How to fly at Mach 9 in the new Darkstar for Microsoft Flight Simulator
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2022
- The Darkstar is part of the “Top Gun: Maverick” expansion, which you can now download. More information on the update can be found here: www.flightsimulator.com/becom...
To find out more about this fictional aircraft, take a look at this piece: www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...
*CORRECTION*: At 1:03, I say "until you hit Mach 9". This should be "until you hit Mach 0.9".
If you have any feedback or questions, do get in touch!
For anyone struggling to get to Mach 3: ensure you're above Mach 1 in the dive, and, as I do in the video, make sure you're pitching out of the dive *gently*. The engines really start to get going at around Mach 1.5.
For Xbox users, follow this guide to assign a button to toggle the afterburner: forums.flightsimulator.com/t/.... I play on PC so use #, but you can assign any button that works for you.
[Bear in mind that you need to be above Mach 3 to engage the scramjet - I suggest following the parameters in this video closely, because I've found the aircraft somewhat temperamental otherwise!] - Ігри
I felt my bones creak when you called the pound key the hashtag key.
lmaooooo
Welcome to the era of "shit-for-brains" and botox injections!
Here in the UK, hearing “pound key” when not in reference to our currency (£) is like fingernails down a chalkboard.
@@SiGoodchild1 Pffft, like yall didnt use pounds for measurements before you used pounds for currency, lol
@@WarlordFlanker we dont use pounds for measurements
Thanks so much for this! After a second try at the inverted, I was able get to 120,000 altitude and average Mach 9.34 and made it to Cape Canaveral, Florida in 39 minutes. I think my highest was Mach 9.6. This has been my best experience in Flight Simulator so far, that stratosphere flight is incredible.
I am so glad this new update has happened. When you are that high up, it can be exceedingly beautiful.
I hit Mach 10!!!! At 270,000 feet and was able to land back at NAS Fallon
I hit Mach 10.1 idk how but I was around 300k ft
You can hit Mach 10
Tops out at 275,000 for me🤣😂🤣😂. Not sure if glitch or what. Fictional anyway
For those struggling to get to mach 3 after inverting, the single most important thing is to pitch VERY GENTLY. Dont exceed 1.5g of pitch. When you pitch too hard (3g+) it slows you down and wont let you speed up to mach anything really.
I took off from Honolulu to Los Angeles to race the horizon and hit Mach 10 at 275,000 ft.
Both of those seem to be max height and speed in this game, was hauling ass though.
Well thats good. Anything over 10.3 has results of explosive intensity
@@alejandrohernandezcarrillo2436 Lol Yeah
Idk how but I glitched the game and racked it up to Mach 12.5
Yeah my vs was 10000+ and alt locked at 275k
I was able to get to mach 10 a little easier but this tutorial still helped
If you get up to mach 0.9 then you can more or less level out and turn on afterburners
At a slight upwards pitch continue until you reach mach 3.6
At mach 3.6 you'll have to wait until your EAS speed lowers to around 760 still at the slight upwards pitch
Then do all the steps to turn on the scramjet as outlined in the video and you'll reach mach 9 a few minutes after the scramjets are activated
Fast and precise, no useless words, thank you !
Glad it helped!
There's no need to invert the aircraft to achieve those pitch adjustments, there's pretty much no point in making an effort to turn on the beacon lights (as if they're going to sufficiently warn people in time of you approaching at mach 9 or something lol), and a scramjet has no moving parts and does not have to "spool up". Either way though I guess the procedure technically works so go through the ritual if you want lol
Re 1) - yep agreed. The theory supposedly is to minimise negative G on the pilot during the pitch down (per the tutorial), but clearly there’s no consequence in not doing so.
On 2) - fair enough. Again, was just part of the aircraft’s checklist, so wanted to include in the video. On 3), yeah 100% my error/stupidity!
Awesomee, finally the thing I missed all this time was the afterburner and how to activate that scramjet, this kind of videos are awesome, keep up the great work sir..👍
For a lot of the special aircraft there's a magic switch on the dashboard. For the pelican it's hover/cruise mode. For this bird it's the scramjet setting
I have to try this! So far, I've hit Mach 3.8 - 4...still flew from Cape Canaveral, Florida to NYC JFK in about 25-30 min. Maxed out at 275K height (Sim starts to get a little buggy, but flyable) Hard to control, takes some patience to fly super-jet, but fun! *When you get this high, turn on "Storm" for weather, max out the lightning and see the numerous lightning bolts below you.
I just flew LAX to JFK in 35 minutes, mach 10 @ 275k. I had the same issue last night not being able to get above mach 3.75ish then watched this and off I went like a rocket.
Awesome! Sounds like your weather guy too.... I did a few vidy's on it, the hurricane was cool. I find the weather reasonably accurate.... no naders tho.
*hard to control* yeah no bloody shit sherlock,...
@@joseph299 we almost have the same username lol
I turned on autopilot and dude hit the scram jets at like 25k feet on a cloudy day. my pc couldn't keep up lol.
*CORRECTION*: At 1:03, I say "until you hit Mach 9". This should be "until you hit Mach 0.9".
Apologies for the error - my mistake during the voiceover!
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For anyone struggling to get to Mach 3: ensure you're *above* Mach 1 in the dive, and then, as I do in the video, make sure you're pitching up out of the dive *gently*. The engines really start to get going at around Mach 1.5.
If you pull out of the descent too early, you won't be able to reach Mach 3.
Oh so that’s why I wasn’t able to Mach 3 my second flight I must’ve pulled out of the decent too early
@Quinzerrak not when I tried
np, the gage is there and visible. Good and concise, ty.
What about those 2 lower left switches (gen...)?
Yeah that was funny . I thought the whole tutorial was take off and climb at 10 degree until you get to mach 9.That's all. thanks for coming... lol
Also scram jets don't "spool up" they have no spool, no rotating parts. Maybe you could say the fuel pump might have a spinning impeller that spools up. But that must be one hell of a fuel pump like a rocket engine turbo pump. Now I think about it maybe scram jets do need really powerful fuel pumps that spool up?
Haha , try the scram jet take off
It is currently 3:20 am est, I hadn’t been able to get it above Mach 1.20 for a long while but after following this guide as closely as I can, I’m in space at 10.02. Glorious. Very good video.
Edit: Forgot to mention that apparently the altimeter stops at 275,000. Good to know.
Thank you for the tutorial, now i can go from A to B really fast.
Thank you for the simple tutorials 🙏
The darkstar is amazing I did a cross Atlantic flight from San Fransisco to Rome in about 45 minutes
This absolutely helped. Thanks. Mach 10 was amazing!
Yes I really enjoyed your tutorial, I was trying to figure out how to reach mach 9. Thank you so much. I'll try it.
Very nice tutorial. Concise and well explained. Thanks!
Thank you for this totourial it really helped 🔥😁
Literally the best one who explain the way to reach mach 10
Very helpful, thank you!
It worked! I got the aircraft to mach 9 at 140,000 ft. and flew it from New York to San Francisco in about 30 minutes. It continued to climb to 250,000 ft and briefly reached Mach 10.1 before I had to slow down for landing. But you can't turn this beast at all at speeds above Mach 2 - it's like the SR-71 in that respect. And the stall speed is really high unless the fuel tanks are almost empty.
Thank you I would not have been able to do this without you. I reached a max speed of Mach 10.1 and averaged Mach 10 at over 275 000 feet
this has helped so much, thank you!❤
Thanks for the information boss
Love it I don’t know but you are my hero I just couldn’t complete the mission now i can
Glad it’s helpful :)
Same
But it's even explained. It literally guides you.
I finally got it, thanks so much🤗
yeyyyyy!! much needed air support/ PILOTS need to help other pilots. Cheers everyone. BIG THANKS!
Well done.. tips: set options'flight mode to modern, accelerate from land strip(don't thrust untill wheels are tucked away), climb say 30k or above, level off, roll 180 & dive 20dg or less(untill 1.5 mach approx.) roll 180 to upright and pull out to say between 1&10 dg's, climb if you may to 275,000 ft & roll 180 + level out perchance maintain 10 mach+.. note air currents behave different as you transcend every so 10000ft... Hope this helps... Oh! .. make sure access fuel system panel accessed 2nd green top left button & open all fuel valves) hrhr!.. and be sure to fill up 😂
Edwards AFB to Barcelona, Spain in 1.5 hrs. Thanks for the video!
Thank you for sharing.
Mann this is so much fun. Brisbane to Sydney in 5minutes. Such a great free plane.
I was just going straight up after takeoff and wondering why I could get about Mach 2. 🤣 Thank you for this.
Awesome addition to Flight Sim
Last night done a flight from RNZAF Whenuapai in Auckland, NZ to RAAF Base Pearce in Perth Western Australia….it only took 58mins & still had 17% fuel left 😳
Wow I knew I was missing something with the jet scrambler. Hit Mach 10 in the challenge and blew right past Canaveral
Lol where did you end up?
@@dantew2942 off the coast a good amount ended up finding Canaveral but by that point it was dark and very hard to land
Nice and simple! Thanks. Other videos on UA-cam is like 30+ minutes
One of the coolest thing you can do with this aircraft is to start at Nighttime, near the terminator... you'll go faster than Earth's rotation so you'll see the sun rise as a consequence of that, it's super cool especially if you're far up in the sky!
To make it easier, just pitch down at 30k feet until the Mach meter starts to go up fast past Mach 2 then pull up slowly to 10 degrees and you'll reach Mach 3.
Is it possible to change fuel cells? I see pop ups about changing your fuel cell when it gets low but I can't figure out how to do it.
ty for this!
Been looking for a guide as I've tried a few times but they don't give guides of how to approach it!! Thanks for posting!
Agreed - the MSFS default aircraft never have guides which is always a tad frustrating!
If you want to do a follow-along flight, the Darkstar “mission” in the sim’s menu has tips for each stage of flight.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials thanks!! Didn't know that!
I'd like to add that I'm having trouble after the role breaking mach 1 and then going to 10°, I seem to be holding as I'm climbing at 1.13 mach. I can't seem to go any higher than that as I'm climbing up through 50,000 ft. Is there a moment when the air thins out where you just break through for speed?
@@blaster915 from what I can tell, the air density does play a part. You won’t be able to get to Mach 3 until you’re fairly high. Give the mission a go I suggest!
I skipped it in the tutorial because it’s dull to watch, but getting between Mach 1 and Mach 3 took several minutes of climbing.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials I'm currently playing it as we speak and I think this is my fifth attempt to try and get the damn scram jets working 😂😂 I just can't seem to break the mach 3 barrier! The higher I go the less power I get, The lower I go the more I'm fighting against. The highest I've been able to get is Mach 2.2 and that was in a forced dive from 55,000 ft 😅 gahhh!
Thank you!
Good stuff!
I was about to watch this but then I said: NO! I'll try to figure it out on my own first. And I did!!! I just had to follow all on-screen tutorial instructions carefully including the carefully measured and calculated G pulls!
Getting to mach 9 takes time but it's fun once you reach it, it's a whole new level of landing procedures to lol
I don't have enough time this week due to work, will download it this weekend. Is this thing easy to land? Does it get rid of that speed "easy"?
For all who wanna start the scramjet easy (in free flight). You just have to reach MACH 3. Get there without silly inverted rolls with my Checklist:
- Start (Full throttle, gear up)
- climb (full throttle + afterburners) with 15° pitch at around Mach 0.85-0.96
- for the afterburners bind a Hotkey in the settings or click the thrustlevers with rightclick while holding leftclick
- reach 40.000ft altitude
- nose down to -20° for accelerating to Mach 1.45
- With Mach 1.45 pull up slightly (max 2G) to +10° and just maintain it
- Scramjet-transition: while the plane is accelerating activate the fuellcell ((Green) Square right byside the yoke) and the Scramengine (open red cover left of the screen and activate)
- Keep on holding +10° pitch until the scramengine spools up once you reached Mach 3-3.1.
---Enjoy Hypersonicspeed in the stratosphere.
Approachtip for free flight: You can type the ILS frequency in the small upper display. Type it in, click NAV1 ON before enter. You can use the glideslope and locator manually for easy landing even with synthetic view.
I've tried this multiple times but whenever I get to Mach 2.9, something weird happens and the aircraft starts to lose speed drastically, the scramjet never comes on. What am I doing wrong?
@@ricardoalr once you reached Mach 2.5 at a 10° pitch, its nearly impossible that the plane starts to decelerate. You activated you Fuelcell (Button right of the yoke)??? The mainthrusters can reach up to Mach 3.5 - 4 only with afterburner. So I really dont know how you construct this situation. To much pitch?!
This worked for me!
Thank you!
@@zackblackmon You are welcome
here's a quicker way. Press Y and then F4 and bring jet up to max height or whatever height you want preferably pretty high and then press Y again and then pitch down and turn on scramjet and fuel cell button. Give it a sec till you hit about Mach 3 and then boom it's on. Have fun. I'm cruising at Mach 10
Good tutorial. I managed to hit Mach 10 on Series X.
i did just as in video and isntructions but but plane not accelerating after 1.5 mach , is there something i am missing ?
I dont know if i messed up some sequence but when i turned on the scramjet at mach 3 i got the most unexpected turbulence. It felt like the thing was about to explode!
Luckily i stabilised it but that was for sure my most intense moment of MS flight
Thankyou that worked
I got mach 10.04 at 275,000 feet :) good vid rly helped
The aircraft takes off fine within the mission but when i try to fly outside of the mission it just shakes everywhere and i can't take-off. How do i fix this?
thanks so much.
Great video, one problem though. Took a few re views to realise you meant mach .9 as opposed to mach 9!, all good now though and cruising mach 9.99 at 275'000 feet, with your good help, 👍
Thank you very much I'm going to subscribe 😊!
That's very kind - thank you so much :)
This plane is so cool. I was able to reach Mach 10 on free flight :)
This was so good I was able to go mach 10
Dah. Where's the toggle switch for AB in the cockpit? Don't recall Tom C. hitting # key. It didn't work when I tried. Isn't there switch under a red cover somewhere. Am I missing something obvious?
This got me from RAF Scampton to Orlando florida pretty quick...
This plane represents Top Gun Maverick ❤
Excellente tutorial ! You could think of a
I can't get this thing to fly right at all, its wobbly af all the time. Barely responds to control inputs
My trim keeps doing its own thing I try level off, is there something wrong with my game?
How are you “accelerating” to Mach 3? I roll over and nothing changes. When did you change the throttle from mil?
same question here
Also wondering
Now at Mach 9 do a hard hairpin banking left turn and watch your pilot become a pool of blood on the floor at 100gs.
Enable "unbreakable aircraft" first though.
Lmao that banking left turn at Mach 9 had me cracking the F up in the theatre.
Do you have to buy this jet? Because i was able to fly it a couple times without buying or downloading it
On X Box, the instruments are dark and engine 3 and 4 are not working. Max speed is Mach 3,x. How can i activate all systems and engine 3 and 4 for max speed?
how do u enable after burner on a controller?
How do you engage the afterburners on Xbox?
even tho I assigned the afterburner hotkey, it still doesn't turn on... and I was wondering why I'm not able to go past 0.87mach... I think that is the reason I'm not able to go even further, do you know any tips to fix that?
I have the exact same problem
One thing you could try is after advancing the throttles to full, press and hold F3 to force the throttle into the afterburner section?
It may be worth taking a look at this: forums.flightsimulator.com/t/f-a-18-afterburner/472799
In my case the afterburner wasn't assigned, so I assigned it in the control options
Is actually possible to turn on the beacon lights then turn on the scram jets on console? Every time I do it the plane explodes because of how long it takes
After I level out, my speed decreases on the 10 degree pitch. This is the 3rd time, what am I doing wrong?
Is there a setting where I can free roam with the Darkstar and go Mach 10 at like 3,000 feet?
anyone know why my first two engines aren’t running after i turned on engine 3/4? i’m at mach 9.8 but won’t go faster than 600
5900X 3080Ti 32G usually most missions frame rate is about 30~70 ish. But only this Darkstar mission keeps show 7~9 Frame rate. Any idea why for my computer or settings ???
Whats the point of turning on the beacon light? Its just a light?
will the aircraft be available to download forever? i dont have MSFS cause of low end PC but i want to get it for when i finally get PC capable of running the game
I would assume yes - MSFS has never removed an expansion as far as I know.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials that's a relief to know, thank you for taking your time and replying
I can only get one of the scramjets to work, the other just stays dead, i have no idea what to do anymore to fix it
Xbox series X and when I try to take off plane starts bouncing like the landing gear is broken 😢
Same. Can you get the P-51s from the Reno Air Races to fly? I can’t get them to fly either and I feel like PC users don’t have the same problem so Microsoft doesn’t care to fix it
When I do it the plane doeasn't reach Mach 3, it just gets slower by puling 10° up. So I reached Mach 1.5 and slow down while climbing. What's my mistake?
same problem
Hey there - my suggestion would be to ensure you’re pulling back up to 10 degrees as gently as possible.
My current Top speed record, thanks man, highest i got was 9.84 Mach
Update: It is Mach 10.04 now
Dude you saved me
Is it normal after having the scram jets activate at lower altitudes for it to be extremely hard to control?
Yep - I've found the scramjets are a bit of a nightmare below around 80,000 feet. They work best at higher altitudes.
Flew from Sydney, AUS -> Johannesburg, RSA in under 2 hrs, I averaged Mach 9, this is including taxi and landing.
you can get to Mach 13.6 if you put weather temperature to -130 only when hit Mach 10 then do it
Can I do Mach 9 on the Xbox version? I've tried it but I've never went past 1.45 mach
At the beginning you said "go to mach 9, then rotate" but its "mach 0.9", love the video thought
How come you gotta fly the plane upside down for that one part? Seems kinda esoteric.
What's up with that roll at transonic speeds? Is it due to aerodynamics? Stress on the airframe? Engine airflow?
Hey there - aim is to minimise negative G on the pilot when doing the controlled descent.
Very helpful, thanks alot. I just don't understand the purpose of the rolling manouver. Is that to trigger a glitch or sth? Sorry for being dumb, not a true pilot ;-)
When i try to take off my plane glitches and bounces and skids along the ground can someone tell me upon how to to take off please. Thanks!😊
Very helpful. I attempted it on my own and failed at every turn. Booting up MSFS right now to give it a try. Thanks for the video!
I cant se the screen in the cockpit Pls can Someone help
I remembered what MSFS - Flight Unlimited reminds me of!
I hit Mach 10 and maxed out the altitude at 275k ft. Took a while but I got it
Hash tag key on keyboard? Meaning shift+3?
Wow mack 9 thats so cool.
What button is the afterburner on the Xbox series S remote or Turtle Beach controls 🙂
Hey there - you can select any button you choose. Just search toggle afterburner in the control settings and bind it to a button you want :)
"The scramjet will spool up" i died a little with that one
Yeah that was my mistake - I misread the physics….😬
How do u do it on a controller