Maybe also crash your virtual plane a lot in the beginning, even intentionally. It may sound childish, but get rid of any shame and fear about crashing from the get go. It's just a sim, and it can be fun to crash. You'll most likely get the hang of things fairly quickly, growing tired of crashing your plane, and before you know it you'll be doing a pretty decent job at least taking off, landing, and buzzing around trees and buildings without crashing.

Lots of great resources here to include links to lessons in the 172. 
 

 

1 hour ago, abrams_tank said:

The Rod Machado lessons are really good with FSX and they come with a manual too. The Rod Machado manual is really good, it teaches you the basics of flying. And you read the manual before you do each lesson in FSX.

Another point for the Rod Machado lessons. However, I did them in FS9. That's when I learned what were rudder pedals and trim for. If you can get a promo in Steam for FSX, or FS9 somewhere else, it will be very valuable.

8 hours ago, CaptnRobin said:

I would love to have someone to teach me how to fly:

Do you have "yourcontrols"? I will message you on discord and see what we can do time permitting. A crash course so to speak🤣.

Is anyone who is recommending FSX actually running it now on Windows 11? I just had a quick search and found a lot of accounts of people failing to get it to run and complicated how tos detailing work rounds to make it work. The OS listed in the Steam specs is Windows XP.

17 minutes ago, bailout said:

Is anyone who is recommending FSX actually running it now on Windows 11? I just had a quick search and found a lot of accounts of people failing to get it to run and complicated how tos detailing work rounds to make it work. The OS listed in the Steam specs is Windows XP.

FSX was working for me on Windows 10.

9 hours ago, CaptnRobin said:

Basics
Flight planning(an easy way)
Auto poilot, 
ILS landings
APR

Some good suggestions by others above, For me before I started flying for real - Youtube was and still the best source for learning. Almost all of topics mentioned above, there are training videos available allowing you learn at your own pace. There is also plenty of ground school material available online allowing you to get basic understanding of how things work. 

If you really want to test and challenge yourself then join a virtual airline - Ensure you join the ones that cover some sort of pilot training program. Vatsim pilot courses are good start as well where you would receive one to one training with an experienced pilot. Some virtual airlines combine their pilot training programs with Vatsim courses. 

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by CAP1234

40 minutes ago, bailout said:

Is anyone who is recommending FSX actually running it now on Windows 11? I just had a quick search and found a lot of accounts of people failing to get it to run and complicated how tos detailing work rounds to make it work. The OS listed in the Steam specs is Windows XP.

I use FSX (Steam) with WIN11.

All ok.

I normally fly LevelD-763 and PMDG737NGX.

Consider taking a private pilot ground school at your local flight school.

You will learn a lot taught by a professional.

Plus if they have a simulator perhaps you could do a few hours with an instructor to get a basic foundation.

2 hours ago, dbw1 said:

Consider taking a private pilot ground school at your local flight school.

You will learn a lot taught by a professional.

Plus if they have a simulator perhaps you could do a few hours with an instructor to get a basic foundation.

Not everyone has the budget to receive this type of training but they may be other cheaper solutions for learning at home. Maybe MSFS is not the best option at this point for what the OP is looking for.

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by JBDB-MD80

13 hours ago, CaptnRobin said:

I would love to have someone to teach me how to fly:

The things i wanna learn:

Basics
Flight planning(an easy way)
Auto poilot, 
ILS landings
APR

If anybody would help me, i'm available at sirius9500 on discord. 
I'm very bad learner when it comes to video, i learn faster and easier when i have someone by my side and asking questions, etc etc.

Im from norway, 33 years old 🙂
 

Have you checked this out for MSFS 2020? I've done some of the lessons and they are quite good.

MSFS-RWT_v4-3-0 : Multilingual Real World Training Missions for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS

9 hours ago, Rocky_53 said:

Just had a thought, it would be great opportunity for someone with real world expereince, to offer a screen sharing service whereby they could provide tuition.

Many people in the sim racing community, not just real racers, already offer that kind of service. Maybe someone will do the same for flight simming.

Looks like there’s already a customer here 😄

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by marxio09dio

Enjoy your journey of a thousand miles.

21 hours ago, JBDB-MD80 said:

Not everyone has the budget to receive this type of training but they may be other cheaper solutions for learning at home. Maybe MSFS is not the best option at this point for what the OP is looking for.

But perhaps he does.

Check out the prices of a ground school.

Also, do check out the price of some flight school simulator time even if it is one of the older Élite desktop sims. A few hours with an instructor will give you a great foundation for your MSFS2020/2024 enjoyment at home. I have experience with this as quite a few years ago i did approx 10 years of forest fire/wildfire suppression work (fixed wing) like people see in CA except it was in Canada. It was 7 days a week from the end of March into Sept and before someone says that can't be done under federal duty time regs etc in those days (2000-2010) there were regs that made it legal depending who your employer was. I kid you not. In the off season I used to teach multi-ifr on the elite sim for a local airline/flight school and some people after 5 hours were simply amazing in what they learned. Anyway, it is worth considering if you can fit in your budget.

Edited February 5, 20251 yr by dbw1
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26 minutes ago, dbw1 said:

But perhaps he does.

Check out the prices of a ground school.

Also, do check out the price of some flight school simulator time even if it is one of the older Élite desktop sims. A few hours with an instructor will give you a great foundation for your MSFS2020/2024 enjoyment at home. I have experience with this as quite a few years ago i did approx 10 years of forest fire/wildfire suppression work (fixed wing) like people see in CA except it was in Canada. It was 7 days a week from the end of March into Sept and before someone says that can't be done under federal duty time regs etc in those days (2000-2010) there were regs that made it legal depending who your employer was. I kid you not. In the off season I used to teach multi-ifr on the elite sim for a local airline/flight school and some people after 5 hours were simply amazing in what they learned. Anyway, it is worth considering if you can fit in your budget.

Yeah but telling someone to go do IRL flight training, just so he can fly planes in a game is a bit overkill IMO.