Thanks so much for this! After a second try at the inverted, I was able get to 120,000 altitude and average Mach 9.34 and made it to Cape Canaveral, Florida in 39 minutes. I think my highest was Mach 9.6. This has been my best experience in Flight Simulator so far, that stratosphere flight is incredible.
For those struggling to get to mach 3 after inverting, the single most important thing is to pitch VERY GENTLY. Dont exceed 1.5g of pitch. When you pitch too hard (3g+) it slows you down and wont let you speed up to mach anything really.
I took off from Honolulu to Los Angeles to race the horizon and hit Mach 10 at 275,000 ft. Both of those seem to be max height and speed in this game, was hauling ass though.
I was able to get to mach 10 a little easier but this tutorial still helped If you get up to mach 0.9 then you can more or less level out and turn on afterburners At a slight upwards pitch continue until you reach mach 3.6 At mach 3.6 you'll have to wait until your EAS speed lowers to around 760 still at the slight upwards pitch Then do all the steps to turn on the scramjet as outlined in the video and you'll reach mach 9 a few minutes after the scramjets are activated
I have to try this! So far, I've hit Mach 3.8 - 4...still flew from Cape Canaveral, Florida to NYC JFK in about 25-30 min. Maxed out at 275K height (Sim starts to get a little buggy, but flyable) Hard to control, takes some patience to fly super-jet, but fun! *When you get this high, turn on "Storm" for weather, max out the lightning and see the numerous lightning bolts below you.
I just flew LAX to JFK in 35 minutes, mach 10 @ 275k. I had the same issue last night not being able to get above mach 3.75ish then watched this and off I went like a rocket.
Awesome! Sounds like your weather guy too.... I did a few vidy's on it, the hurricane was cool. I find the weather reasonably accurate.... no naders tho.
Awesomee, finally the thing I missed all this time was the afterburner and how to activate that scramjet, this kind of videos are awesome, keep up the great work sir..👍
For a lot of the special aircraft there's a magic switch on the dashboard. For the pelican it's hover/cruise mode. For this bird it's the scramjet setting
It is currently 3:20 am est, I hadn’t been able to get it above Mach 1.20 for a long while but after following this guide as closely as I can, I’m in space at 10.02. Glorious. Very good video. Edit: Forgot to mention that apparently the altimeter stops at 275,000. Good to know.
It worked! I got the aircraft to mach 9 at 140,000 ft. and flew it from New York to San Francisco in about 30 minutes. It continued to climb to 250,000 ft and briefly reached Mach 10.1 before I had to slow down for landing. But you can't turn this beast at all at speeds above Mach 2 - it's like the SR-71 in that respect. And the stall speed is really high unless the fuel tanks are almost empty.
For all who wanna start the scramjet easy (in free flight). You just have to reach MACH 3. Get there without silly inverted rolls with my Checklist: - Start (Full throttle, gear up) - climb (full throttle + afterburners) with 15° pitch at around Mach 0.85-0.96 - for the afterburners bind a Hotkey in the settings or click the thrustlevers with rightclick while holding leftclick - reach 40.000ft altitude - nose down to -20° for accelerating to Mach 1.45 - With Mach 1.45 pull up slightly (max 2G) to +10° and just maintain it - Scramjet-transition: while the plane is accelerating activate the fuellcell ((Green) Square right byside the yoke) and the Scramengine (open red cover left of the screen and activate) - Keep on holding +10° pitch until the scramengine spools up once you reached Mach 3-3.1. ---Enjoy Hypersonicspeed in the stratosphere. Approachtip for free flight: You can type the ILS frequency in the small upper display. Type it in, click NAV1 ON before enter. You can use the glideslope and locator manually for easy landing even with synthetic view.
I've tried this multiple times but whenever I get to Mach 2.9, something weird happens and the aircraft starts to lose speed drastically, the scramjet never comes on. What am I doing wrong?
@@ricardoalr once you reached Mach 2.5 at a 10° pitch, its nearly impossible that the plane starts to decelerate. You activated you Fuelcell (Button right of the yoke)??? The mainthrusters can reach up to Mach 3.5 - 4 only with afterburner. So I really dont know how you construct this situation. To much pitch?!
here's a quicker way. Press Y and then F4 and bring jet up to max height or whatever height you want preferably pretty high and then press Y again and then pitch down and turn on scramjet and fuel cell button. Give it a sec till you hit about Mach 3 and then boom it's on. Have fun. I'm cruising at Mach 10
There's no need to invert the aircraft to achieve those pitch adjustments, there's pretty much no point in making an effort to turn on the beacon lights (as if they're going to sufficiently warn people in time of you approaching at mach 9 or something lol), and a scramjet has no moving parts and does not have to "spool up". Either way though I guess the procedure technically works so go through the ritual if you want lol
Re 1) - yep agreed. The theory supposedly is to minimise negative G on the pilot during the pitch down (per the tutorial), but clearly there’s no consequence in not doing so. On 2) - fair enough. Again, was just part of the aircraft’s checklist, so wanted to include in the video. On 3), yeah 100% my error/stupidity!
*CORRECTION*: At 1:03, I say "until you hit Mach 9". This should be "until you hit Mach 0.9". Apologies for the error - my mistake during the voiceover! ------ For anyone struggling to get to Mach 3: ensure you're *above* Mach 1 in the dive, and then, as I do in the video, make sure you're pitching up out of the dive *gently*. The engines really start to get going at around Mach 1.5. If you pull out of the descent too early, you won't be able to reach Mach 3.
Yeah that was funny . I thought the whole tutorial was take off and climb at 10 degree until you get to mach 9.That's all. thanks for coming... lol Also scram jets don't "spool up" they have no spool, no rotating parts. Maybe you could say the fuel pump might have a spinning impeller that spools up. But that must be one hell of a fuel pump like a rocket engine turbo pump. Now I think about it maybe scram jets do need really powerful fuel pumps that spool up?
Well done.. tips: set options'flight mode to modern, accelerate from land strip(don't thrust untill wheels are tucked away), climb say 30k or above, level off, roll 180 & dive 20dg or less(untill 1.5 mach approx.) roll 180 to upright and pull out to say between 1&10 dg's, climb if you may to 275,000 ft & roll 180 + level out perchance maintain 10 mach+.. note air currents behave different as you transcend every so 10000ft... Hope this helps... Oh! .. make sure access fuel system panel accessed 2nd green top left button & open all fuel valves) hrhr!.. and be sure to fill up 😂
To make it easier, just pitch down at 30k feet until the Mach meter starts to go up fast past Mach 2 then pull up slowly to 10 degrees and you'll reach Mach 3.
I dont know if i messed up some sequence but when i turned on the scramjet at mach 3 i got the most unexpected turbulence. It felt like the thing was about to explode! Luckily i stabilised it but that was for sure my most intense moment of MS flight
One of the coolest thing you can do with this aircraft is to start at Nighttime, near the terminator... you'll go faster than Earth's rotation so you'll see the sun rise as a consequence of that, it's super cool especially if you're far up in the sky!
you can skip the inverted roll crap by just climbing to ~35.000 feet at an angle between 10-20 degrees, then pitching the nose down gently to -5 to -10 degrees. you will gain speed until mach ~3,5 and you can enable the scram jet as usual.
Same. Can you get the P-51s from the Reno Air Races to fly? I can’t get them to fly either and I feel like PC users don’t have the same problem so Microsoft doesn’t care to fix it
Now at Mach 9 do a hard hairpin banking left turn and watch your pilot become a pool of blood on the floor at 100gs. Enable "unbreakable aircraft" first though. Lmao that banking left turn at Mach 9 had me cracking the F up in the theatre.
Whenever I fly it, on takeoff it just sticks to the ground and even if I do actually manage to get in the air it just starts flying straight up on its own. To put this in simple terms: I have no control over what I’m flying
Might be that parking brake is set. You’d think you notice but the engines are so powerful that it’s not obvious at first sight. Having parking brakes set will let you go around 300kts on the runway but won’t let you pull up the nose gear.
I was about to watch this but then I said: NO! I'll try to figure it out on my own first. And I did!!! I just had to follow all on-screen tutorial instructions carefully including the carefully measured and calculated G pulls!
There is no requirement to invert the aircraft. The in-game tutorial tells you to do it so as to reenact a scene from the movie. I’ve made six flights in this aircraft since downloading a few days ago. Not once have I inverted it.
Agreed - the MSFS default aircraft never have guides which is always a tad frustrating! If you want to do a follow-along flight, the Darkstar “mission” in the sim’s menu has tips for each stage of flight.
I'd like to add that I'm having trouble after the role breaking mach 1 and then going to 10°, I seem to be holding as I'm climbing at 1.13 mach. I can't seem to go any higher than that as I'm climbing up through 50,000 ft. Is there a moment when the air thins out where you just break through for speed?
@@blaster915 from what I can tell, the air density does play a part. You won’t be able to get to Mach 3 until you’re fairly high. Give the mission a go I suggest! I skipped it in the tutorial because it’s dull to watch, but getting between Mach 1 and Mach 3 took several minutes of climbing.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials I'm currently playing it as we speak and I think this is my fifth attempt to try and get the damn scram jets working 😂😂 I just can't seem to break the mach 3 barrier! The higher I go the less power I get, The lower I go the more I'm fighting against. The highest I've been able to get is Mach 2.2 and that was in a forced dive from 55,000 ft 😅 gahhh!
When I do it the plane doeasn't reach Mach 3, it just gets slower by puling 10° up. So I reached Mach 1.5 and slow down while climbing. What's my mistake?
The idea is to minimise negative G on the pilot when beginning the descent manoeuvre - you're experiencing positive G if inverted and doing that manoeuvre. Obviously, it's a sim, you don't have to do it, but it's what is recommended by the aircraft.
Hi there - as a few other people have said, it's important to get to to around Mach 1.5 during the dive, before you then pull up. *Above* that speed, the aircraft accelerates pretty well, but I've found if you're too slow, it just won't accelerate to Mach 3. It seems the engines only really seem to go wild above Mach 1.5. Also, try to ensure that when you raise the nose out of the dive, you're doing so as gently as possible. Shout if that doesn't work.
I cannot even get off the ground. I get the afterburners lit just fine. I have the Honeycomb Yoke and when I pull back, there is a gentle lift, but nothing substantial that would normally get me off the ground. It appears the yoke in the cockpit is being pulled back.
You did not release the chassis parking brake. The engines have tremendous power, so they overcome the braked landing gear, but the aircraft is not able to reach the right speed to lose.
Awesome addition to Flight Sim Last night done a flight from RNZAF Whenuapai in Auckland, NZ to RAAF Base Pearce in Perth Western Australia….it only took 58mins & still had 17% fuel left 😳
I can’t reach Mach 3. I do everything it tells me to do. After the roll back upright and pitch up to 10* I’m still between Mach 1.1-1.3 and lose speed.
Hey there - two things: 1) try not initiating the pull out of the descent until Mach 1.5 2) when pulling up, do it *very* gently. If you're aggressive you'll kill the acceleration
Hi there - as a few other people have said, it's important to get to to around Mach 1.5 during the dive, before you then pull up. *Above* that speed, the aircraft accelerates pretty well, but I've found if you're too slow, it just won't accelerate to Mach 3. It seems the engines only really seem to go wild above Mach 1.5. Also, try to ensure that when you raise the nose out of the dive, you're doing so as gently as possible. Shout if that doesn't work.
@@MrMrfishy55 the scram engines won’t work until you get to Mach 3. You need to dive the aircraft to Mach 1.5 to then accelerate to Mach 3, to then engage the scram engines. I’ve got another quick video on the way to demo exactly this bit.
even tho I assigned the afterburner hotkey, it still doesn't turn on... and I was wondering why I'm not able to go past 0.87mach... I think that is the reason I'm not able to go even further, do you know any tips to fix that?
One thing you could try is after advancing the throttles to full, press and hold F3 to force the throttle into the afterburner section? It may be worth taking a look at this: forums.flightsimulator.com/t/f-a-18-afterburner/472799
Great video, one problem though. Took a few re views to realise you meant mach .9 as opposed to mach 9!, all good now though and cruising mach 9.99 at 275'000 feet, with your good help, 👍
Hi there - as a few other people have said, it's important to get to to around Mach 1.5 during the dive, before you then pull up. *Above* that speed, the aircraft accelerates pretty well, but I've found if you're too slow, it just won't accelerate to Mach 3. It seems the engines only really seem to go wild above Mach 1.5. Also, try to ensure that when you raise the nose out of the dive, you're doing so as gently as possible. Shout if that doesn't work.
Did Asobo not include a tutorial? Is hard enough for many to learn a real plane, nevermind one that doesn't exist which reaches realms we never get to.
If you click on the 3rd page in the mhmmm how is is called? Main display, you can see at least the descripton, with curves and speeds and angles, how to reach mach 10.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but after I activate the scramjet, it refuses to go much higher than Mach 3.75. The plane basically gets capped at that speed.
In that case, the fuel isn't burning in your scram jet. Pay attention to the temperature. It needs to be somewhere above 300 degrees F before you turn it on for the fuel to ignite. During the first ascent, the scram jet temperature will dip into the negatives.
I was stuck at Mach 5 to 6; I didnt know that once you turn on the scramjet - you have to then hit the afterburner again - the afterburner for the scramjets. then and only then, you will ROCKET from Mach5 to Mach9 in about a minute
Dah. Where's the toggle switch for AB in the cockpit? Don't recall Tom C. hitting # key. It didn't work when I tried. Isn't there switch under a red cover somewhere. Am I missing something obvious?
It will not accelerate to Mach 3 after inverting and turning back. I have after burners active and everything but it's staying at mach 0.95. Have any ideas?
The Darkstar is really cool. I cruised from Area 51 to Florida at Mach 10.0 at an altitute of 275000ft. But I ran out of fuel during the approach to Cape Canaveral :(
How did you take off I’m not able to my dark star just shakes and then does a 90* flip forwards and dies what am I doing wrong I think it’s a glitch have you ever encountered it
@@chezzz._. I'm encountering the same thing, but I also start it in the air and it glitch-wobbles horribly and overstresses the aircraft, I'm about to re-install FS again to try to fix it :(
Ok, I tried like 10 times. On the tenth time, flying your checklist, I got the SCRAM to engage. Now I can’t do it at all. Following procedures I get it to 80k, and it just argues with me.
I've tried this multiple times but whenever I get to Mach 2.9, something weird happens and the aircraft starts to lose speed drastically, the scramjet never comes on. What am I doing wrong?
You may be climbing too fast and as the air thins, the speed of sound increases? You want to hit Mach 3 before 40k feet. Start your roll five at 30k, drop to 18k, slowly climb out and you’ll hit Mach 3 easily. Then activate scram jets
@@Phicksusmc the sound of speed doesn't change regardless of altitude, it's just that by default in the Sim airspeed is set to knots calibrated, not knots ground speed. Not one pilot on earth could give 2 shits about ground speed. It's completely irrelevant information.
@@Phicksusmc I don't quite understand though cause it tells me to pitch up at 10deg, maintain GPS, and hit Mach 3. But I lose speed when maintaining 10deg. How do I reach Mach 3 while still maintaining the 10deg it's telling me to?
@@EasyMSFSTutorials Not at all. I'm trying to reach Mach 3 while descending at a 10° angle and I reach mach 2.9 at around 15k or 12k feet. I'll try to upload a video of what happens so you can see.
You have to get to about Mach 1.5 in a -20 degree dive to increase the thrust via turbojet bypass tubes. And then gently pitch up to about +10 degrees and you should be able to get to Mach 3-4. Then perform the scramjet switch by activating the fuel cell battery and then flipping the scramjet switch.
I always get a spoilers message in yellow displayed. How do I get rid off those? Already disabled every assist system and tried to disable spoilers via different keys (in settings).😢?
On X Box, the instruments are dark and engine 3 and 4 are not working. Max speed is Mach 3,x. How can i activate all systems and engine 3 and 4 for max speed?
Thanks so much for this! After a second try at the inverted, I was able get to 120,000 altitude and average Mach 9.34 and made it to Cape Canaveral, Florida in 39 minutes. I think my highest was Mach 9.6. This has been my best experience in Flight Simulator so far, that stratosphere flight is incredible.
I am so glad this new update has happened. When you are that high up, it can be exceedingly beautiful.
I hit Mach 10!!!! At 270,000 feet and was able to land back at NAS Fallon
I hit Mach 10.1 idk how but I was around 300k ft
You can hit Mach 10
Tops out at 275,000 for me🤣😂🤣😂. Not sure if glitch or what. Fictional anyway
I felt my bones creak when you called the pound key the hashtag key.
lmaooooo
Welcome to the era of "shit-for-brains" and botox injections!
Here in the UK, hearing “pound key” when not in reference to our currency (£) is like fingernails down a chalkboard.
@@SiGoodchild1 Pffft, like yall didnt use pounds for measurements before you used pounds for currency, lol
@@WarlordFlanker we dont use pounds for measurements
For those struggling to get to mach 3 after inverting, the single most important thing is to pitch VERY GENTLY. Dont exceed 1.5g of pitch. When you pitch too hard (3g+) it slows you down and wont let you speed up to mach anything really.
I took off from Honolulu to Los Angeles to race the horizon and hit Mach 10 at 275,000 ft.
Both of those seem to be max height and speed in this game, was hauling ass though.
Well thats good. Anything over 10.3 has results of explosive intensity
@@alejandrohernandezcarrillo2436 Lol Yeah
Idk how but I glitched the game and racked it up to Mach 12.5
Yeah my vs was 10000+ and alt locked at 275k
I was able to get to mach 10 a little easier but this tutorial still helped
If you get up to mach 0.9 then you can more or less level out and turn on afterburners
At a slight upwards pitch continue until you reach mach 3.6
At mach 3.6 you'll have to wait until your EAS speed lowers to around 760 still at the slight upwards pitch
Then do all the steps to turn on the scramjet as outlined in the video and you'll reach mach 9 a few minutes after the scramjets are activated
I have to try this! So far, I've hit Mach 3.8 - 4...still flew from Cape Canaveral, Florida to NYC JFK in about 25-30 min. Maxed out at 275K height (Sim starts to get a little buggy, but flyable) Hard to control, takes some patience to fly super-jet, but fun! *When you get this high, turn on "Storm" for weather, max out the lightning and see the numerous lightning bolts below you.
I just flew LAX to JFK in 35 minutes, mach 10 @ 275k. I had the same issue last night not being able to get above mach 3.75ish then watched this and off I went like a rocket.
Awesome! Sounds like your weather guy too.... I did a few vidy's on it, the hurricane was cool. I find the weather reasonably accurate.... no naders tho.
*hard to control* yeah no bloody shit sherlock,...
@@joseph299 we almost have the same username lol
I turned on autopilot and dude hit the scram jets at like 25k feet on a cloudy day. my pc couldn't keep up lol.
Awesomee, finally the thing I missed all this time was the afterburner and how to activate that scramjet, this kind of videos are awesome, keep up the great work sir..👍
For a lot of the special aircraft there's a magic switch on the dashboard. For the pelican it's hover/cruise mode. For this bird it's the scramjet setting
Fast and precise, no useless words, thank you !
Glad it helped!
It is currently 3:20 am est, I hadn’t been able to get it above Mach 1.20 for a long while but after following this guide as closely as I can, I’m in space at 10.02. Glorious. Very good video.
Edit: Forgot to mention that apparently the altimeter stops at 275,000. Good to know.
The darkstar is amazing I did a cross Atlantic flight from San Fransisco to Rome in about 45 minutes
Thank you for the tutorial, now i can go from A to B really fast.
It worked! I got the aircraft to mach 9 at 140,000 ft. and flew it from New York to San Francisco in about 30 minutes. It continued to climb to 250,000 ft and briefly reached Mach 10.1 before I had to slow down for landing. But you can't turn this beast at all at speeds above Mach 2 - it's like the SR-71 in that respect. And the stall speed is really high unless the fuel tanks are almost empty.
Wow I knew I was missing something with the jet scrambler. Hit Mach 10 in the challenge and blew right past Canaveral
Lol where did you end up?
@@dantew2942 off the coast a good amount ended up finding Canaveral but by that point it was dark and very hard to land
For all who wanna start the scramjet easy (in free flight). You just have to reach MACH 3. Get there without silly inverted rolls with my Checklist:
- Start (Full throttle, gear up)
- climb (full throttle + afterburners) with 15° pitch at around Mach 0.85-0.96
- for the afterburners bind a Hotkey in the settings or click the thrustlevers with rightclick while holding leftclick
- reach 40.000ft altitude
- nose down to -20° for accelerating to Mach 1.45
- With Mach 1.45 pull up slightly (max 2G) to +10° and just maintain it
- Scramjet-transition: while the plane is accelerating activate the fuellcell ((Green) Square right byside the yoke) and the Scramengine (open red cover left of the screen and activate)
- Keep on holding +10° pitch until the scramengine spools up once you reached Mach 3-3.1.
---Enjoy Hypersonicspeed in the stratosphere.
Approachtip for free flight: You can type the ILS frequency in the small upper display. Type it in, click NAV1 ON before enter. You can use the glideslope and locator manually for easy landing even with synthetic view.
I've tried this multiple times but whenever I get to Mach 2.9, something weird happens and the aircraft starts to lose speed drastically, the scramjet never comes on. What am I doing wrong?
@@ricardoalr once you reached Mach 2.5 at a 10° pitch, its nearly impossible that the plane starts to decelerate. You activated you Fuelcell (Button right of the yoke)??? The mainthrusters can reach up to Mach 3.5 - 4 only with afterburner. So I really dont know how you construct this situation. To much pitch?!
This worked for me!
Thank you!
@@zackblackmon You are welcome
here's a quicker way. Press Y and then F4 and bring jet up to max height or whatever height you want preferably pretty high and then press Y again and then pitch down and turn on scramjet and fuel cell button. Give it a sec till you hit about Mach 3 and then boom it's on. Have fun. I'm cruising at Mach 10
There's no need to invert the aircraft to achieve those pitch adjustments, there's pretty much no point in making an effort to turn on the beacon lights (as if they're going to sufficiently warn people in time of you approaching at mach 9 or something lol), and a scramjet has no moving parts and does not have to "spool up". Either way though I guess the procedure technically works so go through the ritual if you want lol
Re 1) - yep agreed. The theory supposedly is to minimise negative G on the pilot during the pitch down (per the tutorial), but clearly there’s no consequence in not doing so.
On 2) - fair enough. Again, was just part of the aircraft’s checklist, so wanted to include in the video. On 3), yeah 100% my error/stupidity!
*CORRECTION*: At 1:03, I say "until you hit Mach 9". This should be "until you hit Mach 0.9".
Apologies for the error - my mistake during the voiceover!
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For anyone struggling to get to Mach 3: ensure you're *above* Mach 1 in the dive, and then, as I do in the video, make sure you're pitching up out of the dive *gently*. The engines really start to get going at around Mach 1.5.
If you pull out of the descent too early, you won't be able to reach Mach 3.
Oh so that’s why I wasn’t able to Mach 3 my second flight I must’ve pulled out of the decent too early
@Quinzerrak not when I tried
np, the gage is there and visible. Good and concise, ty.
What about those 2 lower left switches (gen...)?
Yeah that was funny . I thought the whole tutorial was take off and climb at 10 degree until you get to mach 9.That's all. thanks for coming... lol
Also scram jets don't "spool up" they have no spool, no rotating parts. Maybe you could say the fuel pump might have a spinning impeller that spools up. But that must be one hell of a fuel pump like a rocket engine turbo pump. Now I think about it maybe scram jets do need really powerful fuel pumps that spool up?
Haha , try the scram jet take off
Literally the best one who explain the way to reach mach 10
Well done.. tips: set options'flight mode to modern, accelerate from land strip(don't thrust untill wheels are tucked away), climb say 30k or above, level off, roll 180 & dive 20dg or less(untill 1.5 mach approx.) roll 180 to upright and pull out to say between 1&10 dg's, climb if you may to 275,000 ft & roll 180 + level out perchance maintain 10 mach+.. note air currents behave different as you transcend every so 10000ft... Hope this helps... Oh! .. make sure access fuel system panel accessed 2nd green top left button & open all fuel valves) hrhr!.. and be sure to fill up 😂
To make it easier, just pitch down at 30k feet until the Mach meter starts to go up fast past Mach 2 then pull up slowly to 10 degrees and you'll reach Mach 3.
Thank you I would not have been able to do this without you. I reached a max speed of Mach 10.1 and averaged Mach 10 at over 275 000 feet
0:49 Twitter users won't have trouble.
Love it I don’t know but you are my hero I just couldn’t complete the mission now i can
Glad it’s helpful :)
Same
But it's even explained. It literally guides you.
I dont know if i messed up some sequence but when i turned on the scramjet at mach 3 i got the most unexpected turbulence. It felt like the thing was about to explode!
Luckily i stabilised it but that was for sure my most intense moment of MS flight
Mann this is so much fun. Brisbane to Sydney in 5minutes. Such a great free plane.
Thank you so much I was able to fly mach 10.1 because of this tutorial
One of the coolest thing you can do with this aircraft is to start at Nighttime, near the terminator... you'll go faster than Earth's rotation so you'll see the sun rise as a consequence of that, it's super cool especially if you're far up in the sky!
Getting to mach 9 takes time but it's fun once you reach it, it's a whole new level of landing procedures to lol
you can skip the inverted roll crap by just climbing to ~35.000 feet at an angle between 10-20 degrees, then pitching the nose down gently to -5 to -10 degrees. you will gain speed until mach ~3,5 and you can enable the scram jet as usual.
you can get to Mach 13.6 if you put weather temperature to -130 only when hit Mach 10 then do it
Edwards AFB to Barcelona, Spain in 1.5 hrs. Thanks for the video!
Xbox series X and when I try to take off plane starts bouncing like the landing gear is broken 😢
Same. Can you get the P-51s from the Reno Air Races to fly? I can’t get them to fly either and I feel like PC users don’t have the same problem so Microsoft doesn’t care to fix it
Now at Mach 9 do a hard hairpin banking left turn and watch your pilot become a pool of blood on the floor at 100gs.
Enable "unbreakable aircraft" first though.
Lmao that banking left turn at Mach 9 had me cracking the F up in the theatre.
I finally got it, thanks so much🤗
This plane represents Top Gun Maverick ❤
Yes I really enjoyed your tutorial, I was trying to figure out how to reach mach 9. Thank you so much. I'll try it.
My current Top speed record, thanks man, highest i got was 9.84 Mach
Update: It is Mach 10.04 now
Whenever I fly it, on takeoff it just sticks to the ground and even if I do actually manage to get in the air it just starts flying straight up on its own. To put this in simple terms: I have no control over what I’m flying
Yes me too
Might be that parking brake is set. You’d think you notice but the engines are so powerful that it’s not obvious at first sight. Having parking brakes set will let you go around 300kts on the runway but won’t let you pull up the nose gear.
@@wavegreen no I turned my parking brake off
I can't even get it off the ground it's really annoying bc I was excited to try this thing out it only works in the mission
I’ve read somewhere about going into the settings and turning your flight control from legacy to modern.
I was about to watch this but then I said: NO! I'll try to figure it out on my own first. And I did!!! I just had to follow all on-screen tutorial instructions carefully including the carefully measured and calculated G pulls!
There is no requirement to invert the aircraft. The in-game tutorial tells you to do it so as to reenact a scene from the movie. I’ve made six flights in this aircraft since downloading a few days ago. Not once have I inverted it.
Slightly confusing when you climb to mach 9, when what you really meant was climb to mach 0.9!
Been looking for a guide as I've tried a few times but they don't give guides of how to approach it!! Thanks for posting!
Agreed - the MSFS default aircraft never have guides which is always a tad frustrating!
If you want to do a follow-along flight, the Darkstar “mission” in the sim’s menu has tips for each stage of flight.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials thanks!! Didn't know that!
I'd like to add that I'm having trouble after the role breaking mach 1 and then going to 10°, I seem to be holding as I'm climbing at 1.13 mach. I can't seem to go any higher than that as I'm climbing up through 50,000 ft. Is there a moment when the air thins out where you just break through for speed?
@@blaster915 from what I can tell, the air density does play a part. You won’t be able to get to Mach 3 until you’re fairly high. Give the mission a go I suggest!
I skipped it in the tutorial because it’s dull to watch, but getting between Mach 1 and Mach 3 took several minutes of climbing.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials I'm currently playing it as we speak and I think this is my fifth attempt to try and get the damn scram jets working 😂😂 I just can't seem to break the mach 3 barrier! The higher I go the less power I get, The lower I go the more I'm fighting against. The highest I've been able to get is Mach 2.2 and that was in a forced dive from 55,000 ft 😅 gahhh!
When I do it the plane doeasn't reach Mach 3, it just gets slower by puling 10° up. So I reached Mach 1.5 and slow down while climbing. What's my mistake?
same problem
Hey there - my suggestion would be to ensure you’re pulling back up to 10 degrees as gently as possible.
I don’t see the need to go inverted
The idea is to minimise negative G on the pilot when beginning the descent manoeuvre - you're experiencing positive G if inverted and doing that manoeuvre. Obviously, it's a sim, you don't have to do it, but it's what is recommended by the aircraft.
this has helped so much, thank you!❤
Thank you for the simple tutorials 🙏
I was just going straight up after takeoff and wondering why I could get about Mach 2. 🤣 Thank you for this.
I can’t believe that I had landed successfully on that mystery airplane. 🤙😂
I cant get to mach 3 any extra tips?
Hi there - as a few other people have said, it's important to get to to around Mach 1.5 during the dive, before you then pull up. *Above* that speed, the aircraft accelerates pretty well, but I've found if you're too slow, it just won't accelerate to Mach 3. It seems the engines only really seem to go wild above Mach 1.5.
Also, try to ensure that when you raise the nose out of the dive, you're doing so as gently as possible.
Shout if that doesn't work.
Air speed and real.speed ain't the same
@@EasyMSFSTutorials are engines 3 and 4 supposed to be on when getting to Mach 3
@@JackSmith-tv4pe you’re meant to engage the scramjet (3 and 4) when you’re above Mach 3. They won’t work below that speed.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials how do I do that?
I cannot even get off the ground. I get the afterburners lit just fine. I have the Honeycomb Yoke and when I pull back, there is a gentle lift, but nothing substantial that would normally get me off the ground. It appears the yoke in the cockpit is being pulled back.
What speed is being displayed when you try to rotate?
turn off the parking brakes. worked for me
You did not release the chassis parking brake. The engines have tremendous power, so they overcome the braked landing gear, but the aircraft is not able to reach the right speed to lose.
This got me from RAF Scampton to Orlando florida pretty quick...
I hit Mach 10 and maxed out the altitude at 275k ft. Took a while but I got it
Awesome addition to Flight Sim
Last night done a flight from RNZAF Whenuapai in Auckland, NZ to RAAF Base Pearce in Perth Western Australia….it only took 58mins & still had 17% fuel left 😳
I can’t reach Mach 3. I do everything it tells me to do. After the roll back upright and pitch up to 10*
I’m still between Mach 1.1-1.3 and lose speed.
Me too. I've followed all the instructions but at 10° incline I'm at a steady 260kn....???🤔😭
Hey there - two things:
1) try not initiating the pull out of the descent until Mach 1.5
2) when pulling up, do it *very* gently. If you're aggressive you'll kill the acceleration
Easy to do, but in the sim doesn't explain anything of activate the fuel switch. Thank you for the help!
I couldn't get it to accelerated to Mach 3 in a 10 degree pitch up so I just pitched down to minus 5 until I reached it and then pulled up
At the beginning you said "go to mach 9, then rotate" but its "mach 0.9", love the video thought
How are you “accelerating” to Mach 3? I roll over and nothing changes. When did you change the throttle from mil?
same question here
Also wondering
I tried that but I still can’t even get past 1.6 Mach….. what am I doing wrroonnggg
Hi there - as a few other people have said, it's important to get to to around Mach 1.5 during the dive, before you then pull up. *Above* that speed, the aircraft accelerates pretty well, but I've found if you're too slow, it just won't accelerate to Mach 3. It seems the engines only really seem to go wild above Mach 1.5.
Also, try to ensure that when you raise the nose out of the dive, you're doing so as gently as possible.
Shout if that doesn't work.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials so pretty much the scram engines don’t work fully until Mach 1.5? So you have to do to the dive to make all work?
@@MrMrfishy55 the scram engines won’t work until you get to Mach 3. You need to dive the aircraft to Mach 1.5 to then accelerate to Mach 3, to then engage the scram engines.
I’ve got another quick video on the way to demo exactly this bit.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials awesome works now! Thank you! I have now subscribed!
"Pitch down to -20°"
Me: *Slams into the tiniest pond ever*
even tho I assigned the afterburner hotkey, it still doesn't turn on... and I was wondering why I'm not able to go past 0.87mach... I think that is the reason I'm not able to go even further, do you know any tips to fix that?
I have the exact same problem
One thing you could try is after advancing the throttles to full, press and hold F3 to force the throttle into the afterburner section?
It may be worth taking a look at this: forums.flightsimulator.com/t/f-a-18-afterburner/472799
In my case the afterburner wasn't assigned, so I assigned it in the control options
Great video, one problem though. Took a few re views to realise you meant mach .9 as opposed to mach 9!, all good now though and cruising mach 9.99 at 275'000 feet, with your good help, 👍
Very nice tutorial. Concise and well explained. Thanks!
How do you get to Mach 3
Hi there - as a few other people have said, it's important to get to to around Mach 1.5 during the dive, before you then pull up. *Above* that speed, the aircraft accelerates pretty well, but I've found if you're too slow, it just won't accelerate to Mach 3. It seems the engines only really seem to go wild above Mach 1.5.
Also, try to ensure that when you raise the nose out of the dive, you're doing so as gently as possible.
Shout if that doesn't work.
"The scramjet will spool up" i died a little with that one
Yeah that was my mistake - I misread the physics….😬
Thank you for this totourial it really helped 🔥😁
Good tutorial. I managed to hit Mach 10 on Series X.
Thanks for the information boss
Did Asobo not include a tutorial? Is hard enough for many to learn a real plane, nevermind one that doesn't exist which reaches realms we never get to.
Completely agree - pretty disappointing. There's a "Mission" for hypersonic flight which guides you through it step by step, but it's not ideal.
Of course spy planes exist, always have done. They're not gonna give you a guided tour are they?
turn on objectives
@@joshuashepard3557 thanks! Still have to download dlc, but I'll check that out.
If you click on the 3rd page in the mhmmm how is is called? Main display, you can see at least the descripton, with curves and speeds and angles, how to reach mach 10.
yeyyyyy!! much needed air support/ PILOTS need to help other pilots. Cheers everyone. BIG THANKS!
Nice and simple! Thanks. Other videos on TH-cam is like 30+ minutes
Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but after I activate the scramjet, it refuses to go much higher than Mach 3.75. The plane basically gets capped at that speed.
too much angle maybe?
In that case, the fuel isn't burning in your scram jet. Pay attention to the temperature. It needs to be somewhere above 300 degrees F before you turn it on for the fuel to ignite. During the first ascent, the scram jet temperature will dip into the negatives.
Scramjets don't "spool". There aren't any turbine blades in them.
What's the point when the game has no realistic supersonic flight modelling?
Don't buy it.
What's the purpose of being inverted down to mach 1.2 before rising again?
I was stuck at Mach 5 to 6; I didnt know that once you turn on the scramjet - you have to then hit the afterburner again - the afterburner for the scramjets.
then and only then, you will ROCKET from Mach5 to Mach9 in about a minute
I was stuck at Mach 0.89
I’m having an issue with only 2 of the engines working on it
You’ll only have two engines working initially, until you engage the scramjet. That’s how it’s meant to be. You don’t take off with four.
Dah. Where's the toggle switch for AB in the cockpit? Don't recall Tom C. hitting # key. It didn't work when I tried. Isn't there switch under a red cover somewhere. Am I missing something obvious?
The key is just called the "Hash" key, there is no such thing as a Hashtag key.
It will not accelerate to Mach 3 after inverting and turning back. I have after burners active and everything but it's staying at mach 0.95. Have any ideas?
Hey there - when you do you controlled dive, you need to stay in the dive until Mach 1.5 before pulling up.
Thanks👍I was just waiting until mach 1. Keep up the vid quality by the way 👌! First of your vids I watched and I subscribed straight away.
Spoilers
Nah gotta go Mach 10.2 remember
The Darkstar is really cool. I cruised from Area 51 to Florida at Mach 10.0 at an altitute of 275000ft. But I ran out of fuel during the approach to Cape Canaveral :(
How did you take off I’m not able to my dark star just shakes and then does a 90* flip forwards and dies what am I doing wrong I think it’s a glitch have you ever encountered it
@@chezzz._.Idk, at first I failed to take off because I didnt knew how to deactivate the parking brake and how to switch on the afterburners xD
@@chezzz._. I'm encountering the same thing, but I also start it in the air and it glitch-wobbles horribly and overstresses the aircraft, I'm about to re-install FS again to try to fix it :(
I can only get one of the scramjets to work, the other just stays dead, i have no idea what to do anymore to fix it
Ok, I tried like 10 times. On the tenth time, flying your checklist, I got the SCRAM to engage. Now I can’t do it at all. Following procedures I get it to 80k, and it just argues with me.
How? Ive had no luck
I've tried this multiple times but whenever I get to Mach 2.9, something weird happens and the aircraft starts to lose speed drastically, the scramjet never comes on. What am I doing wrong?
You may be climbing too fast and as the air thins, the speed of sound increases? You want to hit Mach 3 before 40k feet. Start your roll five at 30k, drop to 18k, slowly climb out and you’ll hit Mach 3 easily. Then activate scram jets
I’d second this reply here. Make sure you’re not trying to engage the scramjet too high.
@@Phicksusmc the sound of speed doesn't change regardless of altitude, it's just that by default in the Sim airspeed is set to knots calibrated, not knots ground speed.
Not one pilot on earth could give 2 shits about ground speed. It's completely irrelevant information.
@@Phicksusmc I don't quite understand though cause it tells me to pitch up at 10deg, maintain GPS, and hit Mach 3. But I lose speed when maintaining 10deg. How do I reach Mach 3 while still maintaining the 10deg it's telling me to?
@@EasyMSFSTutorials Not at all. I'm trying to reach Mach 3 while descending at a 10° angle and I reach mach 2.9 at around 15k or 12k feet. I'll try to upload a video of what happens so you can see.
Well call me an Australian hyperbaric short cake iced penguin. This is cool
This plane is so cool. I was able to reach Mach 10 on free flight :)
I got mach 10.04 at 275,000 feet :) good vid rly helped
Whats the point of turning on the beacon light? Its just a light?
Aw dang they fixed the trick where you could make it go even faster
What's up with that roll at transonic speeds? Is it due to aerodynamics? Stress on the airframe? Engine airflow?
Hey there - aim is to minimise negative G on the pilot when doing the controlled descent.
Thank you for sharing.
I am unable to get the aircraft to Mach 3
You have to get to about Mach 1.5 in a -20 degree dive to increase the thrust via turbojet bypass tubes. And then gently pitch up to about +10 degrees and you should be able to get to Mach 3-4. Then perform the scramjet switch by activating the fuel cell battery and then flipping the scramjet switch.
Jiggle your throttle to make sure it has full range, turn on afterburners, and fly above 40k feet. Scramjets won't turn on at lower altitudes.
You need to reach 3000knt before you can activate scramjet
Why can’t I get above Mach 0.8?
I always get a spoilers message in yellow displayed. How do I get rid off those? Already disabled every assist system and tried to disable spoilers via different keys (in settings).😢?
anyone know why my first two engines aren’t running after i turned on engine 3/4? i’m at mach 9.8 but won’t go faster than 600
Is there an automatic function on this aircraft to level it?
why would you want that?
@@askers81 like to not adjust the trim every 2-5 seconds
@@hellstone5500 but thats the point of the game.
@@askers81 kinda, a lot of modern planes have an autopilot wish a lot of people use for long flights
@@hellstone5500 this game has autopilot
On X Box, the instruments are dark and engine 3 and 4 are not working. Max speed is Mach 3,x. How can i activate all systems and engine 3 and 4 for max speed?
Very helpful, thank you!
I don't have enough time this week due to work, will download it this weekend. Is this thing easy to land? Does it get rid of that speed "easy"?
Very helpful. I attempted it on my own and failed at every turn. Booting up MSFS right now to give it a try. Thanks for the video!