How to fly a Visual Circuit/Traffic Pattern in Microsoft Flight Simulator by a Real 737 Pilot

Join me in Microsoft Flight Simulator as we go back to basics! I’ll be demonstrating the Visual Circuit/Traffic Pattern in a Cessna 150 and flying it exactly how I was taught when I started my PPL in 2007 so you can practice at home.

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I’m a 737 Captain with over 5000 hours on the 737-800 and Full Motion Level D simulator (The real one). All guidance in my tutorials are based on real world operating procedures,

The aim of this channel is to provide realistic, informative and useful information to help you enhance your flight simulation experience by following me apply real world procedures

All guidance is for Flight Simulation on your PC only. These videos are NOT for professional guidance or instruction but to provide an insight to commercial operations. You must only consult your approved training material/official guidance from your operator.

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PC Specs:

• Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Processor/8MB L3 Cache

• Chillblast 120 CPU Water Cooler

• Asus PRIME Z270-P Motherboard

• 32GB DDR4 2400MHz

• 500GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSD

• Seagate 8 TB IronWolf Internal Hard Drive

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Graphics Card

Flight Sim Hardware:

• Thrustmaster Civil Aviation (TCA) Sidestick - Airbus Edition

• Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals

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[Wingineer]

Awesome. Brought back memories of endless circuits at EGNR in the PA38. I recall was power for vertical speed, and pitch/trim for airspeed.

[VampireParrot]

I learnt to fly fixed-wing in a PA28-161, it was pitch for speed, power for rate of climb or descent.
I also flew flex-wing microlights, and again it was pitch for speed, power for rate of descent. Being such a draggy aircraft it soon became apparent that what was really true was power + pitch = "performance", which was very useful when my ASI failed in the cruise as I knew the RPM/attitudes for climb, cruise, descent, finals etc.so ASI failure was a non-issue.

[Sam_Keeping]

Currently doing my PPL at Bournemouth, have been taught to use power for rate of decent in a "non specific" situation (on base for example) and a "specific" technique which is pitch for rate of descent and power for speed (landing).

[lpappas]

Static RPM for the Cessna 152 is 2280 to 2380 RPM. I believe you were thinking (2500 RPM) what your RPM would be as you accelerate. Great job, nice for those who are interested in how a professional pilot flies an airplane.

[biggieweeb]

You sound very professional and calm... Which is surprising after hearing about what happened on the previous attempts of recording 😂😂

[stuartmcintosh]

I was taught power to control rate of descent . Pitch for speed. Cool video! I go to Donegal quite regularly for a holiday!

[jackvegt]

There is an improvement MOD of the default 152, with a lot more detail. E.g. the warning light beneath the AMM meter turns on with RPM < 10.
Pity you didn't use it.

[nickkaning]

From cessna 152 to 737 pilot in 13 years?! Fasssst!

[MIKE-yrpm]

OH MY GOD NEW FLIGHTDECK2SIM TUTORIAL
i left a like bfr i even watched the vid cuz i knew it was gonna be good

[roberttube]

Welcome back to tutoring 👍 it’s not my beloved 737 Zibo but at least it’s proper instruction and the best I’ve found in 12 years simming. I’ve had my FDS 737-MAX FlightDeck for almost a year now (superb kit with fully motorised servo throttles) and I’m gutted XP11 doesn’t support my FlightDeck, only Prepar3D does so I’m just not flying as I can’t cope with P3D but I’m hopeful my software will support XP11 and MSFS soon

[stuartpayne]

One dislike and the stream hasn’t even started 😂 WTF

Life must be such a drag being that person.

[CalonDdraig]

You've still got it in the Cessna! You should go and have a go on a real one;). I was always taught pitch for the speed and rate of descent on the power... In a glider pitch for the speed rate of descent on the brakes. I was taught to fly the 150 about the same time as you (2004 in my case) and everything you did is very familiar - nice to see you using bumfitch. Only two things we did differently were check brakes are holding at 1700 - your technique is safer imho - and we would never use flaps on concrete - only on grass. We'd rotate at 55 - 60 and climb at 65. So very similar. Did you learn to fly the 150 in the UK or US? I know they use something different to bumfitch over there...

[davincrawford]

FD2S went to My home airport haha. Great video captain, your welcome up at our little airport any time :) daily flights from Dublin and seasonal from Glasgow ;)

[cadefoster]

Think it was power controls pitch speed controls altitude. Did my ppl in a Piper Tomahawk then Archer 2

[peterjoyce]

Nice one. I was taught to pitch for speed and power for rate of decent at my flying school but l definitely use the opposite for the 737 Zibo.

[avatarda]

What is the correct sitting position or whatever it's called in cessna ? And how can you aim the aiming point during final approach ? Where to look at ? I am really confused about those .

[jurgen]

Thank you for this tutorial!

I only learned from watching video's but: why aren't you using the final stage of flaps on final?

The way I learned (but, no professional at all):

Abeam threshold on downwind: lower RPM, get into white arc and lower 1st stage of flaps,
turn base, add 2nd stage
turn final and make flaps final (=30 degrees in C152).

But I do not like the 30 degrees settings at all (at least, in MSFS). Very draggy and I must increase RPM not to slow down to much.

So...which one would you say is right and if it's yours: why not use the final stage of flaps??

Thanks!

[epilot]

I bet you use trim as well when you say you control speed with the power in the 737.

[Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo]

In downwind and base, will you be able to glide and land at that distance to tyhe runway- in case of engine failure?

[TheStreamReel]

Great tutorial, is there anyway to get hold of the checkilst? I have found a few online but none with the detail as the one used in this video