First look and beginners guide to starting the Latécoère Flying Boat in Microsoft Flight Simulator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2023
- A first look at the wonderful Latécoère flying boat in Microsoft Flight Simulator - getting the aircraft up and running, and taking off from the south coast of France.
You can download the startup procedure I followed here:
ko-fi.com/s/fbe31c5cbc
#msfs #flightsimulator #aviation #flying #flight #simulator #microsoft #asobo #latecoere #flyingboat #locallegend #france
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Volanta (flight tracking)
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Simbrief (flight planning)
- simbrief.com
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Quick note - I have revised the startup procedure to include the second bank of levers on the opposite wall of the cockpit for the mixture and RPM. I missed it in this "first look" (the checklist in the aircraft doesn't mention it) - also, there is a clipboard in the cockpit instrument panel with control of the tug boat, pontoons, and lots more. Finally - there are working doors in the front and back of the cockpit, allowing access to the crew sleeping quarters, and the passenger area.
Verry nice model i'm impressen (not a MS-FlightSim enthousiast though)
i think your startup procedure is a bit of a quick and dirty one.
First of al, Starting the engines this way would make the aircraft to turn violently around the anchor boi.
Also after startup there is of course a whole procedure checking each engine and generator.
Avionics should be set even before starting the engine.
Then also.. this is a flyingboat.. there is a whole list of items even before starting.
Still amazing.. thanks fot this nice demonstration.
@@pascalcoole2725 I always chop all of the real-world checks from the *functional* checklists :)
Truly impressive reconstruction work, considering that there was nothing left of this plane except photos, a few videos of when it was tested, and testimonials of surviving crewmen and engineers
I work at Latécoère, and can assure you that there are still lots of official documents of the plane. If I'm not wrong, some of my colleagues helped the devs to "rebuild" the plane with those documents
I love the giant flying boats. I wish they were still used today, even if just as a novelty. Jet flying boats would have been interesting to see.
There have been several jet flying boats over the years. The US even experimented with flying boat jet fighters.
There’s one in the Southampton aviation museum, an impressive sight!
@@jonbeckett Pardon? That was the Brits, with the Saunders Roe SR1A. The US did have the Sea Dart though, which had hydroskis! The US also had the Seamaster bomber, but only as prototypes. The USSR had, and the Russians have, military jet flying boats.
@@AtheistOrphan Saro SR1A. British.
@@ANobodyatall - That’s correct. If you can get down to Southampton it’s well worth visiting the museum in which it is housed, I went there in May last year.
I think now that there is a proper long range flying boat, you should do a journey that Pan Am took in 1941, San Fransisco to New York City via Austraila and Africa
What are you talking about? The Boeing Clipper has already been in MSFS for quite sometime now.
@@ImpendingJoker yes it has, but evrything u have heard about it has been very meh, unless it been updated. I jave not seen any updtate videos on it
@@ImpendingJoker As usual, people have hard times to read and understand at the same time. What
@ImpendingJoker was talking about was a trip that happened in the reality that took place in the real world, a bit after the Japanese were forced to join the war and when it was dangerous to fly home via Japan Russia Alaska and so on.
@@karstent.66 *forced*
I have seen many documentaries on french aviation, the laté 631 was shown up many times, apparently mechanics could crawl through the wings and check/service an engine in flight, its crazy.
It feels real, the game and plane is really well made
Cela n'est pas fou, c'est vrai.jai connu le dernier pilote de ce fantastique appareil.
Latécoère still exists ! A firm manufacturing planes doors. The main Latécoère enterprise is now called Air France ... since 1930, I think
I purchased this wonderful plane last night after watching your TH-cam videos. It is my first plane purchase, although I have had flight sim for over a year. The detail is unbelievable. I am stunned by the visuals and perhaps for me the old school controls are perfect as I am a complete novice when it comes to flight navigation. I also installed little Navmap (having never used it before) which has added more excitement to flying this awsome plane. Thank you for highlighting it. Once I am a bit more comfortable flying it I will go into VR as I am sure the textures of the plane will really pop.
Looks like a lot of the systems that started in the Hercules were continued and improved in this model. What a plane!
I love flying boats!
I did a flight in this bird on Lake Titicaca in VR. So enjoyable to hang out in the cocktail room and "walk" around the cabin trying out different seats 😊. I like that there's even a kitchen and crew rest area, and the trap door from the flight deck down to the cabin reminds me so much of a tree house. Definitely worth the price! I hope I'll see more of these planes flying around the sim.
How and where do you find this VR experience? Im late to VR but that kind of deal will get me onboard
@@acmelka There's lots of tutorials on TH-cam about different options for VR headsets as well as how to configure your sim to run MSFS smoothly. I'd check out those types of videos first before investing in hardware, but you should know that there will be even more attractive VR headsets coming out this year, such as the Big Screen Beyond and the Quest 3. I have a Pico 4, but there are many tradeoffs to having a wireless VR connection as compared to tethered options that plug directly into your GPU via display port. But, and I feel this is true for GA flyers especially, once you go VR you never want to fly on flatscreens. :)
@@ErikFigueroa thank you - iwas more wondering about the specific title? That allows this plane over Titicaca. i went and searched Steam titles and general VR flying boat' on Google but I am a total noob thanks for the info
This gives me hope that we might get a working Zeppelin in msfs 2024.
Someone was developing the Graf Zeppelin at one point, can’t remember exactly where I found out about that but if you hammer it into Google it’ll probably turn up.
Merci Jon pour cette nouvelle aventure dans le Latecoere. Pronontiation impeccable! Ok, I took my French out of my chest ... and flew with you :)
Love the Deco style of this era. Interesting in that there are none in existence. That's a shame. You didn't waste anytime showing us this beauty.
I remember being so confused when i first entered the Latécoère, thank you for providing this guide so i don't get confused again.
Glad it helped!
I was hesitant about this one, but now I have been convinced to get it. Thank you for the video!
I love the attention you put into explanations.
Thank you for that. What an incredible aircraft. Great tutorial.
As a old engine mechanic, I had the pleasure of starting old C 124's and C 97's in the Air Force,this aircraft is so realistic, I tried to keep the flames to a minimum on start up, very nice job on your part
Bravo pour ce travail !
Stunning Piece of Art.
Imagine having a living cabin. Smoke slowly drifts along as music blast. The bar is alive and the sound of men and women enjoying their expensive/exclusive trip to their exotic destination.... Ahh but one can dream...........
Beautiful aircraft. Thanks for the start up instructions.
Awesome!
Thanks so much for this - was in love with it from the first photo I saw 40 years ago.
This video alone is enough to download MSFS… THANK YOU!
Stunning interior. Loved it all.
man i didn't know flight simulator was this cool. Last version i played was 1998
Wow. Incredibly impressive!
What a gorgeous plane!
Hah!! You were one of the first to bring this beautiful plane to our attention... Well done and thank you 😄
Superb!!! Thanks for such a fast quickie tutorial!
Thanks for the work you put into doing these videos. This one is astounding.
Glad you like them!
Not only games are Art, but also a medium for historical preservation.
Wonderful tutorial. You've done it again.
Superb.
Full power to your elbow!
Barty
Wow that is a beautiful aircraft.
Beautiful aircraft. Feels like being part of a jules Verne book. Sitting on a bar stool and going to the air.
That was amazing to watch. Thanks
Gorgeous plane Indeed
Beautiful plane!
This is truly magnificent for anyone interested in these aircrafts.
Amazing.
That looks really lovely. Thanks for showing this 😉
This is great! Thank you.
Wow that looks awesome!
The level of detail is outstanding
Fantastic video
Me randomly in the middle of the night: Oh, a TH-cam documentary about an old French airplane? Sure, why not.
TH-cam the very next day: *First look and beginners guide to starting the Latécoère Flying Boat in Microsoft Flight Simulator*
Me: ....sure, why not.
What an amazing plane. I'm tempted to buy it even though I probably wouldn't use it very much.
Thank you for another great video 👍
The program is amazing, but the aircraft itself … staggering!
Beautiful plane
Merci beaucoup pour cette superbe vidéo qui nous fait découvrir un avion d’époque magnifique. Bravo !
great work! Chapeau!
Very nice..
Interesting that they recreated aircraft F-BAHG. That was the first one built and it was destroyed by the RAF in 1944 after it had been requisitioned by the Luftwaffe earlier during WWII.
lovely airplane!
lovely plane❤🛫
I'm looking forward to this team doing the Pan-Am Clippers. Those were wonderful machines.
oh I love the burst of fire endnote it starts
Awesome, very well made, video & the plane 😀
I just found your channel, it is well done and quite enjoyable and informative. I thank you for all your efforts.
Thank you very much!
les rideaux sont magnifique 😃
It's everything what the Grumman Goose wants to be. haha
Today, the company Groupe Latécoère is still in operation and produces various sections for aircrafts:
Airbus A330 A340 (mid-fuselage upper shell)
Airbus A340/500-600 (mid-fuselage upper shell and lower nose section)
Airbus A380 (passenger doors, bulk cargo doors and lower nose section)
Airbus A320 (passenger doors)
Boeing 787 (passenger doors)
Bombardier CRJ 700/900 (bulk cargo door)
Embraer ERJ 170/175/190/195 (passenger doors, emergency exit door and forward and aft fuselage barrel section)
Dassault Falcon 50 EX (Rear fuselage section)
Dassault Falcon 7X (baggage door and rear fuselage section)
Dassault Falcon 900 B/EX (Rear fuselage section)
This is mind boggling.
I have been in love with the clipper, this might take its place! I was on the fence on purchasing. Not anymore.
I love how much nose there is in front of the flight deck. The tip of the aircraft is like a whole Cessna 208 away from the pilots.^^
And you have developers that cannot include a cabin. This is great!
There used to be some Laté 631 memorabilia in the training building of my employer (the one big French airline which by contract, being an employee, I am not allowed to talk about…): two rows of seats and one set of propellers, I always looked at them feeling jealous because my pops had flown one, once, en route to Africa :)
This makes me want to buy and play MSFS.
Jeeze John...you clearly don't drink as much as I when playing this game! That's quite the start up procedure!
Hah
i love this geme
The German Condor next please.
Crazy bird
And another one who missed the French kitchen at the back...plane is beyond awesome!
I found it in the next video :)
The Garmin screen right in the middle of the Captain's panel does ruin the fantasy just a bit. Impressive add-on, aside from that!!
Beautifully rendered, the Latecoere is amazing. However, the real aircraft had a deadly flaw which was high speed aileron flutter which caused some fatalities. That serious problem, plus the fact that after the war nobody wanted flying boats, sealed it’s fate.
Interesting - I never heard that story before.
Would be great to see their version of the Princess Flying boat which was even bigger, great videos btw
Me: you'll never find me watching aircraft sims
Me later: That was superb. Where we flying to next?
Muito lindo impressionante
I don’t think the flaps are in the way. I’m guessing it’s a safety interlock because, if flaps are still down, you’re possibly not clear of the water, could be landing. Same on landing, flaps won’t come down unless floats down first. I suspect. Great video! No annoying background music
I look forward to a time in the next decade or two when some company will undertake a re-make of these old airplanes completely to-scale and fly them exactly as they used to be flown, to re-create a 100% retro-experience, and they could pay for this with paid tours and re-creation of the whole airport and boarding and flying experience to a location where the whole area is made to look like a destination in the past when that airplane was operational, all with cosplaying even the passengers and crew.. THAT WOULD BE A WORTHWHILE EXPERIENCE to live either first-person or vicariously.
Jonathan Beckett buys all the planes so that we don't have to. 😅 Thanks for the vids!
The commands" pas de l' helice" change not the RPM but the pitch .. Believe me, I am french. Beautiful video and game.
This is the standard others must follow
I legitimately thought that was film of a real world example til it flew up like a drone.
Pax Killer Aircraft!
I hope they do the Saunders-Roe Princess with a full interior!
must have been an adventure to fly a plane of that era
no, a nightmare
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we will classify this video under 'Hly Sht' 💜
wow, I just know this flying boat... definitely trans-atlantic certified because of its 6 engines..
anyway, nice view of Garuda A330-900 here 2:30
The quality of this module, vs the price of it... bang for the buck is through the roof.
There is a large flying boat at the Oakland aviation museum
Hitting an air pocket while taking a shower! LOL Also, no seat belts!
Great! Wish it was real!
We live in the 21st century goddamnit. This is how we should travel today, and not like packed sardines.
And this aircraft is from the class system of the early 20th century - when only the 1% could afford to fly anywhere.
We live in an age where air travel to distant places can be as cheap as a couple hundred dollars, back when these planes were created it was the upper class who could afford cross country or even cross continent travels. Flying is now just another form of travel, not just another luxury
Looks like the plane the penguins made on Madagascarr.
Please show in the next video the night lighting of the cabin and instruments.
the thing is huuuuuge!