Although well experienced, I have been trying the Flight Training out of interest. There’s a module in VFR navigation called Landmark Navigation that I just can’t get a good score on despite being within sight of the road, flying at the commanded altitude all the time very accurately, and getting a perfect score for power management. (Objectives illuminated green all the time). I’ve achieved a score of A on all the other modules. I wonder if anybody else has managed to score A on this one and what the trick is.
There is also a bug as the aircraft starts at the aircraft’s previous altitude instead of 8,000ft. I have reported it.
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Indeed, there is a bug. Have the same problem.
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After many failures I have now cracked how to get an A on this assignment. Fly just to one side of the road so you can see it out of the side window and follow it slavishly. If you fly directly over the road then you can’t see it and have to set your heading based on the road in the distance. This leads to a poor score.
To correct the initial altitude bug (error), start the assignment and fly the plane to 8,000 feet. Then abort the flight and start again. This will give you approximately the right starting altitude.
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Yes, you’re right. I got more then 8.500 now = Grade A. Nice & thanks.
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Trying the final VFR training flight. The solo one. Finding it hard to get to 8500 after takeoff in an acceptable distance. Got told off and dumped (literally) back on the runway.
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If you appreciate flight trainings that much, you might want to test additional ones.
It is nice that is available.
I tried the basic training sessions with the C152 mod by JPLogistics, and had much trouble reaching the expected altitude goals (engine too weak in the mod?). I didn’t manage got get an A grade there…
Also, some things seemed off, for instance the expected setting of 10° flaps at the end of downwind leg, and at the same time still expecting 80 kn of speed.
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Cracked me up when in the middle of a lesson it switched to the female instructors voice and then went back to the male instructor voice.
Initially it was a female instructor.
During development I was really hoping Rod Machado would be doing some of the voice-overs.
The solo flight scenario is almost impossible if you don’t have a good idea of where you are going in the first place, as you would of course in real life. Hope this chart helps anybody giving it a go. Distances and headings approx. Not sure what the magnetic deviation is there.
I have managed an A on all of them, but I agree that the aircraft seems under-powered for the goals. The trick I found was to start with a high take-off speed.
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Re the chart - if you follow the road the headings are roughly 180 and then 130 for the last bit into the golf course.
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In “real life” you’d follow a road (or other highly visible guide), staying on the right hand side of it. There are a couple of reasons, firstly as you are sitting on the left, you can more easily see it. And secondly, if there is someone else coming the other way, they’ll be on the other side of the road.
I used to fly out of White Waltham (UK), which is just south of a major railway line. If I was heading west I’d fly just to the north of the railway line and I could often see traffic heading east, on the south side of the railway. Usually I’d rock my wings as a “hello, I’ve seen you” and usually got a wing rock in return. Happy days…
As a newbie who’s working through the flight training I requested a feature enhancement to explain why I put my aircraft in a dangerous situation. Just ending the lesson without pointing out why is not a good pedagogic practice. Adding a replay with commentary on how to avoid it would be even better.
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I agree in real life that you would follow the landmark, the road in this case. My point about the chart is that you need to have at least some idea of where you are going. This exercise gives no guidance for that at all, and spotting the road initially is very difficult. If, after crossing the runway at 120 heading, you turn to 210, then at least you have a chance of finding the road.
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If you follow them in sequence it is very easy to find your way around since the previous ones show you where everything is… the final one just has you fly it in reverse
Closer (7656) but still no A grade. This module is WAY too critical. I was within 50’ of the altitudes the entire trip, but still only scored 1368/2000 GRRRRRR!
Got it. One tip might be to check out the left window more frequently. I’m not sure if that finally put me over since after I got the “great job” it froze on the results menu without showing the results 
. It did save my A rating though 
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When are MS/Asobo going to address these issues for XBox? I’m especially frustrated by the mapping glitches in the $200 thrust master package.
To anyone struggling to meet the altitude requirements when climbing out, make sure your carb heat is in. By default for some reason in the training sessions it’s pulled out and makes for poor climbing performance.
