The dream of flying means more than simply sitting in the cockpit, applying power, and somehow getting airborne. If you truly want to fly safely, precisely, and with enjoyment, you need a fundamental understanding of how an aircraft behaves in the air. That is exactly what these beginner tutorials are designed to help you with.
Aerofly FS gives you the ideal opportunity to safely explore all the fundamentals of flying and understand how they relate to each other. From axes and control surfaces to lift and speed, and all the way through approach, landing, and the most important cockpit instruments. Each tutorial builds on the previous one and helps you recognise relationships instead of just reacting randomly and trying to keep everything under control.
Take a few minutes for each of the ten chapters and discover the basics of flying. Some concepts are intentionally simplified to make getting started easier. After that, you will fly with significantly more control—and be a few clouds closer to your dream.
You will learn about the three axes around which every aircraft moves and understand how ailerons, elevator, rudder, and flaps affect the aircraft’s attitude. Step by step, it becomes clear how roll, pitch, and yaw are interconnected.
For an aircraft to fly, it must move relative to the surrounding air. This is a very simple introduction to a rather complex subject, but in these beginner tutorials we want to keep things straightforward.
Full throttle, nose up — and up to th sky? It’s not quite that simple. Takeoff and the subsequent climb are among the more demanding phases of flight, because speed, power, and aircraft attitude must work together in perfect coordination.
Six basic instruments show you everything you need to know at the beginning about speed, attitude, altitude, and direction of flight. You will get to know the most important flight instruments step by step and understand why they form the foundation of safe and controlled flying.
Flying straight ahead may sound simple—but it isn’t. Unaccelerated level flight is the condition in which all forces are in balance. That is precisely why it forms the foundation of precise flying and every controlled transition into a climb or descent.
Safety margins are crucial in aviation. You will learn how lift is generated, why a stall depends not only on airspeed but primarily on angle of attack, and how the airspeed indicator helps you stay within the safe operating range.
Flying turns is far more than simply moving the controls and enjoying a new heading. What matters is the coordinated use of ailerons, rudder, and elevator to maintain altitude and avoid unwanted effects such as yaw or slipping sideways.
Landing begins long before the wheels touch the runway. Your aircraft must first be flown through the base and final legs of the traffic circuit while consistently maintaining altitude, airspeed, and attitude, so that a properly flown circuit becomes a real safety advantage.
You will also learn why airspeed and descent rate are just as critical as the approach itself — and when a go-around is the better decision. With this, the foundation for your further career in the cockpit is laid.
Too high, too low—or just right? The final approach plays a decisive role in a smooth landing. But there is another aid outside the cockpit that has been reliably guiding pilots to the runway for decades: the Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) system.