@squirrel FYI, Avionics master should stay off until after ignition. The startup can damage electronics in rare cases. Almost all C172 checklists have it as an item post-start. Cheers...
Paul, believe it or not when you are learning to fly you are taught to turn on the avionics master after starting the engine to avoid any possible surges to the "sensitive" electronics. Applies to most smaller Cessna aircraft (172,182 etc) :)
Excellent!! I moved from FSX to X-Plane a few years ago, and LOVE IT!! I'm happy you are including X-Plane now ... what with that and A & ETS, I'm a happy bunny :-)
Hey Squirrel when starting the Cessna the easiest is to set mixture to full, and crack the throttle (open 2mm) and then start the engine. Following the start the POH recommends 1. Set RPM to 1000 2. Check oil pressure is in the green within 30seconds 3. Check ammeter is charging 4. Set mixture for taxi (done by reducing mixture after the peak a drop will be seen, from the drop increase mixture 3mm or so careful not to kill the engine) 5. Do a magneto dead cut (this is debated among pilots whether it's good or bad) 6. Flaps now come up (usually put down for preflight inspection and to protect battery lifted once engine is running) 7. Radio instruments (including transponder to stby until on runway) come on now (as said in other comments to protect from surges in starting 8. Check circuit breakers are not popped Then your ready to go
Fun fact.... When Airbus started flying their planes (I think it was the A318/319?) into London City, they had to actually rewrite the entire flight control system to deal with the 5.5 degree descent into the airport. So now you know. Also, IIRC that 5.5 is still the world's steepest approach as of this year into any airport...though correct me if I'm wrong, I just remember reading that somewhere that it was even steeper than Kathmandu's approach or Tincontin's spiral and dive, or even the spiral diving approach into Ben Gurion airport.
I remember playing XPlane 8 and downloading a Kenworth. I drove from my local airport to where about my house would be. Granted, it was no ATS/ETS, as the AI and roads don't expect you to use them and you steered with the rudder, but to roleplay flying from a big city to my regional airport and driving home was a cool experience.
Excelent vid Squirrel. Love the graphics quality. I almost thought it was the intro to Eastenders when you scrolled out near the beginning of the vid lol
+Sam Host Considering graphics and weathers, yeah, probably. Considering the flight dynamics, mesh accuracy and night-flying, X-Plane takes it home. But which one each person prefer is up to them, both simulators have got their respective pros and cons.
Enjoyed this video, Squirrel you mentioned the Cable Car between O2 and Excel, my eldest son was the Project Manager on that, they had to have it finished for the London Olympics, which they managed.
As a pilot, I love watching you strugling with the systems, especially the engine start and some secundary systems, its very entretaining haha Good job tho!
Great vid as always man, I hope in the future (when the graphics hardware is available) they can add more detail in the game. Like more buildings in London and more accurate roads and structures. However, this game is outstanding currently and I'm excited to see what is yet to come.
Welcome to the X-Plane world. It's really a great platform and very extendable with free addons. I've generated about 1TB of my own custom photo scenery for the western US where I tend to fly a lot of VFR and it looks fantastic.
Squirrel I don't have my own fleet of satellites in orbit so I borrowed someone else's imagery. They get cranky when you share that. :) Google "g2xpl", that's what I did.
Fantastic video, loving the sites. Just for reference avionics should be turned on after the engine to prevent them from being damaged if there is an electrical serge :)
towards end of video during final approach, and before the roundabout, crazy AI traffic, i saw a train going through a building, slight immersion breaker there - video time: 29:06 over on the left
The "MI5 building" at 17:24 actually belongs to the Secret Intelligence Service (what used to be MI6) - movie watchers may remember it from some of the more recent Bond films (it gets blown up twice, once in both The World is Not Enough and a second time, more seriously, in Skyfall).
And also there are more than two pylons that hold up the cable car, the game is missing the one right in the middle of the river. Btw great video Squirrel!
Squirrel when taking off with a Cessna or piper aircraft you don't need any flap and when climbing you leave the throttle at 100% and pitch to keep her @ 65 knots for the climb
OSM is not a tool for X plane. Its a map database. The tool I think its called World2Xplane. What that does is grab the 3D bulding vectors from OSM (OpenStreetMaps) and using a big library of 3D models, it places these models about where the real beuildings would be located IRL. The dev himself is a great guy!
As a student pilot in real world, I think Paul can do better. I know he is not professional. Flying a Cessna is very different from a big aircraft. Most of the time, we focus on what we see outside, not the instruments. We start the engine will richest mixture. Also, we always use full throttle while climbing. For the landing, he is too early to flare and too late to idle the engine. He should forget how to fly a big aircraft while flying a Cessna, especially during Landing. Here are something I want to share about landing a Cessna. Just before it touch the ground, we pull the yoke to the as back as we can. The aircraft will then touch the ground vert smooth. This is a small and slow aircraft, we can do a better landing because we usually do not need to care about the breaking distance, unlike big aircraft. I know this is just a game but I think something should be done more seriously. However, as a non-pilot, he had done very well. Keep Going. If I wrote something wrong or not accurate, please point them out. I also want to learn more.
Concerning the mixture setting on start-up it's different with fuel injection engines (like in the C172S). You prime it with the mixture on rich and then start it with mixture in cut-off, otherwise it will inject additional fuel during starting and flood the engine. Once the engine fires you slowly advance the mixture to full rich. Regarding the landing technique to pull back on the yoke as much as possible, this also only applies to older Cessna aircraft - the new C172S have a different behaviour on the flare and quite many other aircraft as well. What I noticed in this video and also the DTG Flight Sim videos is that Squirrel is fixiating very much on the Vertical Speed Indicator on landing those small aircraft, which is something not done "in real life". Most VSI in those small aircraft are just VSI and not Instantaneous, hence they will show you a trend but it will take between 10-20 seconds before they will display the correct rate of climb/descend. A good landing approach is defined by the correct approach speed and the correct visual picture. Greetings from a flight instructor ;)
Just some pointers: You'll want avionics off during start and shutdown to protect the electronics. The fuel pump is only for starting or purging the lines in case of fuel vapor lock. When landing, shoot for 60-65 knots short final and cut the power when crossing the threshold (roughly). I've got a GA Flight Training playlist on my channel if you or anyone else really wants to get into GA flying. Right now all the videos are directed at the 172 (A2A/P3D side of the house, but a 172R is a 172R). More videos in the future will feature other GA aircraft and eventually IFR in GA aircraft. It can be quite different from the airlines! I love X-Plane 10 and I agree with you, it deserves some love. Would really like to see ORBX/A2A/PMDG develop for X-Plane. (I know PMDG actually started down that road finally)
As a reccomendation, if you are planning to do passenger services a good freeware aircraft is EADT's X737. There is currently no 3D cockpit version (although I believe that it is due for release this month). I have access to the beta 3D cockpit version and it gives PMDG a run for its money.
I heard Heathrow actually sucks for when you have to transfer flights. I flew once and that was to the USA and the cheapest way was thru London Heathrow and i chose the slightly more expensive option.
Hey Squirrel, will you add x-plane to your mod list soon so I can check out what you use? I really like your lists, they've been helping me alot to make my games look beautiful and more realistic. Keep up the good work, you're the best! (y)
Hey mate, if you're looking for a flying challenge, get the Dreamfoil Bell 407 and do this flight in it. Extremely detailed helicopter model, probably the best in X-Plane (even all the circuit breakers work) and it would allow you to take more time looking around the place.
Please make more videos like this using proper commercial airliners to really show case the simulator and maybe do a show of all default planes in the game and what quality they are, just a suggestion but really enjoyed the video!
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When you zoomed out and said "there's the Thames" all I could hear in my head was the Eastenders theme tune lol
3:18 queue Eastenders theme tune
dammit beat me to it lol
goodness me.. the level of detail is incredible!
Haha back in the days it was😂
@squirrel FYI, Avionics master should stay off until after ignition. The startup can damage electronics in rare cases. Almost all C172 checklists have it as an item post-start. Cheers...
Very nice. The graphics are amazing and the simulator looks like it would be a lot of fun to play.
It's great to see you flying on x-plane now! Awesome!
Paul, believe it or not when you are learning to fly you are taught to turn on the avionics master after starting the engine to avoid any possible surges to the "sensitive" electronics. Applies to most smaller Cessna aircraft (172,182 etc) :)
+Chris Rippy Thanks for letting me know.
Great video!
Such a joy to watch, having last visited London in 2013. I miss it.
Excellent!! I moved from FSX to X-Plane a few years ago, and LOVE IT!! I'm happy you are including X-Plane now ... what with that and A & ETS, I'm a happy bunny :-)
I absolutely adore the fact that they modelled G-BOAB at heathrow ( go to 25:20 to see it), in the correct spot too. That's absolutely amazing
that scenery was stunning!! and the weather for that flight was perfect great video!!
Hey Squirrel when starting the Cessna the easiest is to set mixture to full, and crack the throttle (open 2mm) and then start the engine. Following the start the POH recommends
1. Set RPM to 1000
2. Check oil pressure is in the green within 30seconds
3. Check ammeter is charging
4. Set mixture for taxi (done by reducing mixture after the peak a drop will be seen, from the drop increase mixture 3mm or so careful not to kill the engine)
5. Do a magneto dead cut (this is debated among pilots whether it's good or bad)
6. Flaps now come up (usually put down for preflight inspection and to protect battery lifted once engine is running)
7. Radio instruments (including transponder to stby until on runway) come on now (as said in other comments to protect from surges in starting
8. Check circuit breakers are not popped
Then your ready to go
+Dan Cilliers Cool
+Squirrel i had use of this aswell! it really helps watching your videos to learn this, and reading brilliant comments like Dan Cilliers!
+Squirrel nice driving
Fun fact....
When Airbus started flying their planes (I think it was the A318/319?) into London City, they had to actually rewrite the entire flight control system to deal with the 5.5 degree descent into the airport.
So now you know. Also, IIRC that 5.5 is still the world's steepest approach as of this year into any airport...though correct me if I'm wrong, I just remember reading that somewhere that it was even steeper than Kathmandu's approach or Tincontin's spiral and dive, or even the spiral diving approach into Ben Gurion airport.
With MFS2020 this will be gorgeous. And it will be out of the box.
I remember playing XPlane 8 and downloading a Kenworth. I drove from my local airport to where about my house would be. Granted, it was no ATS/ETS, as the AI and roads don't expect you to use them and you steered with the rudder, but to roleplay flying from a big city to my regional airport and driving home was a cool experience.
Absolutely amazing video. I think I will get in to X-plane too. The flight dynamics are brilliant.
Thanks for the tour Paul.
Crazy how far these games have come, look forward to seeing the future of simulation. Keep up the good videos also Paul 😀
Excelent vid Squirrel. Love the graphics quality. I almost thought it was the intro to Eastenders when you scrolled out near the beginning of the vid lol
Awesome setup and a great flight route! I'd love to read about your X-plane configuration. Thank you for this entertaining video!
I did the experience to walk over the O2 and it was really good even though it was a bit foggy. Highly recommended. Great video BTW
FSX/P3d is the best and realistic to fly in my opinion, but its nice that you are doing a series for all the x-plane lovers out there.
+Sam Host Considering graphics and weathers, yeah, probably. Considering the flight dynamics, mesh accuracy and night-flying, X-Plane takes it home. But which one each person prefer is up to them, both simulators have got their respective pros and cons.
Thanks for using my EGLC scenery in your video. Wish I could run it the way you had your system set up for it. Enjoy X Plane! 😊🛫✈️🛬
+forbesie2k link mate?
thanks
Enjoyed that video Squirrel. Your plane sim vids are my favourites.
Enjoyed this video, Squirrel you mentioned the Cable Car between O2 and Excel, my eldest son was the Project Manager on that, they had to have it finished for the London Olympics, which they managed.
Your commentary is what makes your video's great. I wish you could do some tutorials, thx for the upload squirrel.
As a pilot, I love watching you strugling with the systems, especially the engine start and some secundary systems, its very entretaining haha
Good job tho!
Do you fly commercially
+Hendy yes, atr 72
Your first x-plane video and its the best ive ever seen.
Great vid as always man, I hope in the future (when the graphics hardware is available) they can add more detail in the game. Like more buildings in London and more accurate roads and structures. However, this game is outstanding currently and I'm excited to see what is yet to come.
Welcome to the X-Plane world. It's really a great platform and very extendable with free addons. I've generated about 1TB of my own custom photo scenery for the western US where I tend to fly a lot of VFR and it looks fantastic.
where in the west do you fly?
John Wente Usually southern California (PilotEdge coverage area) or Idaho/Montana/Alaska for bush flying
+Kerbo You generated it? Why not share it? :)
+Squirrel good idea :)
Squirrel I don't have my own fleet of satellites in orbit so I borrowed someone else's imagery. They get cranky when you share that. :) Google "g2xpl", that's what I did.
I hold a ppl and i can tell the maneuvering of this game are so realistic! Especially the takeoff and landing!
squirrel is one of my youtuber that I watch the most a day than squirrel for this
The scenery is amazing can't wait to see more of it keep up the great content
nice you tube video squirrel, I like watching and trying to learn from them lol , keep going :)
Will you make a list of all your addons for this game? I didn't find it... Thanks ;)
+Mito125s It's coming !
+Squirrel the power station is a pic from my fav band PINK FLOYD the cd is the great gig in the sky
+Squirrel Thanks, I'll wait... I'll check your list every day ;)
+Squirrel did you do a list now? I played x-plane but never had your graphics ;)
+Squirrel please come back n update your scenery addon list，thanks a lot，really like the vid
The opposite of what NerdCubed tried
+YannickClaessens Nerdcubed is brilliant but when it comes to being serious Squirrel is king!
Do you mean about the serious thing or that hes literally flying the opposite flight to what NerdCubed did? XD
Nerdcubed thought he had to fly with the rudder instead of the ailerons xD
NerdCubed Failed tho xD
Fantastic video, loving the sites. Just for reference avionics should be turned on after the engine to prevent them from being damaged if there is an electrical serge :)
ditto
+John Wente ditto
Haven't played x-plane in about year...but now I want to start up again!
towards end of video during final approach, and before the roundabout, crazy AI traffic, i saw a train going through a building, slight immersion breaker there - video time: 29:06 over on the left
We need more of u flying around the world using different planes and different destination!!
The "MI5 building" at 17:24 actually belongs to the Secret Intelligence Service (what used to be MI6) - movie watchers may remember it from some of the more recent Bond films (it gets blown up twice, once in both The World is Not Enough and a second time, more seriously, in Skyfall).
I went on the cable car only a couple of days ago, and at one moment, an aircraft flew over us - it was pretty cool!
And also there are more than two pylons that hold up the cable car, the game is missing the one right in the middle of the river. Btw great video Squirrel!
Nice video :-)
such a stunning view of London City :)
22:29 that view of gunnersbury park is quite accurate. I was hoping to see this area as you passed.
Great vid... as always! don't forget to keep an eye open for the RNLI lifeboats on the Thames...
Squirrel when taking off with a Cessna or piper aircraft you don't need any flap and when climbing you leave the throttle at 100% and pitch to keep her @ 65 knots for the climb
You can zoom out like that in FSX as well, but only in top down view.
That zoom - though for a minute I was watching Eastenders!
OSM is not a tool for X plane. Its a map database.
The tool I think its called World2Xplane. What that does is grab the 3D bulding vectors from OSM (OpenStreetMaps) and using a big library of 3D models, it places these models about where the real beuildings would be located IRL.
The dev himself is a great guy!
+John514 Yep, correct. The tool is World2Xplane :)
its crazy how far xplane has become. i hope you check it out sometime paul.
this....you need to do more of Squirrel!!
This game is GORGEOUS
As a student pilot in real world, I think Paul can do better.
I know he is not professional.
Flying a Cessna is very different from a big aircraft.
Most of the time, we focus on what we see outside, not the instruments.
We start the engine will richest mixture.
Also, we always use full throttle while climbing.
For the landing, he is too early to flare and too late to idle the engine.
He should forget how to fly a big aircraft while flying a Cessna, especially during Landing.
Here are something I want to share about landing a Cessna.
Just before it touch the ground, we pull the yoke to the as back as we can.
The aircraft will then touch the ground vert smooth.
This is a small and slow aircraft, we can do a better landing because we usually do not need to care about the breaking distance, unlike big aircraft.
I know this is just a game but I think something should be done more seriously.
However, as a non-pilot, he had done very well.
Keep Going.
If I wrote something wrong or not accurate, please point them out.
I also want to learn more.
+Horace Lee Don't worry, I will improve the more I fly the C172 :)
as a student pilot I also agree, plus he got way to slow on final, never slower than 60-65 until over the runway
+Squirrel I'm a huge FAN!!!!!!!
Concerning the mixture setting on start-up it's different with fuel injection engines (like in the C172S). You prime it with the mixture on rich and then start it with mixture in cut-off, otherwise it will inject additional fuel during starting and flood the engine. Once the engine fires you slowly advance the mixture to full rich.
Regarding the landing technique to pull back on the yoke as much as possible, this also only applies to older Cessna aircraft - the new C172S have a different behaviour on the flare and quite many other aircraft as well.
What I noticed in this video and also the DTG Flight Sim videos is that Squirrel is fixiating very much on the Vertical Speed Indicator on landing those small aircraft, which is something not done "in real life". Most VSI in those small aircraft are just VSI and not Instantaneous, hence they will show you a trend but it will take between 10-20 seconds before they will display the correct rate of climb/descend. A good landing approach is defined by the correct approach speed and the correct visual picture.
Greetings from a flight instructor ;)
Since this comment, Paul is flying IRL as a student pilot! Funny eh.
This flight would never occur in real life but its still good to watch.
Just some pointers: You'll want avionics off during start and shutdown to protect the electronics. The fuel pump is only for starting or purging the lines in case of fuel vapor lock. When landing, shoot for 60-65 knots short final and cut the power when crossing the threshold (roughly).
I've got a GA Flight Training playlist on my channel if you or anyone else really wants to get into GA flying. Right now all the videos are directed at the 172 (A2A/P3D side of the house, but a 172R is a 172R). More videos in the future will feature other GA aircraft and eventually IFR in GA aircraft. It can be quite different from the airlines!
I love X-Plane 10 and I agree with you, it deserves some love. Would really like to see ORBX/A2A/PMDG develop for X-Plane. (I know PMDG actually started down that road finally)
Did anyone else want squirrel to spin the camera around and hum the Eastenders theme song when the Thames came up on the zoom out?
Flying VFR into a class A airspace? Noice.
To start a fuel injected 172,you have to keep the mixture all the way out till the engine starts then push it in
As a reccomendation, if you are planning to do passenger services a good freeware aircraft is EADT's X737. There is currently no 3D cockpit version (although I believe that it is due for release this month). I have access to the beta 3D cockpit version and it gives PMDG a run for its money.
Thanks for that. Really nice.
and in the just the span of 6 years we have gone so far. now we have msfs it's absolutely unbelievable
Thanks for posting these videos. If you take requests, could you make a video flying in and out (and over) St. Barts?
Awesome! Please do more of these flight simulator videos!
nice to see some x-plane love
Love this game. Check out the emergency vehicle responding on the M25 at 26:57 bottom left of screen.
Useful advice: once you have the runway made, cut the throttle and use pitch to control airspeed
Beautiful.
I heard Heathrow actually sucks for when you have to transfer flights. I flew once and that was to the USA and the cheapest way was thru London Heathrow and i chose the slightly more expensive option.
I really want to see more of this! But can you fly a city-hopper? Or maybe a bigger Cessna/Cirrus?
Hope his next video will be "Trucking Diaries" or "Bus Simulator", those are my favorite series on this channel
Plane is easily the best simulator at the moment. Just a few down points compared to P3D in the add on department but everything else is spot on.
Hey Squirrel, will you add x-plane to your mod list soon so I can check out what you use? I really like your lists, they've been helping me alot to make my games look beautiful and more realistic. Keep up the good work, you're the best! (y)
love this video paul, more X plane please!!!
You'll find that not only is the terminator (the line between light and dark) in the right place, so are the sun, the moon and the main stars.
Nice to see Concorde Modeled at the end of 27L at Heathrow in this.
Hey Dude great video I hope like mostly of the people that you do a commercial flight at plane Keep Up greetings from Colombia
Squirrel you should name this video as London Tour XD!
Wonderfull ... thank you Paul
This game looks amazing, hoping to see you stream it.
How do you zoom out that far? When I zoom out it only zooms a certain amount and I can't see the world the way you did with that magnificent zoom
This brings me back to when I fly this plane in real life
11:42 on the left side, are these buildings missing textures or does it look like that in real life too?
Ahh, Heathrow, my favorite airport.
Anyway keep up the good work and keep Flying..
Should have flown around the turn about that Chevy Chase was stuck on in European Vacation..."big Ben...Parliment...Big Ben...Parliment..."
I-5 GTX 670. I had better wait until I upgrade! Looks damned beautiful though!
Great video I am going to buy this game. Thank you Squirrel.
Fantastic view its amazing
Like the bus doing handbrake turns in the first minute
LCY looked like a disco with all of those flashing lights
Could you put the links to your plugins in the description for ground services for x plane 10 please.
Thanks so much your an amazing youtuber
Great video! Love these type of vids! :D
Hey mate, if you're looking for a flying challenge, get the Dreamfoil Bell 407 and do this flight in it. Extremely detailed helicopter model, probably the best in X-Plane (even all the circuit breakers work) and it would allow you to take more time looking around the place.
When you zoomed back in I thought I was watching EastEnders xD
if there was a video of all the plugins he had and the scenery he had etc in the descriptions it would be soooo helpful
Please make more videos like this using proper commercial airliners to really show case the simulator and maybe do a show of all default planes in the game and what quality they are, just a suggestion but really enjoyed the video!
Awesome video man! Please do more airplane videos :)
The London Heathrow payware addon is now part of the default X-Plane installation since the latest update.
But without custom textures
Can you make a video from Norway on X-plane? Maybe from the area around Bergen, like Hardanger