I just wanted to tell you that I think you are on a totally different level compared to most other MSFS2020 content creators. Very informative and easy to understand. Regards from a glider pilot in Norway.
+1 here. You have a natural talent for teaching, and always perfectly prepared, illustrated an documented. Result is we really understand things and progress anytime you release a new content :)
I just want to say as a fellow pilot and a live streamer, this video series took a lot of planning, practicing and reshooting so we can digest it and simply say "well done". Many hours of figuring out how to say this simply, how to display that accurately, how to draw a simple diagram to make it clear. We are seeing years of experience and thought go into this. Microsoft should hire him to replace the foolish tutorials built-in to the game.
I got my private in C152 back in 2001. Haven’t flown a small plane IRL for 9 years and I miss it a lot. MSFS and your great tutorials are bringing back lots of good memories including practice at some very short fields (so I was ready for a short field takeoff on my check ride). None were quite THIS short though. Very well presented. What a great training tool this sim is. As well as so much fun.
I just want to thank you, Squirrel, for all of these remarkable UA-cam videos you've created for Microsoft Flight Sim. Your recorded tutorials and destination flights are simply the best out there and your delivery of the content is unmatched in my opinion. Really well done, sir. I know I'm a little late to the party, but frankly your videos have inspired me so I've been busy the last few days watching and saving all of your Flight Sim playlists. I look forward to using them as a sort of refresher course to help me get back in the virtual cockpit again. It's been a long time since my last MSFS flight (12 years?). With the consoles finally showing up in the marketplace and prices and availability finally leveling off to where they should be, it looks like I'll be going with an Xbox Series X setup. I tell you what, with nothing but genuine respect for the PC flight sim community, their contributions and commitment to their hobby, and the time, labor and love that many of them put into their homemade, custom computers (I built one myself for Flight Simulator 98 and Falcon 4.0 just 24 years ago), this 69 year old retiree can hardly wait to fire up this beautiful current version of Microsoft Flight Simulator on an Xbox console! Who would have ever thought we'd see that happen, right?!? Thank you again, Squirrel, for your contribution to the flight sim community with your excellent videos! I very much appreciate your efforts and I wish you the best!
Hey Squirrel, great Tutorial Series. Is there any chance that you continue the series with lessons in Autopilot Navigation, ILS Approach etc. would love to see that, no other tutorial series is so good to follow yet. PLEASE DO MORE VIDEOS!!! here
Also a good rule when calculating anything with flying is to use the worst case for best results rule. Meaning always use the calculation or numbers that are more restricting. If your between 2300lb and 2100lb and your not sure you can calculate the middle ground, just go with 2300lb. Trying to figure out how much fuel you need and not totally sure, use whatever numbers in your calculation that make you need more fuel. Basically, always play it safe and never cut it close.
I am current serving military aircrew, and having been through ground school I never fully understood Vx and Vy until you explained it like that in this video. I have to say for anyone who is a non-aviator watching this, this level of tuition is really excellent and unfortunately is not often achieved to such a standard. Top class videos that I think a lot of people will benefit from!
Hi. These tutorials are so helpful to a newbie like myself. Like all good tuition, they are valuable when you go back to the early lessons after having made progress. You may have done this already and I have missed it, but it would be useful (certainly to me) if you took us through the Microsoft flight tutorials and explained "on the hoof". Two areas that would benefit are "Deadstick Landing" and "Landing Without Elevator", which I know present unrealistic difficulties for us beginners. Keep up the good work!
These tutorials are great! Looks like you have not done one in a while...I hope you begin doing them again soon. I have watched them all at this point.
One thing to point out that even many real world pilots don't know or forget to factor in is the fact that takeoff performance data is provided in the form of pressure altitude (based on ISA: 1013hPa at sea level) - which is not the same as your AMSL (altimeter reading). This is extremely important on days when it is particularly hot or a particularly low pressure weather system is overhead, where the aircraft performance will be massively reduced & thus a longer takeoff distance is required. Remembering to calculate your pressure altitude at the takeoff airfield will correct for this and potentially save a bit of a disaster in more extreme climates than the UK
Yeah Squirrel! This was great. I love how your videos are more focused on the real world of flying, vs. just another sim video. Then, you use the sim to illustrate. Very helpful and inspiring for those of us who actually want to learn to fly one day. This is great! Thank you so much! Now, I want MSFS to offer a glider so I can fly it at this location lol.
I think, with that, it will be in another life, it's going to make me skint buying the flight controls, lol (when they eventually come back in stock due to this CV19 crap)
As a flight instructor I love the realism you out into simulation , however you are using a Cessna 172 model N performance chart for the Cessna 172sp, the SP has a more powerful engine and short field take offs are done with 10 percent flaps . Other then that good stuff as usual !
i do believe fight instructors like yourself log the most hrs in 172s... have you ever been in 2 different 172s (same model but heavily used with a few engine rebuilds) that has the same performance??? cause i remember my 1st flight school had like 8 of the 172s and we as the students knew the faster ones from the slower ones and we was actually trying to book the faster ones for our flight sessions (i was luck enough to learn on how to recover from a stall and recover from a spin around the same time, there is nothing like going into a spin at around 1,500ft only to recover at like 600ft as a student)
dunhillsupramk3 absolutely, I’ve been in the model n, m , and sp models of the 172, I absolutely agree In regards to certain lycoming io 360l2a (engine) based SPs feeling absolutely different in regards to take off and climb power, I’d assume that could be based on the tach hours and as you said perhaps an older engine vs a rebuild etc, however the usual case is down to the aircrafts equipment adding differential in the empty Weight , I know at my former school we had a few with air conditioning and other with a variations in the avionics etc . You’d be surprised what a few extra pounds feels like in those little things, spinning at minimum maneuver altitude must have been quite the thrill ride haha
Thanks again Squirrel, I’m so glad you went and did your ppl. It is paying off is spades with these clear, easily digestible lessons. At 66 on a pension ppl is one life gaol I won’t achieve but your lessons and msfs are a brilliant alternative for me. Thanks again.
Such a nice tutorial Video set...Beautiful rounded voice, very patiently explaining all aspects of the subject, not a hint of hauteur in the voice but a very friendly calm voice telling how to do things..., let me say the most astonishingly and beautifully made video and voice I have ever seen/heard! One may tend to take it for granted that it was made easily, casually, but no, it must have taken a huge amount of planning and trials to come up with this presentation! Thanks for the work, highly appreciated.
Awesome mate. Great explanations and shown in a way a layperson can understand. I can attest to the fact that I am twice the FS Pilot I was after watching these 11 videos (especially the last five or so). You're a legend, online teacher extraordinaire! Thanks for making my Covid lockdown that much more enjoyable, all the way from Melbourne, Australia!! Take care and look after yourself and family. Tom
Thanks Paul, that adds a whole new dimension (and explains a few issues I had with trees on some runways). The simulation is very sophisticated really, that a few degrees of outside temperature will actually have an effect. I was using OnAir for a while, and of course you are always carrying a full load, so this becomes important.
Great series, I think I watched each tutorial at least twice. Thanks for the amazing and clear explanations. As a new flight sim player I really wanted to understand the basic concepts of flight and this tutorial series was just perfect for me! Will there be an episode 12 sometime soon hopefully??
Hey FYI this is not in the tutorial playlist any more, there are only the first 10, so I didn't even know this existed until I randomly searched for it.
Excellent Squirrel! There have been a lot of comments regarding the flight model of the 172 - I think this video really highlighted that it isn't complete garbage. I am looking forward to more accurate versions of the 172 especially the steam gauge version but again the Asobo version is pretty good.
Good comment Roy. Millions of current pilots use it for staying sharp and trying things. Practicing exactly what Squirrel is showing us and using the POH as we would in a real plane. I used previous versions of flight simulator all through my real pilot training back in the 90s and this model is better than way back then. The scenery is eye candy and the real distraction but the flight models rival or better Xplane, which was the professional pilot's choice. If the plane didn't fly like the real thing, pilots wouldn't be using them. By the way, you can use a product like Remote Flight Server to use an ipad with steam gauges even with the G1000 plane, then use the main screen for out the windshield.
Looking forward to a complementary discussion on short field landings. In real life arguably the most important ability is to understand when to abort an imperfect landing, go around and try again.
Well this was the tutorial that I didn’t realize I needed 😉 Really interesting stuff, loving these tutorials. Could we PLEASE have a tutorial on the planes that have the variable pitch propellers and how to use it? I think that’s what it’s called. Would be so helpful and no one else seems to be covering that. Thanks so much!
Great videos. I'm a real beginner of MSFS 2020 and I've never flown a plane before. I'm really enjoying your videos but after #12 this tutorial series stopped. Hope you get back to this soon :-)
Microsoft may just sue you for copyright infringement. Your drawn up plane looks exactly like the plane in the very first version of Flight Simulator ;-)
Harris Hill. Home of the national soaring museum. If you’re nearby take a visit. Take a glider flight. Airfield is atop a hill and great to have the ground drop away on take off
thecorporatepilotdad yes man It is the best feeling ever. after every flight I sleep happy! I am looking forward to change career and to be a commercial pilot, I am 40 years old, its my dream since I was 5 years old, it took me too long but I am not giving up on it 👨✈️
squirrel, there was a ruler tool. i don't know if anyone else said this, but it was right there - where you select all of your pens and pencils, there's a ruler tool!
I recon these kind of takeoffs require a proper yoke or at least a hotas joystick to execute. My “on the coach” console controller approach has hit its limits here. :)
HI Squirrel, loved this one like i loved all the other ones. Great work, please keep it up. As a suggestion, I would really like to see a tutorial on how to navigate using VOR NDB etc. - maybe that‘s something you can do? Cheers from Germany!
I haven't flown as pilot for over 30 years, but watching these videos sure get the jucies flowing! Grea video and explanation of the different flight management details! Is 64 too old to start fliomg again (150, 152, 172s)? I am healthy with no major health issues!
I would like to add something. At least in the simulator you, can start the takeoff roll without flaps to eliminate the extra drag, then at 30~35 knots drop 10 dagrees of flaps and takeoff :) This way you will have more IAS and more lift when flaps are at 10. :) I used to do that for every very short takeoffs in FSX :D
this is a great technique in real life when you have an immediate flap setting handle. I have used it with ultralights with a flap handle. You can immediately apply flap, jump up, then retract just to get you off the ground. You still stay in ground effect as Squirrel showed us. With the 172 as with many, they are electric and too slow for such advanced and immediate application. As he shows us, always consult the POH, but this technique was taught to me by a bush pilot.
Hello, Very clear, useful step by step tutorial and a very good basis to try and experience other take off conditions with other airplanes. What about also a #12 advanced autopilot tutorial? i found the #9 one of the best to start to use it. Thanks a lot
Thank you for all your tutorials. I wonder what will you say about one grassy landing site located near my home town. I'm talking about EPZR. It is NOT level at all. You have to take off down hill and always land on it up the hill. It could be quite challenging. The area is in my opinion also very pretty.
Thank you for this comment. I went to EZPR near your home town and took off with soft field technique as Squirrel taught. I made the takeoff with no trouble, but the first landing disturbed some of your neighbors. The second was better - about half the field. Beautiful country! I did my dead-stick landings and takeoffs on a 4000 foot grass strip in a C150 with about an inch of snow along the Delaware River in New York. This brought back fond memories. After landing my instructor told me to keep moving if I wanted to get back out of there. If I'd stopped, well ... Thanks, Squirrel, for this perfectly paced lesson.
Hey Squirrel, if you have time could you do an episode explaining prop controls in general and maybe specifically in a turboprop vs non-turboprop. I tried to explain the workings of props and their control to a friend recently and I made a bit of a mess of it, I'm thinking that you'd be much better at explaining things 😀
Nope. It's best for realism though. I'm not sure if you can steer. In fsx it was shift p then after a short moment 1 or 2 for steering. Never tested it in fs2020.
Squirrel - these tutorial videos are insanely helpful, me being a non-pilot. Any chance you'll get around to things like flight planning, IFR, ATC protocols for taxi, takeoff, landing?
So, even with a small aircraft, you have to choose carefully where you land if you want to take off again. I had no idea that temperature was so important.
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I just wanted to tell you that I think you are on a totally different level compared to most other MSFS2020 content creators. Very informative and easy to understand. Regards from a glider pilot in Norway.
Totally agree!
@Are Dee lol, were you talking to me or Squirrel?
+1 here.
You have a natural talent for teaching, and always perfectly prepared, illustrated an documented. Result is we really understand things and progress anytime you release a new content :)
Totally agreed! Btw, I'm from Norway too.
Nice to see more Norwegians here!
poolhallshark
He attended flight school
I just want to say as a fellow pilot and a live streamer, this video series took a lot of planning, practicing and reshooting so we can digest it and simply say "well done". Many hours of figuring out how to say this simply, how to display that accurately, how to draw a simple diagram to make it clear. We are seeing years of experience and thought go into this. Microsoft should hire him to replace the foolish tutorials built-in to the game.
This series was absolutely fantastic, I'd love to see more of these tutorials.
As a complete beginner to FS i've found these tutorials mind blowing, you take tutorials to a top level. you have never lost my attention. well done.
I got my private in C152 back in 2001. Haven’t flown a small plane IRL for 9 years and I miss it a lot. MSFS and your great tutorials are bringing back lots of good memories including practice at some very short fields (so I was ready for a short field takeoff on my check ride). None were quite THIS short though. Very well presented. What a great training tool this sim is. As well as so much fun.
I just want to thank you, Squirrel, for all of these remarkable UA-cam videos you've created for Microsoft Flight Sim. Your recorded tutorials and destination flights are simply the best out there and your delivery of the content is unmatched in my opinion. Really well done, sir.
I know I'm a little late to the party, but frankly your videos have inspired me so I've been busy the last few days watching and saving all of your Flight Sim playlists. I look forward to using them as a sort of refresher course to help me get back in the virtual cockpit again. It's been a long time since my last MSFS flight (12 years?). With the consoles finally showing up in the marketplace and prices and availability finally leveling off to where they should be, it looks like I'll be going with an Xbox Series X setup. I tell you what, with nothing but genuine respect for the PC flight sim community, their contributions and commitment to their hobby, and the time, labor and love that many of them put into their homemade, custom computers (I built one myself for Flight Simulator 98 and Falcon 4.0 just 24 years ago), this 69 year old retiree can hardly wait to fire up this beautiful current version of Microsoft Flight Simulator on an Xbox console! Who would have ever thought we'd see that happen, right?!?
Thank you again, Squirrel, for your contribution to the flight sim community with your excellent videos! I very much appreciate your efforts and I wish you the best!
Hey Squirrel, great Tutorial Series. Is there any chance that you continue the series with lessons in Autopilot Navigation, ILS Approach etc. would love to see that, no other tutorial series is so good to follow yet. PLEASE DO MORE VIDEOS!!! here
Also a good rule when calculating anything with flying is to use the worst case for best results rule. Meaning always use the calculation or numbers that are more restricting. If your between 2300lb and 2100lb and your not sure you can calculate the middle ground, just go with 2300lb. Trying to figure out how much fuel you need and not totally sure, use whatever numbers in your calculation that make you need more fuel. Basically, always play it safe and never cut it close.
Absolutely
Squirrel more my summer car vids
IMO the best MSFS tutorial series on UA-cam. Thanks for making these
The virtual pants needed changing after the second take off.
Another great tutorial.
Many thanks Mr Squiz.
I am current serving military aircrew, and having been through ground school I never fully understood Vx and Vy until you explained it like that in this video. I have to say for anyone who is a non-aviator watching this, this level of tuition is really excellent and unfortunately is not often achieved to such a standard. Top class videos that I think a lot of people will benefit from!
Hi. These tutorials are so helpful to a newbie like myself. Like all good tuition, they are valuable when you go back to the early lessons after having made progress. You may have done this already and I have missed it, but it would be useful (certainly to me) if you took us through the Microsoft flight tutorials and explained "on the hoof". Two areas that would benefit are "Deadstick Landing" and "Landing Without Elevator", which I know present unrealistic difficulties for us beginners. Keep up the good work!
These tutorials are great! Looks like you have not done one in a while...I hope you begin doing them again soon. I have watched them all at this point.
One thing to point out that even many real world pilots don't know or forget to factor in is the fact that takeoff performance data is provided in the form of pressure altitude (based on ISA: 1013hPa at sea level) - which is not the same as your AMSL (altimeter reading). This is extremely important on days when it is particularly hot or a particularly low pressure weather system is overhead, where the aircraft performance will be massively reduced & thus a longer takeoff distance is required. Remembering to calculate your pressure altitude at the takeoff airfield will correct for this and potentially save a bit of a disaster in more extreme climates than the UK
I know it has been said many times on your channel but you make the best tutorial videos! Please keep doing them as they are great :)
As a complete novice, I've been loving this series tremendously and learning a lot. Keep up the good work!
I love your tutorials Squirrel, I'm learning a lot and your crystal clear british voice makes it so easy to listen. Greetings from Argentina.
Quite the best and most informative video viewed in a long time. A great series on MSFS2020 that I hope you will continue.
Yeah Squirrel! This was great. I love how your videos are more focused on the real world of flying, vs. just another sim video. Then, you use the sim to illustrate. Very helpful and inspiring for those of us who actually want to learn to fly one day. This is great! Thank you so much! Now, I want MSFS to offer a glider so I can fly it at this location lol.
I think, with that, it will be in another life, it's going to make me skint buying the flight controls, lol (when they eventually come back in stock due to this CV19 crap)
As a flight instructor I love the realism you out into simulation , however you are using a Cessna 172 model N performance chart for the Cessna 172sp, the SP has a more powerful engine and short field take offs are done with 10 percent flaps . Other then that good stuff as usual !
i do believe fight instructors like yourself log the most hrs in 172s... have you ever been in 2 different 172s (same model but heavily used with a few engine rebuilds) that has the same performance??? cause i remember my 1st flight school had like 8 of the 172s and we as the students knew the faster ones from the slower ones and we was actually trying to book the faster ones for our flight sessions (i was luck enough to learn on how to recover from a stall and recover from a spin around the same time, there is nothing like going into a spin at around 1,500ft only to recover at like 600ft as a student)
dunhillsupramk3 absolutely, I’ve been in the model n, m , and sp models of the 172, I absolutely agree In regards to certain lycoming io 360l2a (engine) based SPs feeling absolutely different in regards to take off and climb power, I’d assume that could be based on the tach hours and as you said perhaps an older engine vs a rebuild etc, however the usual case is down to the aircrafts equipment adding differential in the empty Weight , I know at my former school we had a few with air conditioning and other with a variations in the avionics etc . You’d be surprised what a few extra pounds feels like in those little things, spinning at minimum maneuver altitude must have been quite the thrill ride haha
Squirrel, where are you?! I think your videos are the very best for MSFS. We miss you!
Thanks again Squirrel, I’m so glad you went and did your ppl. It is paying off is spades with these clear, easily digestible lessons. At 66 on a pension ppl is one life gaol I won’t achieve but your lessons and msfs are a brilliant alternative for me. Thanks again.
Cool! As a lapsed PPL, this is a great reminder. Really clear and easy to follow. Cheers.
These videos have been so informative and helpful! I hope to see a lot more. Advanced landing tutorials could be a good one
Oh no! Is this the last one in the series? It’s been fantastic!
Such a nice tutorial Video set...Beautiful rounded voice, very patiently explaining all aspects of the subject, not a hint of hauteur in the voice but a very friendly calm voice telling how to do things..., let me say the most astonishingly and beautifully made video and voice I have ever seen/heard! One may tend to take it for granted that it was made easily, casually, but no, it must have taken a huge amount of planning and trials to come up with this presentation! Thanks for the work, highly appreciated.
Another awesome video Squirrel. Thank you for making THE BEST flight sim tutorials on youtube.
More tutorials please!
Awesome!!! My grandma lived at the bottom of the hill and I grew up ten minutes from there! Thanks Squirrel!! Made my day.
Got to the “level” runway part, immediately thought of Lukla airport...take off is easy, landings - uh, glad I’m using a sim...
Awesome mate. Great explanations and shown in a way a layperson can understand. I can attest to the fact that I am twice the FS Pilot I was after watching these 11 videos (especially the last five or so). You're a legend, online teacher extraordinaire!
Thanks for making my Covid lockdown that much more enjoyable, all the way from Melbourne, Australia!!
Take care and look after yourself and family. Tom
Thanks Paul, that adds a whole new dimension (and explains a few issues I had with trees on some runways). The simulation is very sophisticated really, that a few degrees of outside temperature will actually have an effect. I was using OnAir for a while, and of course you are always carrying a full load, so this becomes important.
Great series, I think I watched each tutorial at least twice. Thanks for the amazing and clear explanations. As a new flight sim player I really wanted to understand the basic concepts of flight and this tutorial series was just perfect for me! Will there be an episode 12 sometime soon hopefully??
Hi Squirrel. Thanks for another great tutorial. I think next we all would like to see tutorial on IFR and ILS landing.
Hey FYI this is not in the tutorial playlist any more, there are only the first 10, so I didn't even know this existed until I randomly searched for it.
Same
16:20 The 'Don't Sink' guy was absolutely losing his mind.
Great informational, Squirrel. Thanks much.
This is around where I grew up! It's best viewed from the air, because it's hard to see the sadness from there.
I was taught to remember Vx as "Angle" because an X has more angles than a Y .. Just a memory tip. You're going great work with this series!
Another easy way to remember is “For Vy, I’m doing the best I can on the vertical axis (y). For Vx, I’m doing the best I can on the horizontal axis.”
new into FS, looked at your 11 videos and loved them, learned a lot from you, hope you keep making more......
Excellent Squirrel! There have been a lot of comments regarding the flight model of the 172 - I think this video really highlighted that it isn't complete garbage. I am looking forward to more accurate versions of the 172 especially the steam gauge version but again the Asobo version is pretty good.
this 172 feels awesome for a default plane
Good comment Roy. Millions of current pilots use it for staying sharp and trying things. Practicing exactly what Squirrel is showing us and using the POH as we would in a real plane. I used previous versions of flight simulator all through my real pilot training back in the 90s and this model is better than way back then. The scenery is eye candy and the real distraction but the flight models rival or better Xplane, which was the professional pilot's choice. If the plane didn't fly like the real thing, pilots wouldn't be using them. By the way, you can use a product like Remote Flight Server to use an ipad with steam gauges even with the G1000 plane, then use the main screen for out the windshield.
Looking forward to a complementary discussion on short field landings. In real life arguably the most important ability is to understand when to abort an imperfect landing, go around and try again.
Indeed, that's going to take me some prep time.. :)
Great tutorials Squirrel!! Love the vids, good quality and really in depth. Learned a lot!
Can you make a video about how to use the prop adjustment? Would be very useful for new pilots!
Well this was the tutorial that I didn’t realize I needed 😉 Really interesting stuff, loving these tutorials. Could we PLEASE have a tutorial on the planes that have the variable pitch propellers and how to use it? I think that’s what it’s called. Would be so helpful and no one else seems to be covering that. Thanks so much!
Great videos. I'm a real beginner of MSFS 2020 and I've never flown a plane before. I'm really enjoying your videos but after #12 this tutorial series stopped. Hope you get back to this soon :-)
Thank you Mr Squirrel again some instructive lessons to learn again even when already known. Thanks for the reminder.
I never knew take off was so complex and in depth
Squirrel... Another great video... You haven't put it in the tutorial playlist FYI
certainly not the main point to remember, but those are very confident strokes (for a mouse) in the Rate v Angle diagram section. Very good
He's back to the tutorial series! The flying squirrel has returned!
Microsoft may just sue you for copyright infringement. Your drawn up plane looks exactly like the plane in the very first version of Flight Simulator ;-)
Haha :)
@@squirrel can you please make more of these videos i cannot find any other series to learn from and i am just beginning please more videos of this
Harris Hill. Home of the national soaring museum. If you’re nearby take a visit. Take a glider flight. Airfield is atop a hill and great to have the ground drop away on take off
I love your videos!! Got me so much into aviation and want to have a Private license someday. Thank You so much!!!
Thanks so much for making these vids, these come in handy especially when you are self studying ground school IRL like me :D
Time for Squirrel to add professional Graphic Design Artist to his resume
I love how you teach the real thing! I just got my PPL btw
I was just looking at comments. Congrats! Have fun with it.
Agreed, congrats ! Going for the instrument next ?
Karl Sandin I have only 55h, so I need to do my night first, then around 25h cross country befor attking IFR
@@Shamdouh1 keep at it. Flying is a lot of fun and one field where everyone is so helpful to one another. Are you looking to fly for a living?
thecorporatepilotdad yes man It is the best feeling ever. after every flight I sleep happy! I am looking forward to change career and to be a commercial pilot, I am 40 years old, its my dream since I was 5 years old, it took me too long but I am not giving up on it 👨✈️
Nice and informative video Squirrel!
I really appreciate these tutorials and your other videos as you have got me hooked on this sim and want to learn more about flying
Thank you for these videos. This tutorial series is excellent. Covering the basics is great!
squirrel, there was a ruler tool. i don't know if anyone else said this, but it was right there - where you select all of your pens and pencils, there's a ruler tool!
I recon these kind of takeoffs require a proper yoke or at least a hotas joystick to execute. My “on the coach” console controller approach has hit its limits here. :)
Really useful, thanks. I stumbled across Rock Creek Airport, which I find really challenging! I will try again with this in mind.
Recording that with the replay tool and watching with the outside views would have been cool.
I love your videos man keep em coming
Significant Video, Captain,
Hi from Ghana.
Can’t believe you’re at Harris Hill. I grew up in that area!
Great tutorials, well explained and exactly what I need for my level of understanding. Many thanks.
Wow, another great tutorial. You have helped this newbie so much! Thanks!
Super useful tutorial, thanks for posting this for us all.
Keep uploading these and im gonna get into flightsims aswell squirrel
Love these videos
Thank you very much for your tutorials, inspired me to go to the flight school
HI Squirrel, loved this one like i loved all the other ones. Great work, please keep it up.
As a suggestion, I would really like to see a tutorial on how to navigate using VOR NDB etc. - maybe that‘s something you can do?
Cheers from Germany!
I haven't flown as pilot for over 30 years, but watching these videos sure get the jucies flowing! Grea video and explanation of the different flight management details! Is 64 too old to start fliomg again (150, 152, 172s)? I am healthy with no major health issues!
Would be so cool to get a VTOL craft to this game. Something like Osprey, or even better, Harrier/F35.
Great set of lessons thank you.
I would like to add something. At least in the simulator you, can start the takeoff roll without flaps to eliminate the extra drag, then at 30~35 knots drop 10 dagrees of flaps and takeoff :) This way you will have more IAS and more lift when flaps are at 10. :) I used to do that for every very short takeoffs in FSX :D
this is a great technique in real life when you have an immediate flap setting handle. I have used it with ultralights with a flap handle. You can immediately apply flap, jump up, then retract just to get you off the ground. You still stay in ground effect as Squirrel showed us. With the 172 as with many, they are electric and too slow for such advanced and immediate application. As he shows us, always consult the POH, but this technique was taught to me by a bush pilot.
Hello, Very clear, useful step by step tutorial and a very good basis to try and experience other take off conditions with other airplanes.
What about also a #12 advanced autopilot tutorial? i found the #9 one of the best to start to use it.
Thanks a lot
Awesome Squirrel, flying is the easy part isn’t it.
Great Tutorial Series. I never got so deep into flying in MSFS before this. One question: How did you push back?
Outstanding tutorials. Many thanks!
Nice tips. I'm waiting for RPM control (blue lever) tutorial.
can you do future episodes on the airbus a320 neo, love your tutorials
Amazing video as always, i had no idea about most of this.
I beat you, I have no idea about ANY of it. lol
Thank you for all your tutorials. I wonder what will you say about one grassy landing site located near my home town. I'm talking about EPZR. It is NOT level at all. You have to take off down hill and always land on it up the hill. It could be quite challenging. The area is in my opinion also very pretty.
Thank you for this comment. I went to EZPR near your home town and took off with soft field technique as Squirrel taught. I made the takeoff with no trouble, but the first landing disturbed some of your neighbors. The second was better - about half the field. Beautiful country! I did my dead-stick landings and takeoffs on a 4000 foot grass strip in a C150 with about an inch of snow along the Delaware River in New York. This brought back fond memories. After landing my instructor told me to keep moving if I wanted to get back out of there. If I'd stopped, well ...
Thanks, Squirrel, for this perfectly paced lesson.
Hey Squirrel, if you have time could you do an episode explaining prop controls in general and maybe specifically in a turboprop vs non-turboprop. I tried to explain the workings of props and their control to a friend recently and I made a bit of a mess of it, I'm thinking that you'd be much better at explaining things 😀
Great, thanks again my son and I really enjoy these. cheers.
Great tutorial. Thanks for posting!!
Great video as usual. Thanks.
Thank you, very helpful for student pilot like me 😊
Nice tutorial video, thank you. How do you go backward?? 14:00 Pushing back...
Brilliant - so interesting
using OnAir and typically flying fully stuffed at 2700+lbs. yeah, I'm putting in flaps on takeoff :)
I have no real use for this but it was very instructive.
Thanks Again!!! This old man appreciates it!
Stupid question but, how did you move backwards?
It's call Pushback. The shortcut for it is Shift+P.
Michael Plamondon Thank you... I thought you had to have the guy in front of you to get a push back.
Nope. It's best for realism though. I'm not sure if you can steer. In fsx it was shift p then after a short moment 1 or 2 for steering. Never tested it in fs2020.
Squirrel - these tutorial videos are insanely helpful, me being a non-pilot. Any chance you'll get around to things like flight planning, IFR, ATC protocols for taxi, takeoff, landing?
You would be the Shroud of competitive Flight Simulator if it existed.
So, even with a small aircraft, you have to choose carefully where you land if you want to take off again. I had no idea that temperature was so important.
Hi Squirrel. I love your videos! I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on how to fly a DME arc in a TBM or a 172.