Descent

Holden Riley has left a very informative comment about descending! Thank you very much, Riley, for sharing.

For planning your descent, there are two simple equations that you can use to get you almost all the way there and work every time if you do the calculations right. You can usually use the cruising period to do them and it is really helpful to have a pencil and paper, and maybe a calculator if necessary.

1. Rate of descent or VS: Take your GS, the speed that you are going while you are cruising, and multiply it by five. If you cruise at 360 kts, your VS should be 1,800 fpm and if you cruise at 150 kts, your VS should be at 750 fpm.
(If you're flying an airliner, your VS should be lowered to 1,000 fpm once you are below 5,000 feet and then adjusted accordingly until it's around 600-700 for the glide slope on final approach.)

2. Distance of descent start. It's important to figure out how far away from the airport you have to be when you begin your descent, that way you don't over shoot the airport and have to go around. To calculate the distance needed is easy, you just take your cruise altitude, divide it by 1,000 and multiply by 3. If you cruise at 30,000 feet, then 30,000/1,000= 30, and 30x3=90, you begin your descent when you are 90 miles from the airport. 20,000 is 60 miles, 15,000 is 45, and 10,000 is 30. (The part that you might need a calculator for is looking at your flight plan counting the miles and figuring out where that point is, so you can begin your descent at the right place. That part also takes the longest time to calculate so make sure you have enough time to do it. It would also be smart to write down so you won't forget it.)

A perfect approach is difficult to achieve but this will certainly help you out.

Also in a descent and approach, these are the specific Airline based guidelines followed by professional pilots around the world:
10,000 ft: landing lights, strobe lights, and nav lights on. Flaps retracted. Airspeed between 200 and 250 kts.
8,000 ft: Flaps between 1 and 5 degrees.
5,000 ft: Flaps between 10 and 20 degrees. Airspeed between 190 and 225 kts. 1,000 fpm VS.
2,500 ft: Flaps between 20 and 26 degrees. Airspeed between 185 and 195 kts.
When you are five miles out, gear should be down, flaps should be fully extended, and spoilers should be armed.
On the glide slope: (if you have the visual boxes for help on final approach, that is where the glide slope starts.) Depending on your weight and weather conditions, you should be going between 145 and 165 kts. Trim should be as required. The autopilot should be disengaged except for heading, unless you have crosswind, then the whole thing should be off. Autopilot should have these settings but should not be armed; SPD 200, HDG (between 0 and 359), ALT 6,000, VS 2500. If all goes well you wont need any of those settings. The thrust levers should be manually holding you at your approach speed, but when the call out computer announces that you are at 20 feet, you should bring them back to idle (0%) and flare. Wait until the nose gear is on the ground before adjusting to the center line, and applying reverse thrust. At 60 kts, reduce thrust to 50% and wait for the auto shutoff. DO NOT USE BRAKES, those are for parking only.

Taxiing: Use the rudders to turn, never use engine power to taxi unless you are heading against wind and the plane will not budge or is having trouble turning. Remember, 25 knots to drive, 10 knots to turn.

WARNING: Autopilot should never be used to slow the plane down by more than 10 kts. Bring the thrust levers down to 20% to 25% with the auto-throttle off and put spoilers in flight mode if you have to. Then rearm the auto-throttle when you are at your speed. Make only small adjustments and make sure the spoilers are closed when the auto-throttle is in use.

ATC Tutorial

INFINITE FLIGHT ATC
Infinite Flight uses a Unicom ATC system, where there is no air traffic controller but aircrafts announcing there positions. To work the system, there is an atc button, which pops up with many options to send to your current frequency.
Most of this are mainly straight forward, like taxiing and taking off. Which runway are you on? There are two ways of finding out. You can zoom very in on the map and the runway number would show up, or you can look at the start of the runway, which shows the runway number also (you must turn on runway numbers in settings).
When sending a transmission, make sure you are tuned on the right frequency.
Taking off transmission options: Remaining in the pattern, north south east west, straight out.
What does remaining in the pattern mean?
It means that you will fly in the traffic pattern, which I don't see exist in Infinite Flight Live. So I would choose the other options,
Reporting position:
Final, left base, left downwind etc
Final means you are on your final approach and is about to land on a runway in the airport. This advises other aircraft to hold short and wait for you to land.
Left base, left downind etc.: Using these transmissions aren't very helpful in multiplayer. I would not use these transmissions.
Announce inbound: This means you are going to approach the airport. Tapping this option gives runway numbers. Tap on the runway you would land on. This transmission gives other aircraft your position, and allows them to determine whether to take off or hold short.
Request traffic advisories: This means you are going to approach the airport for landing, and would like to see which runways are being used.
Send traffic advisories: This tells the other inbound aircrafts which runway you are using.
Go around: This means you have missed your approach and will take off for another shot. It gives other aircrafts opportunity to take off or land.
People usually use the ATC effectively, but that could be said otherwise at the airport KHAF.

Enjoy multiplayer! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment.




REAL WORLD AVIATION ATC

Phraseology
First, you need to know the radio-alphabet and numbers.

A lpha                          1 one
B ravo                          2 two
C harlie                         3 tree
D elta                           4 four
E cho                            5 five
F oxtrot                        6 six
G olf                             7 seven
H otel                           8 eight
I ndia                             9 niner
J uliet .
K ilo
L ima
M ike
N ovember
O scar
P apa
Q uebec
R omeo
S ierra
T ango
U niform
V ictor
W hisky
X ray
Y ankee
Z ulu

Decimal/point

118.80 One-one-eight decimal eight-zero

Callsign

All aircrafts has its own callsign. It is usually in a form of: Company name, flight number.

For example, Emirates 14 Heavy, Delta 19

The Basic Form of a Transmission

Who you are sending the transmission to, who you are, and message

Eg. Sydney Tower, United 170, ready for departure, holding short of runway 16L.

Requesting Clearance

Using the basic form of a transmission, here is the messages you say to request clearance for taxi, takeoff, and landing.

Taxi: Request taxi

Eg. Emirates 19, requesting taxi to runway ___.

Departure: Ready for departure, holding short of runway.

Eg. Emirates 19, ready for departure, holding short of runway 16 right.

Takeoff: Ready for takeoff

Eg. Emirates 19, ready for takeoff on runway 16 right.

Landing: Request clearance to land on runway ___.

Eg. Emirates 19, requesting clearance to land on runway 14 left.

Flight Level

Instead of saying 35 thousand feet, the term flight level is used instead. One flight level is 100 feet. So 35000 feet is flight level 350.

Eg. Emirates 1 Super, climbing through flight level 50, going for cruise altitude flight level 100.

Replying to transmissions

It is necessary to repeat the transmission sent by ATC to acknowledge that you received their transmission and understood it properly. 

For example, ATC says: Emirates 19, climb and maintain flight level niner thousand.

You would reply: Climb and maintain flight level niner thousand, emirates one niner.

Name of airports

Instead of saying, for example, YSSY, you would say: Yankee, sierra, sierra, yankee.

I think I have covered most of the stuff for ATC. If you have any questions, or info to add to this, please leave a comment down below.