NEW Detailed Twin! COWS DA42 Full Flight and Review with a Real Airline Pilot 

Thanks for your work and dedication, mate!

Thanks so much for the information, I’ll do that! I couldn’t resist the sleek red but I can see what you mean. Super modelling either way.

Puss in boots is the co-pilot

Ah thanks for the information! I agree the sounds are super!

Glad you enjoyed it! Yes it didn’t quite feel right but I enjoyed the way the aircraft jostled under power!

@@320SimPilot definitely makes an impression at the local airport lol. 😂 just want to reiterate I said that not in an attempt to criticize, I’m pretty sure you didn’t take it as a bad thing but still my apology if it sounded not good.

they nailed the engine sounds. the landing gear sounds should be a bit louder, but the thud of them locking is pretty good too ( did multi in the twinstar)

Thanks for your kind words!

Thanks for watching, glad you liked it!

I haven’t tied the A2a but it sounds fantastic. This is a great machine too but yes, much simpler to operate in some way, especially engines! Glad you enjoyed the angles, I have good fun with those

I've pulled the trigger on this plane and it's absolutely fantastic. I can move on and park the Comanche lol. By the way, are you up for a challenge? It'd be cool if you make another video sharing your experience. So I've experienced this unexpected but realistic behavior when flying from telluride and after my flight I thought something was wrong with the plane in msfs but it turns out it's a true to life behavior of the plane. The funny thing is I later found a discussion among real da42 pilots and they were talking about how they were caught off guard too. You mentioned you didn't usually fly GA so it might be a nice challenge for you! The best way to do it would be to take the -VI (AE) variant and do a circuit at telluride, from cold and dark of course so you can experience and pick up, or not, what's going on throughout the flight. I don't want to spoil the fun, in case you want to try it, so I don't want to tell you more haha. But it's replicated in the sim so well, I was reading that one post of the guy who experience this issue, unique to the AE variant I believe, and I was laughing to myself cause that's exactly what happened to me in the sim.

She tried her best to help! Thanks for watching

She does her best!

I agree, it’s a super machine this one! Thanks for watching!

It’s a common issue on aircraft in MSFS but this one is tuned very nicely!

I’ll have a play with the settings, thanks for watching!

If you're saying that you programmed the standby instrument movements, you did a wonderful job on them!

@@JC-xz4ec maybe

The standby instruments are indeed excellent!

Search back in his channel he did one about engine failure on takeoff in the a320 a few years ago.

He’s done plenty!

Yeah, I think he mixed them up. When passing through the Approach checklist, he confirmed the fuel pumps are ON, though they were switched off. He actually turned on the AUX pumps, which pump fuel from the AUX tanks to the main tanks earlier.

ok no worries ..thanks@@katanapilot1977

Great spot! Indeed I got the pumps the wrong way around!

Those Diesels are afaik usually made to run off JET-A instead of AVGAS. Some of them can also run off automotive Diesel, but with a limited temperature range. Not a real-world pilot, but from what I've been reading availability at small fields depends a bit on where in the world you are, but any airport servicing jets would have JET-A.

@@ankhtahr1401 Thankyou very much! I shall have to read up on it. Thanks.

It takes jet-a or jet-a1, cannot take any other types of fuel.

@@AllThingsAviation The included manuals of the COWS DA42 mention Diesel (and specify acceptable temperature ranges for different grades) in addition to JET-A and JET-A1. Not all DA42 seem to be certified to run on automotive grade Diesel (and from what I've found it seems very uncommon in the US), apparently it's a factory option. But the type has provisions for it, and any DA42 which has the AMM-TR-OÄM-42-251 option can run on automotive Diesel as well and the maintenance manual only mentions additional placards explaining the temperature ranges as the only difference.

I think it was the VI version that uses a Mercedes engine. Not sure about the TDI

I use XP12 aerobask da42 or da62, as well as msfs cows da42 and da62. I fly msfs more these days, but imo the ground effect, ground handling, overall handling is much better in xp for these 2 aircraft. There is even a pedestal style keypad to operate g1000 in aerobask da62, just like real aircraft. Scenery, WT avionics, and performance are why i use msfs. The msfs ga aircraft are not as nice as xp, in many respects. One has to use both platforms professionally to notice the difference, imo. Good luck, no offense.

@@DownTheRabbit-Hole Thanks for the info. I'll get MSFS2024 when it's out just to check out some of the planes not available for XP12. I put a lot of time into making XP12 look better and I'm pleased with it now.

Wow…

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not all planes are brand new all the time

@@speedbrake22 Thanks for this I didn't know that....

When you see them in real life they are often grubby, I think that’s what appeals !