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I’m a Flight Simulator enthusiast not a real pilot.I have been using Microsoft Flight Simulator since version 2.0 and have enjoyed the hobby. This channel is going to showcase flight video's, tutorials and reviews.
My story: I have had a love for Flying for over 40years. I have a medical condition that prevents me from becoming a real world pilot not for lack of trying. I fly virtually to both fill that void and well it's just fun. I'm here to share those passions
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Nice video! Direct and to the point. I too have been using Flight Simulator since version 2 in the mid 80’s. 3rd generation pilot as well. I am now an all piston guy with a slant towards older military aircraft and period military scenery although I still fly out of the same grass strip in the sim I fly in and out of in real life. I’ve been providing content for a year now so I’m kind of settling into my niche. Thanks a bunch for sharing this and I gave you a sub 👍. Keep up the good work. -Mike
Thanks Mike that’s very cool…boy have we come a long way in the Flightsim world since those days right. I’m glad you liked the video just started streaming still trying to figure out my groove. i do appreciate the nice comment and i also subbed your channel a-lot of great warbird stuff on there, especially the DC-3 one of my favorites
Now do it at mach2
Lol now that would be a sight to see
How are you getting such a high cruise speed? I cant get over 140IAS @ 10000ft using the 75% power cruise settings... I'm barely climbing at 120 kts at full throttle
That is interesting as to what would cause that, I don’t know, not without seeing first hand what you are doing. The only thing i can think of is that you didn’t retract the flaps after takeoff. Or the landing gear is still extended
Can it do a barrel roll and be 10 ft off the ground
Probably at that height you would strike the ground with your wingtip
Thank you for this very comprehensive video and all the time you've put into it! I have a question about the autopilot. What is the function of the "GA" button? I haven't found any information on how the Century IV works on the web. Traduit avec DeepL
Thank you the GA button isn’t really a button but an annunciator light letting you know that in approach mode the glide slope and flight path are coupled. flightschoolofanderson.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Century-IV-Auto-Pilot.pdf Here is the manual on the century iv autopilot
Thanks mate, really helpful!
You’re welcome glad it helped
Great video bud! Great tribute! Went to reading airport this past weekend for WW2 weekend. A lot of great old military planes.. lots of flights ! Appreciate military Mondays ! Keep up with all the great videos you do virtual flight diaries !
Thanks appreciate it
I'm new to the Piston Duke and your videos are a great help in understanding all the systems on this aircraft. The cabin air conditioning system deserves an in-depth video. Thanks again for all your time and help.
You’re welcome….I’m so glad I’m able to help I’ll look into doing a environmental systems video
I know the cost is prohibitive for many, but once I tried Say Intentions I was sold. It is still a work in progress, but they are extremely active on discord, and the product is absolutely amazing. If you haven’t tried it, you should.
I did try it when it first came out and it was good the reason i didn’t go with it at the time was the cost for what it did… I am sure it has improved just like BATC has improved since the video I made. Might have to give it another try
@@V_F_Diaries ….definitely has improved. Yes, it is rather pricey, but I wouldnt say more than BATC “if” one uses premium voices all the time and flies a lot. I fly 5-7 flights per week, so its definitely being used. They are very hopeful that cost will come down in the next weeks ahead.
Great tutorial! Thanks for that. Very helpful. Was leaning on a "rule of thumb" up to now....
Your welcome… I’m glad it was helpful i was reading before the invention of this monitor leaning the old school methods were acceptable and still are for those planes that don’t have the EDM installed the benefit of the engine monitor is that you are more accurate and in-turn extend the useful life of your engine. The other common method used is to lean the engine for fuel flow which is given in the performance charts.
Sorry I couldn't join this stream! Being in Australia makes it hard to watch these sometimes being 3:30am over here! 🥲🙃
No worries catch you on the next one
Great stream
Thanks I appreciate that
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Alaska for life🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
@@V_F_Diariessay hi to ur doggies for me please!
Lol will do
Thank you! Great video
You’re welcome
Great idea! Good luck on this series!
Thanks Rory
In the manual it says 243KTAS@ FL300@75%. I'm getting approximately 300KTAS. It seems like you too are cruising alot faster?
Yes but true airspeed doesn't account for wind, a good tailwind will push you alot faster across the ground. The true airspeed calculations I have done are pretty close to the book.
Hm... Yeah. Before you got established at cruise you had 190kts IAS. But I see you are doing 170kts indicated at FL300 after leaning. At standard atmosphere that corresponds to approximately 280kts true airspeed.
@Torcsen yeah your right…ill have to check that out
@@V_F_Diaries I actually found a thread on justflight forum regarding this issue. Blacksquare has responded and acknowledged the issue. I think its only a Grand Duke issue
You know what come to think of it i shouldn’t be able to get 1700nm range either no matter what lean setting i use
No problem I’m glad this helped anything else don’t hesitate to ask i’ll try my best to help
Awesome thanks for this mate! Gonna help a ton!
Just what I was looking for. Thankyou.
The Valiants were retired decades before Operation Black Buck due to metal fatigue being found in some of them. It was the Handley Page Victors that were converted to tankers and used in the operation.
Yes that’s right and I had that in my notes too…too much reading I had all of them in my head. Thank you for the correction
Good trick keeping the heater back up by using the second heating system. This can also be used when the primary heating system the Janitrol fuel burner fails. Which it does rather often...
It hasn't failed yet for me in the sim but im sure it will
Ah a hidden clickspot for the cowflaps - nice! I didn´t know that trick. Thank you very much.
I'm glad i could help
You also see the position in the tablet under each engine
Do you leave the mixture full rich on climbout to FL250? I noticed the manual says that you don't really need to change it, but am not sure if that applies to all situations.
Yes mixtures are kept full rich to 25000’ (critical altitude) the turbocharger maintains it till then. Then you will start your leaning procedure when climbing above that
I want to add that it’s 25000’ Density altitude so it can fluctuate you might start to see a fall of passing FL240 or it might not start falling off until as high as FL260 it depends on the atmospheric conditions on that day
pilotinstitute.com/how-to-calculate-density-altitude/ Here is a good explanation on how to calculate density altitude for when your flight planning your trip
Thxs for these tutorials. We all need help flying this fantastic aircraft.
You very welcome and glad I’m able to help
Thanks as always for the amazing insight and great knowledge! One of the best channels out there!
Thank you i really appreciate that
Is that on pc
Yes it is
@@V_F_Diaries how do you get the guns to work
you have to purchase the aircraft outside market place...in the cockpit center lower panel there is a switch to arm the guns it is a guarded switch... push the switch up and the keybind is "toggle water rudder"
Great video mate once again!! I'm not sure how deep your knowledge of the duke is but if you could go over all of the diagrams in the aircraft tablet I reckon that'd be awesome as lots of people I think are very keen to fully learn the duke! Systems like the air conditioning and the pressurisation I think would make for an awesome video. Just want to put it out there for a video idea perhaps?
I seriously am glad you’re liking the videos. That’s a brilliant idea about a nuts and bolts type video thank you…my knowledge of Duke is only based on the simulation here. The only real time i have is in a Cessna 172 but couldn’t finish flight school long story. I like to read a lot too even materials not provided. Like the engine POH for the tio-541’s. Then i just put everything into practice. I’ll post a link in the description to that manual in the next video since in cruise there is more talk about the engines.
Hey mate, loving the tutorial but if I could recommend anything it would be to talk a bit faster as I believe more of the audience will stay intrigued and would allow you to reach a greater audience. Just a recommendation though! Can't wait for the rest of the series!! Thanks!
Thank you for the feed back i’ll try it out for the next one, making a script might help i usually just wing it
Maybe you could do a tutorial on the weather radar still trying to figure it out.
Thank for watching…Unfortunately simworks studios didn’t model the weather radar in the PC-12 you can get weather through the Nexrad options in the GPS units all of them have including the free WT GNS 530. But i believe the pms gtn 750 has to be the pay version and the TDS GTN xi (the one in the video) is amazing but expensive to get.
@@V_F_Diaries that’s great info thank you. I do have a few other questions on the PC-12 is it normal above 200 kn for the elevator to flutter. Do you also have any advice for Settings on the pressurization system in the Sim, thanks again for great video
Thanks…I never noticed that if it is doing that that has to be a bug i would say that it isn’t supposed to flutter. The pressurization it is pretty easy because it’s mostly automated. The large dial you want to set your cruise altitude +500 feet. and make sure you have the ECS switch in the auto position then you’re good. The problem that the PC-12 has is it is climbing too fast and it actually out climbs the cabin and you get a warning, what i found works is when you’re climbing up to cruise is set the speed hold a little higher like 160-165 and it gives you a slower climb rate so the pressurization can keep up. I read on sim works studio discord that they are fixing all that in the next update including the slightly exaggerated side slip that occurs on approach. According to them there was a typo on the spreadsheet they used to code the prop dynamics and it got put into the plane. Making it over powered apparently that has all been fixed for the next update but they’re not saying when they’re releasing that patch probably after sim update 15 i would guess
@@V_F_Diaries awesome news can’t wait for the update. This has been an awesome fun airplane to fly.
It is the pc-12 is one of my favorite airplanes
Nice recovery, but you have to be careful as soon as the spin stops, because if you pull up too hard, one of the wings will stall again, as you see. Amazing video and amazing aircraft 👍
Yeah i saw that i almost lost it again…first time putting the technique to practice it was fun…thanks for watching and Thank you for the tip
I'm really going to keep bugging Just Flight till they get the stall characteristics right, the PA-38 doesn't snap roll like that in the stall that was fixed in 1978/9 when Piper added 2 more stall strips to the leading edge of the wing
i didn’t know that, very interesting info thank you for sharing that it definitely wants to snap…do you think they modeled it that way because cause they wanted it to spin easier in the sim
where you get the landing rate monitor ?
Flow pro from parallel 42 its one of the options in the add-on
In the immortal words of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "Engage".
Lol
I'm here to chew bubblegum and engage with this video, and I'm all outta gum.
Glad to see you here
So I came back to watch the full video -- really enjoyed it! The DC-6 is a very busy airplane, easy to get task-saturated, which is why we still use flight engineers onboard. If you have a business e-mail or something I'd love to chat with you a bit about the airplane!
I’m happy to here you enjoyed the video Absolutely contact me at [email protected]
Keep on flying. xD
Always
you should set ur auto pilot disc button to AUTO PILOT OFF instead of AUTO PILOT TOGGLE or something. this will disconnect the auto pilot properly and will prevent the auto pilot from playing that disconnect sound continuously. btw, nice landing!
I will give that a try, thanks
Noice! 🧈
Thanks i was very happy, it was my best so far in the Fenix
Engine Sound: Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp
Yes i believe they are supposed to be the P&W version not sure how the sounds are supposed to be I thought they sounded pretty good.
Cool video! I work on DC-6s for a certain company I won't disclose in Alaska -- I'll certainly try to catch part of the Monday stream on my 10:00 break.
That’s very cool and i’m glad you liked the video. Look forward to you popping in on the stream.
I like it
I’m glad you like the video Thanks for watching
Wow that’s so realistic flight simulator I guess
Microsoft Flight Simulator is very realistic but i does depend on add-ons for a more realistic experience. A lot of those add-on are free
Too long music intro.
Your right it’s an upload of my twitch stream i didn’t cut the intro down for youtube appreciate the feedback