PMDG DC-6 Basic Nav Tutorial | Flying VORs, NDBs and ILS in MSFS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2021
- Today, we highlight some important basic Navigational features you'll want to use in the @pmdgsimulationsofficial51 Douglas DC-6 for @MicrosoftFlightSimulator . For this video, we change the Radio Stack options in the on-board Tablet to the NON-GPS option so we have to do it old-school!
I'll show you how to:
1) Tune VORs, activate them, navigate with them and see distance and ETA
2) Tune ADF/NDBs, activate them, and navigate with them
3) Tune an ILS approach and hand fly it manually using the instruments
The route should you wish to give it a go for a short and simple training flight:
Depart LGAV (Athens), tune ATV VOR (114.4) and fly direct to it. Then fly direct to the Aigina EGN NDB (382.0) before heading towards Megara MGR NDB (405.0). Then turn back on yourself, tracking the ILS Frequency for the runway you wish to approach on!
We used Runway 03R for take-off and landing in this tutorial.
Of course, there is more to it - including the fact that the Gyropilot can fly and track all of the above, including an ILS approach! But that will be done on another tutorial soon of course. The basics always need to come first... and I'm learning as I go too!
Hope you enjoyed it - and those with the DC-6, I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am! Be sure to click Like on the video down below and Subscribe while you're here too. Before you go, let me know what your thoughts are in the comments below, especially the thing you enjoy the most with the PMDG DC-6 for MSFS! Thanks for watching
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I loved this thank you! After months of eyeing up the DC 6, i finally gave in and got it in my hangar! Currently learning tons by devouring the 20 PMDG tutorials and any other tutorial video i can get my hands on. I cant wait to get up into the skies - old school like you of course!
So funny, I flew LGAV last night as well :) Currently comfortable using ILS, continue learning navigation without GPS, just VOR and NDB. Then find some old timetables from 50’s and start flying them :)
Sounds fantastic! I'm still on the bitesize learning and looking into the gyropilot currently, rerunning the PMDG tutorials over and over again 😂
Yeah best way to fly.
Fantastic timing as I was planning a VOR flight through the Greek islands in my DC-6...thank you so much
Awesome! Nicely timed indeed 🤣 enjoy - let me know how you get on too!
Cheers from Athens-Greece and a Greek himself🥂✈
Check out today's live stream - new Athens payware, flight to Mykonos and back!
I didn't know you could change the radio stack options in the tablet. I really like how the old-school setup looks.
Yep much prefer flying it without GPS!
@@BritishAvgeek Fair play. I'm going to try that on my next DC-6 flight!
I've been flying ifr on vatsim with the DC with no GPS. I have about 45 hours of flight time and I still cannot get the localizer to follow the heading. I guess you have to use the knob on the center console no matter what because the plane doesn't have a heading bug.
This was great, just confused about so much info on NDBs pulled already from Navigraph and put in the system. Did you I assume set even more basic videos for starters for Vor flyin..? Awesome, detailed job !
This is the basics in a way - tune the frequency from any charts you have, then turn it on and fly directly to the needle 👍 ignore that navigraph Nav data is installed as the NDBs should be there in MSFS anyway with the correct frequencies
@@BritishAvgeek When I fly NBD-only airports (well they have RNAV these days too as all IFR airports do, but I disabled the GNS430) I find it works well to track left or right of the NDB course. I'll fly the opposite side of the airport as the expected side for landing. Most of the approaches require flying over the NDB beacon and down the opposite direction of the approach course and doing a 45-180-45 procedure turn. When getting close the ADF needle will start moving and once it's close to the opposite approach course direction, I'll turn into it and then over the airport. I mostly fly arctic airports.
Lovely plane, amazing detail - I'm looking forward to when someone adds a full autopilot (ducks) :-)
Apparently there is a fake autopilot type thing within it too which I saw someone use the other day but absolutely no need when you're flying something as fantastic as this - get rid of the GPS unit on the overhead and fly beacon to beacon!
@@joerihuffmeijer3247 just give it one click either side and if it stays on the same .20 you've probably got one or the other... Also are you sure I didn't mean .25?
Not watched yet but thank you..I'm sort of getting by with nav, this will help a lot
Good to hear - certainly more rewarding than autopilot on... Very easy to get lost 🤣
@@BritishAvgeek just watched, think I can cope with that, all makes sense....sort of 😞
@@jep1103 I'm sure you'll be fine! :)
@@BritishAvgeek Just flew from Athens down to Crete..heraklion. no GPS managed to get there ok got messy on approach. But that's ok will try again tomorrow, pleased I got as far as I did...your vid helped a lot.
@@jep1103 awesome to hear! I still have a LOT to learn myself and learning in very small sections as I go but loving it so far!
This makes me want to get the aircraft even more lmao
🤣 it's lovely - there's a GPS of course but using that is not quite the same as doing it old school! Something rather rewarding navigating around this way!
Ahh I do love the intro brirish avgeek
Thanks! ✈️
Hello British Avgeek. I have a question. Could you please teach me how to use reverse pitch for the DC-6? Like you know when you land…
You have to click the reverse lock bar, then you can advance the throttles back
@@BritishAvgeek ok thank you very much. I look forward to purchasing this plane
What program do you use when you showed the map of the route drawn out.?
That was likely Navigraph
Thanks for this really helpful tutorial. I saw that the trim pitch is hard to maintain .The aircraft is always going up and down. I can see the same happening for you . Do you know why ?
Just getting used to flying the aircraft, and flying it manually the whole time in this instance too so not the smoothest... The more we fly it and learn it the better we'll become with it ✈️
Personally I think the MSFS trim is a bit twitchy/Aggresive atm
Guys, you need to study all 20 tutorials made by PMDG for DC-6. Applying GA or jet skills to this aircraft won’t work. Learn slowly, from the start, then rest will be easy :)
@@yams900 exactly - I'm trying to learn each tutorial from them separately before moving to the next one personally though it takes a lot longer to learn!
@@BritishAvgeek Good plan ! Watch and make notes, in the right sequence. DC6 and awesome plane to fly, just different way of handling. She’s an Old Lady, doesn’t want to pushed hard. Small movements/correction…you wait…and do some more, if needed. I’m not an expert, but comfortable in the cockpit. Be prepared to take it slowly, learn in small manageable chunks :)
Does the autopilot couple with the GARMIN option as well? I can’t get it to couple the GPS flightplan….any suggestions?
It does yes though I don't use it and can't remember exactly how it all works 🤣 I like to just tune VORs and NDBs
The gyropilot will hold a VOR course in the localizer mode. In the Garmin just select GPS with the CDI button. This will cause the Garmin to synchronize the VOR gauge needle to the GPS leg. Then flick the switch on top of the gyropilot to localizer and it will fly that course.
Hi, I’m not able to use my irl throttle quadrant to fly this plane, and idea on why?
Really wouldn't know what to suggest!
Hello, for me it is kind of difficult to turn. And for some reason my yoke isn't moving in-game. Is that normal? And if not then how can I fix it?
You haven't removed the gust lock - it's the red handbrake thing by the side of the captain's seat
@@BritishAvgeek thank you very much. :)
I'm facing a problem, my ADF isn't working! I have tried 2 different station at different locztion but nothing, needles always lay flat.
Also, can you fly with the AFE and VASTIM? I can't, afe always changes VHF frequencies for example.
you can indeed - just make sure you don't have the AFE allowed to manage the comms
@@BritishAvgeek Thanks I found the solution. Happy simming
@@matthieulambinet9522 awesome! sorry for the delay in response - youtube doesn't show me all the comments right away so I have to remember to go digging through on a browser!
@@BritishAvgeek No problem. Keep up the good work.
16:57 im I the only one who noticed the engine 2 failure xD
good spot, it's a pain maintaining 4 radials 🤣
i just want to know how to use the GPS cant find it anywhere at all
Have you tried planning a flight in the world map? See if that works with the GPS?
@@BritishAvgeek the thing is i just kinda want to learn it since im setting up for a world tour in it
GLAND YOU CHOOSE ATHENS FOR YOUR APPROACHES..!
This to Complicated is there another way to do this
Sadly no, it's a historic aircraft with old techniques needing to be used
Look like you wrecked your engines. Engine 2 was struggling all the way down and you were using throttle rather than flaps to manage speed. This is not a jet - it's a radial engine, and throttle should be constant all the way down. PMDG has a good tutorial on this.
Yep I've watched the tutorial but I'm not focussing on learning that yet until I've learnt other bits as I've said a few times brfore... and this was covering Nav only as I'm still learning the DC6 (even mentioned in the video "don't worry about how I'm flying it as I'm still learning it with the PMDG tutorials" or words to that effect)
@@BritishAvgeek Fair play. I realise the focus of the video was om the navigation, and that was well covered. Thanks!
@@PEHowland it's a bit of a beast to learn isn't it! I've decided to learn each tutorial individually as best as I can before moving on to the next so I've watched them all but focussed on startup first but I'm still trying to get confident with nailing that... It's incredibly enjoyable to fly though! Just hope I can learn lots of it well enough 😂 scratching my head with a lot of it! 😂
@@BritishAvgeek Kudos to the 1950's pilots!
@@PEHowland indeed - no idea how they crossed the Atlantic in it! 💪
6:18 "KEA VOR, it's 29.3nm and 64 minutes at current speed to get there". Can't be right! Suggests you're moving at around 30 mph, so not sure how those figures should be read from the display.
A few seconds later it looks like it sorts itself out to show 5mins 👍
@@BritishAvgeek You switched back to the closer Athens VOR when it changed to 06 then 05 ... but that is just as strange, as the initial 7.8nm in 7 mins implies a speed of around 66 knots and you were going faster than that!
@@salokin1 hmm I'll have to take another look at it - this was recorded with the original pre-release build of the DC-6 though and it's had some updates since
@@BritishAvgeek That would probably be the best explanation, and would be interesting to see if the time calculations have been updated. As an old (the last DC6 was "born" four years after me!) former maths teacher, numbers that don't seem right ring alarm bells in my head.
@@salokin1 yeah and I was never good at maths! 😂