The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seat, single-engine, high-wing fixed-wing aircraft. First flown in 1955 and still in production, more Cessna 172s have been built than any other aircraft.
Clyde Cessna ,a farmer in state of Kansas started building the first wooden plane made up of wood and fabric in 1911, was the first to fly between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. In 1927, he and
his cousins established the first factory for cessna production, which is developed to what it is now.
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:How to fly Cessna 172
:Let us know how to fly cessna 172. Watching below video is the first step to know which contain 3 lessons
When you run Flight Simulator 2004, the opening screen will be shown as picture no.1
Start to prepare for your trip by clicking Create a Flight
: In screen number (2), there are 10 choices as follow
No.1: Select Departure airport
No.2: Choose your favorite plane
No.3: Choose a time and date
No.4: Choose a state of the climate
No.5: Plan for a trip
No.6: Prepare the failure of your trip
No.7: Preparation of fuel loading
No.8: To save your trip and must be activated before the start of the trip
No.9: Choose if you need help from the air controller or not
No.10:To start your trip
When you click choice No. 1, airport selection page will be appeared as shown in picture No. 3
: set up the airport page as follows
No.1: at the begining of airport page there is a search engine, you can search by
airport name,airport code or airportcity
No.2: at the end of page you can choice your departure country,all airports in this specified country will be shown
No.3: you can also choice city of departure to show all airports in this city
When you click the choice No. 2, aircraft screen will be shown as Picture No 4
:set up the aircraft page as follows
No.1: aircraft manufacturer selection box
No.2: aircraft's model selection box
No.3: airlines selection box - if available
No.4: boxes in the right side for the aircraft description
No.5: ATC Name Box to identify yourself with observer if activated
When you click the choice No. 3, time and season screen will be shown as Picture No 5
set up the time and season page as follows
No.1: "Time of day" selection box consists of four choices :Down - day - dust - night
No.2: Boxes in the right side to determine the time
No.3: lower left box to choose one of previously defined seasons: summer - winter - spring - fall
No.4: lower right side to determine the date by using the calender
When you click the choice No. 4, Weather screen will be shown as Picture No 6
set up the Weather page as follows
: No.1: upper part for page there are two squares
{ first for choosing your weather {rainy - sunny - fog
Second one to show the effect of your choice
No.2: the choices in the middle to choose the real weather after connecting the internet if you want to
No.3: lower left of this page there is a dynamic weather choice to allows you to change the weather difficulty {eg: if you choose fog weather you can increase or decrease fog rate}, you can adjust all other choices by the same way
When you click the choice No. 5, Flight Planner screen will be shown as next Picture
:set up the Flight Planner page as follows
No.1: Departure Airport's box: when you click it you will go to airport page which I explain it before to select your departure airport
No.2: arrival airport box: when you click it you will go to the same airport page which I explain it before to select your arrival airport
:No.3: Down to airport selection there are two options
which we will explain later when we start professional & Default aircraft lessons
Thus, you prepared your fully trip, to review the Previous lessons, watch the following video
: Other settings for Flight Simulator 2004
Select a Flight: When you choose "Select a Flight" you can fly a pre-planned flight through pressing any choice in upper box to get several trips under this Category
Flying lessons: you can find some flying lessons attached to the program which are useful and helpful lessons for beginners in English
:Program settings
No.1: for sound, display and system adjust
No.2: for Observer settings
No.3: for increasing aircraft traffic
No.4: for adding scenery to your game
No.5: for Joystick and keyboard settings
No.6: for adjusting Joystick and keyboard sensitive
No.7: to enable or disable Joystick
No.8: using for increasing difficulty and facing obstacles during your flight
No.9: for weather settings
Observer settings
Flight Simulator 2004 settings to increase the traffic
Add new scenery Screen
Scenery is airport small structure which is added to FS9 for more realistic
