Real pilot, real procedure, real challenge! The Roswell Widow Maker (MSFS) 

Nice to see the Vulcan flown correctly. Great Video.

This would be confusing enough without the utterly backwards heding compass, but hey who likes easy anyway :-) excellent video as always, great to have you back!

Thanks for this and good to have you back creating content. I must get the Vulcan. 2024 will be my year of learning how to do things properly.

Nicely done Chris. I do enjoy your flight walkthroughs.

Nicely done. Back in the 90s when my mate was flying Sea Kings for the Fleet Air Arm, he used to practice for check rides on my PC running FS4 with me as the handling pilot and him doing all the nav. No choppers in the sim back then so we used a GA aircraft with similar cruise speed, probably a Cessna. He said it was a massive help to do these sortie rehearsals. Back in those days PC gaming was very niche and PC flight simming was even more so.

Busy! Thanks for making this video, going to go back and re-watch some of the approximations you used, they seem very useful!

Incredible. Much kudos to you good sir

Superb handling and I learned the arc management ‘old school’ thanks !

Cheers Chris excellent juggling act. I especially like all the useful tips along the way. I always learn more from your video's, great stuff

That’s really impressive mate. 👍

Mind boggling. Nice walkthrough of all instruments, calculations and manoeuvres necessary to make the approach.

So good! Really glad to have you back! Would love to see some real pilots doing PMDG shared cockpit stuff!

Brilliant stuff!

This was great to see! Tks

When I was a T-38 IP in the 80's, I used to take students to the "widow maker" at Roswell, but at that time, it was the LOC BC Rwy 03--a south arc off the ROW (now CME) TACAN to a localizer back course with a greater than 90 degree turn to the final approach course. High speed of the T-38 combined with the sharp turn and descent to a lower final approach altitude foiled many a student.

As someone who is currently learning the basics of ILS, this is very complex and very overwhelming, although I appreciate that you still remain calm and explain your thourght process. Trying my best to rewatch your videos to see how I can improve. Thank you for the great content!

That was a great video Chris! I always like to think I'm reasonably proficient doing instrument approaches in MSFS but I wouldn't have a clue if I was thrown into the Vulcan with it's "funny" instruments. You made it look easy. Great stuff

Widowmaker approach ? Great. At Alice Springs (YBAS) in Australia there was once a triple NDB app with 6 station passages. No I'm not kidding. Into the bargain was not one but two high ridgelines at right angle to the approach axis. The predictable happened and a Learjet got lost in all the steps and smacked into the side of a hill. And that was the end of that approach !

Great video. Enjoyed that. Hopefully xbox will get it soon.

beautiful

That's the laziest TAS estimate I've heared of, I absolutely love it :) I'm totally using that. I must admit I generally rather turn my mental head than turn instrument cards which is a bad habit, but it's also useful in times of task saturation I suppose. I'm glad your #2 pilot was watching outside :D good job on the procedure!

Getting close to where I live. I didn’t know Roswell had such a difficult approach. I would’ve thought Albuquerque would have the most difficult approaches in the state.

Nice approach Chris... That was busy.. Nice Landing.. Pity the Chute Repackers.. 😳

Thanks for showing the autopilot glide function 😃 Also wanted to say thanks for getting me into military jets in the sim. Your tutorials made it less daunting. I’ve had so much fun in them that I installed DCS and purchased the Heatblur F-14 module for it. Currently making my way through the manual for it. It’s a good bit of light reading 😂

Great to watch as always thanks Chris, but I mean it when I say , Waaay, beyond this old boys capabilities and smarts 😁

Piece of cake old boy.

Finally! Someone that flew an actual IFR procedure on this aircraft. I had a couple of questions regarding the calculations on this procedure: 1) With the descent planning, since everything was so close, I assume you chose to descend instantly and picked 10 degrees since it gave a high descent rate. Let's say you wanted to do a 3* descent, how would it be possible to make that work and what's an easy way to calculate your distance around any DME arc? In my IR training, I was thought that Alt to lose x 3 gives you the rough track miles for a 3* descent, but I'm not sure on a simple way to get the distance around the DME arc without taxing maths. 2) Let's say you had wind affecting you, this aircraft doesn't give you anything like Drift information, would you do any pre-flight calculations for this or is it mainly guesswork? 3) For flying the ARC on this aircraft, when you were on 120 degrees, if you subtract -90 you are expecting 30 on the TACAN needle essentially? Thanks! :)

That was great, I'm happy with basic radio nav (flying in straight lines between VOR stations lol) but DME arcs are like black magic to me.

BUTTER!

Huzzar!! 🎉

Great , you mentioned it was not your first go so in true Sully mode how many to get it right . Brilliant video .

You didn't happen to see a crashed "weather balloon" on approach did you?😉

Get yourself the iris texan t1 mate. See you at valley, or Linton for you 72sqn old boys 😂

I thought that the "widdowmaker" was the F-104 Starfighter.

Thank goodness I'm not a pilot. This mathematics is too complicated for me

Ok i need a nap now that was tough wow cool stuff