Learn to fly the C-47 Skytrain 

I enjoy big planes a lot more than fighters. They're so relaxing to fly, meditative almost. C-47 has always been one of my favorites.

Glad to see you back! We were missing your knowledge :)

I've been waiting for this beauty to go on sale for awhile which it just did on Steam. I really am excited to try a different approach to this game in that the C-47 excelled at being a workhorse for supply drops, hauling cargo, and paratrooper drops. On a more technical point, I have a throttle quadrant controller that'll be really nice to separately control the engines. While not a fighter or even bomber the C-47 was perhaps the MOST important plane the Allies had from a logistical standpoint. On a side note my German mom was friends with another German lady that was from Berlin. She lived through the battle, and President Truman's 'Operation Vittles' that kept Berlin alive after Stalin tried starving it. She remembered the endless formations of C-47's bringing in food and even hauling coal to keep Berliners from freezing. She remembered the C-47 pilots and crew making little parachutes with handkerchiefs and dropping candy and chocolate bars to the children while flying over. Decades later she reunited with one of the pilots that started the entire candy drop operation. She emotionally told him just how much that little gesture on the part of the pilots and crew gave her and other children hope in the ruins of postwar Berlin. The C-47 wasn't just a plane-it represented liberation, salvation and friendship on the part of the US not to just Berlin postwar, but to nearly every continent during WW2.

Such helpful videos, thanks for taking the time to make them.

Top notch, as always!

Thx for your awesome videos!. Could you do the Li-2 tutorial? I beg you!

Thank you for making this C-47 tutorial for us Requiem

I was really looking fwd for this one !!! Thank You !!!!

Thanks. Many thanks for this tutorial. I've been flying on IL2 untill the beginning and had a break for... 10 years now. Airborne again for 2 weeks, maybe for the C-47 ^^. Great to discover your channel and all the advices. Again, many thanks. Jim.

Ahhhhhh, the old familiar chalkboard!! Happy New Year!! Oh yeah, just a quickie. Is 'engine 1' always on the port side? On all planes, I mean... Thanks Req, bu the way! 👍

Oh how long I've waited for this one. Thanks!

The Trail function on the Cowl flaps does work, you just need to set the cowl flaps to Auto control which from memory is by pressing LALT+O

Love the Videos

That was great! Thank you!

I need to give this a go.

Been watching a lot of your vids, mate. I have DCS and love it but you've sold me on IL-2, it looks fun as hell and a little less serious than DCS. So I've splurged on a few things in the sale (Stalingrad, Bodenplatte, Cliffs of Dover, few campaigns) and I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl.

11:11 What do you mean by "we want to accelerate to our 'single engine' climb speed of 120mph" ? I don't understand the "single engine" part of this statement.

Please can you make Tutorial for Lisunov Li-2 too because aim trying to fly it but by take off it can not go more like 90km/h . I dont understand it.. Directly engies overheating and so.. Pleas can you help ?

Do you do the checklists yourself or is there a database somewhere? I have the spec lists of every plane but there is no checklist like how much flaps is needed for landing etc.

We need a tutorial for the Li-2!

Great vid, many good tips!

Thank you for this great content. I have a question, you said take off power 46’ but you set it at 50’ on takeoff why?, what’s the correct procedure ? Thanks

Despite the keys being shown it should be known that the pilot has no ability to individually toggle the autopilot channels. Only on/off is functional.

That's a landing that old Buffalo Joe would approve of!

nice landing…

did you skip the mossie learn to fly video?

Hi love the videos but how do you access the pilot notes onscreen in the game please, many thanks brilliant videos

What's your favorite aircraft?