Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets

Sybex's Official Strategies & Secrets of Flight Simulator 2002 is a really nice inexpensive first book for getting to know Flight Simulator 2002, and the thought processes of flying. I say "Flying!" because Microsoft's Flight Simulator motto, "As Real As It Gets", is "jaw-drop-pingly" accurate for this low cost computer software. The words of this book make you see and feel the level of commitment, and attention to thinking, and analysis, required to be a fully competent pilot. It has the knowledge the other reviewers had to learn before they could ask any advanced question. In other words, their complete focus on their advanced needs makes them incapable of correctly evaluating this book. If I were to lodge a complaint about it, I would say that it should have had as many instrument status pictures and examples as the manual that came with Flight Simulator 2000 Professional. The current online help method of explaining is nice, but having a book open next to you while you try different instrument settings without having the leave the flight screen is even nicer. Anyone using Flight Simulator 2002 for fun or to begin the process of learning how to fly must understand that you must read as many different expressions of flight knowledge as you can. Doing this will do something essential to pilots with no flight time or with low flight time, and that is to keep your pilot thinking sharp and automatic for an environment where small lapses in thinking, and knowledge are fatal. I recommend this book to anyone who is new to Flight Simulator, because it is a good conversation to hear about how to begin learning how to fly for real, or for learning how to fly as a game. Honestly,Bernard L. Williams, Real Pilot In The Making