17 years ago BTW
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Awesome! I reinstalled FS9 2 months ago. I typed out some AI flight plans and updated my home airport design with AFX. I has been a blast!
These lessons got me into aviation. It’s kind of sad to see that so many years later no other sim developer has given the love FS2004 gave to training and to teach people the basics of flying.
It’s true that nowadays it’s way easier to find material like this anywhere but still it would have been cool to have resources like this integrated in the sim, specially for all the newcomers.
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I remember the instrument check ride was extremely picky and failed me so many times. Finally got there though.
I thought FS2002 was really the breakthrough sim though. After FS98, I got away from MS and defected to Flight Unlimited 2 and 3. FS2002 brought me back.
right! newcomers can learn more from a 17 year old simulator then from FS2020 (but perhaps that wasn’t the purpose here)
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Do you think people are going to read that anymore?? Again 17 years ago, different demographics, this is when games still came with huge manuals, which I loved to read as well.
Everything has to be spoon-fed to people nowadays. I don’t think the current model in MSFS now is all the bad considering.
And as much as some of us computer simmers do not like hearing it, this game is coming out on two consoles and it’s going to be dumbed down a bit to appeal to those types of players. Not saying all console gamers are simple-minded, but I think you know what I’m getting at.
Too much reminiscing of the old days and not enough focus love and praise for what we have in front of us and the hard work they put into it so far. It’s only going to get better and the issues will be massaged out. Again I just keep looking back to FSX and it’s launch. Simmers tore that poor flight sim apart the first couple of months.
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Rod Machado is awesome! He has a corny sense of humor IMO that you don’t see in most flight training courses.
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I was really hoping that the same lesson structure would be in FS 2020 as in FSX. If I had known that FS202 was more of a plug and play game, dumbed-down for those with a short attention span, I may not have bought it,
I’m going to re-install FSX just so I can work my way through those lessons with Rob.
I loved learning the theory, printing out charts etc etc…
Major disappointment 
I’d even buy lessons as and add-on if they considered making them available for FS2020
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I started with FS 2004 and if it weren’t for these lessons I wouldn’t be here today
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That’s because the Aces Team had a passion for flying and flight sims while this new developer has a passion for selling a game and I wonder if in fact this is not all a joke on us and we are Beta testing for the X Box release!
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FS9 was my first real contact with any simulator (race or flight). Like at lot of folks, I started out in the Skyhawk. I “flew” that for about a year and a half before I started learning how to use some of the instruments - which I thought was really cool. Then I moved over to the Cub - boy was that different lol. Even though I still set my instruments to the nearest VOR(s), I still “fly” VFR using roads, rivers and landmarks. With those basic skills honed in FS9 and FSX, I must say “flying” VFR in MSFS 2020 is awesome!
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Why on earth would we heap love and praise on an inferior product?
I read the lessons, when I click “fly now” nothing happens!
Just kidding
The flying lessons in fs9 are far superior to the lessons in fs2020.
Do they teach you anything about VORs in this sim?..
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maybe it’s trying to tell you that a dead sim can’t fly