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
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Posted onPost created on
December 05 2006 18:04 ET by Dominic Scarano
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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
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Posted onPost created on
December 05 2006 18:46 ET by George Lewis
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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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