ROTATESIM MD-80 - TUTORIAL PART 1 X Plane 11 

I LOVE the Rotate MD-80.

I keep coming back to your videos after all these years. Thank you for the services you provided to the community.

Two of my favorite things: An MD-80 (hardly anyone flies those things these days), coupled with an Iberian livery (great Spanish home airline, and great livery colors). Just doesn't get much better than that. Thanks for the upload!

Greetings Froogle! As a real world MD-80 pilot (please see my RU-vid page) I looked forward to this release for a long time. I must say it's about 90% perfect! I've started flying the 767 recently and now find myself flirting this more offer on xplane11. Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to do this videos! Keep up the good work!

This is by far my favorite plane in XP 11. I purchased it about 2 weeks ago and have been flying every night on multiple flights. I am still trying to figure out the FMC or CDU. whatever you want to call it. But i have been successful in programming in waypoints and getting it to work in VNAV. For 60 dollars I was hesitant but it proved to be a good purchase. And it is easy on the frames for me even with 4k textures.

I must admit seeing the lake in the valley below, does really look stunning!

Truly, one of the nicest workhorse jets that is still in service. I like the fact that it is unique in the cockpit's functionality over Airbus and Boeing, which I happen to like!

I remember that first video! I've been looking forward to this follow up!! Thanks Froogle!

Great video. I have been holding off buying this for the past few months waiting to see the ATS version. But with seeing this and with all the BS and fooling around by ATS I am definitely buying this now. You sold another for them, thanks!

The exterior modeling, VC and texturing on this bird is superb.....but Leonardo's Fly the Maddog still takes the cake with systems modeling and flight dynamics. I'm curious to see how ATS's md80 holds up against the two. Time will tell (assuming they ever finish it). Nice to see developers are still focusing on the Maddog though.....it's certainly one of the most interesting tubeliners in operation at the moment.....it's a great combination of analog and digital system integration....not to mention it's one of the few planes out there that you still need to fly! Great video froogs......please keep up the 'fabulous' work.

Just watching your MD80 v1.3 update. I am undergoing a china flu variant, and what better way to suffer a miserable day than flt sim tut's. My comment is this. Having just found you, i can understand and follow you. Your explanation of gauges and switches, their location is succinct and simple. Your procedures (theirs) are something I can follow [compared to other nervous laughter presentations. I have only loaded X-plane 12 once so i look forward to more of your videos. Time marches on, so please don't stop your videos. I learn from them, to say nothing about enjoying your accent, and language. Are you a professional trainer/presenter? Thanks and many cheers. Alan

Will come to X-Plane 12 soon....YEAH! One of the best aircraft I have.

Nice video and couldn't agree more with you regarding Ortho4XP and the amazing results it can give you! Started playing around with with XP11 myself after many years of FS and P3D and now that I got used to XP with its Ortho4XP plus many other things I'm not sure if I'll go back to P3D again. After spending thousands of hours in the NGX simulating real world ops as closely as possible I figured now that I'm enjoying XP maybe this is also the time to get myself a new aircraft and I then wanted a fun and fast one but still as realistic as possible. I think my choice of buying the Bombardier Challenger 300 was a good one but there's loads of stuff to get used to and learn being so used to the NGX. For this reason I would love to see this aircraft featured on your channel and a tutorial similar to this one would be awesome! Happy flying ☺️

Nice to see new X-Plane videos to the channel Froogle! I was affraid that you'd lost interest in it with all the p3D videos coming on-line... I love the MD-80 and I can also recommend the IXEG 737 which is now also fully supported in XP11! Looking forward to see part two!

I don't fly the MD-80 but whenever landing at LaGuardia i rarely see the flaps or gear until short final. It is definitely true it almost feels like you're stopping in the sky

As always brilliant in-depth video... X-Plane making the NAME !

Froogle we need more videos like this! This is giving me vibes from the first PMDG NGX FS2Crew video that first got me onto your channel.

Have been watching your videos for many years now, always find them informative and enjoyable!

Nice to see the videos rolling out again Froogle. I get that life get's in the way sometimes. I was going through Froogle withdrawal there for a while. The MD-80 looks like one that I may have to add to my fleet. Looking forward to part 2.

Happy to see you flying X-Plane and highlighting some of its good features. P3D is awesome but it has a cost to make it look good.

Thanks Froogle, great video. I bought this months ago, so referencing the manual and this video I'll give it another flight. Thanks again.

Just one thing Froogle - when setting the fuel in X-Planes menu, you need to change it so you're only using the wing tanks. As you know, a plane doesn't get fueled equally 3 ways (left/center/right). Also, this can ruin the handling of the aircraft as developers tweak that to be correct for fuel in wings only (any extra fuel will still go in center tanks obviously). You can also use the boxes to input the EXACT amount of fuel, instead of using the cumbersome slider which makes it difficult to stop on the right value.

Great video! Glad to see you back and doing more videos. I can't imagine how much time goes into producing a video of that length.

Nice video. I love the way you explain everything in detail. Earned a sub and a like!

You should see it in VR, it's even more beautiful!

Yesss, some X-Plane :D

Très bonne présentation du MD80 , cela m'a permit de mieux comprendre cet avion ... bravo et merci (Eric from Reunion is)

Great overview as always cant wait for part 2 Many thanks !!!

Wow Pete... wow.

Nice video and excellent tutorial on the mad dog! Glad to see someone showing how great xplane can look for free with a bit of work. Well done...

Excellent video. Probably the best flight tutorial i've seen on YT yet. Confused about one thing. Isn't NAV & VNAV part of the autopilot? You activated the AP after you hit VNAV and NAV.

Well froogle you've convinced me, I was on the fence a while ago. I said my grrl said I could get any plane I wanted and I got some suggestions on a twitch stream you hosted, ended up getting the B407 which is awesome but I'll be visiting the org today. Thanks again

Thanky Froogle, awesome vid...!!!!! I'm waiting for part 2

Yet another great video. Thanks Froogle !!. BTW, why the instrument panel is bobbing at 11:55 ? It looks like the pilot is breathing or something like that. Cheers

Fantastic tutorial. Thanks.

I only like one thing about the md-80. The fact that the cockpit looks like a spaceship

Well done and well put @frooglesim

thank you for this video Froogle. It helped me a great deal this plane is amazing to fly

15:48 So no Gimli Glider reenactment? ;)

An A1 tutorial, Froogle. Many thanks.

Best tutorial out

Nice! Been flying a tone of Xplane recently, been thinking of getting the MD80, this may convince me :)

Great tutorial and very thourough!

Question - I follow your procedure for the Rotate MD-88 in X-Plane and everything works until I go to select "TO" on the TRP. In your video, as soon as you hit "TO", "EPR T/O" lit up on the FMA, but on mine, I hit "TO" on the TRP and nothing showed up on the far left window on the FMA. It stayed dark. Why could that be?

Hi froogle! Amazing stuff, this video has remembered me that I have the Leonardo maddog on my FSX hangar, maybe I will learn how to fly the beast as a summer project :). By the way, I think you set the squawk code wrong, shouldn't it be 2000 for non controlled ifr flights in Europe? Once again, thank you for the amazing content!

Ok verry good From usa Like

That's a really good video, as usual! Keep up the good job. Cheers;

Awesome tutorial. I could understand it as a 12 year old

How to make these blue clocks illuminated what you have on the top of the cockpit?

How do you get the 30sec IRS alignment? AFAIK the most recent release (1.31) takes a full 5 min to align. Is there a "quick" setting?

More PMDG products for X-Plane 11!

Actually there's a tool to make your orthophotos into winter ones and also give you night textures.

Me too ! Mine ( the original in XPLANE) doent seem to have an operable CDU ? do you know any thing about that ? i cant enter data or Import SImbrief ... properly anyway . THank

Did they model the magnetic compass? Looks like a great aircraft!

awesome tutorial froogle, i'm the 122nd thumbs up lol :)

Hi Froogle, great video! I've been looking to get into XP11 for a while now. I've downloaded it and am beginning to tinker with it. You've mentioned on a couple of videos the use of OrthoXP, will you being doing any videos on how to use it? (apologies if you already have and i've missed it). Also, just wondered what the cloud and sky textures were that you were using? I'm not sure their stock, i cant get mine to look like that. Keep up the good work, really enjoy your channel!

you are doing a good job

Froogle brilliant tutorial. What ortho4xp setting did u use ie zoom level etc

I don't get this pro x plane 11, for something doesn't work. Do we have to download the plugin? Again some of these buttons don't work and this MD 80 is deferent from yours .

Nice!

I just bought this plan do I need to update the fmc cycle to 1704 from 1607 and is so how do I do that

Froogle why don’t you use any freeware airports?

4th time i've been here, and now 1000th viewer 😄

Is that vibration during roll caused by an addon or the MD80?

top notch :)

Thanks for this - I think you just sold another MD-80!

Nice video purchased it upon your rec! I am new to flight sim and jumped into Xplane 11. What are you using to skim around the cockpit like that?

Where is Ground Speed displayed in this aircraft ?

Hi, please, help. When I set hyd off&low after take off, i will get some cautions like "ELEV CONTROLS MANUAL" "L & R HYD PRES LOW" "MACH TRIM FALUT" "RUDDER CONTROL MAN". I did not see any in your video so i am afraid that I am doing something wrong.

First.. GREAT vid.. My question: The engine effect on 28 mins which addon is that i don't see it in my x-plane 11 :P Thx in advance.. Maik

Check out the lsh maddog md80

where do you get your checklist from?

Hello, I got x plane 11 recently. I flew on VATSIM, and two time I got asked if my sim rate was .5. Is there a way to make it more realistic?

Which checklist do you use?

zoom 16 at 4000 ft is more than anyone can ask for such a small space on the HDD

Yep X-Plane is definitely one notch ahead with the default stuff in the visuals. And what is even more amazing is the transition and the night lighting. I actually did a video for a friend ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wzrn1fHtJzE.html (far from the quality of your videos and no comments ;)) and it's just always so amazing how real the nigh lighting is as well with all those tiny cars lights going down the roads and so on. All I'm really lacking is the high end market iarcraft addons, hopefully it's getting better PMDG DC-6 which I used is quite a lot of fun althoughI honestly don't see my self flying without the AFE as it would really be too much a handful I guess with a virtual cockpit to set up properly all those levers for managing the thrust and all. I also quite like the IXEG 737 classic which is quite a good sim as well. I might get into that MD80 at some point now :) as I had been a bit cooled by the previw video, but also from some not so good experience with other deves and also some developers hard to follow naming shceme, advanced, pro, v2, ...

Is there a part 2? I can't find it. Great tutorial! Thanks froogle!

Hi... Thank you for this. I've been pulling my hair out with my X-Plane 10 Mobile (pre-Global). There are some differences (non functionality) but hey, it's a mobile version. Can anyone tell me the difference between CRS (Course) and HDG (Heading)?

Does this work with Native VR?

Should I switch to X-Plane 11 (from FSX:SE)? I own X-Plane 10 disc but I don't use it. I am thinking of switching to P3D as I have the Aerosoft A320/A321, JF MD80 (Which is awful), PMDG 737, Aerosoft Twin Otter (With TSS Sounds) and the Captin SIm 767 (Which I hate)

I really miss Maddog in P3D V4. Hopefully some developers fill the empty spot.

Does the orthxp look really flat at low altitudes?

I dont know why all ppl that make tutorials of this plane feed the aircraft with APU when the real proceed is feed the plane with GPU, in real life the APU must be start when the plane close door and departs

froogle i did not catchit it,,are you using ortho or dont,,,sorry my englisn not the best

Are you using any weather plugins?

i agree that the scenery for xplane looks good, but Prepar3D is much better at airport and city scenery due to 3rd party providers. I live in australia and my city buildings in x-plane at my home airport would look more at home in an eastern block country. Mind you from 10,000 feet it looks great in xplane.

As always great video. Some fluttering I have in objects and shadows in the cockpit ( some objects and shadow shaking a little) please what's the reason? Please advise if I can correct it. GPU 1080ti use!!

Is the rotatesim md80 the one that is currently there in the install of xplane 11? Or am i just a moron.

The scenery graphics with X-11 are so much better than FSX. That is right out of the box. However, when you start loading the FlyTampa stuff, the game changes. Yes, it is a payware addon. But the realism in FSX goes up through the roof. I am sure the FlyTampa stuff is also available in X-11, but then you are paying for that as well. Bottom line: This is far superior to the generic tiles in FSX.

Terrain and lighting may be great, but there's always something not working or, it's hard to operate the switches, or I fly Flight Factor B767 and the sim crashes on approach... always something, at least for me. I like the look of x-plane, but I'll stick with P3DV4 where everything works and I have no problems at all.

But it looks amazing from the air tho

what is the name of the autogen addon? Auto for XP? Or does someone have a link to this addon?

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tdg makes a great freeware san sebastian airport - forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/25186-leso-san-sebastian-airport/

you still flying x plane

Pete, are you ex-RAF?

Stall the md 80

What about the horrible graphics at the beginning that wasn't that good

STD is 2992 :)