SIM CHALLENGE: Short Flight EGLL – EGBB Microsoft Flight Sim 2020
20 seconds in it. Big old diesel running in the background. There’s a fly on the cockpit. What am I gonna do? There’s a fly on the cockpit. What am I going to do? Okay. Don’t get obsessed by it, Jerry. Okay. Here we go. Popcorn tonight. Okay. Okay. So, we’re going to have all our simmers going to be sitting back and see how well I do. Yeah. Well, hello. Good evening, folks. I hope you’re doing well. Um, Heathrow in front of you. Runway 27 left 09 right. I am at gate 241. Um nice easy push for a 27 right departure. Um and we’re flying to we’re going to do a relatively quick flight to Bingham. Um BHX or uh EGBB uh for all of you um uh there was somebody the other day who said that they had a there was a quiz a pub quiz Jill and there the question was on the airport. I aaya codes or whatever they are. I cower I them. Yeah, the four the four ones and he got them all right. And I’d imagine he’s probably the only bloke in the pub who did, wouldn’t it? Unless it was a bunch of bleeding um um enthusiasts. Uh but anyway, hello to everybody. Hope you’re doing well. Hello Sil, by the way. Um, I met with Sil today who’s um, part of the Hephro Community Trust and um, I got to be honest with you folks, I’m not going to talk about it now because it’s just it’s too much to talk about, but you would be surprised about what Heathrow does in the background uh, for the local communities. Something that we can touch on at a later date, but um, really good to see that and we are contributing to that as well this year. Um, so which we feel very uh, very honored to be able to do. But um yes, so tonight a relatively quick flight. Um now here’s another thing. After we met with SEL, we drove straight up to uh um Highwickham airfield where a lot of you guys have said, “Oh, you should go up there because they do schooling up there and all that kind of thing.” And in fact, Sel when I was talking to him today, he said, “Well, they got a couple of um uh PA28s up there and and and one of them’s got British Airways uh um livery on the on the tail.” Anyway, so went up there um went up there and sort of like having a walk around a couple of offices and hangers and you know um things going on there. There’s a there’s a there’s a a calf there, a beastro as it was called. Um a little helicopter flying past, training and all that kind of kind of crazy stuff that you expect to see a little independent airfield like that. Anyway, so I’ve managed to meet this fellow from um from from one of the um schools um and uh tried to explain myself, but the first thing was it was like so uh you know when I shook his hand it’s like you know I’ll be honest with you I mean I’m not trying to blow me own trumpet but 99% of people wouldn’t you say Jill when I say Jerry for well well within the aviation industry let’s say um Jerry from Big Jet TV nine times out the time you say it and they’re like, “Oh, we watch.” Yeah. Yeah. We watch you all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Blah blah blah blah. But, um, yeah. No. Um, absolutely nothing. Dead as a door now. Um, so I had to have a conversation with someone who knew nothing about the channel, nothing what we do, and try to explain everything. It didn’t come out very well to be honest with you folks, but he was, bless him, he was all right at the end. And, um, he said he’s got a couple of P28s um, and and and a couple of 157s, I think. Um but uh but they’re closing down. They’re closing down uh at the end of the year. Uh as are the other company and they’re going private. So so they’re going to cater for people who have their own aircraft uh or or for for for pilots who want to bring their hours up um that kind of thing. It’s it’s a more of a private thing. um and and not the thing that we weren’t looking at doing, which we might do before they closed down, and that is to go and uh hire or or take a flight on a a PA28. Um and Jill’s going to sit in the back and catch me flying it. So, we might well do that. Um and so today I’ve downloaded a PA28. So, and I haven’t tried it yet, so I’m we’re going to be completely raw on it. Um if there’s people out there who know about the P28, then P A28, sorry. Um then, um then then fair enough. I’ll take your comments and all that kind of thing, but obviously in the brief discussion I had with him about the the um the the 1527 versus the uh the PA28 uh and that is obviously because of the highwing on the on the on on the 152. It’s very easy and very manageable. It’s a much more comfortable aircraft to land. Uh whereas the um the the the wing on the on the PA28 obviously is the same sort of thing that you’re looking at here. Um anhedral and not dihedral. Um one’s above, one’s um below. Um but anyway um yeah, and of course understandably the PA28 is is a lot more rugged and uh shorter. Um I think it might even have has it got retractable undercarriage to PA28? I’ll have to have a look. I don’t think it has. But even even so, it’s a much shorter undercarriage, not so big and wallowy and forgiving like the um like the Cessna. The Cessna comes in like it’s a bit bit of a like landing on a big cushion, whereas PA28 is probably a little bit harder if if you get it all wrong. But anyway, we’ll talk about that later. Um but and and then we went to the other school and they said that they’re closing down as well. So basically the bottom line is that um uh um it the whole place is closing down in terms of going there and getting flights and all that kind of thing. Unless you want to learn how to fly a helicopter. Unless you want to learn how to fly a helicopter. Yeah. As well. Um so yeah. Yeah. So we kind of gave up on that. So it’s back to White Wolfam. Obviously we never sort of like were going to leave White Wolfam. It was just somebody when when Sil said today that they’ve got a a PA28 up there with a with a and and the guy was like, “Oh, we we don’t really want the the plane’s livery on the on the video either cuz we we might get in trouble with um with I don’t have to worry I can say anything cuz he definitely won’t be watching.” Hey, Jill. Anyway, um yes. Yes. So, anyway, White Wolfam it is. And they’ve got a I think a P28 down there, a PA28 down there as well. and Katherine uh bless her, she’s been very um very uh approachable on it. So, we’re going to we’re going to do something down at White Wolfam. And um also, this could be potentially linked to that um group of kids that I’m booked in to meet in November. Um whether we’re going to I I just thought a good idea would be that rather than me going and sitting in the standing in front of them in in in the in the in in the um uh um um in the school. rather than that, I’ll I’ll just we’ll take them down to whitewolf them, show them around the aircraft, get some people to talk about it and all that thing uh kind of stuff. But one thing that I did read today was an article on uh how important it is for youngsters going into or or people going into piloting um that they have a a grounded sort of like um world knowledge kind of thing in terms of communicating with people. Um, so a lot of people recommend, in fact, this pilot today recommended that you uh that you go out there and and get a job and um become a people person so that you can have a good conversation with your with your captain uh when you’re flying across the Atlantic or whatever um or wherever you’re flying to rather than just sitting there and and not being very good at communicating. But also from a safety angle as well, that’s that’s quite an important thing. What are you listening at? What’s the I’m just wondering where Jules Jules are. is just that Jerry’s battery is running out. So, I was a bit confused what that’s about. Uh oh, maybe the um maybe the uh the the generator going in the background. Right. Well, let’s get on with it. Anyway, good evening everybody. I hope you’re doing very well indeed. Jules, Ravage, Craig Whitmore. Uh let’s just have a quick look. Um Craig Whitmore. I’ve flown for a real Cessna 152. Uh era I’ve flown a real Cessna 152 Arabat Cessna 152 Piper PA 140 and PA38. There we go. Craig, that’s fantastic. The PA28 Arrow is the one with retractable. Ah PA28 Arrow. Um we’ve got somebody with 175 hours on the PA28. Now, what’s the minimum hours that um somebody for example like um like uh one of the LCAs or um whoever would want I know you’ve got to sort of like have a minimum amount of hours on type if you’re coming from one company to another uh to fly maybe go from go to the trip 7 or something like that. Um but um it’s uh there’s all sorts of parameters and and different um uh it’s quite a convoluted area um becoming a pilot. But one thing um I would say is that this is not just the youngsters of today that we’re we’re looking at for future pilots, but also they’re trying to recruit um mature sort of like you know 25 30 35 year old um bracket of of of people who’ve um who who who can very easily become a pilot if if you know um because they they’re just a little bit more knowledgeable in the head, you know what I mean? rather than a a 16, 17, 18 year old, that kind of thing. So, um, but anyway, let’s get on with it. Um, Nick Gray, 20 uh dollars super chat, mate. Still at work with the sound off on the stream, but Jerry looks animated. Interesting. Okay, so good evening to everybody. Let’s get on with this then, shall we? Um, so as per we’re going to go um we’re are we are cold and dark. Um, so inside the flight deck, first thing we’re going to do, we’re just going to make the aircraft live. And what you hear there winding up, see fans and the avionics and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, we’re going to try saying we are going to try saying intentions most definitely. Uh, they were going to sort of like potentially do something. It’s just something that we don’t want to try on the off the cuff. Yeah. If you know what I mean. Um, so this is all sort of uh stuff that you become accustomed with when Well, I’ve got to do a whole new thing when I when I learn the um uh the 737 as well, of course, which is um you know, a whole new uh whole new ball game. So, let’s just go in and uh fire up the APU. Give it a few seconds just to for the electrical systems to cut in. Um the back door, the little door, which you can see there, that uh that little hatch there. I think that little hatch is the inlet for the APU. It’s a funny old place to have it, isn’t it? Um but I think that’s where it is. Um I know there is a um there is a hatch which is involved which is uh for pressurization. Maybe that is it. Maybe this is the inlet here for the APU. That looks a little bit more likely. Um I think this is a pressurization um hatch or whatever it might be. But anyway, let’s get on with this. Um fire up the APU. This is quite cool, man. How cool is this? Am I in front of it? That’s amazing. Still not. Here we go. Here we go. Not yet. Here we go. Here it comes. There it is. Look at that. Yeah. Okay. So, we can go on board the aircraft now. Um, and see that the that is all running nicely. Okay. Let’s go up the top here. We can um remove the external power. Um everything’s good there. We’ll wait for all the other lights and stuff to uh to do all of that. So I have already preset my flight plan on Sim Brief and that’s being imported now. EGBB. Um then we go to um ground services. is we can remove the GPU. Chocks and cones can come away. What we’re doing is we’re going to go in and load the aircraft. This is fuel and passengers and cargo. So, you’ll see these center of gravity markers move up to around about here 61 around about 60 between 60 and 60 five tons, something like that. So, we we’ll load it instantly. You can do it with GSX boarding and all that kind of thing, but when I’ve done it before, it’s taken a long long time. So um even the even the seven minute one. So we’ll just go with this one for now and instantly load it. Instant loading. Um there you go. And they have moved to there. So then we going to send that now through to the MCDU the mukdo. And um this is good now that they’ve um they’ve rejiged this and updated it. So um oh that’s interesting. And that’s uh that’s even more interesting because earlier on I still had to put the takeoff weight in there. Um but it’s doing my wind temperature and my Q&H as well. So when you calculate what all these figures together with your weights and everything like that um I’m going to go with um one um with my flat configuration um like that. So there we go. There’s your um takeoff um numbers. Going to send that also to the MCDU now. And there is your MCDU down here. So we’ll go to the init page which is um I’m just going through it the way that there’s obviously this this is direct um the the performance page is something you can refer to during flight. I’ve I’ve imported it now. Um so we just quickly put this in 25 Yankee is our flight number cost index which is over here which is quite a low one today 40. um cruise altitude, we’re going to be at flight level 16016,000 ft. And that will also put the flex temperature in there as well. So then we go to the flight plan. Uh it’s sort of done it here, but we need to um set our departure point, which is uh 27 right. Um there we go. and our okay we’re going to go with Omla one um LA one foxt drop as our SID standard in instrument departure that’s then now in the computer it’s starting to build all the numbers the constraints here as well in the uh uh so our is our arrival runway which is ILS 33 which which is this one here. And in terms of ter terms of our standard terminal arrival, um we are going to come in. It’s the uh Hemi1 Bravo. Let’s just have a look here. We got Mark W499 Super Chat. Started Microsoft Flight Sim a month ago because of you, Jerry. Getting better each week. Really enjoying the YouTube tutorials. Can’t wait to get onto the airliners, mate. That’s fantastic, Mark. Um that that is great news. and to everybody who has helped me as well um get to this stage. But I think you I’m going I’m crossing my fingers folks tonight that I can kind of do this all without the help of my uh with my te without the help of my teachers. Just running through the MCDU now, which is basically from top to bottom to see if there’s any flight plan discontinuities, which is one here, which we normally are able to uh to clear. So, just select it and then select uh insert and then run through it again. Go back to the top of the flight plan. Uh run all the way through. Make sure there’s still no discontinuities. So, these pink uh numbers that you see here, folks, they’re they’re basically constraints that the aircraft computer systems will follow. But I’m going to be speaking to ATC as well. So um it may ask me it may tell me that before I reach umlap for example uh for 6,000 ft um it may ask me long before that that I tell me that I’m clear to climb to 11,000 ft or something like that. Um so we have to listen to the ATC very important that we listen to ATC and also observe the actions that are on there as well which are optional for me as well. So I need to make sure that when I reach a certain altitude I I um I announce that that I am at that altitude or um or or or if if they ask me to climb to a certain altitude then I need to make sure that I acknowledge that all that kind of stuff is really important and I think you’ll see tonight that that will um that that will play a big part in it. So, we just come up here and um down here we’ve got our predictive wind shear. We don’t have to touch anything on here at all. You just switch that to auto. Um and down here, because we’re going to be using um ATC, um we’ll always go to Tara on here. And we will um find out what the squawk is in a little while. I’m going to do this now, which is um to um set my uh speed brakes. Uh right. So, what we’re going to do here is we’re kind of nearly ready. Let’s just set the climb altitude to 6,000 ft. Um Q&H is Let’s just have a look here. Q&H um is a 1034. Quite a big difference from what we’ve got here. Wow. It’s right out there, isn’t it? Wow. And that sound there, I think you’ll find is the navigation system kicking in and giving me my map here. Normally that takes uh and it takes you know five minutes for it to align. You’ll see it that the clock counting down on here. We’ve got seat belts on. We got no smoking signs on. Park brake is set. Uh there are company messages. We’ve got APU available. What I’m going to do is go on the overhead now and put the bleed on because I’m ready to depart soon. So that bleed is the power that opens the valves so that it it can send um the the bleed air through to the starter on the engine which winds the engine slowly and then it just builds up pressure and and you’ll see all of that when we push back in a second. So um one thing I’m going to do is um put my engines to ignition start. Everything’s good there. And we are Let’s just double check over here. We’re all good there. That’s all good. Um, take off configuration check. Okay, so we’re all good. Everything’s Everybody’s happy there. MCDU all up and up and running. What I’m going to do here, which I didn’t do before, um, is h set the other Oh, really? Oh. Oh, is it? That’s why that high Q&H interesting cyclonic what cycl position so you can get an idea of where we are. Oh, look at that. Oh. Oh, it didn’t do it all last week. Look. Look. Nice. Yeah. Nice. It is very random the stuff you can’t see here, man. I don’t know if that’s China eastern, isn’t it? Or something. Oh, come on. It is. It is. Challenge accepted. Look at that. I know. We’ve seen that before. Yeah, we’ve seen that before. Yeah. Yeah. See, it’s either that or a bloke with a leaf blower. Anyway, whatever. Uh, but yeah, some really cool aircraft that we do see on the airfield from time to time. Um, over there yesterday was a beauty as well. Air France says um, yeah, Asiana over there. Right. Okay. Let’s get on with this. Anyway, so we are now going to go into Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. No, no, it’s all right. It’s okay. It’s all right. Okay, we’re all good. Okay. Okay. So, now what I’m going to do is I’m going to come out of that and do everything through beyond ATC. But before I do that, I’m going to switch my uh beacons on because that normally fires up. Let’s just bring these up to Okay. Uh oh. Okay. What was that? Oh, it does this from time to time. Don’t worry about that too much cuz we should now get the um the push back crew. But there’s no tug there. We’re getting ready with all of this. We’ve got no um radio operator. We are ready to push back. [Music] Speed bird 25 Yankee at gate 241 request push back and engine start. Speedird 25 Yankee Heathrow ground. Push back approved. Face north. Push back approved. Face north. Speed Bird 25 Yankee. Okay, here he comes. So, locking pin is in, which stops the wheel from moving whilst they’re uh well, the the the the tug is now in control. It actually disconnects the front steering mechanism from the tiller on the on the flight deck and the and the rudder pedals just because otherwise potentially you could snap it. There have been cases of that uh in the past. So this is completely independent now. The front wheel steering is controlled by the tug. Uh oh, where did he say? Face north. Uh facing north. There we go. parking brake. Okay, the parking brakes released. We’re on ignition start. Okay, we’re going to turn number one. Here we go. Oh, hold on a minute. Yeah, I did put flee on. [Music] Ignore her walking through the um that’s not facing north. That’s facing south. Oh, listen to that engine start, man. Oh, have you got your system turned up? Oh, yeah, they are. They are. It’s got a double brake on it. Okay, we come back to the flight deck and wait for these the N2 numbers to get to the right temperature. Um, which is when it becomes unhighlighted. usually there around about 61. Uh, okay. Turning number two. Okay. Whilst we’re doing this, we can uh set flaps one. Flaps one set. And that’ll show on the um on the screen as well. Um, we’re just going to do a quick [Music] FNF check. [Music] Okay, we can tell them good, good engine start. That’s fine. Cockpit to ground. We have a good engine start. You can disconnect. Speed bird 25 Yankee request taxi. Speed bird 25 Yankee runway 27 right taxi via Lima. Bravo Lima 21. Lima 22 alpha 2. Let me just turn this off. Okay, speeder 25 Yankee runway 27 right taxi via lemur bravo lemur 21 lemur 22 alpha 2 I think that’s runway 27 right taxi via lemur bravo le limma 21 lemur 22 alpha 2 speed bird 25 Yankee all aircraft be advised information India now current QH1034 yeah there we go that’s cuz the bypass pin was in Right is clear. Thanks, mate. O, what are you doing, son? Bleeding hooligan. She’s waving. She’s got the pen. She’s happy. Okay, so now we can go off. Okay, we’ve got um taxi clearance. Let’s uh get on with it, shall we? So, this is a straightforward taxi up to here. Turn right. Very short taxi. Lemur. We’re on Lemur, then onto Bravo Link, uh Lemur 21, Lima 22, Alpha 2, which is the turn on point. Um so, here we go then. [Music] [Music] I keep tracking on [Music] [Music] How cool is this, man? [Music] Leaf Blower Airlines to the right there. Yep, we’re good. This is Bravo and then link 21 and alpha 2. Just check those ground spoilers are armed. Oh, Scoot. It must be a maintenance section here for Scoot. I have to update that. That’s another that MD11 again, isn’t it? So, we’re going long, man. We’re going long. Right. Standby. Let’s make sure we’ve got our uh strobes on. Wing on. Should have been on. Good for that. Everything’s fine up there. We’re good. [Music] bit of a ramp here. That’s why you sort of like run out of breath uh when you’re climbing up here. When we come up to this uh holding position where I’m just going to sit and wait for uh for clearance clearance. Speed bird 25 Yankee contact Heathrow tower 118 decimal 505. Contact tower 118 decimal 505. Speed bird 25 Yankee. [Music] Speed bird 25 Yankee ready to go. Runway 27 right. Speedbird 25 Yankee Heathrow Tower. Wind tree 00 at four. Runway 27 right cleared for takeoff. Cliff takeoff. Runway 27 right cleared for takeoff. Speed bird 25 Yankee. So this is my FO who’s doing the uh who’s doing the radio today. So I’m going to go full long. I like that when they do that over at the courtyard cuz you get them directly head on. Man, this is where you flash me, isn’t it? Flash me now. Okay. Okay, everybody happy? Everything good there? Flaps one. Just double check the uh spoilers are armed. Spoilers are armed. Uh they haven’t given us a squawk yet. Let’s just do a quick uh Heathrow ground. Speed bird 25 Yankee requesting squawk. Heatro tower speed bird 25 Yankee squawk tree 655 squawk 3655 speedbird 25 Yankee let’s go little bit forward pressure on the stick speedird 25 Yankee Squawk tree 655 acknowledged. Coming up on 120 knots. Always remember me dad calling that calling the numbers out. 140 knots. V1 rotate. Bring it up about 20°. Close it off about there. Positive rate. Gear up. [Music] Passing through 1300 ft. Go autopilot. Bring the throttles back to climb. Check my speed. Just make sure. 25 Yankee. Reset transponder. Squawk 365. Squawk 3655. Speedbird 25 Yankee. So, Speedbird 25 Yankee, contact London. Control 118 decimal 825. 118 825. Speedird 25 Yankee contact London control 118 decimal 825 speedird 25 Yankee so announce on frequency London control speedird 25 Yankee now they’re going to give me an 11,000 ft pass speedird 25 Yankee London control identified climb to flight level 11. So now when I hit this constraints button here, this will give me my altitudes here that it’s going to climb through to. Um, but they’re all they’re kind of giving me early clearance to get up to 11,000 ft. Speedird 25 Yankee. London control identified. Climb to flight level 110. I don’t think I acknowledge that. See, climb to flight level 110. Speed bird 25 Yankee. Speed bird 25 Yankee. London control. expect one bravo runway 33 tree. So that’s basically my bravo runway 33 my uh standard arrival um uh um point heml speed 25 Yankee request runway change. Oh, no. No, no. Speedird 25 Yankee. Roger. Say runway. Speed bird 25 Yankee. Uh, please ignore Speed Bird 25 Yankee. You broke up. Say again. Runway. London control. Please ignore runway request change. Speedird 25 Yankee. I didn’t get the runway again. I’m just going to say the same one that we’re going into, which is 33, isn’t it? Bloody hell. I hit the wrong button, didn’t I? Runway 33. Speed bird 25 Yankee. Speedird 25 Yankee. Treat tree is the runway you’re already assigned. Unable runway change. Okay, that’s fine. I’ll lead it there. Speed bird 25 Yankee confirm. Thank you. Okay, hopefully we’re out of that now. Okay, so we’re still on managed. Everything’s on manage, which basically is these orange dots here indicate that the aircraft is manage managing the climb. So, when we hit OML, we’re still at 6,000 ft. Now, if you want to see a little bit further along, uh all you have to do is go down to your um flight plan. Too steep path ahead. Never had that before. Well, it’s I’m doing it as it as it asked. And that was at uh for 11,000 ft. So I’ll just clear that. See what happens. Um but basically in terms of where we are at, as you can see here, um llat coming up in 2 kilometers. You can also see your numbers here on the screen down here. So um the next one we’re coming up to uh one uh nautical mile, not kilometers, sorry. Uh and it also gives you a time that you should be reaching that at 1501. So around about now we’ll stay with um let’s just notify that there. Um so we’ll look at the next way point um is flight level 100. So 10,000 ft at the next way point which is 6 km. So at the moment we’re climbing up through 6,500 6. Okay. So we now have started our climb. the uh the system the manage system is now going to take us up to 11,000 ft. Um and then what what’s important is here it says TC top of climb. So my top of climb is going to be at 160 um which is right where right at the top of the climb at 16,000 ft. So at that point uh when we reach that up on uh ATC contact London control 118 decimal 475. Bye-bye. Over to London control 118 decimal 475. Speed bird 25 center on 18 decimal 475. I need to get used to all of this. I mean this is how a lot of people lucky enough to fly with um fly with the next announcement. Okay, let’s just announce it on frequency. London control speedird 25 Yankee. Good afternoon. Climbing flight level 0 niner 8 for flight level 110 direct. There we go. So we’re speed 25 Yankee London control. Good afternoon. Radar contact. Climb to flight level 220. Wow. Strike level 220. Speed bird 25. Yankee Mike. Uh oh. The initial altitude climb. Okay. That’s a lot. That’s a lot, isn’t it? because I’m able to that didn’t sound don’t like the sound of that things come up on here. Um nothing’s on there. Um so I’m I’m working with a couple of screens here folks. Sim brief is kind of done. I’ve got numbers down here. But um in fact, hold on a minute before I do anything else. I’m just going to quickly go over here and set my arrival performance numbers. Luckily now we can just apply meta and all the numbers. So 10° 32013 wind is coming from 320 at 01 knots. It’s absolutely nothing. So refresh the meta there. And then what we’ll do is we’ll go down to here. Press the performance page. And this then takes us through to we just ignore all of the other stuff. Flight level 220 you saw there on the previous one. But um the barrerow, which is the um minimum decision height, which is what you see over here when you go to the charts, when you increase that, there’s your glide slope. Got to reach that. Got to be at 2,000 ft when you come into that. But here’s your decision height into the um ILS uh 33, I’m guessing. Um which is 528 ft. So, we basically put the barrerow in here, which is um minimum decision height. I don’t know why it doesn’t say MDH on there, but anyway, it is what it is. So, the Q&H um as we saw here is 1034 at Birmingham. So, we’ll just put 1034 in there. Aircraft’s making a left turn. 1034 in there. And what was it? 10°. Just have a look here. It was 103201. Okay. 103 201. So 10° and um winds are 3 2 0 at 01 knots. Wow, that’s very very light winds, isn’t it? And that’s all that’s it. That’s basically us now programmed for the approach phase. Go back to the flight plan. So wellin flight level 169. Um and hold on. Where is that? Top of descent. So, okay. We are at top. Speed bird 25 Yankee ready for descent. Speed 25 Yankee Bravo. Runway 33. Descent to flight level 090. So already descending to flight level 090. So before I even got to the top of that quick climb, it was just um one bravo runway 33 descent to flight level 0 niner 0. Speed bird 25 Yankee. Okay. So when we get to Welling, which is here, we basically look down here and see where we should be. We should be at flight level 169. So 16,900 ft. We don’t need to be at 9,000 ft until we reach H, which is one of the way points, which is way further ahead. In fact, it’s um well, yeah, it’s 31. It’s 31. Um contact Birmingham director 131. Okay, so now they’re putting me through to Birmingham director now. Um, so I would say um, contact Birmingham director 131 decimal 05, Speedbird 25 Yankee. Now, now I’m going to acknowledge it. Birmingham director 131 decimal 005. Speed bird 25 Yankee speed limit is exceed interesting. Now that’s that is interesting because Birmingham director Speed Bird 25 Yankee Good afternoon. Flight level is too fast. We have 25 Yankee Birmingham director. Good afternoon Q&H 103 for expect radar vectors for ILS runway 33. That’s a school boy error. That was should have done that a long time ago. Right now what I am going to do is at this altitude I’m going to put my LS which is landing systems they call it. Um QNH103 for expect radar vectors for ILS runway 33 speedbird 25 Yankee. So radar vectors for ILS 33. Um which basically means from what I from the way I see it where it says here Q&H 1034 that’s my barometric barometric setting which will be in here when we’re on on on the approach phase. Um, but expect radar vectors for ILS33. What that basically means is rather than the autopilot doing it, they’re going to give me radar vectors, manual radar vectors, uh, as far as I know. There’s another um, um, great tool that I have here, which is Navier Graph. Um, and if I select here, you can see the uh you can see my you can see me on the uh on the approach. Um, so I’ve got a long way to go before I well I it looks like a long way, but it’ll um I’ll get there pretty damn quick. I can assure you. Uh 8.5 miles before we reach uh Perfax, which is this one here. Um, and that’s the next way point and we need to be at Perfax 16,700 ft. Uh, and we’re descending. We’re now at 9,000 ft. Everything’s looking good. Um, on a nice um trajectory and ready for our next announcement really. This where you got to be a little bit patient. See, I could request a direct fix right now. Don’t laugh at me because that means that I’m obviously doing something wrong or something. Just let me do it, man. Let me do it. It’s all good. Everything’s looking good. See if the um snooker referees gloves are still there. Yeah, still there. This is basically all the fuses. This these are the fuse panels here, folks. Crazy all the amount of fuses for uh for all the different components. man recorder recorder com navs. Okay, that’s an interesting thing to uh engine one and two. Why not? Engine one and two. Look at that. Pull those pull those um bust switches or whatever they’re called. Bus switches or something like that. I don’t know. Anyway, so we’re uh we’re quite good here. Everything’s nice at 9,000 ft. I’m quite happy. No, don’t start pressing them, Daisy. See, don’t worry, man. I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to do that. Hey, can I just quickly show you um one of our members um uh has very kindly done this for us. Uh Richard the Roadie. Um, I’m not sure if Richard works airside. Uh, but but we can’t quite figure out from his maybe. Yeah. But anyway, look at that, folks. What a diarama he’s built me. Now, I’m a little bit I’m I’m thinking that I might actually go and put that at um at ARD. I think it deserves to be in ARD so everybody else could see it rather than being my house. I wish I could. Everyone could see inside me house, but it’s like because I want to show off things, you know, like me um me my my the bits that I um dug up on the bomber. Anyway, shut up. I need to I need to concentrate here. Okay, so down here we got wind check, radio check, request approach up. Was that Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you know when I did show it in the past Yeah. Everyone was just totally ignoring it and talking to each other. Thanks. I think they’re all drunk. It is Friday. They all deserve it. Hello. Wake up. Wow. Yankee descent to flight level 070. Okay. 070 Speedbird 25 Yankee. Descent to flight level 070. Speed bird 25 y. And this is managed as well. Um if I want to, I can get down a little bit quicker by literally doing that. Um, normally 700 ft per minute is a is a is a decent enough number. Let’s get down there a little bit. It will meet that constraint though. So, actually I can go back on that. Just stay on that. 600 ft per minute. It’s fine. Basically, the aircraft is Oh, wait a minute. It’s just 200 ft per minute. 300 ft per minute. What I’m looking at down here, folks, this is the this is these are the screens that you basically rely on uh in terms of your navigation, your way points. Um the the constraints which are in um purple. Um 210 knots uh need to be at 210 knots. When I get to Grove, I need to be at 7,000 ft. I’m still a long way back from there, but but you need to stay in front of the aircraft and this descent um path. Uh we’re just looking here. It’s that’s the that’s what we’ve we’ve figured in flight level 70. Um and it’s it it’ll get us to that point. Should be I’m going to go a little bit tighter on that one. I don’t know. A little bit slow on that descent. So now you see now you see the um the the the the needle now gone down to 07 which is uh 700 ft per minute um I’m descending at. So, when I get through that, I’m going to hit the approach phase around about Grove, I’d imagine. And these um these little markers here as well, which is like um they they they’re another indicator to I think that might be the 10,000 ft. No, it won’t be cuz I’m coming through 7,500. But the um this arrow represents something uh as in the marker or um like these these this this donut airu donor that is make means that I’m above or below the profile as well. But if you come down to your um performance page is it is it there? No, no, no, no. It’s the Hold on. Is it the program? Oh, here we are. Look. Uh, accurate accurate accuracy estimated high high accuracy within.3 nautical miles. So, we’re all good there. That means that the aircraft’s on a good trajectory uh to bring us in line with. So, we’re coming up on 3,000 ft now. Maybe they’re asking this other screen. I do have another screen to my right here, folks. So, now I should get speed is being managed as well as you can see here with the with the orange dot bringing it down to 210 knots. Uh that’s what it was supposed to do with that constraint there. Um, so, uh, Oscot flight level 070, CF33. Oh, no. Don’t don’t don’t don’t. Let me keep doing what I did earlier on today. Yeah, I didn’t hit the approach phase. I entered the uh the the uh the numbers. I didn’t activate the approach phase. Okay. So, we should be at some point starting to I’m going to I’m going to descend to 3,000 ft here cuz when I hit Grove, let’s just have a look at Grove. I need to be at 70. So, CF33. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with uh his CF33. So, I’m going to get down to 3,000 ft. I think maybe that’s a little bit much. Maybe 4,000 ft. Because this is where I think the vectors are now going to come in from air traffic control in terms of the um okay 4.9 km to Grove and we’re below the the uh the 7,000 ft and descending to flight level 4. Aircraft be advised. Information alpha now current QNH1034. Speed’s good. I think it might take me out a little bit further. Leave heading 13. Expect radar vectors for ILS runway 33. Okay. So, what he’s saying here is basically as soon as I hit Grove here, I need to run. Yeah. Vector’s coming up here. So, here’s my heading over here on the right, which I’m just about to dial in. Yankee, turn right. Heading 125 for the approach. So, heading 125. Heading Jill, please. Speedird 25 Yankee, descent to 4,000 ft. Q&H 1034. Go. Q&H 1 034 speed to 4,000 ft. Q&H 134 Speed Bird 25. I’ve already got my I’ve already got my Q&H preset in here. If I do it now. Yes. No, I know. But it might be a bit early. Okay, it’s it’s Yeah, here we go. Don’t like it. There we go. See what happens. You get the warning. Just let me let me do it. Yeah. Okay. Sending 4,000 ft. So, it’s taking me now away from the path that I was on. So, it’s going to give me a bigger runin basically. And uh we need to get down to sort of like the 3,000 ft mark, but um 2,000 ft for CF33. I’m I’m going to descend to to 3,000 ft. How long have we got? 7.8 nautical miles. Okay. For CF33 and that’s 2,000 ft. So, tell you what I am going to do. I’m going to hit the approach now. Okay, there’s our donut moving now. There’s our donut moving. So, we didn’t get down to 2,000 ft. Um speed good. 210 knots. We can go flat one here. you know, start gearing the aircraft up for uh now I’m not going to bother hitting approach um on the on the on the Mac do cuz uh I’ve never been told you should. So, let’s just have a look now and see if we can um Speed Bird 25 Yankee turn right heading 135. Turn right heading 135. Speedbird 25 Yankee. Okay, just put me further out. Speedird 25 Yankee. Turn left heading. Very shortly. Left 075 speeding 075. Speedird 25 Yankee. So now it’s going to bring me in line. with the first part of the turn. You see now the uh the compass moving around bringing me up to 075. There is my blue marker there turning me um passing through 3,500 ft. Uh and you can see my little magenta diamonds uh my magenta diamonds basically giving me the line. Uh, so when this magenta one here moves into the middle there, know I know that we’re all on in alignment and this one here will move down to the center point there. Um, so everything’s managed at the moment. We’re all good. 2,500 ft. Um, we should get a 5 Yankee 4 miles from K3, turn left heading 355. Maintain 2,000 ft until established on the final approach course. Cleared ILS runway 33. Turn left heading 355 2,000 ft until established. Cleared ILS runway 33. Speed Bird 25 Yankee. Okay, we’re going to meet that we’re going to meet that um that 2,000 ft marker which is coming up nicely now. So now I can go flaps two and gear down. Speedird. Contact Birmingham tower 118 decimal 305. Bye-bye. Contact tower 118 decimal 305. Speed bird 25 Yankee. I need to report established. Birmingham tower. Speed bird 25 Yankee. ILS runway 33. Established. Speed bird 25 Yankee. Birmingham tower. Wind variable. Runway 33 cleared to land. Clear to land. 33. Runway 33 cleared to land. a 25 Yankee go flaps three bring the speed down a little bit but it is it is it is bleeding very very nicely that speed I think and we are right on target in terms of our lateral movement Um, our descent profile. Has something happened here? Why am I not descending even though it’s all managed? Should I be patient? Yeah, that is moving. It is moving. It is moving. It’s bringing us right in line now. You can see the magenta diamond moving down. That’s bringing me right on the glide path. Everything’s good. Gears down. So, at about 500 ft, I’m going to come off autopilot. 1,000 500. 100. 15 30 20 [ __ ] [ __ ] Oh dear. Oh dear. That wasn’t very good. Yeah, that wasn’t very good. Oh dear. But look, man. Speedird 25 Yankee exit right at Bravo. Okay. Okay. Auto brakes kicked in there. Oh, I need auto brakes on Max. Sorry. Exit right to Bravo. Speed bird 25 Yankee. Don’t know if this is Bravo here. It’s the last bleeding exit anyway. Oh, well, no, there’s one further up. This might be No, this is Bravo, isn’t it? Oh, speed bird 25 Yankee contact ground 121 decimal 8 05. Ground 121 decimal 8 05. Speed bird 25 Yankee. Speed bird 25 Yankee request taxi to company gate. Speed bird 25 Yankee gate 5 for Charlie taxi via alpha alpha 6 delta 1 delta delta 2 delta 3 victor 1 victor. Try writing that down, mate. Gate five for Charlie via alpha alpha 6 delta 1 delta delta 2 delta. I think they read it a little bit slower than that in real life, don’t they? It’s like slow down a bit, mate. Flipping heck. Imagine in America. It’s insane, isn’t it? Roger taxi alpha 15 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. It’s like, didn’t you hear me? God damn it. get off the frequency and all that. So quick at New York. So apparently very abrupt at New York. You got to be right on your game. And I tell you what, that place is insane. Um in peak season or maybe maybe uh early morning or or or late afternoon, that kind of time, you know. Um crazy that place. Well, all American airfields really at that time of day, but especially ones with multiple runways and big big taxiways, lots of taxi ways, should I say. So, nobody Okay, nobody’s saying Oh, we go. Here we go. Caroline Davidson, well done. Yeah, there we go. So, what James Taylor ever heard about Kennedy? Kennedy Steve. Kennedy Steve Jerry. Uh, we did record that. We can stop the recording now and we’ll play that back. It wasn’t a good landing. I’ve got to be honest with you folks. I wasn’t happy with that. [Music] I’m going to shut my number two now. [Music] That did [Laughter] See how good that is. Yeah. Not bad. Look at that. Roll her up to the line. Beautiful. There we go. Nice. Well, what do you think of that then, folks? Thank you everybody. Really appreciate that. Davey RFC, literally night and day since you first started this off. Uh, so fair play, great progress and great entertainment every Friday. Davey, thank you. Thank you everybody. Yeah, I’ve come we have come a long way together, haven’t we? Um, and by the sounds of it, there are people who are learning off of me, which is uh don’t don’t do everything I do. Definitely, you’ll understand it a lot more if you go and um uh go to this fella on um on YouTube. Let me just show you who he is. Uh, hold on a minute. Where would it Where would that come up, Jilly? Like in my um What’s that? It’s in subscriptions, isn’t it? What? Um Old Matey. Uh the Sim Pilot. The Sim Pilot. Um downloads. Here we go. Um you got channel. You got subscribe subscriptions. Yeah. Yeah. Here we are. Here we are. There we are. Okay. Hang on a minute. So, this guy here, he’s really cool and he’s very easy to understand. Or is that him? No, it’s that. It’s the wrong one, isn’t it? No, it is 320 sim pilot. I haven’t just haven’t seen this one. Welcome to another video. Here we go. Here he goes. This is him. This is definitely him doing stuff like that. But but yeah, he’ll run you through it. He’ll run you through it, guys, because he’s very uh knowledgeable and he’s a pilot. He’s actually a pilot. Um so I learned a lot from him. Also learned a lot from you lot as well. Um um Lee Rab. Um Shung as well. Very shouty. Shung. Um who else? Jilly. Um Rab. Numerous. Yeah, numerous sim pilots out there. Um thank you very much indeed. I appreciate all of your uh input. Aiden Campbell one pound super chat. Yeah running for the replay, remember? So don’t shut your engines. Oh, I’ve shut them down. Hold on. Should I try? Yeah, because everything’s off in it. Okay, I I tell you what I can do. Do I need the Oh, I haven’t even got APU. Oh, can I get um Let me just see here. No, no, no, no. Oh, okay. Oh, no. That’s not good, Jilly. What? I have to have the engines running. And the engines, the whole thing’s cold and dark now. So, we can’t play the replay, can we? I need a I need a big tablet. Yeah, this tablet. No, you’re EFB. Oh, okay. And panel estate engines running. Uh um panel state engine system. Uh oh, hold on a minute. No, it’s panel state up here, isn’t it? It’ll be up here somewhere. Uh, no, no, no. It’s not that, is it? Uh, this is another thing that I should have done, folks, because I’ve got the uh checklists as well. So, I’m going to be jumping on that. Um, panel state. Oh, here we are. Panel states. Uh, turn around with APU. Turn around. Activate. Yeah. You need to start the engines to request ground services. Okay, so that’s the I need to start the engines. Okay, that’s it. That’s all running. Okay. Oh, the APU isn’t okay. Okay. So, yeah, like I say, folks, uh I use Beyond ATC. They’re really, really good. Um, but uh the the what I really want to try and do is this other one uh say intentions. I’ve got used to this now. So, uh I need to sort of like wean myself off of Beyond ATC and now really start to um to work on uh say intentions which I’d imagine is they’re much of a muchness in terms of their operational navigability and all that. This is the other one Navigraph. you it’s essential for what you’re doing here on um on Microsoft Flight Sim if you’re going to get into it at this level. Um so obviously the first thing you need to do is um uh create your flight which is here and which I always do standard there and then you put your departure and arrival point there. Your aircraft type which is always the same in here and then it will set up the flight plan. Um, this I always do to uh A320 AE and then when you say generate flight, bang, it will process that and generate the flight plan for you. And then and this is basically what you’re importing from in into the MCDU when you go onto the scratch pad, the iPad on the left hand side. Uh, and in here, uh, you unload the previous one, import the flight, import from Simbrief, and there it is. That one there we’ve just done. Uh, and then it will give you all of those. It give you all the information there, your flight, your track, and all that kind of thing. Um, giving us the UML 1F uh, departure. Um, but then you’ve got the arrival um, options, and I clicked that one tonight, even though it was ILS 33. They gave me some additional um, um, um, navigational heading uh, changes uh, to line up a little bit further out, which was nice. It’s always nice to have a long run in rather than all of a sudden, you know, you’re you’re two miles from the runway. Um, so anyway, we don’t need these anymore for tonight. All we all we’re going to do is we’re going to run the engines. Um, we’re going to start the engines. Uh, let’s just pop up here. APU bleed on. I don’t know whether it’s going to let me do it, but let’s go outside and have a look. [Music] Oh. [Music] Yeah, running. [Music] Don’t you just love the graphics, man? I just love the graphics. Incredible. They’re on that. Okay, I think engine should be running now. Number two is starting. How cool are the graphics? And what what is amazing from a um computing that’s all code, isn’t it, Chilly? Is that all code? That heat? That’s all. Wow. I wouldn’t even know where to start. Right, let’s just have a look. Those engines don’t sound like they’re running very nicely. Let’s just see if this works now, then, shall we? Um, replay. Oh, here we go. Oh, I know it’s bugging you, mate. It is bugging. Or is it? [Music] Mhm. Here we go. [Music] straight down the middle. Tim, they both been running. They weren’t running though. There was no There was no heat coming out of the engines. Uh Craig Whitmore. Yes. FSTL. Uh indeed, you got to update that literally every time you play the FSDL um uh installer and all that kind of stuff. Those flaps don’t look like they’re uh out at all. [Music] Oh my god. You got to configure the aircraft. Okay, that’s interesting. So, it’s kind of got a life of its own, but the throttles are at um idle. Okay, let’s see how I do. Come on. Here we go. It’s a bounce. It’s a bounce. It’s a bounce. It’s a bounce. Oh no. Here we go. Oh, we’ve seen a few of them. We’ve seen a few of them, mate. I tell you. Hey, not bad. Not bad. Hey. Um, yes. The next phase will most definitely be the 737. Right. Let me um come out of that. Stop replay. Okay. Yeah, stop replay. Okay. Okay. Yes. Exit. Um, okay. Stop now. Um, so press escape then go to no main menu. So yeah, thanks mate. Um, I I’m absolutely amazed. I think that definitely deserves to be uh a aviation retail direct. I’ll take it up there with me. Um we’re going out tomorrow, aren’t we? Then probably. Um um and we’ve got Who are we filming going out on the American Jet? And Stoneman, if you’re watching, mate, I’m sorry I didn’t get your departure. Okay, here we go now. Here we go. Jilly, look look. Yes, look look look. Aircraft selection. Um, PA- Oh, no. Here it is. Here it is. Pipe of aircraft. PA 28-236 Dakota. Right. So, we’re going to go I think I’m going to go I’m going to go um I’m going to go white. Actually, hold on a minute. I’m going to go um Yeah. Should I go white, Walam? Anyway, this is just a um a test, right, Wolfie? Oh, yes. Um I’ve got it. Um we’ll just do um I’ve got it I’ve got it written down. I’ve got it written down. We’ll just do a circuit, I guess. Okay. Uh my notepad, which is not in my hand. Oh no, hold on a minute. Um, we’re in the wrong lighting. Um, Jennifer Bailey got Microsoft flights in 98. Wow, that’s worth a few quid, I guess, that 98 in isn’t it? My husband flies the PA28, Melanie. [Music] Okay, hold on a minute. There we go. Okay. Now, let’s just have a look around here, shall we? Um, because I need to sort of familiarize myself. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. So, what I really need to do is put this stick up here in front of me. Uh, do these work? No, they don’t. Okay. Now, does that work? Yes, it does. Okay. Um, that works as well. Okay. So, when I fly this, Jill’s going to be sitting in the back there. Jilly, look. Hey. Getting life insurance just like that. Okay. So, uh, foot pedals. Lefty, righty. Um, now engine’s running, I think. Now, is this the Oh, that’s my That’s a trim wheel of some sort, isn’t it? Probably instructor, aren’t they? Oh. Oh, God. which is okay. Let’s just No, we’re going solo, mate. We’re going solo. Oi with your oi. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don’t worry about me. I’m fine. Okay. So, okay. That’s just picked up the throttle again. Oh, dear. So, this is your your six-pack here, basically, folks. the most important instruments that you need to be uh there’s your vertical speed. Remember what we did earlier on which was about 700 ft per minute but obviously a lot less on a on an airplane like this I think. Um alter giving you your thousands of feet there I’m guessing. Uh your vertical horizon horizont uh your um artificial horizon which is um obviously when you’re left and right and up and down but everything’s working nicely there. Um, and we don’t like on the 152 have a pull out and push in throttle. We’ve got actual throttles here. So, we can uh let’s just check our revs. Okay, fuel flow. Um, there’s your air speed. I thought it would have revs on here. Oh, there it is. There. Okay, there’s your rev rev counter. Right. So, let’s just have a look here and see what the um let’s just have a look here and see if there’s a red line. Ah, okay. Okay. Let’s just have a look and see. I’m going to brakes. So, your manifold pressure there is is really important as well. Okay, that’s a climb. That’s takeoff, I think. There we go. And these are all your trim. I think these are um prop RPM and something else, but okay. Oh, the mixtures. Okay, that’s something that I can get on to a little bit later on, but uh for now, look at that, Jilly. Look at the look at the um the front with the the the material, the leather, like you know, how realistic it is. Yeah. Um right, the texture. There we go. Yeah. Okay, let’s give this a little go and do a circuit, shall we? Um, I’m guessing it doesn’t matter which of these engine switches is on, does it really? Um, uh, flaps. Ah, flaps are down here. Look. Interesting. Really? That’s not flap. It bloody is as well. It looks like a handbrake. Okay. All right. Okay. What do we do? Flaps one, maybe. Um, I don’t know. We’ll soon find out. Okay, let’s give it a go then, shall we? Oh, oh, oh. Steering’s very So, I’m steering with the rudder here, folks. I think I don’t think there’s a a Okay. Okay. Air speed 60 knots. [Music] 70 knots. I reckon I got to take off here, aren’t I? Okay, there we go. [Music] Now, I think I maintain. Of course, it’s not an Airbus, you know, where you pull it up and let go and it’ll carry on. This is all manual, man. [Music] Oh. Oh. Oh, that stall. I don’t like that. Okay. All right. All right. Chill out, man. I need to get to 1,000 ft at least, don’t I? All right. All right. Okay. The climb needs to be a lot shallower. Okay, fair enough. See, if I pull back here, Okay. Do I come back off the throttle? Let’s just have a look and see whether I do or not. Will it still fly nicely? Air speed about 70 knots still. That’s nice. If I want to get up to No, no, no. Yeah, we’re all good there. Shy. Nice. No, not retractable on this one. [Music] maintaining that sort of height close to 1,000 ft. But we um we sort of parallel with it. tables underneath it. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay. Okay. All right. Long lazy turn. Oh, we got GPS. Got GPS screen there. I’m using the bleeding instruments and my visuals outside for God’s sake. Right. Mike [Music] Okay. Should I try and call flap flap? Far too fast. Easy, sir. Easy, easy, easy. Oh, throttles put me off there. Oh, no. Okay. Sh. Hold on. Here we go. All right. All right. All right. All right. Right. Chill out. Chill out. Oh, she recorded it. I don’t know if I’ve got enough speed. Hold on. 60 70. Yeah, we’ll be all right. Oh, flaps one. Easy sound. Easy. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I did the uh just recording now. Okay. Coming up 1,000 ft now. [Music] [Music] You see what’s ahead of me there? There you see the the rowing lake in it. Yeah. [Music] [Music] This is a very short run in here, I think. Oh, yeah. Overshot. Overshot. Speed’s too fast. Need a bit about Bring the engines down a little bit. Bring the Bring the Revs down. We can make this. We can make this, man. Oh, yeah. We can make this. [Music] Oh, I think I’m ready for me lesson, Jelly. obviously with an instructor. Yeah. God, I tell you what, it’s not like the the Airbus where you point it in one direction and it it stays there. This is total manual. [Music] I tell you what, I’m I’m I’m full on the brakes here. We made it, mate. We made it. Okay. Okay. Okay. Parking brake on. Leave that. Stop recording. Yeah. No, I don’t have to. By the way, I don’t have to. All I do is I Oh, replay just here. Look, watch. Okay. [Music] Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. This is after the um the missed approach or or the go around or touch and go. Okay. So, we can um I can’t move this. I have to pause it and then bring Oh, nice turn. Nice turn. [Music] So, up at um High Wickham folks, they are still operating a couple of aircraft. One of which is two of three of which are these um and a couple of 152s. Um, and they are um, you know, it’s obviously going to cost me, but I think it’s worth having a go. I don’t think they’ll let me land it, though, which is a bit of a shame. I could call him and ask him that question. But how many hours you got? None. Do you think you can land it? Yeah. But if he’s sitting there with his hands over the over the, you know, if if he’s not happy, he’ll just grab it, won’t he? All I want to do is this. Just do circuits. Just do circles. I don’t want to go for a long fly out. Hold on. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Look. Here we go. Look. Came in a little bit heavy there. No flare. didn’t flare it. Oh, but I tell you what. Hey, thank you. Craig Whitmore paid £40 an hour when he was doing a PPL at Birmingham. That’s bloody cheap. How long ago was that, mate? Uh Sean Cousins, thank you very much in the squy. Uh, James Taylor, Ian Morrison was a bit bosshy. Nice job, Rab H. Thank you, Rab. Appreciate it. Chrissy White knuckle always airways fly again. Tony Juty, thank you. Diesel 13, thank you. Paul Skilling Bosch, um, that one uh, Stoneman JD Stone 101.1. Uh, thanks mate. Appreciate it. And like I said, mate, I was all in a kathuffle. Um, and and I should have got your flight and I apologize. Next time you’re here, you’re here all the time, so next time we’ll definitely catch your inbound because he’s here a couple of times a year in he. So, um, thank you, Chrissy. Well done, son. Uh, Andy Baraw, nice, nice. Uh, Jerry Carl Jones, thank you. Ian Morrison, uh, Oliver Smooth. Uh, James Taylor, thank you. Uh, Craig, what’s that? [Applause] Oh, blime me. Uh, wow, that’s really gone up, isn’t it? It’s about £259, isn’t it now? Um, yeah. 1980. Oh, great. Thank you, Mark Lusin. Send a video to the instructor. Mark Abraham, Melanie Stoneman, Andrew Todd, Great Landing. Thank you. Well, I think I’ve reached that point now, folks. I think I’ve reached that point where um we can most definitely move on to um I’ve got to learn the uh I’ve got to learn about the the um the Boeing now. 11 grand for a PPL. Great. 11 grand for a PPL. Well, you know what? If it’s 11 grand for a PPL, um the next level is obviously your um ATPL uh your frozen ATPL, which is what you need. So that’s another level that you go through. But um there are so many different channels you can go through. And I think um we should we should look July at the cheapest way to get there. Um bearing in mind that um a mate of mine, he’s just uh he’s got his uh frozen ATPL and he’s been offered a job by one of the LCAs. Um and um he uh they’re basically going to take him on and um but the next stage that you have to go through when you get to the company is you have to go through uh rigorous uh training camp on the simulator for like about two weeks or something like that. They literally throw you in at the deep end. See how good your communication skills are as well. That’s really important with two people on the flight deck. Talk to one of another. And that’s what we were talking about earlier on about having life skills and and understanding of uh communication um rather than being sort of like inside yourself and not someone to talk to. I come across people like that quite regularly interestingly enough. Um not youngsters but um uh adults um which is a bit of a shame because you know I’m quite outspoken believe it or not. and and and it’s just not I like I like people to be um be really confident and get out there and ask questions which is what we do on the channel here as well. Give people more confidence. Somebody saying that it was um uh today was um u what was it national about mental health? Yeah, national mental health. It’s international. It’s oh international. Um, so I I’m I’m you know it’s it’s um well done to anybody who overcomes that kind of stuff or is dealing with it. Um just just fight on is what I can say. But I I have to admit that a lot of people have said that uh that this channel, not me, but the the the company that they have online uh through through the through the through the memberships and the chat and general um um connectivity that people have on the channel is is has gotten through quite a lot of things. Uh and co being one of those that we all got through together. But anyway, let’s just have a quick look in here and see if we have got um uh aircraft selection. I’m sure we’ve got a 737, haven’t we? No. Okay, hold on a minute. Of course there is. You need to the 737. Yeah, hold on a minute. Yeah. Yeah. Uh type in there. Wait. What? Yeah, it was there before. I could have sworn it was when we had all the had all the hundreds and hundreds of um Anyway, what was the 737? You got the Craig Whitmore. The cost to become an airline pilot is £12,000. Interesting. Okay. Uh Craig, are you able to break that down in the stages and financials um and send it to us on contact at BigJet TV? That would be very interesting to know because £120,000 count zero. That’s £12,000. Yeah, he’s corrected himself. Oh, £120,000. Yeah. Yeah, that’s Yeah, it is. It is. Yeah, I was going to say flipping heck. Um, so, uh, 737 Julie, uh, let me just close this a second. H, hold on a minute. I have to, um, don’t I have to to What? What are you trying to do? Trying to get the 737. Okay. Click on market players. Oh, okay. Okay. So, I’m going to have to buy it then. Well, okay. All right. Okay. Let’s just Let’s just Oh, do you see that panam there? What was that? Um, yeah. Panam A310 A310 let’s just look £469 Jill can I just say something this is Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 yeah you bought the top package of 2024 you’ve got all the aircraft yeah that was an Emirates oh 737 800 nice 6 quid really oh s that I’m going up here for this panam uh yeah But hold on. Ryan Air 737 Max £149. That’s more like it. Um, should we get that type? But no, no, no, no. There’s someone on here who said that type of the the um the app or not not the app, but the type like Phoenix 73 like the equivalent of Phoenix. It was actually Stoneman JD Stone who Phoenix 737. No, it’s not Phoenix 737. It’s another 737. Well, you’ve got the market places. Okay. PMDJ, buy it through PMDJ and not the marketplace. Oh, PMDG 737. That’s exactly it. So, don’t go through the marketplace. You have to import it. So, shall I just Okay. because I kind of want to do it now, but I don’t want to do it live on the um Okay, Roy Vanc, don’t feel don’t feel um uh uh um um this is the first time I’ve seen you mention this before, mate. I mean, um you’re not you’re not highlighted as a member, but it doesn’t matter. Uh it would be great to get some answers on the channel you asked for. Unfortunately, I experienced a total ignoring when offering my help for the sim tutorials. quite disappointed. All good though, Roy. I’m I’m sorry. I’ve I’ve never seen um uh uh this is the first time I was I was completely unaware that you were uh that you were a Sim guy. Um so so bring it on. He’s emailed to you. I forwarded it to you. He’s been on there many times in the in when you first started doing it. Was he Oh, well I that was a long time ago, man. Roy, I’m really sorry, mate. No, no, guys. This is the problem here. This is the problem. He’s trying to do it himself. Yeah. Yeah. He encourages me not to tell him what he’s saying sometimes because he wants to do it alone. Yeah, but he’s talking about like you just said on the like earlier shows where he’s commented like I said there was Rab Lee Roy. Sorry Roy. Numerous people offering tips and advice. Okay. It’s impossible to do what you’re doing and see them all. Yeah. And on emails on emails it’s a different thing as well, Julie, isn’t it? because emails, it’s much better when I’m actually in the in the groove, so to speak, than doing it. So, my apologies, Roy. I really do apologize, mate. Uh, and to anybody else whose comments I miss, uh, to be honest with you. Um, shall I dip into me? So, PMDG Jilly, I’m trying to do that, but Max in Builds A. Oh, 737 Max in builds A350. Okay, Sue, Mark, you and others have been such a help. It’s great to be in this wonderful community. Thank you, Sue. And it’s just amazing to know people are uh are are able to feel $7 for Really? Oh, man. Should we just go fly this? You just have a look at this Panama. That’s not a 737. That’s an A310. That’s not Sorry. Sorry. An A310. I just I wanted to But I’m going to have to put the screen on here, aren’t I? with the payment thing and all that. And I can’t do that, can I? Not if you if you just hide it on there for for the moment. Yeah, you can just have you. Okay. How do I do that? Cockpit might just have you. No, you No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Main shot. Main shot. Yeah. Hide the eye. The eye. Okay. Oh, okay. Buy and download. Yeah. Buy and download. Oh, sorry. Buy and download. Yeah. Okay. It’s only £469. Let’s have a bit of that lovely old um A310 which will have no I would imagine won’t have any glass in it as in screens. Um Oh, I’ve got to do this. Look. Yeah, I I did I did see I did see your email, Roy. Many people sent email in with tutorials and help and tips, but the thing is that Jerry wanted to learn it all from scratch on his own. Jerry was being Jerry, you know. Yeah. But but but not just that, but I’d learned a lot from that A320 Sim pilot and I was trying to just That is you doing it yourself. Yes. Yes. Exactly. Researching yourself. I forward the emails to you. Yeah. Some of them included links to him and so on. Yeah. Really sorry, mate. really sorry, but you know, like I like like everybody knows um I’m a bit um uh I mean there there have been um like somebody said the other week, last time last week, constraints, make sure you put your constraints on and that has kind of stuck stuck in my head, but all the other cut kind of stuff is now muscle memory. However, um the the issue um okay so what do I do there? Purchase receipt there um to return to a transaction. Okay. Um that should be in there, shouldn’t it? [Music] What these items not being consumed, modified or transferred? Was it What? What you doing? I’ve I’ve bought the I’ve bought that A310. Okay. Steam offers recons. Okay. Just click authorize. I have no idea what that means. All right. Okay. So, purchase in progress. Okay. Okay. Okay. This is a lovely old airplane. Um. Wow. I tell you what. Okay. We can put that on now. Oh, why am there? It said download started in the background. Oh my god. It’s It’s crashed. Click on that. Click on that. What does it say? Hold on. No, the steam steam steam. Don’t need Don’t worry about it. It’s not going to come up here. It’s not all the payment stuff’s gone, mate. That’s not my point. Okay, turn it off then. You hadn’t transitioned it. I’ll transition. Okay. Yeah. Oh, you put it back on and you didn’t transition it. Unhide it. Okay. You want me to put it on now? Which is what you and then transition. Transition the black screen. Okay. Sorry folks. Okay, so it’s it’s crashed. Yeah, in the game crashed it. Okay, should we just see what happens when we press play? Okay, Paul Martin PMDG is study level. Yeah. Did you just buy the livery or was the aircraft Andy Bar do anything like it just does everything at 1,000 miles an hour? I’m not sure if you bought the aircraft or just deliver the livery cuz you just don’t John Grunham CMC 767 great livery still Oliver. There we go. Yes, indeed. Oh, see I hate it when it does this. I hate it when it does this. So, tomorrow we’re catching a member going out, aren’t we, Julie? Yeah. Um to America. We’re just going to do it on in a in a road tripping style format. Let’s have a go. Let’s have a go. Oh, it’s not there, mate. I bet you it’s Oh, mate. Jilly, it’s not working, man. Click on the 310 or not 310. Here, here, here, here. Oh, click on that and you can go liveries. I’ll pan out. There you go. Okay. It was a livery you purchased for which you already have library. Okay. Okay. All right. Um let’s do that and then let’s just do quick um EG LL. Uh let’s just do on the runway. Let’s just do on the runway EGP. We I’m not going to be able to fly this thing. I can almost guarantee it. And there’s no point putting SIM brief in or anything like that because it’s got nothing to import it into which is crazy man. But it will have a computer. I think this isn’t fly by wire. This is all cable operation. Um and um it will all be um analog instruments as well. Let’s just see where she’s at. Oh my god. Okay. Maybe there is glass. Interesting. Okay. So, this must be Was it the A310 that was Oh, I just turned that. Was it the Look at these old switches. Okay. Oh, you can import. Look at this, man. Okay. Well, shall we just um Wow. This is seriously uh [Music] all the numbers at the same point. Uh we got we do anything like that. [Music] We got none of these numbers which is what we need. Um, are the flaps going to be? [Music] Wow. Look, MCDU and everything, man. Look at that. Wow. Look at the old analog dials though for the um for the engine um RPMs and everything. Look at this. [Music] Man, listen to those CF6s though. Listen to the whistle from them, man. [Music] [Music] She’s a good looking jet, ain’t she, man? Wow. [Music] the paneling. All the paneling. How dirty she is. Right, let’s try and take her out for a ride, shall we? Okay. So, how do I get myself There’s no There’s no um Well, let’s just go, shall we? See what happens. Oh. Oh, yeah. Of course. The only Airbus with the um with a yoke like the Boeing. Look. Wow. How about that? Okay. All happy with that. Right. Let’s uh let’s have a go, shall we? So, set flaps one. Do Are the flaps working? Let’s just have a look and see if the flaps are working. Flaps working. Um, pump on the brake there. Uh, speed brake here. Okay. Interesting. Interesting. Okay. All of this down here. Oh, look at the reverser levers as well. Wow. Okay, so that’s armed. Uh, everything else looks all right, doesn’t it? Oh, why not? Oh, overhead. Look at the overhead, man. Wow. That’s proper 1980s style that is, man. I like that. That would look really good in its time. Like it. Like it. Okay. Okay. Let’s see what happens here then, shall we? Couple of big CF6 engines. Brakes on, brakes off. Climb. Flex. 60 knots. Wow, she’s quite uh she’s really sensitive, man. 80 knots. 90 100. I don’t know what to go at. I’m going to I’m going to It’s got to be at least 150 in it. Getting towards the end of the run now, mate. We’re going to run out of runway in a minute. 140 knots. Let’s go. [Music] Oh, there’s something badly wrong here, man. There’s not enough power in those engines, man. There’s not enough power in the engines. I’m telling you. Too low gear. I know. Too low gear. Gears up, man. Gears up. Oh, it’s not looking good, is it, mate? It just didn’t feel like Oh, wait a minute. Okay, I think we’ve rescued it. Okay, we’re now coming up to 1,000 ft. Okay, that’s good. Oh, whoa. Stick shaker. Stick shaker. Easy there, son. We’re only at 15°. But mind you, mate, you have got a couple of CF6s bolted to the wing. Okay. Flaps up. Okay. Well, I’ve brought the throttles back to climb, but we’re climbing quite considerably here. Oh dear. Okay. Speed’s going through the roof or coming up to it. Anyway, nothing’s happening when I throttle back. Oh, yeah. We got a problem with the throttles, mate. Yeah, throttles ain’t moving. Yeah, we’re done for. We’re done for. We might as well just um Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We’re done for. And I’ll never land her at this speed. So, uh yeah, lots of stuff. Um Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. gear won’t extend. Going too fast. We’re in trouble here. Nothing is um either that or it’s just Well, actually, I don’t think that’s the case with the gear extension and going too fast. Just don’t think I think it’s bugged out on me. So, I’d need to set the profile up, wouldn’t I? For this, wouldn’t I serious issues here? not working. So, I’m going to have to land her on her belly at high speed. Pause it. Okay. Go into control options. Oh, I don’t want to mess around me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. These are all for Phoenix. Yes, I know. I’m not going in there to touch that, man. I’m not touching that. That’s what you’re going to have to do for different aircraft. I know. I know. I know. I know. Oh, put it back. Really? Yeah, you would. You cuz you would put it back. Okay. So, here. Here. Yeah. Uh what? Click it. What? Just the Yeah. Okay. So, just put it to default. But when you go back in the 320, you just come in and change it back again. Yeah, but how do I know? How do I remember what that was? Didn’t we take a picture of it or something? What? What do you mean? Well, I’m going to have to scroll through this. There’s about four or five of them there. There, Jill, is what I’m saying. There shouldn’t be. No, I know. I know there I know there shouldn’t. I just don’t like going in here and fiddling and farting around with that, mate. Well, you’re going to have to learn to do that because that’s an important part of Yes. Very true. Very true. If you want to try and belly land it, go for it. But you’re going to have to to fly over aircraft. You’re going to have to get your head around it. Okay. But I’ve got the I’ve got somewhere on me phone, Julie. I’ve got I’ve got a a saved Yeah. Yeah. I’ve got a screenshot on here. Yeah. Somewhere you probably screenshot. No, that’s um that’s your activation code for something that you’ve just given to the whole of YouTube. But it’s been used, so it’s pointless. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s like finding it in the trash, isn’t it? It’s like find Oh, look at that. I can use that. No, you can’t. Uh what which there is somewhere. There is a there’s Yeah, I remember taking a screenshot. I think I took a photograph. Let’s all take a photograph. take a photograph. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, that’s it there. This is being streamed. It’s those three there. Yeah. But this is currently being streamed to YouTube. Yeah. Yeah. So, it’s on YouTube. Yeah. But I’ll just take a picture of it anyway. Okay. So, we’ll go to default here. But why? Why? Why, Julie? It says TA320 pilot. That’s cuz you’ve named it that this. That’s not the problem. Okay. So, if that’s not the problem, it’s the it’s this. Okay. So, there you go. So, default. Okay. Right. Okay. Let’s just see if that makes any Do I have to save and do I have to save or do I just um just go back? Yeah, I don’t have to save. Yeah, collapse and save or apply. Apply. There we go. Yes. Okay. Go back. Resume. Uh Whoa. Easy there, Sunny Jim. Wa there. Okay, hold on a minute. Is the gear going to come down? Oh, it gears. Come down. Good. Flaps. Have we got flaps? And look, this is also got a uh a flapper on on the wing, folks. Got no idea where I am. I got to get down. Wow, this thing does it easy on that turn, mate. Okay, there’s the lake. Man, this thing can seriously handle like a flapping. They are flapping, aren’t they? They are flapping, man. They are flapping. Hold on a minute. Hold on a minute. We’re I I dare go into the cockpit. Oh. Oh. Oh. That’s why because of the flaps. Okay. Okay. It’s because of the flaps, right? 10,000 ft. But the engines are at full chat. Listen. Throttle’s not working. Jelly. Well, because we need to complicate. So, at the moment I’m doing um 300 and 280 knots. So, this isn’t not looking good at all. You do know you can do it with your mouse on the actual No, I’ve tried it. I’ve tried it. Look, look, look. I’ve tried it. Yeah. Yeah. It’s not It’s all bugging out, mate. It’s all auto. Oh, mate, that’s very loud. That auto throttles are on. Everything’s um Okay. Sorry for the noise. Down. Do what? Down arrow. We know it’s on. Down. Down arrow on my keyboard. Oh, nice. Oh, it’s definitely over speed, isn’t it? Sync rate. It still doesn’t make any difference. Still doesn’t make any difference. Look. Oh yes, it does. Okay. Okay. Now I can Okay. Okay. Let me put that gear up again. Find that find the airfield. I can bring that speed right down now then. Okay. All right. All right. Oh, hello airfield. Now that I think is north is it. Let’s have a little look and see what Oh. Oh. Um. Uh. Okay. 4,400 ft. 240 knots. Um. Okay. We’re We’re all right. We’re all right. We’re do we’re doing um I just need to kind of like figure out uh we got constraints on, but doesn’t show me the airfields um around like it does on the uh on the modern jet. Wow. This is crazy, isn’t it? Um, considering what I uh I managed to do earlier on. Well, this is not easy to fly, man. This is quite a heavy old thing. Imagine what the DC10s were like and the tristars and all that. What’s up? Oh. Um, trying to find those lakes and find fro. I think I’m lost, mate. I think I’m lost, Jill. I’m lost. I think I’m I’m going to have to uh admit to the fact that I’m lost. And what’s the time? 27. Oh my god, man. I haven’t had any dinner yet for God’s sake. Right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um is that the M25? Uh let’s try and get down below this cloud. Looks like an airfield there. Pull up. Oh, all right. All right. All right. Pull up. Here we go. There she is. There she is. There’s good old London Ethrow. Right. Let’s go. All right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Right. So, Wow. Wow. Oh, mate. No, this is this is Oh, wow. I mean, it it W it’s very sensitive. It just wants to climb though, man. Why does it want to climb? [Music] Oh, gear’s not coming down. Recycle it. Fast and fast. [Music] Wow. Look at this. Crazy son. [Music] Come on, mate. You can do this. You can do it, son. Pull up. Okay. Okay. Okay. Chill. Chill. Pull up. 100 up. 50 40 30 20 10 5. Oh, look at that. We made it, mate. We made it. Brake temperature high. Really? Wow. We’re still going. I got brakes at full chat. I got brakes at full chat. The engines are still running up. Wow. [Music] Wow. Yeah, these the detents need to be set, don’t they, Jilly? That’s what it is. Look at this lovely old thing, man. in sheer beauty and American Airlines. And half of these jets were given to the uh or loaned for free to a lot of the American carriers so that uh Airbus could get in the game. Um and it really did panic Boeing when this aircraft came along. I’m telling you, first widebody twin and then uh then when the A320 came along, wow, that really changed the whole scenery, isn’t it? She’s a beauty, isn’t she? It should sound quite nice going today. Is she sensitive? [Music] [Music] D in Obraham Elmo. Sorry. [Music] Panaman’s call sign. [Music] That’s right. Yeah. Yeah. 707s over here, didn’t they? But I think they had to stop, didn’t they? Or was it direct transit 707? [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Whoa. Hot brakes on. Now I’m going to have to shut the engines down here and not. Oh yeah. Well, there we go, folks. How about that? Um well, well, I think a successful uh simulator challenge night all all around. I think the next thing is to move on now to the 737. We’ll sort all of that out, Julie. Yeah. Um I have done a very brief crash course on the 737 with um the equivalent of A320 pilot uh on YouTube. And um if there’s anybody out there who can recommend a good um a good um tutor on YouTube for the 737. I’d appreciate it. I did find one, didn’t I? Hold on. Let’s just have a little look here. Let me just see if I did. I did have it, didn’t I? Hold on. Basic V count. Brilliant. Uh, Microsoft Flight Sim tutorial PMDG Boeing 737 with a realworld pilot. Whether it takes time to align or if it doesn’t. So, this is uh this is um very much like I’m guessing. Let’s just have a look. His name is uh Filbert Flies. That’s him there, folks. Uh, so that’s the guy that I’m going to go um check out his uh 737 tutorial and we’ll have to go through it all over again, won’t we? Um, the best choice of words. What’s that? The grand Oh, yes. Yes. Sorry about that. Um, thank you Paul Skilling. Thank you everybody. Hope you enjoyed it. Uh, apologies again. Um, Roy Vancan, I would recommend A330 driver previously 737 driver. Interesting. Okay, for the um Okay, for the A330, I’m guessing. Roy, thank you. Um, thank you everyone. It’s been great. And we’ll see you tomorrow. Do we know what time he’s flying, Jilly? It’s around about 10:00 a.m. is okay. Something I’ve got written down around about 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, folks. Look out for a um a road tripping. No, it was on the stream. It was definitely on the stream. Yeah. Um Thank you, Caroline. Yes, Caroline. Hegy. Well, it was actually with the help of Jilly that um that we managed to control the aircraft by way of its speed, etc. Um, thank you everybody. Aiden, Sunnel, P2, uh, good night Beverly, George, uh, Chrissy, great fun tonight. Good night, Lauren Tap. See you tomorrow, folks. Like I say, somewhere around Well, if he’s going out at 10:00, then it’s 9:30, isn’t it? But we don’t know the flight details and all that, do we? Where did we Where did we I I’ve got I know I’ve got some written down on my um notepad. Oh, okay. All right. Because you only told me to write it down. So, I wrote it down. Yeah, I’m pretty sure we did. Um but anyway, we’ll soon find out. Um if we uh otherwise we’ll see we’ll see it tomorrow. Changing changing control. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do that now. Um yeah, I’ll do that now. Thanks. Control options la. Um, this was TCAQ. That’s that’s that’s fine. We can leave that like it is. Uh, this is which one was it? Phoenix 2025. Hello. You Hello. You pretty um Okay, hold on a minute. Uh oh. Where is it, mate? Where is it? Anyway, we’ll uh we’ll sort that out, folks. We’ll see you tomorrow. Uh look after yourselves and take care and have a good evening. Thanks for joining me. 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To big jet tv Jerry Dyer and Gilly I like all this week video and the road trip this week see you on weekend video from your number one fan Peter ❤❤🎉🎉👍✋️✈️ps hop the cat 🐈 ok give him a big hug 🫂 🐈
Much better, Jerry! You've learned a lot. OK, a few problems of course – No landing lights up to 10000 on take off, turn off pax seatbelts, no landing lights below 1000 on landing, QNH not set when ATC changed vectors from FL to Altitude, APH not set on taxi-in. But way, way better, so impressed! By the way, you can use GSX ro request follow-me truck to your gate to help with taxining to it, etc. Well done, old bean! Whacko flight! 🙂
Can i ask what ATC addon this is? Or is it VATSIM?
Are pilots supposed to be drinking in the cockpit? 😂😂
I used to do this for real, four times a day. BM DC9-15 LHR-BHX.
Well done…great flight.😮
I enjoy this day immensely.
2:13:33 I want a landing like that!
I remember one of your earliest streams was from BHX, anyway, love the sim challenges keep em coming Jerry and Gilly
I've been watching your sim videos from the beginning, with each video you're improving all the time, great job, so keep it up.
Try using your checklist as an aid before you land & in your mind have a sort of sterile cockpit below 10,000. It focuses the mind.