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DVA3691 First Officer, MD-88 Joined on November 05 2006 "And don't call me Shirley!" Northeastern United States 14 legs, 10.5 hours 1 legs, 1.4 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on December 05 2006 18:04 ET by Dominic Scarano
	This is going to seem like a VERY stupid question to all you guys, but, how exactly does the flight academy work? Basically, how is the flight academy conducted? (there is no helpful manual for this one!) Thank you
DVA2253 Senior Captain, DC-8-61 COMM Joined on April 01 2005 Everett 250 Club Online Century Club Eight Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary "I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA 862 legs, 1,344.5 hours 108 legs, 165.2 hours online 299 legs, 485.1 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on December 05 2006 18:46 ET by George Lewis
	Hi Dominic, The Flight Academy is live flight instruction - you hook up with one of the DVA CFIs and they teach you how to fly, in the same cockpit as you, via 2-way real time voice. The PPL course teaches the basics - pitch power and trim, flight planning, fuel planning, ATC communication, how to fly online, navigation, etc. The manual is 120 pages and there is a 30 question exam. The majority of the course however is the flight instruction. Jim Warner helps all new students get the software configured and working and goes through the initial lesson with the student, then usually assigns the student to Andrew, myself or Scott. After that, the student will fly mainly with their assigned CFI (for that, you schedule time based upon openings in the calendar). You meet up on teamspeak, connect in multiplayer and fsnet/copilot and off you go. The idea in the Flight Academy is to convey knowledge and it is very gratifying to see potential pilots learn about aviation and the basics of flying. It is modeled like real world PPL flight instruction. You do need FS2004 - sorry, fsnet doesn't work with FS2000 or FS2002, nor are the DVA birds compatible with FSX yet. Hope that helps - you are free to email me with any questions you have.

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