This and your cross country video helped be gain the confidence to take my first vatsim flight using voice comms. Very helpful videos, much appreciated!
Speaking of etiquette it is a nice touch to thank the controller for their service. Unlike in real life these people do not get paid and spent theit spare time offering a better experience for pilots.
I really want to be an ATC when I’m older I think vatsim help building up my confidence and feel like u might be an ATC for Vatsim to build up more then go to NATS being a pilot is great on vatsim always thank them
Calm down it's just a game. It's like going around to every player in call of duty thanking them for their service because "unlike in real life these people do not get paid for protecting our country" On the flip side, without the vatsim pilots, there wouldn't be a point for vatsim atc
This was a brilliant tutorial. I'm dying to get started on vatsim but been so nervous about starting, and this tutorial just covered everything a beginner needs. I'm going to have a bit of practice offline (talking to myself lol) at Liverpool then give it a try on vatsim. Thanks so much!
I am trying very hard to learn everything I need to know . I am a newer flight simmer I started about 3 months ago. I have focused more on flying itself then radio communications and instructions . Now I am giving myself a week to figure everything out haha . Time to watch this entire series
At a lot of commercial airports (EGGP included) it is usually a rule to complete all pre-flight checks prior to taxy so that the controllers can get you out quickly. It is helps the controller immensely. Also, if you're on the tower frequency you usually don't need to call the controller with the "Ready for departure" call, they'll assume that you've completed the checks (because that's the rule). If you're on the ground frequency and get handed off to the tower, the first call is normally "G-ABCD ready for departure"...
Thanks, this is great, I am studying for my PPL and this has been really helpful to help with the mental block I get when speaking to ATC. I just have two questions 1- if I am flying at a towered airfield with no online controller at that tower, do I still need clearance to taxi and do I get that from any other controller or London Ctr? 2- do I have to file a flight plan , because that is not always necessary in real life Thanks again
Hi! 1. If London control are online (and the airfield in real life has a tower), then yes you’d call London control for taxi. 2. Not for VFR no. (But it’s helpful for the VATSIM controllers if you do)
@@expataviator7107 that great and thanks again. It is great to see a UK tutorial. Most of the ones available are American which I have found not very helpful to British flyers as the procedures are somewhat different.
Thank you for a very informative video. I'm new to vatsim and I'm hoping you or your readers can help me in my search for Reporting Points and Obstacles as CVS or Exel Files for France. Germany and Spain, for insertion into Little Navmap or PlanG. I have the ones for the U.K.
Great video, but I am kinda struggling to listen to ATC in this video, is it going to be better when I am actually communicating with ATC on Vatsim cause I am kinda nervous because I don't want to make ATC have a hard time.
i was denied vfr clearance to remain in closed circuit? this was at KBOS is it restricted at that airport or what? i wasn't able to do my first circuit there
Not restricted as far as I know. We’re you in a light aircraft? Think of it real world. You’d be difficult for the controller to manage while taking jet IFR arrivals. Better to do your first circuit at a class C airport. If I’m doubt just PM the controller, say you’re learning and want to understand why...most will help you out
Great video and very helpful. I’m totally new to flight sim and flying in general. I have mastered the Take of and landing but it’s all the stuff in the middle I have absolutely no idea how to do. I basically need flight sim flying lessons, is there any where you can direct me to get this?
Tim Jones not for P3D no. At least not as full feathered as that. It does work with lots of other aircraft so I found that I got a lot of use out of it at least
can someone help me? when I connect with vPilot, it doesn't let me choose an aircraft from the recent aircraft drop down menu. I have to type in the aircraft ICAO manually and the one next to it I have no idea what it is...
@@expataviator7107 any A2A. In FSX all I would fly was A2A and Realair. I never would have looked at Carenado. BUT I must say all I’ve been flying is the Mooney in FS2020 and I would say they really raised their standards and quality. It’s well done.
@@CCitis that surprising. I swore I’d never give Carenado my money again. For now I’m just enjoying xplane and waiting .... The turbine duke and legacy were simply awesome
@@expataviator7107 Yes! They sure were. I put a lot of hours on them. I was just like you regarding Carenado, but I am really surprised that the Mooney is quite accurate. Not perfect, but good to hold me over. I was craving something fast with steam gauges to tour in.
A good video, thank you. I'm working up my courage to go on VatSim and this has helped a lot. I'll watch your other videos before I dive in, then come back to this one before doing my first circuit. One question: ATIS gave you both QNH & QFE - I would have thought QFE would have been the more logical to use when doing a circuit but you set your altimeter to QNH & that was also the setting the controller gave you. Is there any reason for that?
Real world, I often fly a few circuits then leave and go local VFR. Changing from QFE to QNH is one less thing to think about. Also, the airspace is based on QNH and I'd rather know how far from it I am. For example, at Coventry you are under Birmingham airspace. Just personal preference. In America they dont use QFE at all.
When controller said no higher than 1500 that was in reference to MSL, so it would be hard to tell how far from that boundary you are when having set QFE
nice helpful video, only negative would be your a little quiet, even with full volume I find any other background noise drowns you out and I'm having to rewind the video to catch what I missed
["Would it be true to say that you are using one computer and two monitors, if so is there a frame rate hit? I have two computers one runs as the server with FSX on it the other is doing the weather AS16. I noticed that you dragged in the vPilot window so I guess you have two monitors on the same computer. I guess I could get a smaller monitor just for running vPilot on? Thanks for the video very nicely done. Joined VATSIM but not done one flight yet, learning curve is steep."]
Yes, one computer, two monitors, sometimes three. With a modern multicore CPU I find that FSX/P3D/XP11 only use one core in any serious way, and so those other applications (vPilot, AS16) use all the free time that the other CPU cores have. My graphics card deals with the extra displays and so I've not seen a frame hit by having extra monitors. The complexity of networking things like vPilot just isnt worth it, not to mention two keyboards etc is a pain. So unless you have a poor PC with an old CPU, you should be fine. One word of caution. If you use things like Duet for iPad then that DOES affect frames as it uses the CPU to draw a virtual display which it sends to the iPad. So watch out of tools like that. Use a proper graphics card with proper outputs for extra displays or check out the Matrox TripleHead2Go. Good luck with VATSIM! You'll do fine. Find a quiet airfield and try some circuits. Tell them you are new and they will be happy to have you fly!
I swear, it sounds to me like everyone talking on the radio (ATC in particular, but even pilots) does it in a way to make it so it's difficult to understand. It's not a matter of terminology, really. They could be telling me to walk into the next room, then go out the door of my house and it would be the same. In this video, the taxi clearance around 12:00 is a great example. Even with text on the screen, I can't make what the controller says fit what is on the screen.
Spontaneous Order I totally get it, and unfortunately its the in the real world also especially if your radio is poor. So much is anticipating what is going to be said. Remember you can always ask for say again or ‘speak slowly’ or even look up ‘words twice’ in the CAP413. Have a great weekend!
@@expataviator7107 Yeah, I really meant in real-world. It's funny, I was an avionics guy in the Army, so I've been around a radio or two! It just seems funny to listen and not have a clue, even when it's written on the screen!
dave jones frequencies match, but there are not the same number of positions as their are real world. That said, real world often combine positions or “bandbox” anyway. The text thing is a pain for controllers too, but many people don’t feel confident enough to speak on the mic. VATSIM is a bunch of compromises that are necessary to make it work.
nice video. Just purchased P3d and have 20 hours logged in real world Eurostar. You sim looks great. Im running on on i7 with GTX 1050. any tweeking advice? I also like to run in 3 screens as I like the 3d aspect of seeing out of left and right windows but does lower the frames somewhat.
Yeah running three screens on the same PC will slow things down. I've not really made any tweaks to P3D. Its just the scenery I've listed in the video description.
Having flown 36 hours in the US back in 1998, I never continued flying when I returned to Liverpool. But, restarted flying lessons last year. Have to admit, the comms are totally different here and I'm not used to it so I plan to practise on VATSIM - which is also really daunting. So, thanks for the summary. Especially pleased you're flying out of Liverpool. Couple of observations though. We don't do our power checks at the holding points. We do them at the corner of the Kilo Apron (GA Ramp). Here are the names of all the areas, from A(lpha) to K(lio). nats-uk.ead-it.com/cms-nats/export/sites/default/en/Publications/AIP/Current-AIRAC/graphics/298203.pdf
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Thank you for this, I've been a bit scared to speak up on Vatsim, a no-nonsense tutorial has been what I'm looking for!
HamnavoePer glad to have helped !
Mr ExPat - just signed off from my first VATSIM visual circuits in a 152 and your video is what inspired me to make the leap - thank you!
Sam Farrow whooo congratulations! It’s a big step. Nice job, Sam!
Great video, nicely put together. There is a dearth of information on VFR on Vatsim UK, and this fills a big gap.
David UK very kind of you to say so !
This and your cross country video helped be gain the confidence to take my first vatsim flight using voice comms. Very helpful videos, much appreciated!
Fantastic!
This is a great tutorial! You deserve at least a few thousand subscribers more!
thanks!
Speaking of etiquette it is a nice touch to thank the controller for their service. Unlike in real life these people do not get paid and spent theit spare time offering a better experience for pilots.
I really want to be an ATC when I’m older I think vatsim help building up my confidence and feel like u might be an ATC for Vatsim to build up more then go to NATS being a pilot is great on vatsim always thank them
Calm down it's just a game. It's like going around to every player in call of duty thanking them for their service because "unlike in real life these people do not get paid for protecting our country"
On the flip side, without the vatsim pilots, there wouldn't be a point for vatsim atc
Thank you for the video. Been several years since I was last on vatsim. Very nice refresher.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was a brilliant tutorial. I'm dying to get started on vatsim but been so nervous about starting, and this tutorial just covered everything a beginner needs. I'm going to have a bit of practice offline (talking to myself lol) at Liverpool then give it a try on vatsim. Thanks so much!
Go got it !! You’ll be fine :)
Awesome video, just what I needed. I have been playing X Plane for a short while now and wanted to delve into the vatsim world. Many thanks :)
Leroy wilson glad you found it useful !
I am trying very hard to learn everything I need to know . I am a newer flight simmer I started about 3 months ago. I have focused more on flying itself then radio communications and instructions . Now I am giving myself a week to figure everything out haha . Time to watch this entire series
For me, this is a great no drama video thanks very much look forward to the next one
Thanks! Uploading now!
Essential stuff. Thanks for the upload!
At a lot of commercial airports (EGGP included) it is usually a rule to complete all pre-flight checks prior to taxy so that the controllers can get you out quickly. It is helps the controller immensely. Also, if you're on the tower frequency you usually don't need to call the controller with the "Ready for departure" call, they'll assume that you've completed the checks (because that's the rule). If you're on the ground frequency and get handed off to the tower, the first call is normally "G-ABCD ready for departure"...
Great vid . I still very nervous . But I will try this in a cesna thanks
did you try it?
Awesome video mate. Really liking your tutorials!
Thank you, much appreciated!
Brilliant video
Thanks, this is great, I am studying for my PPL and this has been really helpful to help with the mental block I get when speaking to ATC. I just have two questions
1- if I am flying at a towered airfield with no online controller at that tower, do I still need clearance to taxi and do I get that from any other controller or London Ctr?
2- do I have to file a flight plan , because that is not always necessary in real life
Thanks again
Hi!
1. If London control are online (and the airfield in real life has a tower), then yes you’d call London control for taxi.
2. Not for VFR no. (But it’s helpful for the VATSIM controllers if you do)
@@expataviator7107 that great and thanks again. It is great to see a UK tutorial. Most of the ones available are American which I have found not very helpful to British flyers as the procedures are somewhat different.
Thanks alot!
Thanks, got me going talking to ATC.
Good man!!
atis said and you changed qnh ,, could you please explain why you moved your compass needle , sorry very new
Can you give me the rough time in the video that that happened. ?
Thank you for a very informative video. I'm new to vatsim and I'm hoping you or your readers can help me in my search for Reporting Points and Obstacles as CVS or Exel Files for France. Germany and Spain, for insertion into Little Navmap or PlanG. I have the ones for the U.K.
Great video, but I am kinda struggling to listen to ATC in this video, is it going to be better when I am actually communicating with ATC on Vatsim cause I am kinda nervous because I don't want to make ATC have a hard time.
You’ll be able to control your volume mix so dont worry about it. Go ahead and give it a go! You wont regret it!
@@expataviator7107 Okei thanks ☺️
Great video! If GND was available, would you have had to request startup for a circuit?
Patrick Wacher yes!
300th sub! Gg dude, really helpful. I would like to make a short flight with you in x plane or fsx, probably like an IFR from KATL - KIAD in a 737-800
Very useful ! Just one question: the autopilot is forbidden for VFR isn't it ?
No...why would it? You wouldn't use it in a pattern but for long VFR xc and such obviously you'd use it
@@stephensantilli9690 ok sorry I just heard that somewhere, that seems obvious of course
@@theflightsimboy4310 and how would they know ;)
i was denied vfr clearance to remain in closed circuit? this was at KBOS is it restricted at that airport or what? i wasn't able to do my first circuit there
Not restricted as far as I know. We’re you in a light aircraft? Think of it real world. You’d be difficult for the controller to manage while taking jet IFR arrivals. Better to do your first circuit at a class C airport. If I’m doubt just PM the controller, say you’re learning and want to understand why...most will help you out
Sir, further to my earlier question in your other video, what addon gives u the gps with moving map and active traffic?
Thats the GTN750 from Flight 1
Can you register a vatsim account one day before your 13th?
It does not matter no one would know unless you said.
no nid to request circuit clearance?
aslesterG580 yes you do need to request visual circuits with gnd etc
Great video and very helpful. I’m totally new to flight sim and flying in general. I have mastered the Take of and landing but it’s all the stuff in the middle I have absolutely no idea how to do. I basically need flight sim flying lessons, is there any where you can direct me to get this?
Tinbum thanks! Why not check out www.vatstar.com/ !
ExPatAviator thanks will do!
@ExPatAviator, I bought the a2a comanche 250, as well as using p3d, how/where did you get the fancy GPS in this video?
Tim Jones that’s the Flight 1 GTN750. Another addon
@@expataviator7107 Thanks!
@@expataviator7107 I wish I could get that but it's so expensive ^-^ any alternatives you know of?
Tim Jones not for P3D no. At least not as full feathered as that. It does work with lots of other aircraft so I found that I got a lot of use out of it at least
can someone help me? when I connect with vPilot, it doesn't let me choose an aircraft from the recent aircraft drop down menu. I have to type in the aircraft ICAO manually and the one next to it I have no idea what it is...
I think it only saves entries in the dropdown after you've connected with them. There is no dropdown for aircraft type in vPilot
I miss the Comanche in FS 2020!
Right?!
@@expataviator7107 any A2A. In FSX all I would fly was A2A and Realair. I never would have looked at Carenado. BUT I must say all I’ve been flying is the Mooney in FS2020 and I would say they really raised their standards and quality. It’s well done.
@@CCitis that surprising. I swore I’d never give Carenado my money again. For now I’m just enjoying xplane and waiting ....
The turbine duke and legacy were simply awesome
@@expataviator7107 Yes! They sure were. I put a lot of hours on them. I was just like you regarding Carenado, but I am really surprised that the Mooney is quite accurate. Not perfect, but good to hold me over. I was craving something fast with steam gauges to tour in.
@@CCitis just can’t bring myself to! The A300 is high on my list for now
A good video, thank you. I'm working up my courage to go on VatSim and this has helped a lot. I'll watch your other videos before I dive in, then come back to this one before doing my first circuit. One question: ATIS gave you both QNH & QFE - I would have thought QFE would have been the more logical to use when doing a circuit but you set your altimeter to QNH & that was also the setting the controller gave you. Is there any reason for that?
Real world, I often fly a few circuits then leave and go local VFR. Changing from QFE to QNH is one less thing to think about. Also, the airspace is based on QNH and I'd rather know how far from it I am. For example, at Coventry you are under Birmingham airspace. Just personal preference. In America they dont use QFE at all.
When controller said no higher than 1500 that was in reference to MSL, so it would be hard to tell how far from that boundary you are when having set QFE
The NATO phonetic alphabet is so easy-to-understand that even *auto-captions* can understand
nice helpful video, only negative would be your a little quiet, even with full volume I find any other background noise drowns you out and I'm having to rewind the video to catch what I missed
I'll work on that thanks!
hiya do you know where to get vfr charts for scotland?
you have to buy them off the CAA - they arnt expensive.
transair.co.uk/charts-and-guides/caa-1500-000-charts
["Would it be true to say that you are using one computer and two monitors, if so is there a frame rate hit? I have two computers one runs as the server with FSX on it the other is doing the weather AS16. I noticed that you dragged in the vPilot window so I guess you have two monitors on the same computer. I guess I could get a smaller monitor just for running vPilot on? Thanks for the video very nicely done. Joined VATSIM but not done one flight yet, learning curve is steep."]
Yes, one computer, two monitors, sometimes three. With a modern multicore CPU I find that FSX/P3D/XP11 only use one core in any serious way, and so those other applications (vPilot, AS16) use all the free time that the other CPU cores have. My graphics card deals with the extra displays and so I've not seen a frame hit by having extra monitors. The complexity of networking things like vPilot just isnt worth it, not to mention two keyboards etc is a pain. So unless you have a poor PC with an old CPU, you should be fine.
One word of caution. If you use things like Duet for iPad then that DOES affect frames as it uses the CPU to draw a virtual display which it sends to the iPad. So watch out of tools like that. Use a proper graphics card with proper outputs for extra displays or check out the Matrox TripleHead2Go.
Good luck with VATSIM! You'll do fine. Find a quiet airfield and try some circuits. Tell them you are new and they will be happy to have you fly!
I swear, it sounds to me like everyone talking on the radio (ATC in particular, but even pilots) does it in a way to make it so it's difficult to understand. It's not a matter of terminology, really. They could be telling me to walk into the next room, then go out the door of my house and it would be the same. In this video, the taxi clearance around 12:00 is a great example. Even with text on the screen, I can't make what the controller says fit what is on the screen.
Spontaneous Order I totally get it, and unfortunately its the in the real world also especially if your radio is poor. So much is anticipating what is going to be said. Remember you can always ask for say again or ‘speak slowly’ or even look up ‘words twice’ in the CAP413. Have a great weekend!
@@expataviator7107 Yeah, I really meant in real-world. It's funny, I was an avionics guy in the Army, so I've been around a radio or two! It just seems funny to listen and not have a clue, even when it's written on the screen!
what type of aircraft is that?
Mark Clark Piper Comanche
so it doesnt match real world frequences then ? and you said "TEXT ONLY" - uhhh ?
dave jones frequencies match, but there are not the same number of positions as their are real world. That said, real world often combine positions or “bandbox” anyway.
The text thing is a pain for controllers too, but many people don’t feel confident enough to speak on the mic.
VATSIM is a bunch of compromises that are necessary to make it work.
nice video. Just purchased P3d and have 20 hours logged in real world Eurostar. You sim looks great. Im running on on i7 with GTX 1050. any tweeking advice? I also like to run in 3 screens as I like the 3d aspect of seeing out of left and right windows but does lower the frames somewhat.
Yeah running three screens on the same PC will slow things down. I've not really made any tweaks to P3D. Its just the scenery I've listed in the video description.
But I think, you rig can handle three screens!
Having flown 36 hours in the US back in 1998, I never continued flying when I returned to Liverpool. But, restarted flying lessons last year. Have to admit, the comms are totally different here and I'm not used to it so I plan to practise on VATSIM - which is also really daunting. So, thanks for the summary. Especially pleased you're flying out of Liverpool.
Couple of observations though. We don't do our power checks at the holding points. We do them at the corner of the Kilo Apron (GA Ramp). Here are the names of all the areas, from A(lpha) to K(lio).
nats-uk.ead-it.com/cms-nats/export/sites/default/en/Publications/AIP/Current-AIRAC/graphics/298203.pdf
Why does your voice sound exactly like jackfrags? 😂
I had to google who that was
ive et to hear ANYONE on vatsim