No GPS, no problem!? Taming the Tin Triangle | Real pilot flies Avro Vulcan mission (MSFS) 

What an aircraft to return with. I’ve had the pleasure of waggling XL426’s flight surfaces. All that’s missing from the sim version is the smell.

Brilliant video Chris. We’re so lucky to have access to this kind of content, thanks so much for creating it. It’s incredible to watch you operate in the way that you do, and make it look so easy. Thanks again and looking forward to more content on the Vulcan!

It just goes to show how far we've come in flight simulation where you're looking out the window for breaks in the weather. Every time I fire it up I'm blown away by something. Love the content. Your local knowledge is incredible.

Welcome back! Thank you for the video!

Great video as always. Good to have you back. I love the nav videos. Really working the brain to keep on track. And using the beam compass turns everything on its head as its different to every other plane on the planet. Keep em coming. Thanks

Awesome video mate really glad you back making videos again.hope u have a fantastic Christmas

Yesss I've recently started watching your videos and watched most 😅. What an aircraft to return with!

Great to see you back, Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

Absolutely brilliant video! I still need to spend some more time with this beastie! Your tips will surely help!

Good to see you back

happy Christmas to you and yours Chris, great to see you on deck again, albeit this beast is way beyond this geriatric's abilities. Looking forward to more of your content. Stay safe.

So glad you came back with this vid Chris, quietly hoping you would be doing some vids on this amazing aircraft. I had to buy it, so many fond memories as a kid watching this at airshows and that iconic howl. Would love to just see more of your systems management in this aircraft as its always a pleasure watching such a calm professional and picking up tips along the way. Thanks for the great content as always.

I'm delighted with your return, I missed you these months; again a great video, keep it up

This is an amazing plane - JustFlight have done and are doing and amazing job.

Great to have you back, there's no beating real world mil experience when flying these sorts of planes! An interesting, and somewhat mind boggling fact, is that the Vulcan's first flight was only 11 years after first flight of the Lancaster!

Great to see you are back, as always outstanding explanations on mil procedures and practice. Thank you from the swiss alps.

Great to see you back!

Absolutely amazing stuff Chris, you were the only MSFS creator I knew would be able to properly handle her and you didn't disappoint. Great having you back.

Nice to see you back, CG :)

good to see you back :D

Glad to see you back!

Thanks Chris! I'm loving the Vulcan even more since they added the Auto-AEO, it really helps focus on piloting this beast.

Welcome back Chris. Nice video 👍

There is something beautiful about these analogue cockpits. So much work for the flight crew. Great video to replay slowly so I can follow it all. Finally landing at my home airport. Excellent!

Welcome back mate !

Yoo!!! Welcome back Chris, hoping to see more of the Vulcan from you.

Glad to see you back Chris 🙌

Great to see you back Chris, a excellent demonstration on how to fly this complicated aircraft for a novice like me.

Welcome back...!!! Great video of a great addon from a great airplane...!!!

Just a wonderful way to spend my lunch break on the last work day of the year. Thank you and happy holidays

Its good to have you back Chris!

I absolutely loved this video and thank you for allowing us joining you on this flight. It seemed to be what the Vulkan was made for and I appreciate taking us through the Auto pilot. Thank you,

I had wondered why the posts have stopped. Glad you are ok and great fo have you back.

Amazing as always. Great vid

Awesome Video as always.

I guess some Vulcan stories for you..... Apparently my friend (Vulcan Captain) when flying past Fighter bases woulld always ask if their were any "Playmates" who wanted to come and play intercepts etc. He was always disappointed that the RAF had become so rule obsessed that they seldom did. Royal Navy at Yeovilton was a different story, they would divert out of the circuit to have a go! Now back in early sixties I guess Hunter was usual "Playmate." Now the Vulcan with it's massive wing would see them off simply by 2g turn at high altitude, and delight in watching the Hunters fall out of the sky. He delighted in calling "Opposite rudder" when they were on the way down. Towards the end of the Vulcan's service he was over Greenland when the AEO told him that his stuff was lit up like a Christmas Tree. John looked out of the window to find an F14. Thinking that the old trick would work ... 2G turn, and the F14 lit the burners and TURNED INSIDE HIM. Much chagrined but realised at that point that the Vulcan's days were definitely numbered. There were other stories... one of his party pieces was to barrel roll the machine on a practice bombing run - flown properly as a 1g manouevre the guys in the back didn't know what was happening - just some red line would rotate around a screen - the Navs found it disconcerting. The man taught me to fly Jet Provosts in 1966. Time flies......

Great to see you back Chris! How about a Vulcan airshow routine to see what it can really do?

Great to see you back, and what an aircraft to return with! Surprised you didn't drop the bomb though, you had a good camera angle setup for it, I hadn't thought to do that.

Fantastic to see you back. I don't have the Vulcan but that did not stop this from being another very enjoyable cgaviator video!

I started my career on the Viscount 800. The Smiths flight system, with the movable heading pointer and static course bar, was almost identical. The HSI was called a beam compass. It was always fun to fly with a new captain joining the fleet from longhaul where they’d have flown a more modern HSI/flight director. Flying a procedural ILS with a procedure turn required very agile spatial awareness.

That was a great vid Chris; I was putting off getting this aircraft as I don't really like mil jets in MSFS but looks like a challenge that might actually be worth purchasing and more importantly learning!

You return welcome back captain

Glad to see you posting again and in my second fav plane (after the Tornado) Might give this plane a go since it doesn't seem so daunting now with your techniques. Would love to see a Falklands bomb drop scenario, but without all the refuelling stages.

The Vulcan has been my favorite jet since I was a small boy. I have fond memories of it casting a shadow over my house, on downwind, on Thursday evening arriving for the annual airshow. I'm almost 60 and still have a Vulcan mouse pad. Thanks for the flight!

Seriously chapeau to you. Great video 👌

Hey Chris!! What a great video... somehow the YT algorithm showed me your channel and I'm glad it did. Looking forward to watching through all your content. 😁👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼

Great video! Thanks

Cool you're back. Just getting into Msfs and been religiously watching your vids. Particularly love the low level navving ones. Got the Epsilon TB30, love it, trying to really learn it well before hopefully moving to something faster. Be nice if you did another vid in that, PFL!?!

Brilliant to have you back, Excellent would love to see a mass scramble like they use to perform at air shows…..

Great to have you back...................................................

Like a comfortable pair of slippers Sir! Welcome back!

Great to see you're back =) I really missed your videos! As always you make it look easy =) So far, I've only fooled around with the Vulcan, but it's awesome, probably one of the best aircraft in the sim so far! For video suggestions, I would really love to see you fly an airshow display with the Vulcan and also try out the Heatblur F-14, I'm sure you're going to enjoy that one too.

Beautiful left bank right over my house at the end of Warton runway. I'm lucky to get stunning views of the Typhoons and Hawks doing a lot of touch and go's - wish I could see a Vulcan overhead though! I remember them fondly from the air shows.

I left Warton in 1999 after 21 years. It was a treat to wander outside to see what was occurring. Anything from Canberras, Lightning, Jaguar, Hawk, Tornado or Typhoon might whistle in low. Your Vulcan would have been good to see too. I'd recommend Dave Eagle's 'Testing Tornado' if you'd like an insight into test flying in that period. On his retirement flight in Tornado he made a rather loud bang and blew out the windows on the local greenhouses.

Awesome! Thanks for the great content. Would be cool if you could show the autopilot / glide option for ILS

That was great Chris! Single handedly flying a Vulcan! I had a go on the virtual aerospace sim near Stockport and as you say, it's really not designed for seeing out of at low level, you really have to crane your neck to see anything outside but for the size of it, it's remarkably agile. I'm sure the villagers of Lancaster will forgive your slight by having a Vulcan fly over them at 200ft!

Loving the Vulcan, was hoping you would be making a video like this as its exactly the sort of thing I've been doing in the Vulcan! Maybe a scramble could make for a good video? Or a video following a military instrument approach procedure in a bigger aircraft? Either way, great to see you back making videos

Welcome back Chris 🙂

Yeah! The long-awaited return of Cgaviator! 🥰

Good to see you back in the virtual skies Chris!! Really missed your flights. Hope you will do some flights in the soon to be released F-111. That would be awesome. And happy holidays🎄 of course .

Nice to have you back Chris. Settled in? I remember driving up the A68 above Corbridge, on route to Scotland. 1968 ish, when it suddenly went dark and this triangular shape flashed by followed by the might roar of those engines. A moment to remember.

Yay. The Isle of Man as well. Lovely. I live there and the flying school just reopened so I’ll be flying there from January.

Welcome back!!

Warton is my home airfield, and i usually take off from there for a bit of added realism. Nice to see you flying in the area.

I'm a sucker for anything with a delta-wing. Any video with the Vulcan will be greatly enjoyable.

Amazing!

Glad to see you making videos again - excellent as always. Wondered if you were interested in the new F16 from Heatblur / IFT?

I'm based in Lancaster. The valley you flew down from Lancaster is the Lune Valley, following the River Lune, and the 'M6 pass' is actually called the Lune Gorge. Just some friendly local info. Nice to see a flight over this area :)

Hey Chris so good to have you back creating content hope you are well. I have been waiting for you to do a Vulcan I thought it was enevitable that you would, I have the Vulcan but have not delved into it yet as time is limited. I Know in the justflight manual there is reference to a vulcan airshow display I would love to see you re-create that. and I hope you have a great christmas

Very nice video Chris! & welcome back! :) This bird I probably to much for me, hahaha.. But fun & exciting to watch, and as the previous said, you make it look so easy! Ha! Not for me.. ;)

Interesting. Landing at Teesside Airport was appropriate. Brought back memories,as a small child, of watching Vulcans in anti flash white paint flying low over our house whilst doing circuits at what was RAF Middleton St George ( now Teesside Airport ) Middleton St George was not a home base but was used as a dispersal base to be used in case of emergency.

All over the buttons like a French accordion player trying to navigate and fly this thing. An amazing model.

Most excellent Chris, so far 25 mins into the sortie and now have a better idea of the auto pilot. If you could add to the bucket list, id love to see you do the 2015 Kev Rumens Riat display please? No on with the sortie as ive not yet work out the chute on mine.

Welcome back 👋

We have included a basic animation for the droppable/launchable payloads, including the Blue Steel. Those can be triggered using either the bomb release button on the left side of the throttle quadrant or the jettison switch on the left side console. Martyn - Just Flight

Thanks for your time in preparing and presenting this and all your other videos. Do you use a VR headset and if so which one?

Welcome back! How about re-enacting the Dams raid with this Avro instead of the Lancaster?

Great stuff, my Uncle was a Nav on these beasts.

Hey welcome back! can you explain the 5 degree decent rate part. I get you have to multiply 15,000 ft by 2 but where does the 5 come from?

First off : It's so fantastic to see you back in the skies again!! 😃 Second : I simply love the Just Flight Vulcan!! 🥰 And yes, even though I started with saying that it "was like wrestling a blue whale", I now stand corrected, as I started by disrespecting "her", and I'm very sorry for that. 🥺 But I'm happy to say, that I've learned to mind my manners. 😇 The lesson : Treat a lady with respect - and she'll be much more cooperative. 😄👍😉 Ideas for videos? Well, I would definitely be happy to watch your take, on the Vulcans airshow display. 🥰 And maybe a "demo" of, what a "authentic" long range bombing mission would look like? 🤔 That was all. 😃 See you skyside, good Sir. 😉 *P.S. Why do I almost feel like saying "Pssssst...... It is I! Leclerc!!!"?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Absolutely brilliant Chris. Quick question. If your external view, can you hear the howl ?? Thanks very much !

I think the Flight Director system might be made by Smiths Industries. It reminds me of similar ones in the Air Bridge ‘Vanguards’ that I flew in 1988. There were rules that you had to set it by (Pitch Up/Sense Across type thing), follow those religiously and ‘don’t think too much about it’ seemed to work! 😊

Its refreshing to see a Pilot like yourself take this old girl through its paces again ! I love this Aircraft, I found the AP at times bit temperamental, ..Chris two Q's, Firstly; how are you getting these popup maps on screen etc.. Secondly; I cant get Tacan to show up on LNM, is this a subscription ? ...Enjoy your flights always, Cheers Happy Travels !!

I guess what I find most difficult is managing speed in the low level. It's so easy to let her get fast, and as you pointed out, if you do that, you've got significantly reduced control authority, particularly in roll, and that's bad when trying to do low level work.

You and another pilot working together would be good/interesting, specially on a military style flight plan.

I have X-Planes Version of Just Flight Vulcan. In X-Plane you can release the bombs and see them explode on the ground. Or use the option to follow them down.

That HSI is bonkers isn’t it. It makes me think that after WW2 they were still deciding on a standardisation format for aeroplane instruments, and they thought this design would stick

Teesside, my local haunt.

there should have been a Falkland islands addon bundled with this plane.

When using Altitude hold with the autopilot is it possible to have it use data from the RADALT data rather than barometric altimeter data? 🤔 This would be for low level flights over water (a la Buccaneer) 😉 and perhaps something done occasionally during MRR missions IRL??? 🤔

If it's not too long to go into, could you explain something about the decent rate from 30 miles at 15,000 ft. What I didn't quite understand is the 5° decent angle. Is this just the standard decent angle you would use so you know to start decending from that altitude from 30 miles. Or did the altitude and distance you were at dictate the angle needed? Or am I getting this completely wrong aha. Apologies if this seems really obvious and I'm being dense. I am pretty new to flight simulators. Absolutely love your channel by the way, I really admire you're knowledge and experience. I always love seeing Hawks at airshows and find it awesome you have flown and instructed in them!

Me again, sorry for all the questions. 😂 Any chance you could send the route you flew here? I was thinking of throwing it into littlenavmap as well and will attempt to fly solely visually. Are there also any Vulcan rule of thumbs with the fuel? For instance, fuel burn per hour for the estimates? Thanks! :) By the way, here's a little potential challenge you can take for a future video, Celestial Navigation!

What scenery do you use? Looks more detailed than mine by a long way

Q Do you think the brake chute should have been a bit bigger 😊

How do you navigate at low heights with only a map irl? Its almost impossible to tell areas,points and lines. The only way i can think of its if your entire leg at low level is connected by one big line that ends with an area or a point or you fly entirely by the numbers.

🤞🏻 for the xbox release tonight

More pleasa

So sad that Justflight have announced this will not appear in DCS :-(

I'm not sure the fuel burn is accurate. Tried a flight done by many Vulcans from Waddington to Goose Bay and ran out of fuel in the decent each time!

On a less detailed note,I've been doing naughty things with London bridge using EGLC to roughly line myself up,usually from the east.I tried this myself and failed.Perhaps you could use your undoubted skill to do it correctly.Approach the bridge from the east,on approach smoke on.Fly undrer the top span and pull up into a loop which should be so perfect that you terminate said loop under the bridge,smoke off.that is the challenge,can you do it???????????????????????