Learning the Autopilot

After spending a large amount of time studying the ins and outs of the cockpits of airliners such as the Boeing 737 and the CRJ700, I have finally been taking them out for test flights across lake Michigan; taking off from O'Hare and landing in Detroit.  These have been very short 25 minute flights, and have allowed me to toy around with the autopilot systems, and GPS on the planes.

Now I plan to study Air Traffic Control, and the vocabulary necessary to communicate and coordinate with other simulators who are controlling air traffic for other airports.

What I find most enjoyable about this game is how you can upload areas that exist from all over the globe, and as long as you have an internet connection you can make sure that the weather in the game is the same as the weather we are currently experiencing, so the images below are the conditions from Tuesday, October 19 at approximately 2:00 PM

Taking off from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

Flying over Chicago at 11,500 feet en route to Detroit.