Beginners guide to starting the Antonov AN-2 from Cold and Dark in Microsoft Flight Simulator 

It's brilliant :)

Ya, but their Russian to English dictionary is $100. lol

It's great, isn't it :)

Thank you for sharing :)

Great comment :) Welcome to the slippery slope :)

Pneumatic system only needs to be on when using brakes :)

It's good fun, isn't it :)

Very cool

It's very, very good :)

You're welcome :)

Good to know. Information is very hard to come by about operating procedures so far.

Hope you enjoy it!

I'll keep updating the checklist as I figure out more :)

@@jonbeckett super, thanks 👍

It's fantastic

Thank you - there will be more :)

Great job!

Fantastic - should be a lot more aircraft arriving on XBox now too.

Yes they are!

Sounds like a plan :)

It's fantastic.

Heh - cheers :)

I know - I wondered if it might have been caught up in the news stories that I'm not going anywhere near in this channel :)

Essentially yes :)

Nice work!

(sound of clock ticking)

@@jonbeckett Your content is always Study Level

It really is very, very good.

It really is :)

As I said - this is purely functional - no checks done lol. As many people have discovered, the engine pressurises the brakes :)

Just stock Ultra.

I'll do a much more in-depth video (or number of videos!) soon :)

I actually *like* that it's accurate

Yes, you are right - I missed it when trying to decipher an old printed pilots operating handbook I was going through. I've been away for a few days - will update asap.

There are probably valve controls somewhere in the cockpit to control charging the brake cylinders :)

Yes - good, isn't it :)

I noticed that too :)

I imagine it will get updated

I've just read the same - it's going to be interesting to try these things out :)

It's pretty straightforward :)

I purposely turned them off.

Airspeed is top left. I have flaps on a joystick axis. You've got me thinking now too!

@@jonbeckett Yes, I ended up binding that in my controller, but I was curious. Thanks,

I'll have a look later :)

Enjoy!

There's always one...

Where's the fun in that ? :)

@@jonbeckett I see your point. ;) I have a shameful amount of hours in Russian helos on DCS. Last night I was able to get the AN2 going from cold before I saw your video just because so many things are similar. Several of the instruments including the chrono are identical. Also I cheated a bit with some tool tips.

Nope. The real thing doesn't have one either.

@@jonbeckett very thanks

There is an alternative version of the aircraft in the pack - with modern avionics. It has the Garmin 530 :)

@@jonbeckett It does, but neither variant is able to connect the nav vhf radio to any instrument as far as I can tell. The only one that works is the ADF needle, but you cannot connect that to the VHF signal.

@@AndrewWilliamsMusic yep - I guess you can't have everything :) I'm going to fly it without the modern avionics kit anyway - kind of destroys the challenge, because you know exactly where you are with GPS anyway :)

Heh

It's great fun :)

Nope. Press CTRL+E.

Yes - learned that afterwards :)

@@jonbeckett Ok :) did I say I enjoy your videos? No? I do !

The alternator works about over 800rpm.

There isn't one with it, as far as I have seen.

@@jonbeckett I take the manual from the An2 for the FSX, you can find it on the internet and it is very extensive! Strange, the FSX variant is also from ATSimulation, why the manual is not here remains a mystery! Precisely because the Anna is programmed very well and with all functions, a proper manual is essential!

ATSimulations, as far as I'm aware.

ATsimulations

Brilliant :)

The flight model realism in MFS2020 is rubbish. Most official planes in the game don't behave anywhere near like in the real world. not in engine performance, stall characteristics or flight dynamics. It's mostly about the model itself is what people are after...

I gather the AN-2 is incredibly difficult to stall...

What real world experience do you have to make such confident statements ? :)

@@jonbeckett Yes I am a pilot and I have logged hours flying some of the aircraft I was referring to, particularly the Ultralight /light sport that is part of the official "none premium collection" as they call it, typical Microsoft marketing. and yes some systems currently are not functional like the propeller pitch adjustment system for the Czech JMB V3, engine performance is completely inaccurate and you can't even reach its top speed. stall characteristics, weight, and balance are all over the place, you can tell they didn't even bother to go over the aircraft's performance charts. the Icon A5 spin resistance wing is not modeled, stall spin occurs at the same speed under the same conditions as the other aircraft of the same category. I'm hoping that will be improved with the flight model updates, the GA category was a complete mess at release but was improved over time, unfortunately still not up there with Xplane.

Hahahaha

When the AN-2 was designed, developed and manufactured, Ukraine was a part of the USSR. In future I will be more careful to use the term "Soviet". I typically don't go anywhere near politics, and have no plans to. I typically remove comments that stray into politics - that's not what we're here for.

I just watched it back - because I'm consciencious about this sort of thing - the only thing I mention is that "everything is written in Russian". Given the period of the aircraft, that's correct - the labels WERE written in Russian - not Ukrainian.

​@@jonbeckett Cyrillic either way so for most of us used to the latin alphabet it's equally indecipherable, haha!

Oleg Antonov was born near Moscow and was of russian ethnicity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Antonov_(aircraft_designer). Without russians and ukrainians collaborating in the USSR this beautiful plane, as well as all other Antonovs, never would have come to existance. I know there are people out there who would prefer that. The whole ethnic "russian vs. ukrainian" extending into the FS community is getting to me.

@@svenhurvinek5293 Like I said - better to use the term Soviet, and go no further than that.

I don't understand the question