcomed addition. Besides, my eyes are getting too old, tired of reading. Please just show me a video. 🙂

Edited January 2, 20215 yr by Muskoka

Adding my 2 cents worth, I much prefer a PDF but basically only because of ad-riddled You Tube tutorials are so diverse in both quality and authority.  I have seen many video tutorials full of obvious procedural errors and the "educators" are self proclaimed.  There are some, however, that are brilliant.  The only problem with that is  the fact that the "pupil" has to judge what is authentic and what is not.  Don't get me wrong here because PDFs suffer much the same "authentication" dramas LOL.

What I really hate about YouTube is the live st4reamers who are constantly chatting with their faithful followers and it is very hard (for me) to actually follow their content.  I just find it extremely annoying and turn it off as soon as I hear the first comment to a third party or acknowledgement of a donation etc.

To summarise, it is hard enough to learn a procedure or procedures without having to suffer through the adds etc. There is precious little pure learning available on YouTube as apposed to the PDF variety.

Tegards

Tony

1 hour ago, Maxis said:

Well for someone who knows just enough to get themselves in trouble if they tinker too much with the mcdu like last night trying to put the entire flightplan (MKJP-KMIA) in manually from my simbrief printout and failing spectacularly for various reasons.

We have all been there, and sometimes still fail. About learning, some like documents, some videos, some anything they can get their hands on. Up to the individual. Learn the way, you prefer to learn.

Take twenty minutes out of your life and watch this:

It'll change you way you fly forever. . .

Really, really, listen.

 

Edited January 2, 20215 yr by Will Fly For Cheese

20 hours ago, himmelhorse said:

Adding my 2 cents worth, I much prefer a PDF but basically only because of ad-riddled You Tube tutorials are so diverse in both quality and authority.

Slightly tangential to your point, but YouTube ads can be pretty much eliminated by running uBlock Origin in your browser, if you don't already.  It's the absolute first thing I install in any browser I use, and I actually wondered for a while why everyone complained about the ads on YouTube...  until the day I tried to watch a video on my Fire TV rather than on one of my computers.  Then I got it.  So bad.  I didn't even realize until that point that uBlock blocked even the video ads on YT.  It's nice.

It, of course, doesn't do anything about "paid placement" within videos themselves, but that usually is not quite so pervasive and annoying.

Thanks for the link above, works well so far.

Edited January 3, 20215 yr by Muskoka

I use Firefox with a bunch of addons. Not sure which one does it, but I have seen zero adds on Youtube for months now. Except where they are built in deliberately by the uploader. It is unlikely we will ever see such effective add blockers on Chrome, for obvious reasons.

22 minutes ago, Fielder said:

It is unlikely we will ever see such effective add blockers on Chrome, for obvious reasons.

I'm primarily a Firefox user, too.   (For me, Mutli Account Containers alone is enough reason to stay with Firefox . It makes my day job so much easier.)    But uBlock Origin is available for Chrome, too. 🙂