Lincolnshire from above! Humberside to RAF Wittering in the AV-8B Harrier II (MSFS)
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- I know it so well! Flight includes Coningsby flythrough, Holbeach bombing & strafing. Claxby/Belmont/Chain Home landmarks. SRA Approach & VTOL handling at Wittering (including how to make pitch/roll more sensitive). How to fly the Harrier precisely at low level and use of GPS, TACAN, HMD.
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"Having flown around this area a lot during my time in the RAF I decided to take the AV-8B Harrier for a quick tour of Lincolnshire. I'll talk through lots of local landmarks as well as a fly through of RAF Coningsby and Holbeach Air Weapons Range. To finish I fly an SRA and explore the VTOL characteristics of this aircraft model. It also includes a method of making the pitch and roll in the hover more sensitive and therefore more challenging. I hope you enjoy!"
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DC Designs AV-8B (MSFS): www.justflight.com/product/dc...
Orbx GB Central (MSFS): orbxdirect.com/product/gbr-ce...
Cleesthorpes Landmarks (freeware): flightsim.to/file/12817/cleet...
We Love VFR Region 1 (freeware): flightsim.to/file/2605/we-lov...
Powerlines & Solar Farms (freeware): flightsim.to/file/26186/power...
Humberside Airport (freeware): flightsim.to/file/10135/egnj-...
RAF Coningsby (freeware): flightsim.to/file/10045/egxc-...
Holbeach AWR (freeware): flightsim.to/file/10029/raf-h...
📚 CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro & Startup inc GPS, Tacan, Squawk, HMD
02:28 Taxi, takeoff
04:23 Golf Ball aka Claxby Radar aka Wold Top
05:23 Tips for flying precisely at low level
06:05 Belmont Transmitter & the Chain Home EW Radar
07:02 Tacan inbound RAF Coningsby
08:07 Little Nav Map display demo
10:38 Holbeach AWR Bombing & Strafing
13:43 SRA at RAF Wittering
20:21 VTOL & Sensitivity Adjustment
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I would like the set up to be featured as well, its not boring. Configuring the harrier from cold dark is what I was here for tbh as well as things like this water switch your using when landing etc. Its a unique machine and it deserves adding the mundane bits too Chris. Apologies if you have a vid dedicated to this, still looking through your vids.
That Pegasus engine is really amazing. Loads of thrust and a cool whining sound.
They’ve done well with the sounds that’s for sure!
Nicely done. Much fun to watch. I've also noticed that you've gotten much better with your visual editing, particularly the outside views and flybys of the aircraft. Bravo.
Thanks, means a lot! I’ve simplified some aspects while provide a few more unique perspectives. 👍🏻
Grimsby born here, among my earliest memories are watch the Lightnings out of Binbrook and flew into and out of Humberside many times. Great video, full of memories.
That must have been quite a sight! We need a proper Lightning in the sim!
@@cgaviator I was there in 1986 (aged 12) for the final diamond 9. The weather was not cooperative but the takeoff and low fly past noises were unbelievably loud and long. Also I have a vivid memory from primary school of what must have been some air exercise watching Lightnings, Starfighters, Jaguars etc mixing it up overhead. Sparked my lifelong interest in aviation. Thanks again for the video(s).
@@ByronLina that would have been amazing! I got to see the diamond 9 Tornado GR4s, sorry to see them go! Have a great Christmas!
Another very informative video thank you. Love also the sightseeing and history bits as well.
Yeah, it’s nice to know what you’re actually seeing sometimes having used them as features for so long! And thanks 👍🏻
Love your videos, informative and yet still great to watch. 👏
Love the Harrier, really fun to fly.❤
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying it
Remember sitting on the bank watching F111's, Harrier's and A10's at RAF Holbeach, great memories.
Lovely spot for a little role demo!
Me too, I grew up in Sutton Bridge, spent many, many summers at Raf Holbeach, where you got to see everything, Gr5 ( as it was back in 1989) Jags, Tornado, F111, A10, Amx etc. I have just found some pictures of A10 strafing the targets at Raf Holbeach I took circ 89. Also the "plug", which we called Rabbit island was a test structure as part of a scheme to create a barrier across the wash to generate hydro electrical power, never carried through obviously. At low tide you could walk to it, which was super dangerous. Me and a group of teenage friends spent the night on it once, if my parents had ever found out they would have killed me!!!
@@MrWhiteladder61 ah, those are the proper adventures though! 😅
Really good video mate. 👍 I like the mix of outside to inside shots too.
I’m glad, they add so much extra time to recording and editing! 😂
I'm glad you plugged this video using 'the plug', also major bird magnet! Very nice trip down memory lane, thanks :-)
Same, seeing all the usual features really brings it back!
I thoroughly enjoyed this tour around my home county. You've inspired me to recreate this flight myself. Take care
Excellent, pleased to hear it 👍🏻
Awesome stuff as always CG!!😁👍
Thanks 🙏🏻
Very Good job as always.
Pleasure to Watch.
Greetings from france.
Merci beaucoup!
You sold me at towers, my channel all over! Nice one Chris
Lol, I’m really enjoying the extra detail in the scenery
Great to see you here! You, cgaviator, and Ashens are like the holy trinity of British UA-camrs to me at the moment. When I saw the golf ball, I immediately thought you should do a video about it.
@@bwc1976 cheers mate! I really should!
Mr. Cool does it again!
Thank you kindly 😎👍🏻
Another great video ,thanks cgaviator
My pleasure
Supercool Chris! I live a couple of miles from the Holbeach range! 😎
Nice place, bet you get to watch some cool stuff!
Thanks, as ever.
Great stuff as always. You make it look so easy! I make an absolute pig's ear out of most aircraft I try to fly in DCS or IL-2 Sturmovik!
What’s your main issue? Perhaps I could offer some solutions?
@@cgaviator So many issues! It ranges from the technical (getting Tobii setup properly so it doesn't jump all over the place and is smooth) to the practical (eg. stalling and flat spinning in a Fw-190 because I am pulling too hard trying to get lead). I have decided to concentrate my efforts on the Warthog in DCS and try to learn it properly and methodically in the hope that understanding the avionics and techniques will carry over to other planes.
@@Filbert491 I’ve not tried Tobii, I have TrackIR and occasionally VR. Tricky to learn in DCS unless you fly a clean jet. The extra weight will make you work harder. You already know you pull to hard, try keeping max power and pull only to sustain the speed you want and no harder. Speed cross check is important as well as not getting greedy lol! I’m learning the AV8B & F18 in DCS. It’s quite the study!
I worked at RAF Coningsby as a contractor in around 2006
Good vid
Thanks. I was there end of 06 👍🏻
God, I love the puff jet!
It’s great fun!
Thanks Chris, great fun. I need to get my head into this more, having flown a Squirrel for 5 hours. DCS seems to be the way forward. Best wishes
Yup, though this was nice simple fun and sightseeing, I’m also having to work hard with the DCS modules!
DCS has some very very nice rotary experiences on offer - the Huey is a bit old & does a few things helicopters can't really do, and the Gazelle does a *lot* of things a Gazelle can't, but the Mi-8 ( barring going into VRS if you sneeze ) is one of the best sim helicopters out there, and the other newer attack helicopters are nearly as great and as polished an experience - the Hind feels heavy and fast & has the typical wierd mid-late cold war equipment that needs to be worked at - the Apache is a bit more of a modern experience. I'd still get the Huey anyway and even the Gazelle if you're partial to Gazelles.
You don't even really have to fight to have a good flight either, they're all involving just going from A to B. Some are fully multiplayer multi-crew too. Oh, and you can sling-load. Sim sling-loading is quite the experience...
@@Karibanu thank you.
"One thing this sortie will *not* contain is hills!"
Always fun, always informative, always stylish :) keep up the good work. ( would of course be even more stylish if you got hold of some GR9 paint! )
One thing I like doing in the Razbam Harrier is a continuous arc descent to touchdown ( on a pad, just to make it look cooler! ) just as I finally kill forward movement, without any pause to hover anywhere... super hard to pull off smoothly, only think I've done it properly 3 times or so. I can't resist short landing it with a lot of nozzle, though!
That would be sweet but I’m not there yet lol!
@@cgaviator My biggest problem is switching back & forth from helicopters with pull-to-go-up, to the Harrier throttle :D I can't imagine how many problems the original USMC draft had when they took rotary pilots & tried to train them to fly FJs...
Starting to transition on final so by the time you're crossing the threshold your altitude is mostly controlled with the throttle, but you have enough aero for attitude gives some super short landing rolls & a good feeling. No idea what the real short field landing technique is but that at least feels like you have a lot of options.
The road that goes through New York towards Coningsby always amazes me. It’s dead straight for ages.
New York to Coningsby eh!? That's a hell of a road! lol
@@cgaviator lol the village, it’s just outside coningsby
Great video Chris, I never use the water unless I need it.
I’m not sure how much it’s simulated, but can’t hurt to throw it on! 😂
@@cgaviator I have only flown it in VR but if you are overweight you need the extra bit of power and if you used it all up it wont be there when you need it. The thing wont hover if it is too heavy.
That intro - "today on Flight Gear - CGaviator sees Lincolnshire..."
😂 Well it worked ok for TG so…!
Love your vids wish I could do it
No reason why not! Give it a go! Download the flight plan off my website and put auto sequencing on the MFD. Then just follow it 👍🏻
Superb! Really enjoyed this one, Chris! But I like all of your videos!
Would I be right in thinking that you miss fast jet flying..?
Your videos are thoroughly immersive and educational.
Keep up the great work!
Best wishes from Wirral!
Thanks for the kind words! And yes, very much missed! But the sim lets me reminisce in real time! 😄
I enjoyed that a lot! Dont think i'd ever fly the harrier in MSFS though. I've got the Hawk which is a very nice model but just feels wrong not being able to drop or fire anything off them. I will download a lot of the scenery though as I do love GA around the midlands. Cheers again
Yeah, I’ve gotten back into DCS because I miss things going boom!
I have no major issues with how the Harrier was implemented he did a great job, but i hope he continues to tweak it, make it a bit less forgiving and fix some of the weird trim stuff.
I really need to learn how to find and align with runways using instruments, i'm used to using ILS.
I don’t often fly the instrument approaches but it can be fun to refresh the procedures
That clicking sound: you'd clearly set water to "drip"..
😂 apparently it was something with the APU/Gen switch.
Nice vid....I notice u seem to get a better appreciation of speed in MSFS compared to dcs which at 400 knots seems like walking pace
It may be the higher level of scenery detail in MSFS. DCS is a little void of stuff that whips passed
Thanks for another vid. I like the Top Gear style intro. Can I ask you what aircraft types you have flown IRL please? You mentioned turbo props and Hawks. Have you flown front line jets?
I flew Tornado GR4s 👍🏻
We'd have known before he even started a YT channel that he'd flown Harriers, if he had :D
@@cgaviator Tornados are amazing, I can't wait to see those in MSFS!
That's Aggressively stable and powerful huh.
Aggressively!
Excellent as always Chris, of course my burning question is have you flown a genuine harrier my ultimate favourite aircraft?
I wish!
As usual you show how it should be done! My vertical hover is usually very difficult nothing like your intial hover, then you introduce a trick to make it more tricky by setting flaps to auto? Mine is like that always.. Also, where did you get that livery?
Lol, i sim a lot! 😁 Livery was from flightsim . to
What does the "water" in the Harrier do?
Water improves engine thrust by cooling it. Only 60 seconds worth I think. Used for VTOL operations.
@@cgaviator Thanks! Does that mean the Harriers used in airshows were modified?
@@FilNenna they were likely very light on fuel so the extra power from water cooling not required
@@cgaviator 50 imperial gallons of distilled water which at a flow rate of 35 GPM allows for a maximum of 90 seconds of injection.
Love your approach to vfr navigation. Again I would love to know is the flight model somewhat realistic from your experience or knowledge. Also, is flight simming not a bit of a busman’s holiday for you?
Flight model, really couldn’t tell. It’s a different beast ti anything I’ve flown. Anything that hovers in the sim isn’t very realistic. And mostly the models in MSFS don’t have quite enough inertia. And yes for the last bit! 😄 That’s why I don’t fly DCS so much because I have ti study like I would if at work! 😂
My home patch.
Great patch!
If you haven’t already found out, the clicking seems to match the counter, top right of the instrument panel. DME? countdown timer?
I think it was actually the APU/Gen switch that defaulted to on 👍🏻
Hi mate, what is your pc and controls set up? Thank you
Standard setup. Rest of details at link in description 👍🏻
I have always been curious as to what the water does?
Cools the engine, permits extra thrust when required for VTOL
Was the air spoiler glitched? I know sometimes I have to hit the button I mapped to reset the spoiler back to neutral position.
Yes, likely a playback glitch
So how does the auto flaps flying compare to the DCS Harrier handling?
If you ask me, I reckon DCS harrier has found the sweet spot between the two.
Having spent an awful lot of time in the DCS harrier, would you recommend this one? Is it similar enough that everything "Clicks" or does it get into uncanney valley? I'm also a bit concerned about the nozzles since you can't bind different controls to different aircraft in flight simulator.
The nozzles are bound to prop axis I believe. A simple implementation but works fine. I used this one more before I jumped back into DCS. There is some similarity but the real joy of this model in MSFS is that you can use STOVL and tour around at 500kt for some sight seeing!
@@cgaviator Thanks! Does it compare favourably with the F-35? I find that's OK to hover about in to look a tthings before zooming off, although I haven't taken a deeper look into radio navigation and the like in it yet.
@@Parabueto I need fly the F35 some more. The hovering is more fun in the Harrier for sure. But the systems are I think a little better in the F35. And the F35 looks (is modelled) better imo
The clicking is the APU GEN next to the engine start...once ur fired up 100% you have to manually click it off...next time ur flying I bet you'll see the switch glitching trying to shutoff
Aaaah! Yeah, Dean did mention this as the likely cause. I didn’t catch it as I don’t use the APU/GEN switch but it in by default and doesn’t ‘auto off!’
The ticking noise might be because your ignition switch is on "Start".
Could be! 😅
Thats a great vertical landing. Having alot of trouble landing vertically. The aircraft becomes very unstable. I will hopefully get there
Really? Are your flaps in STOVL? Do you have any forward motion? How high are you when you convert from level hover to descending to land?
@@cgaviator yep flaps in stovl, round 300ft.
Think it might be my speed, coming in at round 130kts. Try to control the nose but it all goes pear shaped shortly after.
@@deanolivero2498 strange, are you at low power? I note the handling is 'off' if you reduce the power too much. STOVL flaps I think are good up to 300kt so try setting them earlier.
@@cgaviator thanks mate, i will try that.
OK, I give up, how do you get LittleNavMap into MSFS!! A side note - the Guy who wrote LNM is guilty of false advertising. It should be called MEGA navmap. Nothing "Little" about it. It is utterly brilliant.
Of course, as soon as I pressed send I realised that you probably added to the video in Post. Just because I talk slow doesn't mean I think fast...... duh.
@@fuzzywun lol, it was kind of edited in. I use some OBS options to overlay it into the recording in real time. I wonder if there’s a way to have it in game. Some of the iPad apps may have a screen repeat function.
Ahh, my neck of the woods.
Good woods!
Lincolnshire - where all the locals are related to each other.
Thought that was Norfolk!? Or is that anywhere you’re not from, lol! 😂
@@cgaviator Don't think there is much to choose between any of the swamp dwellers over that side of the country.
Correct I don't originate from either area or from NY.
@@jjsmallpiece9234 😂
No branches in the family tree.
@@AA-xo9uw 😂
Hey I thought I left a comment a bit ago, Did it ever go through? Was it deleted? Just wondering.
Edit: If not, Is there a Email I can message to or Discord to get into contact? I have a collaboration opportunity for CGAviator with GLID Gaming. Your welcome to check out the channel. We would love to have a Pilot in the team!
Sorry, I've not seen a comment. If there were links etc YT may have auto deleted it. cgaviator@outlook.com or discord cgaviator#5806
ticking noise is about once per second...... maybe a stop-watch?
I've seen that as a bug that comes from having landing and taxi light switches on when an aircraft only has one that toggles either way
@@logancase7436 interesting, I’ll mention it to the developer!