Flying Tutorials for Beginners.

Flying Tutorials for Beginners – General FLying and Intense Combat Tutorials.

Welcome to the LetsFlyVFR flying tutorials for beginners! On this page you will find comprehensive flight Simulator focussed tutorials focussed on getting new pilots in the air safely with the knowledge they need to enjoy their flight simulator experience. Flight simulation comes in many for and beginners can find this overwhelming so taking information in with small focussed tutorials will get them enjoying each phase of flight faster.

CESSNA 172

General Aviation Flight Simulator Tutorials

Lets Fly VFR is all about flying and combat as well. Passionate in both the GA flying world with some personal real world flying experience and a long real world military background we will make your adventure into X-Plane 12, MSFS 2020/24 Prepar3d and of course our favorite military simulators DCS WORLD and Falcon BMS the most it possibly be.

IN these initial Flying TUtorials we will cover the basics of flying a Cessna 172 since it is undoubtably the most used training aircraft in the world for a long time. Getting to grips with the preflight through startup and taxi phases will get you heading for your first adventure armed with the confidence you are looking for.

We will then take off with a focus on basic handling, turning and of course climbing and descending safely. Navigation is important so there is a wealth of information on how to get from A to B and back if need be.

Finally we need to get you back on the ground so learning how to enter a circuit at an airport is super important for your virtual safety and get you landing smooth and safely. As all pilots know in the real world we need to understand what we just did so debriefing is another important aspect of growing as a virtual pilot so well certainly be looking and pre and post flight briefs including in all of this is the need to do the basics like Checklists and ATC to round off the full experience.

Cessna 172 Basic Flying Tutorials

Military Aviation Flight SImulator Tutorials

WW2 Dogfight wallpaper

In the world of military aviation training is everything so getting to learn the myriad of complex military flying basics is all here for you as well. The basics on takeoff to landing with a solid focus on basic fighter maneuvers techniques and tactics all backed up with the knowledge you need to become proficient fast is here.

Understanding the complex terminology and basics of BFM (Basic FIghter Maneuvers) is all here for you as well. All this comes backed up by real world publically available USAF/NAVY manuals for you to download.

We will teach you the basics of one and two circle fights, energy management and then maneuvers and concepts to help you win like the OODA LOOP by Col Boyd, a famous combat pilot and a member of the fighter mafia responsible for the development of the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-15C Eagle to name a couple.

Taking your time to read and practice the content of each of the indepth flight simulator dogfighting tutorials will take you from novice to competent in a short period of time for sure. You will have to hone your skills to make it to the coveted ACE status. Good Luck pilot!

Dogfighting BFM Tutorials

F-18 Hornet

DCS WORLD What Fighter Is Best?

DCS WORLD has a real plethora of combat aircraft available and the one you choose often is from the hart. It’s the one you saw in Top gun or for many other very individual reasons. I personally love the F-18 Hornet having worked on the A model Hornet but I love the Mirage 2000C having also worked on that jets earlier iteration, the Mirage IIIO.

No matter the reason you choose to fly and fight your DCS World enemies AI or real, you need to know the idiosyncrasies of that jet. In the following blog post already on Lets FLy VFR we home to enlighten you to the specifics of each jet and how to fight with it to get you to competent and then ace status fast. We hope you enjoy the content and find it informative.

Please feel free to comment and let us know what else you need to know!

Fighter Pilot Survival

Thanks for Checking out these Tutorials.

It has been a considerable amount of work combined with the passion to deliver on the focus of these and that is to help you my valued reader as much value as possible. To give you the tools and knowledge to succeed in your chosen sim no matter if it’s just learning to fly and navigate to dogfighting to save yourself and friends on complex missions on your chosen DCS Server.

I hope you have chosen to download the Aircraft Manuals and POH offerings stored and available on DCS WORLD.
Thank you for your time while visiting our website.

Gunnie – March 2025

Author

Brendon McAliece - Gunnie and a Jabiru 170

Brendon McAliece (Aka Gunnie) is a military veteran with 23 years working on Jet Fighters, their weapons systems and ejection seat/module systems as well as munitions and R&D. Involved with flight simulation since the 1980s, he has flown all the major flight simulators over the years.

He is an Australian expat who has lived in Malaysia, UK, Saudi Arabia and more recently Thailand. He is a multi-lingual blogger who loves to share his life experiences here on LetsFlyVFR.com and DreamingGuitar.com, with his lifestyle and Travel experiences Blog plus his Dreaming Coffee website.

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