About FlyAOAmedia · Virtual Type School

We teach you to fly the airplane — not just read about it.

FlyAOAmedia is Virtual Type School for desktop sim pilots: airliner type training built the way an airline training department builds it — systems first, then real-world routes flown gate to gate in the sim, on video, at real-time pace. Taught by a working CFI. You don't memorize a manual. You sit in the seat, run the systems, and fly the legs.

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An Angle of Attack property — its own surface, built for the simmer who wants to actually fly the heavy.

Plenty of sim pilots can program a route and watch the airplane fly it. Far fewer understand what the airplane is doing, and why, when something changes at altitude. That gap is the whole reason FlyAOAmedia exists.

We don't hand you a 1,400-page manual and wish you luck. We pull the forty pages that actually fly the airplane, put them in the order you'd fly them, and teach them on video — systems first, then the legs, gate to gate. One membership opens the whole fleet.

Why it exists

Virtual Type School: the airline training method, rebuilt for the sim.

01

Fly the airplane. Don't just read about it.

Reading a systems chapter and flying the system are two different skills. We teach the second one. Every lesson is captured inside the sim cockpit, at real-time pace, on the panels you'll actually fly — so the knowledge lands in your hands, not just your notes.

02

Taught the way an airline trains it — in order.

A real training department doesn't fire facts at you at random. It builds you up: systems first so you understand the airplane, then full routes flown gate to gate so you can operate it. That's the structure of every FlyAOAmedia course — GroundWork, then FlightWork, then LineWork.

03

A real instructor, not a playlist of forty creators.

YouTube can show you which button to press. It can't sit beside you and tell you when to intervene, what 'normal' feels like, or what the airplane is telling you when the panel goes amber. FlyAOAmedia is one syllabus, one voice, start to finish.

Spend your mental energy on what matters — flying the airplane.
How the type school works

Three Works, flown in the order an airline would teach them.

A type rating moves you from "what does this airplane do?" to "I can run a line." FlyAOAmedia follows the same arc — built as up to three video courses per airframe, each one picking up where the last left off.

Step 01 GroundWork Systems

The airplane, system by system — engines, electrics, hydraulics, fuel, pressurization, the FMS and autoflight. The forty pages of the FCOM that actually fly the jet, taught the way a training department would teach them, before you ever push a thrust lever.

Step 02 FlightWork Real-world routes

Real-world routes flown gate to gate in the sim — cold-and-dark to autoland, narrated in real time. You watch every decision: the brief, the load, the SID, the step climbs, the descent and approach. Systems knowledge becomes a flying skill.

Step 03 LineWork Line ops

Line-oriented operations — full gate-to-gate legs the way the airline actually runs them, day after day. The polish that turns a pilot who can fly the airplane into one who can fly the line. Available where the airframe supports it.

Every lesson is a video — captured inside the sim cockpit, at real-time pace, on the PMDG, Level-D, and QualityWings panels you'll actually fly. Nothing sped up. Nothing skipped.

Who teaches this

Chris Palmer. A working CFI who flies the heavies in the sim, on camera.

Chris is the founder and chief instructor behind Angle of Attack and FlyAOAmedia. He's been in aviation education since 2006, became a certificated flight instructor in 2017, and flies a Cessna 172 out of Homer, Alaska. Two-time Master Aviation Educator. Gold Seal CFI. Roughly twenty years spent teaching pilots their fundamentals.

FlyAOAmedia is where that teaching meets the desktop sim. The airliners here are studied, not flown for hire — but the method is the same one Chris brings to every cockpit: understand the airplane, build a felt model of what 'normal' is, and decide ahead of time how you'll handle it when it isn't. Recognize abnormal before it surprises you. That's airmanship, and it transfers straight into the sim seat.

He teaches the heavy metal the way he wishes someone had taught it to him — patiently, in plain English, with the jargon introduced as it comes up, and zero interest in making you memorize a checklist you'll never use.

Two-time Master Aviation Educator Gold Seal CFI In aviation education since 2006 Homer, Alaska
The fleet

Eight airplanes. One library. Add the next one for free.

From the widebodies to the trainers — every airplane gets the same Virtual Type School treatment: systems on video, then real-world routes flown gate to gate in the sim.

737NextGen 747Queen of the Skies 767Widebody 777Triple Seven 787Dreamliner MD-11Trijet AviatorProSkills track Aviator90Free with signup
One membership · eight airplanes · 30-day money-back

One membership unlocks the whole hangar — from $8.25 a month.

No per-airplane paywalls. Join once and every airplane in the FlyAOAmedia library opens up — plus every one we ship from here forward.

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One membership unlocks the whole hangar — 737, 747, 767, 777, 787, MD-11, AviatorPro, Aviator90. Aviator90 is free with a signup. Every airplane we ship from here forward, included.