Reddit Reddit reviews Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook: The Ultimate Private Pilot Book

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4 Reddit comments about Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook: The Ultimate Private Pilot Book:

u/vmtyler · 6 pointsr/flying

I'm a fan of Rod Machado's book. I feel like the FAA resources are a bit dry for a newbie:
https://www.amazon.com/Rod-Machados-Private-Pilot-Handbook/dp/0963122991/

u/attunezero · 4 pointsr/hoggit

I think X-Plane is great. I have tons of fun flying in it. It is definitely a hardcore simulator and does not contain any game-like modes.

There is FSEconomy which can work with X-Plane to add an economy metagame but I have never tried it.

There is Smart Copilot which lets two people fly the same aircraft at once which is pretty cool for some of the really complex aircraft like the FlyJSim 737-200 in that video.

There is PilotEdge and Vatsim for online flying with real live person ATC and traffic.

Pretty sure it has built in multiplayer too but I have never tried it.

You want to go here to download all sorts of free addons and planes. If you have a fast computer you can get even higher resolution scenery here.

I love using xplane for learning about real world general aviation flying. A copy of The Private Pilot Handbook plus Skyvector can teach you a lot!

There are a couple of things that are annoying about xplane however.

  • The default ATC sucks, so many people use pilotedge and vatsim but if you don't want to (or aren't confident in your skills to) talk to real controllers then you are kinda stuck without much ATC. I have heard good things about Pilot2ATC for offline ATC but have not tried it myself.
  • Cloud / weather rendering isn't very good. Overcast looks OK but nice puffy cumulus look like someone took a can of cheap spraypaint to the sky.
  • Most airports don't have any buildings at them yet and are just runways/taxiways. They are adding a system to allow for user submission of airport layouts so that problem should start to go away soon. There are also a lot of free airport scenery downloads for popular airports.
  • AI traffic is pretty useless. 747s will try to land and take off at remote grass strips in Alaska.
  • You need a beast of a computer to have it look really nice. I run an i7 [email protected] and a GTX770 4GB and get acceptable performance at medium-high settings. That being said turn on HDR lighting, turn up the cars, and fly over a city at night -- it will blow your mind how good the lighting engine is.


u/MironV · 1 pointr/flying

Don't feel down, just train and do it again!

There are a couple of resources that I found especially useful for the PPL oral: Rod Machado's book and the ASA Oral. You should have these cheat sheets memorized.

Though I did my PPL Part 61, I went to a Part 141 school that did three stage checks you had to pass (with an oral for each) so you could track your progress. If you can, I would have a CFI who routinely does stage checks for a Part 141 school do a mock oral with you before you go in front of the DPE again.

u/R0GERTHEALIEN · 1 pointr/flightsim

This is the book I used while getting my pilots license:

https://www.amazon.com/Rod-Machados-Private-Pilot-Handbook/dp/0963122991

There's a couple chapters all about charts and VFR navigation. I highly recommend it