This particular airplane SX-DAD has quite an interesting history, including having been hijacked once in the 60s. Its career continued until 1986 and it appears to have been in storage since.
You really don’t need to mess with the throttle like we do in the jets. You can keep the BMEP gauges around 80 with flaps 40. If you fall below the glide slope, reduce the flaps to 30 until you’re back on line. If you then get above the glide slope, go to flaps 50 to bring it down.. all without touching the throttle. It’s a bit of a balancing act. Really quite an incredible design feature since the piston engines don’t like lots of throttle changes. Glad you’re enjoying the airplane, though. It is quite a bit of fun learning to navigate the old fashioned way!
Downloaded this today and flew earlier in VR with my GTX1070. And it was fab, good FPS (which for me on that GPU is 25 and up) and very impressive. Love it.
In the tutorials the PMDG person said that they were planning to add the smoke effects on engine start. Also the flap lever loks like the beak of a duck or goose.
Purchased this on release day. Had a quick chance to load her up into MSFS. Just had to listen to those engines. Sadly gardening and family put paid to getting airborne. I was really chuffed you had time to show us the DC-6 in all her glory, thank you. Huge respect to the PMDG team… simply stunning!
PMDG has 19 tutorials on this thing. About half done watching them, next thing I knew is I bought it.. 🤣🤣🤣 It is study level and something to goof with and enjoy. I didn't crash the second time I flew it...... Amazingly well designed...
Excellent demonstration, professionally done. Aircraft is so well presented and I love flying it. Will try an ILS approach next which is very well domonstrated. Well done.
Flew in one of theese in the 60' as a boy home from charter vacation in Italy. The crew could not start one of the engines and ran up and down the runway and used wind to get it going. We had to bord , engines running and a man became quite hysterical and demanded a parachute. Very upsetting if you are 9 years old. Came home in one piece, though. Feel old though looking at the technology.
A really excellent video, so nice to see top quality add-on aircraft starting to come out! One of the things I love about this channel is that while you are an Airbus pilot and do so much teaching about how the A320/321 works, you're also not afraid to fly the 737-200, 757, A350, the 787 like in your last video, and in GA the Piper and so on- I guess the principles of flight apply whether you're in a Piper, this DC6, or a modern jet like the A350 / B787.... Keep up the good work, and give the FO some Dreamies for me :)
love the level of detail on an older aircraft :) looking forward to there 737 ive heard they are working on. was the registration a nod for fathers day? lol
Great plane, great first impressions. It really is crying out for a Padday/Manta livery! Really looking forward to getting my teeth into this one and some future livestreams! Many thanks 👍
Great video mate! You're very easy to listen to and very informative. I bought the DC-6 last night and spent an hour trying to get an engine started but to no avail. I followed your method exactly but my engines would start under the boost pump but would just cut out after 5 seconds. Presumably this is fuel not working but I tried with the fuel leaver both lean and rich. Cheers
PMDG added a video for energy management on final. Go and have a look I think you'll find it relevant. I think you should have been more like 110 @ flaps 50 on touchdown.
Love the dc6, a few of them here at my home airfield (FAGM) and a few dc4's, one still flying ! Lots of cats at the airfield too, they must like the radial engines ? Haha
Quick question mate. If the engineer is controlling the throttles, where do you put your physical throttles? Do you leave them at idle? Half way? Full throttle? EDIT: @40:00 I think you answered my question. It doesn't matter where you have your physical throttles as the Simulator takes full control, locking you out. When you take out the engineer you get full control back. This is genius. PMDG knocked it out of the park, and across the continent with the DC6. I'm blown away. They have firmly moved the goal posts, and put all other developers front and centre. There can be no more excuses now about the SDK.
Hi Chris thanks for watching. You are absolutely right, it locks out the throttles so it doesn't matter (whilst using the engineer). However I try to put them in roughly the right place for the phase of flight incase I turn off the engineer and forget. I agree they have done a fantastic job!
When the effects system arrives with the Xbox release I am really hoping PMDG is quick to add the smoke to those radials. The smoke and angry growling is what makes watching these monsters start so cool.
I think the touchdown speed speed is around 100 - 110 knots. And I never seen prop reverse on taxi but always after touchdown. Taxi would be ordinary pushback. In those times there were ramps only so the planes would have the “gate” on the left side and did not need pushback.
Had my first flight in this b autiful aeroplane today. I think I broke the link to the gyro-pilot at some point as couldn't turn it off! Really looking forward to learning this one in lots more detail. Thanks for another great video which helped tick a few questions off the list!
You usually have aradial engine runnign at about 1000 rpm when just sitting on the apron. Also you do not idle a radial. it is really bad for the engine. Also the really bad vibrations is called harmonising. This damages the engines really badly.
Believe it or not full flap of 50 is to be set for landing. Other than that nice job, it's a lot to take in for sure and im sure after a few flights you will be ahead of thr curve
You can click on the coin-like button between the red and blue lights of the giro-pilot to center the turning-knob... They did not show this on the tutorials-video's of PMDG(?)
love the dc6, just wish msfs would add a bit more immersion especially on landing as its dead smooth on the way to the runway and butter smooth rolling down the runway to final.. should be bumping about, rattling, seats squeaking :) etc as its a 70 year old plane.. goto youtube and search : DC-6 Final Approach & Landing - Cockpit View
As nice an aircraft it is I do wonder why they prioritised this aircraft over their more popular aircraft such as the 737 I know there’s probably a reason but couldn’t tell you why
The only thing about PMDG is that they make their models look way too good they should included a beat up version of those deliveries, just a bit more of ware and tear.
Till the official replay comes theres a free addon for replay that you can download. You then press record to capture your landings/etc. That's what he is using.
Hi Mark, it is on the far left of the front instrument panel just below the clock. You can see it during the approach phase, it is a relatively modern instrument. Hope this helps!
I've tried it a few times now in tutorial 1, I don't know what I am doing wrong but I have only been able to get to get it to lock onto the Localiser and follow the ILS once. I dunno if the tutorial is weirdly worded, out of order, its missing something or if something is bugging in the sim or if I am missing something but after you do the descent and do the turn to HDG 020 it just doesn't re-engage when you switch the Gyro back to Localiser and the CDI needles just stay and don't move. Even if I force it to turn and head over to the airport following the track on the GPS and the CDI needles show it it just doesn't capture, even if the GPS is set to VLOC with the correct frequency active, have the AP set to Approach and the needles are moving about on the CDI.
@@shinkicker404 thanks, are they just written pdf tutorials or any interaction in the SIM itself? The UA-cam tutorials by PMDG are very helpful and well done.
@@tanberjan yeah, but there is a couple errors in it they need to (and will) fix. For example In the descent phase for tutorial 1, you kind of need to leave the GPS on until just before HIPRO, then switching it to VLOC to capture the ILS, but it makes slowing down harder… I’d say you want to descend to 2400 feet, rather than 4000 or whatever it is and use as long as you can to slow the plane down before the final approach (plane doesn’t have spoilers, so need to use flaps and engine power). Also, the GPS can be a little buggy to capture an ILS, need to press the CDI button to switch back to GPS and then back to VLOC again to make t work.
Inexcusable 🤦♂️😂 A bit over the top mate lol. When particle effects are added I'm sure engine smoke will be a part of that, but I'll be sure to mention it in the next dev stream.
@@MrBillUp Particle effects are part of the immersion just like replays and flybies are missing too but all Asobo care about is pleasing the sight seers flying around looking at scenery and poi's yes I expected more out of the box from a more advanced game/sim. FSX had effects on day 1 sorry but I don't watch dev streams whats the point .
@@fsx-legend4602 If it wasn't for Bing Maps, and the advancements they have made in scenery and topographical data, we would not have a MSFS2020. The most advanced flight simulator ever released to the general public. So yes, they concentrated their efforts with the visualisations, and have slowly added more and more over the past year. You would know all this if you made a point of watching the dev streams. And comparing FSX with MSFS2020 is just silly. They are not in the same software hemisphere. I get the feeling when particle effects have been added, you will find something else to complain about. Some people are just never happy.
Don't you guys think there should be more wear and tear in the cockpit ? I mean it's an ancient plane and unless this is modeling its state decades ago, it just looks too clean to me. I want to see paint chipping off, smears, dust, scratches and lots of it in such an old plane. It would only give it more character.
This particular airplane SX-DAD has quite an interesting history, including having been hijacked once in the 60s. Its career continued until 1986 and it appears to have been in storage since.
Very interesting, thanks for the information and for watching!
I wouldn't recommend going on the videos tab when looking up "SX-DAD".
@@northern830 lmao wtf
@@northern830 I'VE to clean my browser history now.
Who hijacked it?
You really don’t need to mess with the throttle like we do in the jets. You can keep the BMEP gauges around 80 with flaps 40. If you fall below the glide slope, reduce the flaps to 30 until you’re back on line. If you then get above the glide slope, go to flaps 50 to bring it down.. all without touching the throttle. It’s a bit of a balancing act.
Really quite an incredible design feature since the piston engines don’t like lots of throttle changes.
Glad you’re enjoying the airplane, though. It is quite a bit of fun learning to navigate the old fashioned way!
Almost like direct lift control on the Lockheed L1011 TriStar and the Grumman F-14 Tomcat!
Waking up to nearly an hour of my favourite Airbus pilot flying *not* an Airbus; great way to start the morning!
Very nice looking retro plane in MSFS nice to see some older piston aircraft in the flight simulator great video!
Yes it's a nice change of style to fly it! Thanks for watching!
As these planes are scrapped and flown less and less, it's nice to have digital archives of them.
Awesome video. I can't imagine the amount of work from modeling to coding that goes into each one of these plane models. Simply amazing.
Love how those engines PURRRR.... :) The DC6 was one of my favs back in the day.
Downloaded this today and flew earlier in VR with my GTX1070. And it was fab, good FPS (which for me on that GPU is 25 and up) and very impressive. Love it.
Thanks for watching and the info Mark! I have had good fps so far too, will have to try VR soon!
In the tutorials the PMDG person said that they were planning to add the smoke effects on engine start. Also the flap lever loks like the beak of a duck or goose.
Asobo should've hired these guys to do all of the planes in MSFS.
Can't wait to see them do more!
Great 1st look! My dad used to fly these in the US Navy during Korean War and after.
Purchased this on release day. Had a quick chance to load her up into MSFS. Just had to listen to those engines. Sadly gardening and family put paid to getting airborne. I was really chuffed you had time to show us the DC-6 in all her glory, thank you.
Huge respect to the PMDG team… simply stunning!
PMDG are world class with their modelling. I loved the 737 800 & 900 in FSX. Payware but worth it.
Their DC-6 is mostly just eye candy. No realistic piston engine modeling. A2A is the best when it comes to radial engines.
@@FlatOutMatt You'll get to my level one day king, keep it up
Been waiting for this one🥳
I hope you enjoyed it!
@@320SimPilot It's been a very informative video, super high quality content as always, thank you!
PMDG has 19 tutorials on this thing. About half done watching them, next thing I knew is I bought it.. 🤣🤣🤣 It is study level and something to goof with and enjoy. I didn't crash the second time I flew it...... Amazingly well designed...
Excellent demonstration, professionally done. Aircraft is so well presented and I love flying it.
Will try an ILS approach next which is very well domonstrated. Well done.
Flew in one of theese in the 60' as a boy home from charter vacation in Italy. The crew could not start one of the engines and ran up and down the runway and used wind to get it going. We had to bord , engines running and a man became quite hysterical and demanded a parachute. Very upsetting if you are 9 years old. Came home in one piece, though. Feel old though looking at the technology.
This is so beautiful, i'm glad my graphics card is capable of playing back this video !
You chose SX-DAD because ... it's Father's Day!
Sometimes things work out! Thanks for watching.
A really excellent video, so nice to see top quality add-on aircraft starting to come out! One of the things I love about this channel is that while you are an Airbus pilot and do so much teaching about how the A320/321 works, you're also not afraid to fly the 737-200, 757, A350, the 787 like in your last video, and in GA the Piper and so on- I guess the principles of flight apply whether you're in a Piper, this DC6, or a modern jet like the A350 / B787.... Keep up the good work, and give the FO some Dreamies for me :)
love the level of detail on an older aircraft :) looking forward to there 737 ive heard they are working on. was the registration a nod for fathers day? lol
I jump on this airplane like 30 min ago
my jaw still on the ground
They could sell this 120 I would not even care !
This is a stunning model !!!
Fantastic in-depth review. This really looks like a wonderful addon and I think I'll be buying it when payday comes around :)
Put it on the credit card, then pay it off come pay day, worth every penny!
Great video... This just looks like a stunning aircraft to fly and I can’t wait to do some flights between Brisbane and Sydney/Melbourne 🇦🇺🤙
Love this plane but I don't see how I could ever fly it. Happy to watch you do it!!
Not as difficult as you might think - especially with the AI engineer helping you out
16:11 my favourite part 😂
Thumbs up for the Olympic livery !!!
Greetings from Greece !
I've just bought this, I can't wait to try it out.
Great plane, great first impressions. It really is crying out for a Padday/Manta livery! Really looking forward to getting my teeth into this one and some future livestreams! Many thanks 👍
16:01 Awww, you got a fluffy co-pilot.
Nobody can resist Pan Am. First livery I used for this was the Pan Am one. Looking forward to some flights down to the Caribbean.
The video i have been waiting for :D Incredible aircraft, just so hard to land lol
Thanks, hope you enjoyed it! Yes I have a lot to learn about landing it!
Great video mate! You're very easy to listen to and very informative. I bought the DC-6 last night and spent an hour trying to get an engine started but to no avail. I followed your method exactly but my engines would start under the boost pump but would just cut out after 5 seconds. Presumably this is fuel not working but I tried with the fuel leaver both lean and rich. Cheers
Great video!
Thanks James!
PMDG added a video for energy management on final. Go and have a look I think you'll find it relevant. I think you should have been more like 110 @ flaps 50 on touchdown.
Awesome plane. I love these older planes. Imagine if someone created concorde? That would be amazing!
It is a beautiful aircraft for sure
Nice Flying!!! Think i will wait for the PMDG B737-777-747. Thanks for a very nice vidoe!!
Love the dc6, a few of them here at my home airfield (FAGM) and a few dc4's, one still flying ! Lots of cats at the airfield too, they must like the radial engines ? Haha
Quick question mate. If the engineer is controlling the throttles, where do you put your physical throttles? Do you leave them at idle? Half way? Full throttle?
EDIT: @40:00 I think you answered my question. It doesn't matter where you have your physical throttles as the Simulator takes full control, locking you out. When you take out the engineer you get full control back. This is genius.
PMDG knocked it out of the park, and across the continent with the DC6. I'm blown away. They have firmly moved the goal posts, and put all other developers front and centre. There can be no more excuses now about the SDK.
Hi Chris thanks for watching. You are absolutely right, it locks out the throttles so it doesn't matter (whilst using the engineer). However I try to put them in roughly the right place for the phase of flight incase I turn off the engineer and forget. I agree they have done a fantastic job!
I believe in the pmdg tutorial they mentioned just leave them at idle positions
When the effects system arrives with the Xbox release I am really hoping PMDG is quick to add the smoke to those radials. The smoke and angry growling is what makes watching these monsters start so cool.
to center the gyro pilot you can just click the click spot in front of it.
I think the touchdown speed speed is around 100 - 110 knots. And I never seen prop reverse on taxi but always after touchdown. Taxi would be ordinary pushback. In those times there were ramps only so the planes would have the “gate” on the left side and did not need pushback.
For reference, the gyropilot has roll center button on top of the black wheel.
What a fun video
Super coooool!!!
A great add-on aircraft. 👍
BRAVO Sir !!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you very much.
Very nice.
Great video of my home town!
Very informative, thank you!
Had my first flight in this b autiful aeroplane today. I think I broke the link to the gyro-pilot at some point as couldn't turn it off! Really looking forward to learning this one in lots more detail. Thanks for another great video which helped tick a few questions off the list!
28:01 Why does the mountain in the background look like a plane? 🤣🤣🤣
You usually have aradial engine runnign at about 1000 rpm when just sitting on the apron. Also you do not idle a radial. it is really bad for the engine. Also the really bad vibrations is called harmonising. This damages the engines really badly.
Believe it or not full flap of 50 is to be set for landing. Other than that nice job, it's a lot to take in for sure and im sure after a few flights you will be ahead of thr curve
Robert has made such a nice video about the landings and flap management, but apparently nobody has watched it.
It's in the tutorial document too, at least that you'll want to be below 30, and crossing the threshold at 105.
You can click on the coin-like button between the red and blue lights of the giro-pilot to center the turning-knob... They did not show this on the tutorials-video's of PMDG(?)
Thank you for this. excellent Video...as always. Do you use a replay tool? which one?
Nice tail number for fathers day
lol
Great spot!
Love the South African (afrikaans) accent of the engineer.
Fantastic vid thanks really enjoyable. Hope one of the third party software outfits do a VC10 simulation, now there's a real retro gem..
takes a real chad to be able to fly this = SX-DAD
Thank you sir! I subscribed!
I only need one thing . The original Olympic dc6 livery was in a darker blue and the letter on the wings were black
The engine start order is 3 4 2 1.
love the dc6, just wish msfs would add a bit more immersion especially on landing as its dead smooth on the way to the runway and butter smooth rolling down the runway to final.. should be bumping about, rattling, seats squeaking :) etc as its a 70 year old plane..
goto youtube and search : DC-6 Final Approach & Landing - Cockpit View
Great livery !
What, no brake-to-vacate? 🤣 They have done a superb job, as we expect from PMDG.
watch the tutorial videos from the dev at PMDG. 😉
i love your content mate
Great plane, great video. Thanks. Oh, but the ads are a bit over the top, every few minites. 😎
comment for the algorithm. great plane and vid
dieses flugzeug mit GSX :)
What is your pc spec this look so beautiful...
Visual model is quite low res, seems they just ported it across.
Great video. Is this one from PDMG considered study-level ?
Yes. Everything works. This is 100% study level.
Can we buy this soon also inside the flight simulator store it self?
How can I get the subtitles when the mouse is on an instrument to be black and simple like yours?
Edit: I mean the tooltips
Dear 320 Sim Pilot, may I ask, how did you do the long flyby shot at the start of this video ?
what do you think about the flight model? Pmdg import its own flight model or use the flight model of msfs 2020?
Doesnt Buffalo Air fly the DC-6?
We later flew the DC 6 in Buffalo colours!
Please tell me I am not the only one who waited till there third flight before removing the gust lock! No, just me then. 😂
Are you using the drone for the fly over in the begining??
3.2/5 63 reviews on marketplace. Why the low rating???? There must be good reason ?
fully functional?? as in xplane?
How did those planes navigate when crossing the Atlantic before GPS was implemented? Only using the compass?
Inertial navigation and shooting stars, plotting on a map.
As nice an aircraft it is I do wonder why they prioritised this aircraft over their more popular aircraft such as the 737 I know there’s probably a reason but couldn’t tell you why
I can't get an answer to this question. Does this aircraft have a heading bug?
No
@@iancaesar427 Thank you
The only thing about PMDG is that they make their models look way too good they should included a beat up version of those deliveries, just a bit more of ware and tear.
Hello, can pmdg dc6 control by xbox controller? thank you
What do you use for replay?
Does the fuel/load manager actually change the weight and fuel in the sim itself or just on the tablet?
In the sim/airframe. When you adjust them you can see the plane sinking/moving as the weight as added.
Nice video, how to see the replay of the landing in the game? How do I do that?
Till the official replay comes theres a free addon for replay that you can download. You then press record to capture your landings/etc. That's what he is using.
Indiana Jones theme song playing in my head for some reason...
So where did they hide the DME?
Hi Mark, it is on the far left of the front instrument panel just below the clock. You can see it during the approach phase, it is a relatively modern instrument. Hope this helps!
@@320SimPilot Got it thanks.
Where can you download the plane?
I've tried it a few times now in tutorial 1, I don't know what I am doing wrong but I have only been able to get to get it to lock onto the Localiser and follow the ILS once. I dunno if the tutorial is weirdly worded, out of order, its missing something or if something is bugging in the sim or if I am missing something but after you do the descent and do the turn to HDG 020 it just doesn't re-engage when you switch the Gyro back to Localiser and the CDI needles just stay and don't move. Even if I force it to turn and head over to the airport following the track on the GPS and the CDI needles show it it just doesn't capture, even if the GPS is set to VLOC with the correct frequency active, have the AP set to Approach and the needles are moving about on the CDI.
Where are the tutorials located in the game for the DC-6?
@@tanberjan C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community\pmdg-aircraft-dc6\Documentation
@@shinkicker404 thanks, are they just written pdf tutorials or any interaction in the SIM itself? The UA-cam tutorials by PMDG are very helpful and well done.
@@tanberjan yeah, but there is a couple errors in it they need to (and will) fix. For example In the descent phase for tutorial 1, you kind of need to leave the GPS on until just before HIPRO, then switching it to VLOC to capture the ILS, but it makes slowing down harder… I’d say you want to descend to 2400 feet, rather than 4000 or whatever it is and use as long as you can to slow the plane down before the final approach (plane doesn’t have spoilers, so need to use flaps and engine power). Also, the GPS can be a little buggy to capture an ILS, need to press the CDI button to switch back to GPS and then back to VLOC again to make t work.
Asobo needs to add smoke effects to the engines like they were in FSX, ASAP this is inexcusable. Lovely aircraft its a typical product from PMDG.
Inexcusable 🤦♂️😂 A bit over the top mate lol. When particle effects are added I'm sure engine smoke will be a part of that, but I'll be sure to mention it in the next dev stream.
@@MrBillUp Particle effects are part of the immersion just like replays and flybies are missing too but all Asobo care about is pleasing the sight seers flying around looking at scenery and poi's yes I expected more out of the box from a more advanced game/sim. FSX had effects on day 1 sorry but I don't watch dev streams whats the point
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@@fsx-legend4602 If it wasn't for Bing Maps, and the advancements they have made in scenery and topographical data, we would not have a MSFS2020. The most advanced flight simulator ever released to the general public. So yes, they concentrated their efforts with the visualisations, and have slowly added more and more over the past year. You would know all this if you made a point of watching the dev streams.
And comparing FSX with MSFS2020 is just silly. They are not in the same software hemisphere. I get the feeling when particle effects have been added, you will find something else to complain about. Some people are just never happy.
what playback mod you are using plz?
Maybe you can make a suggestion 2 PDMG 2 lower their prices.
God please no, its the only way were ever gonna get P3D quality addons in MSFS.
@@mememachine5244 @50% the price of msfs de luxe 4 ONE plane , they can keep it. And slove it. As they re bout 2 find out
@@cristitomy2510 Dont buy it then.
The vast majority of planes in MSFS are unflyable for simmers.
@@mememachine5244 yes , mimi, brilliant minds think alike. I'll let u buy 2
can i get a link to this aircarft please id love to try this plane out
Wrong start procedure! Mixture must stay on off until engine starts . For starting you use primer.
Why does the manual that PMDG made for this aircraft say to set the Mixture to Auto-Rich before start?
Don't you guys think there should be more wear and tear in the cockpit ? I mean it's an ancient plane and unless this is modeling its state decades ago, it just looks too clean to me. I want to see paint chipping off, smears, dust, scratches and lots of it in such an old plane. It would only give it more character.