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Esa Ahonen Simracing & Simflying
Приєднався 25 чер 2010
I want to introduce simflying to simracing enthusiasts and simracing to simflying enthusiasts.
DCS: Learning the Hind - Low flying in Baghdad
This was my third flight with the Hind. I had read that many consider the Hind one of the nicest helicopters to fly in DCS, but my first two flights definitely didn’t feel that way. It felt like controlling the yaw axis was extremely difficult, and hovering and landing were almost impossible. Then I changed the pedal microswitch setting to "Enable/Disable by presence/absence of pedal movement", and suddenly the Hind felt like a completely different machine. I can absolutely agree now that it’s a pleasure to handle, though my landing here was far from good. I’m looking forward to learning the weapons systems!
#dcs #dcsworld #dcsworldgameplay #vr #virtualreality
0:00 Intro
0:10 Not so fancy take off
0:43 Trying to get hang of it
2:03 Let's go lower
3:01 Even lower
4:08 Now really low!
6:05 Approach to landing
7:15 The not so fancy landing
7:36 Outro
#dcs #dcsworld #dcsworldgameplay #vr #virtualreality
0:00 Intro
0:10 Not so fancy take off
0:43 Trying to get hang of it
2:03 Let's go lower
3:01 Even lower
4:08 Now really low!
6:05 Approach to landing
7:15 The not so fancy landing
7:36 Outro
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DirtyRacing Season 26 - Greece/H1 - SS4 Tsiristra Théa - Citroën DS 21
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I'm sticking with the "worst" cars this season too. And I'm not making an exception in the H1 class either, even though the Citroën DS 21 really is the worst, without the quotes. But it was incredibly fun 😀 With this boat, you have to drive round smooth lines, anticipate turns from very far away and practice scandi flicking. #dirtrally20 #dirtrally #dr2 #vr #virtualreality 0:00 Intro 0:09 Stage...
DCS: Current state of WW2 AI - A test dogfight
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I flew a series of test battles with WW2 planes against AI. Here's a one of them. I found that overall, the AI seems to have improved, as I no longer encountered opponents whose planes fly with completely different physics. On the other hand, with some planes, the AI now feels like a fairly easy target. But the changes in AI are heading in the right direction. The setting here is clearly fictio...
DCS: The new Kola summer textures in VR - Short flight with F-14B Tomcat
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The Kola map summer textures were updated in the September update. Definitely a step in the right direction. Not seeing much of the promised performance gain due to terrain engine changes, at least on the Kola map. 0:00 Intro 0:09 Taxi and take off 1:35 Mid altitude and higher altitude 5:17 Low altitude and climb back up 8:03 Outro #dcs #digitalcombatsimulatorworld #digitalcombatsimulator #vr #...
DirtyRacing Season 25 - Argentina/R5 - SS7 Las Juntas
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I decided to drive the "worse" cars for the rest of the season. No big differences in R5 so I chose the Peugeot purely because of its engine idling sound. Didn't get it before start but you can hear it after the stage. And sorry about my face cam, it decided to focus somewhere else just for this stage 😩 #dirtrally20 #dirtrally #dr2 #vr #virtualreality 0:00 Intro 0:08 Stage 6:41 Outro
Lap of Nordschleife - Part 15 - Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti DTM 1995
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The Nordschleife series continues with a new car introduced in RaceRoom's latest update yesterday. The Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI DTM featured a 2.5-liter V6 engine that started with 420 hp and later reached 490 hp. It raced in DTM from 1993 to 1996. During its career, it secured 38 victories, 19 pole positions, and set 42 fastest laps out of 89 starts. Notably, Nicola Larini won the 1993 championshi...
PMDG DC-6 Sunset flight from Alta ENAT to Lakselv ENNA
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I've been a fan of the DC-6 since my childhood, but even more so after seeing Red Bull's DC-6 at an airshow in 2008. The engine starts, takeoff, and the flight itself were spectacular to witness in person. For some reason, I didn't use the PMDG DC-6 much after I bought it. It was during a period when I mostly flew small GA planes, and maybe it also felt a bit complicated. However, now I've been...
EA WRC with Sim-Lab push-pull rally shifter - Leaderboard 4th with Polo WRC 2017
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EA WRC with Sim-Lab push-pull rally shifter - Leaderboard 4th with Polo WRC 2017
DirtyRacing Season 25 - Wales/Grp B RWD - SS7 River Severn Valley
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DirtyRacing Season 25 - Wales/Grp B RWD - SS7 River Severn Valley
DCS: Short flight in Kola winter with F-4E Phantom
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DCS: Short flight in Kola winter with F-4E Phantom
Landing the Zlin Shock Ultra at apron parking square
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Landing the Zlin Shock Ultra at apron parking square
Rennsport Open Beta - VR & Nordschleife!
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Rennsport Open Beta - VR & Nordschleife!
DirtyRacing Season 24 - Scotland/WRC - SS7 Annbank Station Reverse
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DirtyRacing Season 24 - Scotland/WRC - SS7 Annbank Station Reverse
C195 Businessliner test flight at EFHF
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C195 Businessliner test flight at EFHF
EA WRC - Rally Portugal / Viana Do Castelo - SEAT Córdoba WRC
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EA WRC - Rally Portugal / Viana Do Castelo - SEAT Córdoba WRC
Dusk flight over Helsinki - DC-3 OH-LCH
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Dusk flight over Helsinki - DC-3 OH-LCH
DirtyRacing Season 24 - Finland/Grp B RWD - SS1 Hämelahti
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DirtyRacing Season 24 - Finland/Grp B RWD - SS1 Hämelahti
Short test flight with Beech 18 + Denarq mod
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Short test flight with Beech 18 Denarq mod
EA WRC - Rally Mexico / Ortega - Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000
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EA WRC - Rally Mexico / Ortega - Fiat Grande Punto Abarth S2000
DCS: Quick test of Kola map performance in VR
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DCS: Quick test of Kola map performance in VR
MSFS: Testing DHC-4 Caribou on a short grass strip
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MSFS: Testing DHC-4 Caribou on a short grass strip
EA WRC: Official VR is here! - Includes my VR settings
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EA WRC: Official VR is here! - Includes my VR settings
Battle of the twin tails - P-38 vs. 3 x Bf 110
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Battle of the twin tails - P-38 vs. 3 x Bf 110
DirtyRacing Season 24 - Sweden/Grp A - SS5 Hamra
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DirtyRacing Season 24 - Sweden/Grp A - SS5 Hamra
This is the funniest shit ever! - Screaming passengers in MSFS 2020
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This is the funniest shit ever! - Screaming passengers in MSFS 2020
DirtyRacing Season 24 - Wales/R-GT - SS1 Fferm Wynt - Heavy rain
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DirtyRacing Season 24 - Wales/R-GT - SS1 Fferm Wynt - Heavy rain
It's here! ACC Nürburgring Nordschleife!
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It's here! ACC Nürburgring Nordschleife!
Automobilista 2 adds new version of Nürburgring - The Eifel Betonschleife
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Automobilista 2 adds new version of Nürburgring - The Eifel Betonschleife
DC-6B over Svalbard - Test flight with the PMDG DC-6
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DC-6B over Svalbard - Test flight with the PMDG DC-6
Hi only for vr?
If I understand correctly, E-Cores can cause the same thing on pancake as well.
Nice! can we see f16 vs a10
Sadly A-10 is one of the few modules I don't own
Thank you Esa, I applied the 2 last changes you suggested and it really improved frames and smoothness (FSX SE, P3D 4) kiitos 👍
Thank you. I'm glad that the video was helpful.
Awesome
Thanks
Tomcat❤
Yeah, it's great!
Whats you favorite?
It kinda varies, I don't have one fixed favourite over others. But one plane I return to very often is M2000C. It just clicks with me.
It's disgusting how neither Intel or Microsoft have solved this issue and we have to rely on a third party software. I already had the notion Microsoft is garbage, but i had more respect for Intel
To my understanding, you can fairly accuse Intel, Microsoft, and game developers equally for these problems. All of them had a chance to design their products better.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying not exactly. Before E-cores and P-cores, some games ran very well, maybe not DCS, which i had no specs for, but i had, for instance, Mortal Kombat 11 run perfectly, with a slower machine and Win 7, than with my latest PC with lots of ram and a Core i7 127000
Yes, this happens when all three have bad implementation. So Intel could've done their implementation of E- and P-Cores better to begin with, Microsoft could improve how the OS assigns P- and E-Cores to CPU intensive programs and game makers could improve how their particular software handles them. I guess we agree that E-cores are only problem on some games. I run a lot of racing and flight sims and E-cores are only problem in DCS.
I know that tail design, it’s VF-154. Sadly, I can’t say what we actually call that squadron, YT wouldn’t be happy.
Interesting, maybe replace few characters with *'s or something 🙂
Nice 🤟🤟🤟
Thank you 🙏
Ok
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Did you change the sound of the car, If so what car did you change it to?
The sound of the car in game is the default but I did some sound editing for the video. I have long history with recording music so sometimes it's fun to get creative with sim video sounds too 🙂
Can’t you disable e core in bios?
Yes you can, but then you can't use them at all. And if this suits you it's fine. This is just the way to configure them per application.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying ahhh gotcha. Yours def better solution!
I take it this is an intel only product? Are there any useful functions for an AMD processor?
To my knowledge it supports also AMD processors. I haven't ever owned an AMD processor so I'm not familiar with them.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying To my knowledge I can say there is no such thing as E-Cores with AMD. That is just an Intel thing.
@@sinanarts Yes, but Process Lasso supports AMD which was the question.
I followed the steps but PL does not show E cores only 0 to 19 cores my processor is i9-10900 2.8 Ghz
Well, I guess they aren't problem then either? Have you disabled E-Cores in BIOS?
I disabled e cores without any problems
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This is too funny 😭😭
Sadly they've changed the voices a bit now. It's still hilarious but it's not like they're in Blair Witch anymore 🙂
In DCS the thing that finally fixed my stutters was setting the FPS limit to 300 (max) and making sure I wasn't trying to throttle to a target FPS in OpenXRToolkit overlay. Once I'd done that, all my stuttering vanished and it was silky smooth. This was after I'd done the other things this video mentions, so they're also valid.
Haven't had that problem but I guess it's very much possible.
Price for this not finish map is crazy😅😅😅
If it was even 75% finished but for many areas it seems like 25% finished. New standards for early access...
I find on the SA map over the south Chile area & and going low even with trees to 0 it's still jumpy in vr. i9 13900kf, rtx 4090
It's a huge map and I haven't of course flown at all parts of it. So I guess there are worse parts too. The performance was significantly improved after the update on 22nd of February. That made a huge difference in SA + Marianas on my system.
I don't understand why they chose to do this map. Buying one section of the world $60 at a time is not the answer. Thank you for sharing the video though!
Yeah, the map prices are pretty steep. But apart from that I think this is very interesting area. At least it's not sand... But I'm of course biased as I live in Finland 🙂
To be honest, it's the deciduous trees, not pines that look like a realism killer from me. Like, would you put palm trees on the Falklands????
Agreed, that's just bad.
That first frame answered my question. I can’t get steady FPS on Marianas or South Atlantic so Kola is probably not for me yet. You just saved me from pre ordering a map that won’t run well, thank you!
Np.
Performances are not good for me in VR (3080TI 5800x3D 64GB) I've seen a Reddit post where someone is suggesting to reduce the grass, forest and LOD with good results in VR. I haven't tried yet. Don't forget to clear the FXO and metashaders folders
Yeah, probably can reach same fps than on other maps by lowering settings. But I made this comparison on same settings to see how Kola performs vs. other maps.
Doesn't look much better than Caucasus, $70 price tag is a bit steep for this
$56 now in EA but yeah, considering bad performance and worse textures than in preview screenshots, too much.
Quad views on eye tracking VR headsets save the day for fps. I have the QP and the gains are incredible.. what is that performance layer you use to benchmark it?
OpenXR toolkit. I also use the toolkit for supersampling. Much better performance in my tests.
which country is it supposed to be? im guessing norway
The 4 different clips are from: Finland, Finland, Norway, Norway.
4080/ Rift S any you only get 40/80fps? Ouch, that's really bad optimisation. I can get near this framerates (40/60) on MS FS2020 with 4070TI Super/G2 combo at1.5SS over Scandinavia and it looks much better than current Kola map. DCS badly needs new game engine. If ORBX team can't do a better job, noone can.
All other maps are solid 80fps. It's the Kola map that's badly optimized.
flying mach 1 and faster over city is not good, please stay realistic its DCS not tetris.
This video was only about the Kola map performance in VR.
Suggest you go fly MSFS instead, grumpy gramps.
Certainly wouldn’t want blowout those digital polygon ears and windows out.
My eyes says, wait till these map was complete
As a Finn I was naturally interested in this map and will be flying it with reduced settings until it's (hopefully) fixed. But I wanted to do this test for others who are interested in how it performs in VR.
System specs?
i7-14700K/64GB 4080/16GB Rift S
Can anyone tell me which maps offer the best VR performance?
If I had to put them to some order it would roughly be something like this (from best to worst): Caucasus, Persian Gulf, Nevada, Syria, Channel, Sinai, Normandy 2, South America, Marianas, Kola. But note that this is not based on any measurements and is mostly based on my experiences with my previous PC which couldn't run everything as well as my current one. And also DCS has been updated between tests. The 22nd of February 2024 update was a huge improvement in how various maps performed. Marianas used to cause stutters even with my current system before that. After that it's smooth 80 fps.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying Exactly they finally fixed marianas. And thanks for reviewing this map in VR. Your observation and ranking of the rest of the maps is spot on even noticing the gigantic improvement in Marianas with that patch. So this map is a pass for now for me. I trust all your results. Thanks a lot!
@@ahonensimracingsimflying Thanks! I think it's time for a new computer.
Looks bad to be honest
Yeah, there's weird shimmering at Rovaniemi airport buildings and in the grass everywhere. It's not that visible in the captured image but on the HMD it's quite annoying. No other map has that. Somehow the trees in Finland look bad too and the tree rendering distance seems lower than with other maps. I have that setting maxed. But some areas in Norway look pretty good especially from higher altitude. But in general this was a huge disappointment. I was really looking forward to this map, and then we get this. Can only hope they improve things later on.
Looks like fsx when orbx first came out... Extremely disappointed....
I think it looks good
@@mimikyu- yep if it was 5 bucks , its 70 soo
that is also called jammern auf hohem niveau
Damn, you're fast.
Thanks. There always a safety margin in races though.
Thanks for the video. Do you need to have process lasso on and running every time you play dcs, or just do this and then never need to run process lasso again? I have a 14900k, quest 3 open xr, and I randomly get 1-2 fps for like 30 secs to 1 minute. Could be in the main menu or when flying. Just very random, and very annoying. Im guessing the e-cores are the problem? Thanks
Sounds a lot like E-Core problem. You can have PL running at background all the time so it can change the settings according to what application is running. PL's performance cost on my system is practically zero.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying ok thanks. Ill try it out later tonight. But do you need to have process lasso on and running every time you play dcs, or just do this and then never need to run process lasso again?
@@tj0cktj0ck As I said have it running all the time. There's an option to start it up automatically with Windows.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying ah I'm stupid and didn't understand PL was process lasso lol. thanks
@@tj0cktj0ck No problem 🙂
Why is most of it just one person screaming lol
Others have nerves of steel or they have already accepted their fate 🙂
I really enjoy the yak9 in war thunder. May I ask how it performs in il2. Through my assessment, I know it’s a little bit faster than the 109. And turn much better. While you are able to outclimb or out turn the 190.
In my experience Yak-9 can usually outturn 109 G-6 but is ~ equal or worse with earlier 109's. Then there is Yak-9 vs Yak-9T. The 37mm cannon is really powerful but it feels less accurate than the 20mm. Of course when you hit it's pretty much fatal every time. In general Yak-9 feels pretty good in all aspects just like the 109.
Very good driving. I tested this car in Assetto Corsa, and the feeling is incredible. But I was never able to drive it fast with the H-shifter. Your heel toe shifting is amazing also, super difficult to do.
Thank you!
Nice flying
Thanks!
Thougt this was warthunder
Nope, Il-2 with Velikie Luki summer map.
I prefer using ParkControl (from the same people who make Process Lasso), as you can just set it to "prefer performant processors" system wide. I haven't done extensive testing, but it totally rectified the way my system would just suddenly feel like a low end laptop when it decided to prioritize the e-cores and I just had to set it and forget it, no need to setup up each program individually. I think (but again not sure as I haven't done any real comparisons) it's advantageous as it's only setting an affinity for the P-cores, not disabling them, so programs can still use the e-cores for the less demanding stuff.
Yeah, both ProcessLasso and ParkControl feature similar ways of control. I presented here the way to do it with PL.
Do same car @ Bathurst. Had to sub😁
That could actually be a great combo!
F188888888888
Yeah! Amazing plane.
That is indeed some fancy Flying most impressive.
Thank you!
I like the fact that he took his daughter Hostage at 6:00 to read the directions haha
Hah 🙂 You can check the whole video from here: ua-cam.com/video/9rrRCw7ZsEc/v-deo.html
In Process Lasso, you can see at 4:02 that some of your cores are grey. I believe that this means they're parked. There are applications you can use to unpark those cores so they can't idle for eco purposes. I think you can equate it to Chevy engines that shut down the 7th and 8th cylinders to make the engine more fuel efficient, but the downside is when you floor it there's a delay while the "parked" cylinders are reactivated to give you full power. Something to look into.
This happens when you're alt-tabbed to Process Lasso for longer. I've never seen parked cores when DCS is actually running. But yeah, if you want to disable parking, there's a setting in Process Lasso called Induce Performance Mode, which prevents using E-Cores and parking. So far I've preferred the method shown on the video as I sometimes have DCS on the background when eg. setting up recording for videos.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying Perhaps. This is what the Process Lasso FAQ says: If I have installed Process Lasso, do I also need ParkControl? ParkControl offers these additional functions: A real-time system tray icon showing CPU core parking status Easy access to CPU core parking settings Power profile change notifications People have reported that preventing parking on your cores has an even more visible effect than disabling Ecores. I've not had to use it myself, but if your cores are intermittently grey stopping the parking may be worth looking into.
That exact spot from the FAQ you quoted begins with: "You do not need it [ParkControl], but you may choose to also have it installed." From the same FAQ: "If your system does have ‘open’ power profiles, use the Performance Mode of Process Lasso to disable CPU core parking when important applications are running. To do this, right-click on your target application’s process, then select ‘Induce Performance Mode’." But as I said, in my testing core parking has never been an issue when DCS is running. It only happens when it's at background and you're using some other, not performance hungry, software. And then it's actually the desired behaviour. If you find it causing problems, feel free to use any means you want to prevent it.
Wouldn't power management have a maximum performance profile mode that would achieve the same thing ?
I've found that PL's Power Profile "Bitsum Highest Performance" has a good effect on MSFS but in my testing I can't be sure of DCS. I don't say it isn't helpful but I don't make recommendations I can't be sure of.
Hallo, are I am right when i say that I can do this with the Windows-Taskmanager too? What is the advantage of Process Lasso Pro? Thank you for the Video, i will try it on my System/PC. 👍🙂
You have pretty similar processor affinity menu in the Task Manager. But 1) it doesn't show you E-Cores and P-Cores separately, it just shows them all as a list and 2) AFAIK the changes made there are not persistent and you really don't want to do this every time you run DCS/some other sim. So that's why Process Lasso.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying O.K. Thank you for this Update-Info. 👍
Thanks for the video, it helps with the stutters. One question though. You select PCores for DCS and Oculus? And the Ecores for all the rest active processes?
Yeah, just disable E-Cores for DCS and Oculus. Let the rest be as they are. I have been experimenting restricting number of P-Cores to 8 for older sims like RBR. I think it might help with random crashes but I can't say for sure yet.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying thanks mate. Much appreciated. I just started to experiment with process lasso and it does help. I'll try to enable pcores for dcs and oculus later today. Yeah man... So many hours of trial and error
By default both P-Cores and E-Cores should be enabled. And you just want to disable E-Cores.
@@ahonensimracingsimflying understood! 👍
I disabled my E cores in bios awhile ago, but maybe I should do it this way. I've been using PL to stop windows update from launching automatically, which is the only way that works consistently for me.
I haven't heard that the BIOS way would cause anything bad at least on a PC that's dedicated to sims. If you're also using stuff like Adobe software that have lots of background processes I believe it can make a difference. I was using my old PC for lots of other stuff than simracing and I just had scripts to shut down everything unnecessary when using sims.
@ahonensimracingsimflying OH that's good. Yeah I built this PC exclusively for flight simulators and a few games, so I should be good. Which is also why I did away with windows defender a little more than a year ago with no issues 😅
Yeah, I've so far dealt with it by using the exclusions mentioned in the video.
Just a tip, in Process Lasso, also change the Priority Class for DCS to high.
I have tried it but did not get consistent results so I didn't recommend it.
But I can't rate her calls, I don't know Suomi!
I can't find any good translation of Finnish calls by quick googling. And I guess it would be a very long list as there are so many different possible calls. Old school guys used mostly the descriptive notes while modern drivers tend to use number codes. But then there are lots extra words which vary from driver to driver. We had one special call for this stage which was "älä älä". "Älä" itself means "don't cut". But there is a corner with 3 of those orange concrete blocks on inside. Rovanperä's pacenotes are quite interesting as he has a different word for every special condition instead of eg. combining some of the more simple ones. But to remind: calls are always decided by the driver, co-drivers job is to deliver them on time and with good rhythm. And maybe I'm biased but I think she does pretty good job for a 9 year old 🙂 Edit: sorry I just noticed this was a comment to this older video. The special call I mentioned was on our new RBR video: ua-cam.com/video/9rrRCw7ZsEc/v-deo.html
Amazing, future world champ right there! Great that you can share this passion with your daughter! :)
Thank you! It has been lots of fun to do this together. Check also our new video with RBR.