FS2020: Basic IFR Flight Plan Tutorial Part 2 of 2

In this video, we fly the flight as planned from takeoff to touchdown completely in foggy weather and with just the instruments of the Cessna 152 in Flight Simulator 2020.

[@MojoInDaDojo]

The Bob Ross of VOR Navigation, so calming to watch

[@GizmoMaltese]

Painting beautiful little VOR vectors in the sky

[@ramezqubain8177]

yes please do the same in a glass cockpit. thank you

[@roblivingston1167]

I second that request!

[@matthew-sq4kz]

Thank you so much for making this guide. I did my first IFR flight with ILS landing, and it was so much fun (and actually worked!). I would love to see a glass cockpit tutorial with a G1000.

[@inuit2winit]

I've been a flight simmer for years, but only flying modern military jets in DCS. Your tutorials have been absolutely invaluable to someone with no idea how to plan a point to point flight or navigate without GPS. Thanks so much

[@thegamingll3ma322]

Dude you were a 6.09k subs now your at 6.18 I think you will hit 7 by the end of today and also keep doing what you're doing your vids a better than a lot of top youtubers

[@ripsady]

when people do good material this kind of things happen!

[@michaelspadaro6]

Oi I just wanted to say thanks for making this. I planned and successfully executed my first IFR flight around my birthplace today thanks to this video. Navigating using nothing but dials and noodles is a lot of fun and makes you feel like you’re a part of the machine, so to speak. Thanks for giving me the ability to experience something like that. Maybe I’ll do it in a real plane some day...

[@debbieyoungberg9528]

Please make more videos, it is very pleasing to listen, watch and learn

[@amerikngrizzly]

I’ve been trying to figure out all this stuff on my own and your videos have been super helpful and informative. I would love to see the glass cockpit version but honestly watching this makes me want to fly the 152 a little more.

[@paperclipman123]

Man, people are going to watching these tutorials for years to come. You are providing better beginner material than anyone out there right now.

[@Epithiny]

I've only recently purchased fs2020 and have been aimlessly gaming around with a xbox controller and real world landmarks. But after watching your video on autopilot basics I am hooked. Watching this video has made me incredibly impressed and keen to learn to actually simulate "fly". Brilliant youtuber, thank you. Just ordered hotas too 🤣

[@RTSwiz]

Love the way you do these, they've been extremely helpful for someone who doesn't know much.

[@georgemohr2904]

For those who wanna kick up the realism one more notch? Identify those stations before using them. Click the Nav1 and Nav2 buttons on the audio panel and match the morse code you hear to the proper tones as depicted on the charts. Second, keep those turns to standard rate. Use the tick marks on the left and right of the turn coordinator to keep 2 minute turns, which is standard rate. Third, use the crossing radials from Madison to identify fixes (i.e Pinet) on the approach as a cross check to the glide slope intercept.

[@GizmoMaltese]

I found this cool website that teaches you morse code really quickly. morse.withgoogle.com/learn/ I was pretty excited yesterday when I was able to identify the fix point to begin my ILS approach using intersecting radials.

[@headtotheshed]

please do with glass cockpit next, might make this tutorial even more helpful. thanks for all the info!

[@AndrewNorthover]

+1 to this. Even more IFR plans and executions. Just watching you fly teaches a lot too.

[@JuanLosada]

Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon... Manny Mota... Mota... Mota... Thanks for the videos. Learning a bit

[@TJP5.0]

Perfect foggy day for an ILS flight. Thanks again for the great instruction, showing everyone makes mistakes, and how to fix them.

[@NachoJackCheese]

That approach had me on the edge of my seat. Great video!

[@YourXLNerd]

this is exactly what fs2020 is all about - excellent tutorial. you rock!

[@JustinBuckley-Given2Fly]

Thank you. I'm not sure how much I actually understood, but I'm going to go and play around in the sim, then come and watch these vids again.

[@MoMadNU]

Fantastic tutorial 10/10. Fly a 787 with complex avionics, no problem. Fly a 152 IFR with just cross hairs, OMG hell no. You want that needle to move so badly so you way over bank. Needle starts to move so you level out. Needle is now raging across center, so you bank the other way in an attempt to bring it back and you are like "Oh god please stop in the middle". Then it doesn't and now you're skiing with an airplane. The proper method makes perfect sense. You have to take small bites and wait. I am learning so much from your videos! Thank You.

[@Jack-gp1ng]

how would you learn to fly a 787 with avionics. My piloting knowledge is basically limited to vfr so id love to learn!

[@MoMadNU]

@@Jack-gp1ng fd2sim has full tutorials on the 737 and they are fantastic. A Boeing is a Boeing. Not much different between all the 7s. Airbus, is a very different beast.

[@Jack-gp1ng]

@@MoMadNU thanks for the reply ill be sure to check them out :)

[@brandonjones5559]

Man what a masterclass! Your tutorials are EXACTLY what I was looking for, loving fs2020 and mate your helping make it rock! Cheers from New Zealand.

[@mickeym1840]

Awesome job sir. KFOK and KGON are overcrowded with flight students tonight. :-)

[@Lagrange1970]

On my PPL training, I find these tutorials very useful as i am working a head of my self learning to fly IFR on MSFS. Excellent training video. Many thanks

[@stephanaitch]

Learning while enjoying to follow the lessons is what makes a good teacher 👍

[@Jtalln]

These videos are absolutely fantastic. Thank you for creating them!

[@peiplays7061]

Great video man, keep them coming - you got a great style of teaching, cadence is good .. good stuff all round!

[@francoistexier5487]

thanks, this is the best demonstration of IFR flight to be found on KZbin. All from planning to flying. Thanks a lot. Now let's try to replicate

[@Goldness_Gamer]

Thank you for your amazing videos. I am looking forward to more jets/airline Instrument lessons. Keep up the great work!

[@crossbound]

That brings back so many memories doing my IFR training in the late nineties.. All on steam gauges. There really weren't any glass cockpits for small GA aircrafts back then.

[@jeroendekruif9225]

Great video, I'm learning a lot from you! Hope to see the IFR version with the Glass cockpit as well.

[@douglasmoore1251]

Fantastic video and very clear. One thing I may have missed, how many degrees of flaps did you deploy during your landing and, if you used more than 10 degrees, when did you deploy those (I know the first round came at the beginning of the approach)?

[@michaelspadaro6]

I dunno if this is correct, but after the first 10 degrees I have been deploying them as needed to slow me down as I’m trying to stay in the glideslope. I’m not sure there’s a set time you’re supposed to deploy them.

[@aaronlippincott7385]

these are so cool, _nobody_ is doing FS2020 tutorials like this

[@tommynott4310]

Cheers for the two videos. I might replicate your flight to better understand it but I think it make sense.

[@georgemohr2904]

That's perhaps the best performing 152 in the fleet :) Good video.

[@joaoluc]

Great tutorial! I Would love to see the instructions with the glass cockpit planes!

[@chrispurkiss1491]

Can't believe that after years/months of not understanding IFR it is suddenly making sense. Found your measured way of talking very soothing and easy to understand. Not tried the complete flight yet but will do it shortly. After I get familiar I will also try the same flight in some other aircraft just to see how I get on, I like the King Air 350i. I Will make sure I look at your other videos.

[@rustyfaders2369]

Thanks so much for these videos. You have a great way of communicating the complexities of flying and the step by step processes. Keep em coming :)

[@AndrewNorthover]

Yes! Thanks for uploading part 2 so quickly. This was great.

[@OMGITSANOREO]

Great video, just FYI the 152 does have a DME it's under the co-pilot yoke.

[@ayu12641]

Request for TBM 930 for the glass cockpit.

[@rmvdhaak]

I think you mean the TBM 930...

[@ayu12641]

@@rmvdhaak Yes, thanks

[@Atova]

Please do the glass cockpit version, learning so much from these videos!

[@aidancooper5426]

Looks so hard. I am going to have to watch both videos again. But.... this is exactly what I want to learn.

[@ritik2028]

true

[@Skeitintouch]

Wow - I’m so stressed after watching this! I can’t imagine I’ll ever get to that level of competence. Great video.

[@wnfaknd]

Glass cockpit for sure. This was nice

[@chadrice7263]

Absolutely fantastic video. I've been to that airport before. You explain everything so very well and man I feel like I learned quite a bit. You have a way of explaining everything that makes it so much easier to understand and follow.

[@DavidJIrizarry]

Amazing video, keep it up you rock dude!!

[@Stokkies07]

Would love a GC Tutorial!

[@adventuresof3bravowhiskey896]

Great video, as usual. But I remain mystified as to how to approach via RNAV a non ILS runway in IMC conditions. That would be a great video.

[@TBizzleII]

Thank you so much for this video! I really appreciate it. It is one of your best.

[@arandomuser6665]

I hope you do get around to doing IFR tutorials in the glass cockpits, G1000 and G3000 please :)

[@KevinLallier]

Great video(s) ! I'm very new to this and thanks to you, everything makes sense, thanks so much ! I'm gonna try and redo the exact same flight and practice before trying to plan my first trip from one of my french local airports.

[@bwc1007]

Thank you for the video! I watched it a few times then tried it in the sim. What a challenge.

[@Flight231]

Nice IFR in a 152, no DME or GPS! Great demo of MSFS, if its this good in early release days, it can on;y get beter!

[@wlrIII]

Yes, please a G1000 ILS . Thank you for this series, it's super helpful to noobs interested in instrument flight.

[@mecook]

William Richardson I would also like to see this done with the G1000. I have not had success yet with displaying two VORs on the display and getting the GS to work. Also does MS sim 2020 have a place with all the frequencies to look up and a low altitude IFR map?

[@LeonardoMarchese]

@@mecook Yes on the World Map screen before to Fly you can click on the Frequencies TAB (below NAV LOG)

[@Innero]

That was great to actually see. Thanks! Love your work. It's great to finally understand what's IFR about.

[@sky173]

Great tutorial.. I'm curious how many people new to Flight Sim (or flying) threw in the towel after realizing what's involved in IFR flight. I'm looking forward to the next video.

[@phillharvwy5983]

Excellent explanation ! could you make a video about holding ?

[@GameKingFaiz]

Why did you have to turn the knobs on the CDIs after punching in the frequencies? I don't understand what you were lining up there.

[@michaelspadaro6]

I managed to figure this out, I’ll try to explain. The radio tunes you to a point, and the dial tunes you to a course (radial?) towards or away from that point. So when he was flying away from Hampton, he set the dial to the course he wanted to fly away from it, so the noodle (as he kept calling it) would keep him on a line between the course he wanted to fly and the point that the radio was set to (Hampton). It took me awhile to figure that out.

[@kerrycorcoran4885]

Great video and excellent commentary!

[@dieterkoch8414]

That was so awesome.... learnt so much thank-you!!

[@Dre4mzGaming]

Can you please show an IFR approach with the ingame ATC, it seems that they often want you to go other ways than what you've planned.

[@jordyvanleeuwen9455]

Thanks for part 2! Really enjoyed seeing you fly this flight plan after you've planned it in the last episode. Would love to see this flight done with a glass cockpit as I'm curious how one would deal with only having one CDI at a time. Cheers!

[@rothgartheviking858]

I like the classic planes. forces you not to use GPS. Glass cockpits its to easy to use GPS. Great video.

[@controlfreak3587]

Someone finally records a video of FS2020 on Long Island and it's with no visibility! Still a great video and I learned a lot.

[@KENNYB322]

I follow everything you did except the headings. Out of the airport i would of gone 86 degrees, but i think i when you went 60 so you didn't fly to the center of the vor. I don't know why you came up with 105 degrees after Hampton. could you explain thanks It was a great tutorial it did help a lot.

[@GizmoMaltese]

I learned that I can use one VOR to establish two legs by using two different radials to and from the VOR respectively. One thing is I didn't hear you talk to ATC while using IFR. I've gotten lost following their instructions.

[@thestatpow5]

You make great tutorials man!! Would you please make one on advanced taxiing? Kinda tired of using the blue arrows in-game ahah

[@Tommyflies]

Loved this. Keep em comin'!

[@andrewnitu2300]

this was super helpful. something I'd like to know more about: IFR steers you well clear of any obstacles like mountains, etc, right? imagine you are flying in the mountains on a cloudy day and want to make a landing at an airport in a valley. How accurate do you have to be with these maneuvers to ensure you don't hit any terrain? I'd really like to see a more "complicated" IFR flight where you have to clear terrain (so probably in a Bonanza or something) and then take an approach into a valley airport. But this was already super helpful and taught me to fly IFR without the autopilot 😂

[@andrewnitu2300]

maybe an interesting route could be landing and takeoff from Lake Tahoe or Kelowna - the charts are pretty interesting as they have some unique maneuvers to get up/down in altitude

[@horseneagle]

The airways have width in the US its 4NM each side (8NM total) and in Europe its 10NM total. There are also altitude restrictions. ifr flying is used to avoid exactly what you mention in your example.

[@TheMrDrMs]

Fantastic series! Thank you! Could I take away some of your joy of not having to communicate on the radio for your ILS tutorial, and let us know when and what you'd be communicating to ATC during the flight?

[@KENNYB322]

Excellent i wold like to see the GPS with using vor and then just gps. thanks

[@teeganater]

Love your vids, I live in ct so it’s cool seeing you fly all around my house sometimes haha

[@TheMrDrMs]

"I'm the person that said whee in turbulence in an airliner" LOL SAME. Many years ago, my mom was freaking out in a particularly rough spot while in a 777. I was mean and told her to look out the window at the tip of the wing lol

[@aznsk1lz]

I’d be interested in seeing the C172 G1000 ILS approach or similar aircraft. These videos are great, thank you!

[@richardhobbs8433]

I found this video extremely useful. Thanks a lot

[@sharadaprasad]

This video has been extremely helpful. Thank you for doing this

[@grantwood2104]

These videos are great..you have added another dimension to the sim for me......in particular using SkyVector site and instrument flying.....

[@GuillermoZS]

Great series! Keep them coming! Thanks a lot

[@chrismcgourty1756]

Brilliant dude, absolutely smashed this instructional video. Thank you!

[@joshuarogers3183]

+1 for the Airplane! references.

[@NGC008]

Great, thanks. Looking forward to seeing the next video.

[@kemas8406]

Dude, love your contents man. I learned a lot from your video.

[@stevemangoman4744]

Great tutorial! Question: When flying east to Hampton, why do you call it the "105" radial when it would seem to me to be the "285" inbound? After you cross Hampton, then you would be on the "105", right? Thanks!

[@richavery66]

Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Yes, radials "radiate" from a beacon. If you are on, for example, the 045 radial, you are north-east of the beacon. Therefore, he was flying on a bearing of 105 degrees towards the beacon and on the 105 radial once he had flown over it (which means, as you said, that he was flying the 285 radial inbound). I think confusion arises when people set a course on the CDI, see a TO flag displayed on it, and automatically assume they on on the radial of the selected course. In this video's example, he set a course of 105 on the CDI and, as he was flying towards the beacon, the CDI displayed a TO flag. However, since he was west of the beacon, he couldn't have been on the 105 radial, even though the CDI would appear to indicate that he was. (Confusion also comes from people like me trying to explain things! ;) ) If the CDI is set to a radial's bearing, and your course matches that bearing, you are only flying that radial when the CDI displays a FROM flag. In the same way, you are following the same radial if you are flying a course reciprocal to the radial's bearing with the CDI displaying a TO flag. If your course matches the radial's bearing, and the CDI displays a TO flag, you are following the reciprocal radial inbound. AFAIK, if ATC asks you to intercept a radial, they will expect you to follow the heading away from the beacon, unless they specifically tell you to intercept an inbound radial.

[@jeremiahjordan8764]

great video a few little mistakes but good job been a long long time since i flew a bisic ifr c172 instrument ILS thats a good old school revisit

[@stephanaitch]

Really enjoy being your Flight Simulator student 😊 Great Tutorials 👍 Thank you!

[@AlexKretzschmar]

Thank you, this was a useful little guide.

[@durulbaykal]

I usually never subscribe anyone but I did subscribe your channel and I appreciate a lot of your hardwork!!! big thanks!!

[@paulerikf]

I have fallen asleep to many of your videos haha

[@hawkexo]

Great video. So glad I subscribed last week. Question... does magnetic deviation impact radio navigation in any way?

[@LuxembourgExposed]

It would be lovely to see a tutorial about the weather radar. I don't know how to read it!

[@HurricaneWeasel]

That was amazing! Thank you for showing!

[@alvaromrdrummer]

Just what I needed. Perfect Videos, thanks a lot!

[@danpop1714]

thank you for teaching me, i flew along.. was fun!

[@davidh7280]

This is what Flight Sim is all about. Well done tutorial, shows how much fun can be had! Did you use carb heat? Could also do this at night in rain, cloud deck at about 300', so runway lights appear below cloud deck and above DH!

[@rjc0234]

I think the current biggest stumbling block is there is no way, in game, to record all your VOR frequencies, transitions etc. the navigator basically tells you time and angle, that is it. no altitude, no frequencies. I have installed a whiteboard next to my computer so i can hand write my plans down. Also wish the game had an ingame nav nap that wasn't the VFR map, just a good way of finding out frequencies of VOR's, and maybe an on screen distance and angle measuring tool.

[@wlrIII]

Yes a notepad like thing would be nice. If you're using the G1000 at least you can scroll to nearest on the nav panel, click freq and you can see all the freqs. Too bad the interface is so convoluted.

[@solarasolarwind4323]

was this the way pilots flew back in the 1960s and 1970s?

[@joelmulder]

Solara Solarwind and even before then. Pilots have been using VORs since the late 40s, but now they’re slowly being phased out. Many VORs once broken, won’t be repaired anymore in many parts of the world.

[@solarasolarwind4323]

@@joelmulder I can't believe how much work was reguired just for the short trip! I always wondered how pilots flew around prior to gps and onboard flight management systems.

[@ProWithABow231]

There’s actually an even older version of navigation called NDBs(non directional beacon) or ADF (automatic direction finding). I’m not sure how they work because they are more phased out than VORs. But I think VORs will be around for a long time. Never know if satellites for GPS could go out. It’s all about redundancy in aviation.

[@lenfox3452]

@@ProWithABow231 I am an old IFR rated pilot and I can tell you that NDB approaches are very challenging, especially with a crosswind. By the way, you can pick up AM radio stations with the ADF, which is used for NDB navigation.

[@BerserkerBrk]

What a lesson. Thank you.

[@YourXLNerd]

i get the sense the 152s trim is glitched. Jumped in the 172 and it's way less sensitive

[@Botelh]

You made my day!!! Nice tutorial!!!!

[@hankschrader627]

Fantastic.

[@esentis_x]

awesome ! i love IFR ! great video .