MSFS Next Level: Realism

If you’re ready to move up to more challenging and realistic aspects of your flight sim experience, we have a new guide to help you reach your goals.

MSFS Next Level: Realism is the new eBook that guides you through the process of increasing realism and immersion in MSFS 2020. With more than 100 illustrations and graphics, this 140-page eBook features four main sections: PreFlight, Aviate, Navigate and Communicate.

The tutorial starts with a PreFlight section:

• PC Hardware
• Peripherals including joysticks, yokes, rudder pedals, head tracking, headsets and other equipment
• Scenery enhancements and Community Add-Ons

Next, we move on to Aviate:

• Starting Cold & Dark and Checklists
• Weight & Balance, Fuel Consumption and Mixture Control
• Turn Off the Autopilot – manually fly climbs and descents at specific rates and trim for level flight
• Hand flying approaches including cross wind techniques
• Failures
• Missed Approaches
• Live Air Traffic including third-party traffic injectors
• Weather Settings including third-party enhancements

In the Navigate section we focus on using:

• Navigraph
• Simbrief

And finally, in the Communicate section we’ll jump into:

• Air Traffic Control – learning how to speak to controllers
• Offline ATC - stock and third-party solutions
• Online ATC - primarily getting started with IVAO and VATSIM

Applying this guide will challenge you in new ways, deepen your immersion and take you much closer to the actual experience of a real-world pilot. It’s time to learn and grow as a sim pilot!