CAT 5 HURRICANE in Microsoft Flight Simulator (CLS-60 Force Feedback Yoke) 

hot air balloon set up when?

Retired AF Hurricane Hunter (weather officer) here, with flights into at least 3 cat 5's and a whole lot of cat 3s and 4s in my logbook. In most eyewalls the rain is so intense you have _no_ visibility out the windshield, and at times you can hear the rain pelting the skin over the roar of four turboprops despite wearing noise-canceling headsets. It literally wears the paint off of the prop spinners and the leading edges of the external fuel tanks. Turbulence sometimes isn't as bad as you might think. But if you've ever seen a dog pick up a chew toy and shake it at ridiculous speed, there were times where the hurricane was the dog and our plane was the chew toy. We were shaking so violently that my eyeballs could not focus on the instruments until the storm decided to give the plane back to us to fly. Standard aircraft radars are weather avoidance radars, with colors ranging from green to yellow to orange to red. When the Air Force took delivery of the WC-130Js back in the early 2000s, they had to tell Lockheed they needed a weather _penetration_ radar. We've got four different shades of red, from "ok, you can go there if you have to" to "NO !$%@#^%@#! - DON'T GO ***THERE***!!!!"

“The storm, it’s virtual, it’s not gonna kill your plane, stay with the pattern”

Just a little protip to help you take off; it really helps if you stay on the runway in a straight line. Best of luck!

Retired NOAA WP-3D pilot here. Great job on the penetration! As others have said, normally Gonzo stays in the outer reaches of a storm collecting steering data but I'm sure someone would love to give the eyewall a shot. Would love to see part 2 with the Orion. To make it realistic, you'll have to stay in the sim for 9 hours, drink 3 pots of crappy coffee and randomly have a scientist or grad student walk up and puke right behind you.

"this is mildly terrifying" The man says while pitched completely over in a Cat 5 hurricane

6:42 "Anyone up on Unicom 122.8?" Im fucking dying!

11:48 "Ladies and gentlemen, from the flight deck, this is your captain speaking, you really should have taken a boat..."

Preflight checklist: Possessed yoke☑ Coolest Xbox turkey stick☑ "Thrustmaster" (giggity) throttle ☑ Foot rest ☑ - (we will be fingering the "Thrustmaster" for this flight) Emotional support AK-47 (for duck hunting) ☑ The throne (that fell off a real Boeing airplane, with real fart muffler cushions) ☑ We are ready for space flight, rocket man o7

Is this the closest we get to an FSX level of madness in a long time? That departure is insane.

I do personally love your more serious videos here the last couple years But we needed this

Your quick descent to see water was really a SAR attempt for the Twin Otter that went down @7:10

I'm scared for your glass desk with that force feed back xD

Tens of thousands of dollars in flight sim equipment Still squinting at a 16" 720p crackshack monitor Never change, buddy

7:25 You missed the best part, with that Darkstar *deorbiting* at something like 1,000+ vertical feet per second going straight down. Dude just came back from the ISS.

4:40 Bro out here yacht simulator 2024

Typically NOAA's G-IV aircraft would be used the create a picture of what the upper atmosphere above/around the tropical system to forecast where the storm might go, rate of intensification, and or speed. the aircraft with the task of gathering information from inside the tropical system would usually be NOAA's WP-3D Orion aircraft that drops dropsondes into different parts of the system to gather surface data, there's also a fleet of upgraded USAF C-130's known as WC-130j's (C-130j weatherbird) stationed in Keesler AFB in Mississippi that also drop dropsondes into different parts of the hurricane to gather data on the system. Yes i know you might be thinking i'm a nerd but when i get older i am considering joining the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and being a "hurricane hunter" myself so that's why i know all this. Hope it helps!

Shows Assault Rifle "This is a very unnecessary part of the Video." 😂😂😂

Ok that AK-47 is the most Florida Man thing ever

@6:43 LMFAO THAT IS SO FUNNY HOLY

You entering the hurricane 8:20 reminded me Captain Kirk flying into the Mutara Nebula in the Wrath of Khan

mannn that guy in the hurricane on 122.8 WILD

My man used RU-vid to write off a gun, sickkkk

Vin Diesel would be impressed with those powerslides on takeoff

11:43 "Operation This-Will-Most-Likely-End-Badly is a go" -Stargate Atlantis

Not sure if you were A/B testing titles, but I originally clicked on this when it was "my flight sim setup" and clicked away before I knew there was anything else to the video. Would definitely recommend sticking with this one haha

"Ok positive rate, gear's coming up." Hahaha

taking off had me dying lol

YES, another not so serious video! Love the goofier content, and would also love a return to the unhinged multiplayer!

omg the comms "unintelligable" lmao

1:15 When the passengers become too rowdy

Great video AirAsianLady95

Your rudder appears to be possessed. Time for an exorcism.

That takeoff! We need a new t-shirt about a $50 million dollar lawn mower!

Careful with that Boeing seat

I work at KLAL where the Hurricane Hunters P3s and GIV are based and it's always a treat watching the P3s go out and come back

This man isn’t a video game player. He’s a hobbyist. Insane setup

Thank you for your time and effort in making all these videos man

At least the doors stayed on. >_> That was an amazing video man, thanks!! :)

thank you MuffinForceAshamed9

4:00 - This is the point in the video if we were watching VASAviation, a phone number would be given out for a possible pilot deviation.

Bermuda Triangle could be a really interesting idea for Flight Sim. Maybe an abduction or something? Time travel.

12:08 It sounds like the voice is saying "oh, god" over and over again 😆

Huge fan of the potassium-enhanced display

That landing was B U T T E R

6:43 AHAHAHAHAHA BRO VATSIM GAMER ARE WILD

3:36 Uggggghhhhhhhh set your anisotropic filtering to x16 - you'll get way nicer runway markings when you're on the ground, without them doing that blurring off in the middle-distance thing, and it's almost no effect on frame rates.

5:33 Nailed it. Absolutely textbook When you slip, and people definitely saw, but you get up, give em the old thumbs up and then limp away even though you're femur is sticking out of your nose.

I primarily fly the Longitude on MSFS, and I’m not sure if this made that much of a difference. Your stab trim on the MFD was still yellow. Before you takeoff, make sure it is in the green. Probably wouldn’t have mattered since it looked more like a rudder issue, but who knows lol.

That klashinkov though

You should have been flying the Hurricane Hunter aircrafts. NOAA Hurricane Recon 2 WP-3D "NOAA 43" or NOAA 42" or NOAA 1 Gulfstream IV "NOAA49" or any of the 10 USAF 53rd Wx Recon Sq WC-130J "TEAL 70"-"TEAL 79".

4:45 Cessna Floatation 😂😂

6:41 I absolutely DIED! Nice

Update: hurricane has already passed from last wednesday as cat 4 and we are working to get power and utilities back; gone almost 2 weeks without power already 🇯🇲

I’m not gonna lie to you. When you start talking about the yolk, I went to skip. Because I’m a horrible viewer. But it jumped straight to the AK-47 and I found myself pausing the video and rewind because I don’t know why I felt like maybe I missed something.

He said "We are in the Campbell's chunky"....LOL LOVE IT!!!

We really need to have Nokia engineer the next generation Citation at this point, exclusively for this guy

13:05 Aerosucre moment

MTCA - Cayes runway used to be longer but it got obliterated in the Earthquake.

please make it longer video, we love all to watch it all of it!!!!

Looking very good (Both you and the setup 😂)

Hahaha! I love the voice overs

5:05 at this moment all professionalism left this man 😂

**nothing but complete, uninterrupted, flying career-ending chaos** You: "Alright, positive rate, gear's comin' up."

Lol, I've been a subscriber for a long time, but I've never laughed so much at one of your videos. I love how you cover your panic with sardonic wit. Then to top it off, you land an unfamiliar plane with perfect poise on a runway the size of a driveway. Bravo, sir!

4:18 His face is like he saw god or something before the A380 plowed through 😂🤣

Locals aready nicking ur tyres as u prep for shutdown...Beautifull view of the eye.

Honestly, I now need Hot air balloons doing 300+ knots, air force one and a glider calling mayday engine failure. FS at its best, AFP videos at the peak!

5:32 "sir, I believe you left the gear somewhere up in the tree canopy"

If you think that the graphics are impressive flying through the hurricane as you are, try it with VR, the scale is frightening!!

Good video. I liked the "real" drama during the flight! Keep it up!!

6:40 IS CRAZY. If they actually said that on VatSim

Huge W of a video I loved how relatable the cartel instagram thing was

Instructions unclear, bought RPG-7 with TBG-7V Thermobaric Round and classified documents about Type 10 Japanese Main Battle Tank ready to post them on War Thunder forums.

1:10 you were like: come and try to steal my setup haha

Love the chaos with this video

To have nice equipment that you don't even usually use is such a flex, I'm extremely envious of your setup

Okay, officially the best flight sim setup on RU-vid, just because of the AK.

Your joy in your eyes when experiencing the hurrican situation was completely new to me! 😀

I recently flew into a category 5 hurricane in virtual reality. Absolutely terrifying. Also easily one of the most impressive experiences I have ever had in VR.

This was your best video. I laughed my ass off. Thanks for making my day

1:38 Beryl was my mothers name. She died when I was a toddler. It’s also the name of a precious gem stone.

Three words: Dude,you crazy

So happy, found another AFP95 video. Love your work. This was awesome

This felt like an old school afp95 vid. Love to see it! That take off was textbook.

Afghan Air Force Simulator checklist: PC, check. Stick, check. Yoke, check. Pedals, check. AK, check.

Top 150 coziest channel on youtube

Always liked the real vat-sim videos, but missed the comedy gold videos like these were you're just having fun. Keep'em coming!

Best video in 2 years. I like them all, but this has old school Airfart69 vibes

The most amazing shots of clouds. Awesome job keep up the good work.

0:30 it was an well done MuYe reference

I got a chance to try out the CLS 60 Yoke at FSExpo. So amazed by the level of quality and what force feedback offers. Unfortunatly it's way out of my budget, but amazing to see the level of effort being put.

Thought I’d stop by to see if you still made videos and sure enough… Bro you helped me laugh thru some tough times in 2018/2019 Gotta revisit some of the classics now

Oh god my stomach dropped during that turbulence sequence in the middle. That yoke looks amazing

Good lord, that monitor is WAY too tiny for immersion. Maybe I'm spoiled with VR and 65+ inch tv's, but goddamn lol

One of your best recent videos, was laughing every minute and I'm really glad you don't cut out the failed takeoffs and the other randomness that just occurs naturally on MSFS. Keep it up, king! The greatest comedy/sim flyer on YT!

The Jet at Cayesis is impressive. But me and my mate were running circuits in an AN224 at YJPT back in the day. We were hard-core 🤘

Absolutely dicked down by a category 5 hurricane 😂 that line had me dying

Amazing video, non-stop laughs.

I just watched your old one from like 2016 or something yesterday lol