Spitfire Mk IXc - First Look - Microsoft Flight Simulator 

I actually live next to Duxford and live right under the landing path. So often get many a Spitfire coming in fast and hot to do low passes just hundreds of feet above my house. They're my daughters fav plane. So love this video Squirrel. Good choice.

Squirrel’s back, if he sees this thanks to you because I have watched you for 7 years on Euro Truck you’re a legend

Wow! That was just one of the most immersive flights i ever had! Thank you for that, with all those details!! Lovely!

If it's hard in a game imagine how hard it was IRL, not to mention they were in the air within 10 minutes of the call. Massive respect.

19:05 the fuel poop XD

Haven't had this much fun with a video in a while. Welcome back to the RU-vids, Squirrel!

That was the best takeoff I've seen anybody do so far in the Spitfire. Nice job Squirrel.

Good to see you back squirrel

Beautiful video, thank you very much! Your takeoff and landing were a lot smoother than mine. I'm currently on a tour around the UK in this plane and love every minute of it :) Perfect timing as it arrived just after the UK world update.

Having been to Duxford many time for the flying legends airshow. The detail on this is spot on to the point. I can't wait to go there again when all this madness is over.

Nicely done, smooth take off and landing, and great explanation of the techniques, aircraft foibles and quirks, and cockpit layout. Bravo, old bean!

Welcome back and many thanks for your insights into this wonderful mod.

Thank you. Nice demonstration. An incredibly improvement in detailed landscape since I flew with FS last time.

HE'S ALIVE BOYS!

SO happy to see you back Squirrel !

Nice takeoff and smooth landing. That's good job!

That touchdown was as smooth as they come. Nicely done mate.

I loved your Trucking Diaries episodes on ETS2 & ATS. Great to see you back.

Havnt seen you for a while, love your calm but excited deliveries. I fly DCS and MSFS, off to try some of this stuff on DCS NOW, CHEERS.

Just got back into watching your vids, good thing you're back again!

Welcome back Squirrel!

What a landing Paul, nicely done.

Beautifully smooth landing!

Hi Squirrel . Really good to see you back. What an impressive video and aircraft. Wow👏 Many thanks Noel.

Nice to have you back!! Hope all is well.

Great video! I'm impressed by the details in the graphics and the engine sound. Thank you for the invitation to fly into Duxford. In fact, I have already done that; in the early 1990s did I arrive from Norway in a Fuji FH-200. There were about 100 visiting aeroplanes, but everything was well organized. A great experience.

Very nice, indeed. Love the little scratches in the canopy.

man, have I miss you!!!! welcome back Squirrel !!!!!! 👌🏻

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been to duxford, one of my favourite places and to see these doing low passes is phenomenal

A deserved round of applause after all that - this does look compelling.

So good to have you back, Squirrel! 🙌

"Hi guys Squirrel here" That was good to hear, welcome back!

Very nice take off! beautifully controlled.

Great job, bloody awesome just enough detail to make it incredibly realistic, reminded me flying a T6 perfect three point landing sir.👌

Thank you for allowing me back to a Duxford airshow! The detail is stunning! You should do a vid in partnership with IWM!

Welcome back to the RU-vid and Flight Sim sphere sir. I was tempted to buy the Spitfire, but just got the Just Flight Piper and wanted to take a week or so enjoying that before buying this beast. I gotta admit it does look like a load of fun and even some challenge with those takeoffs and landings.

Nice work. Smooth take off and nice landing. I have crash landed more often than not. But I am working on it.

OMG Squirrel where have you been we missed you and also Spitfire is my fav much love happy saturday

I used to go to Duxford every year for a bus show just so me & my dad could wander round and have a look at all the aircraft. One of the most enjoyable memories I have as a kid seeing these kind of machines up close basking in the sun on the tarmac or in the hangers

Best review so for of the spitfire. I bought it when it came out and love this plane in VR with my HP Reverb G2

Oh your back with your ms flight simulator 2020 videos. Nice!

Could quite happily watch the flight section of this on a loop

Good to see you back 👍

He's back! Great video. Neat plane.

Wow the amount of detail is incredible

I had a Tiger Moth flight here which was fantastic. A Spitfire was parked about 10 yards away from me as I was waiting and it started up. The prop wash from the Merlin was great!

Sir, You now have a new subscriber - that was absolutely fantastic! It's been years since I messed about with MS Flight Simulator - back then, it was on a 4:3 monitor and an AMD X4 CPU. Today, things are much, much improved and I look forward to installing this on my PC. Happy days...nice one Squirrel! 👍👍👍

If any old veteran pilots are still alive they would love this video. I’m sure they’d be scrutinising and telling us any little mistakes in the sim. But it looks amazing to me. 👍

I work in the building on the right just before your cross the m11 coming into land. Unbelievable detail.

Excellent Video, Incredible aircraft...appreciate your work

Nice flight and demo, thanks!

Great to see you back!

Duxford looks spot on, went there in August and saw a Hurricane, Tiger Moth and a Harvard flying around!

Love the channel squirrel keep up the good work!

Love the video, will have to pursue getting games like this now that I am retired owing to Covid. When I flew aircraft with long engines like my first Chipmunk, or my Stampe SV4, I use to side slip in, or crab, or request a curving approach, mainly because I'm not very tall !!!! I'm saving up to go in the dual Spit from Duxford as one of my bucket list. Thinking about it, I'm just going to have to get this simulator. Really enjoyed the video, watched it twice already. Thanks again, excellent flying on your part, Rick Bulldog

Glad you're back squirrel. We all missed you.

I agree with you about the Engine sound. It’s probably in the works. Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed the flight.

Great Video Squirrel I do love the spitfire!

Excellent flight, really enjoyed.

So cool that you can take off from duxford been there so many times

I'm just so impressed at this game/simulator. Stunning.

Loved the flight - nothing like a Spitfire for pure looks, and the Merlin for a soundtrack.

Squirrel I'm so glad to see you back on this channel. I missed your content. Especially on Microsoft Flight Simulator. I'm looking to get the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant and I saw your unboxing but I've been waiting for your review on it.

Heck yeah squirrel is back. Love these videos

Beautiful landing. Cheers!

Nice review. Some advice on landing: I’ve flown a Boeing Stearman in the real world for a couple of years and it has the same problem regarding visibility on final. There are two things you can do to improve this. One is to fly final using a forward slip down to the point where you would flair before straightening out (and then as my instructor on the Stearman would say you pray ;-)) and the second is to perform a much smaller circuit where your base is a circle arriving on final at the runway pretty much where you would flair (and then same procedure regarding praying).

good to see you back

I am amazed at the realism. Incredible

Welcome back sir. Glad you are back.

The attention to detail in this sim is stunning. Even the museum's military vehicle arena is totally accurate and correct.

I only live a couple miles away from Duxford, so it's funny seeing places you know so well. They even got a little turning area "just" (on a bike it's 10 mins down the road) off the end of the runway correct. The buildings not so much, but it's not far off.

Southampton is the only (I think) UK city that is modelled completely accurately, so you can fly the Spitfire over its hometown!

I grew up with this Spitty WRr Evelyn based at the airforce base within walking distance from me and used to watch her flown around once a month. Spitfire LF. IX PT672 Evelyn. Built as Spitfire LF IX MA793 at Castle Bromwich in 1943, this aircraft went to South Africa in 1948. In 1975 it was painstakingly restored to airworthy condition to represent SAAF Spitfire PT672. She was sold to an American collector in the 80's and never seen in public again.

Super Landing 👍🙏🏻 Great Video ! What a great aircraft ! Iconic in every way 👨‍✈️

Really well-made video. Thank you.

Nice flying 💙

The light reflected from surfaces with differing levels of gloss/matte. This game is insane.

Thanks for this review Squirrel, what a gorgeous model! I was surprised to hear you emphasise no rudder trim on takeoff, and I’m concerned about what on Earth made those marks on the canopy! Also, are you familiar with the curved approach used by Spitfires and other taildragging fighters for landing? It would make life easier for you 👍

Superb video - thank you so much!

fantastic video, thank you! would love to see you do another video on the updated plane, it seems they did some work on it since release.

That was FUN!!!!! Thanks so much!!!!

Geoffrey Wellum in First Light said the knack of landing a Spit was to make a diagonal final in order to be able to judge where to touch down

Such a nice and smooth landing :)

Nice aeroplane. I have never seen a tail wheel take off in the sim look so good .

flew from Dutch to Unalaska in a crap storm in VR last week. Brings back old memories.

Sorry I missed you this morning. Welcome back to my world! :-)

Duxford was a great choice as a starting point. I love that place

Flyingiron released an update today for this plane. Quite the changelog - you shold review the updated version

Yes, yes, yes you’re back!!! Nice video, are you going to go back to normal uploads now ;)

Nice video, I have the aircraft and I love it. The Buzz sound you hear after engine shutdown is caused by the battery being still on. You can turn the switch off just in front of the throttle lever.

Thank you, just bought it in the sale.

Perfect landing! 👍

Awesome vid!

Beautiful video! The aircraft livery is actually that of South African Air Force Spitfire named ‘Evelyn’ that flew in South Africa after restoration in the 1980’s. The same Spitfire is currently stored in a museum in Brazil.

cool, you have all the detailed knowledge

She has been modeled in the same colours as the SAAF spit restored in South Africa about 30 years ago called "Evelyn" which was a 40 squadron aircraft flown by Bob Rogers in the war.

Most excellent plane and flying! 😊

The Mk IX spitfire, clipped wing or otherwise came into service way after the Battle of Britain. It was basically an answer to Germany's deployment of the Fw 190, again this was another fighter that did not take part in the Battle of Britain. The Mk IX (as featured) came after the MkV (yes there was a MkVII spit etc but the number did not always result from chronological developments!) The RAF were flying the Mk1 and Mk2 spitfires in the battle of Britain. None of these models had clipped wings. Later, in June 1941 The RAF had MKV the Spitfire. It was ahead of the Me 109E and F variants and had air dominance. All was good until August 1941 when they first met a 'New' German fighter, it had a Radial engine. It outclassed the MkV spitfire totally and indeed was of great concern. This was when the first 'clipped wing Spitfire appeared. (A modified Mk V with it's wings clipped!) It was an attempt to increase speed at low level and it allowed a faster roll rate! Although it did improve the performance of the spitfire MkV at low level, it was still lacking behind the Fw190. However the Brits had a bit of luck when a German pilot flying an Fw190 'accidently' landed his aircraft at Pembrey airfield in South wales. It appears he got lost and mistakenly thought the Bristol channel was the English channel ! I can only presume that he either did not score well at the map reading/Navigation part of his training or had a defective Compass! Apparently upon realising his mistake he immediately tried to take off but was foiled by the quick thinking actions of an RAF sergeant Again it does not say how he foiled this attempt at escape but there are stories that he managed to get on the wing of the fighter and pointed his revolver or a large spanner at the bewildered pilot! This was a Gift to the RAF as they now had a pristine FW190, the type that was causing havoc with the Spit MkV's. RAF test pilots flew it in mock combat dog fights with the Spitfire Mk5 and just as was feared, it proved to be far superior, However a joint collaboration with Rolls Royce and Vickers Supermarine eventually resulted in the Spitfire MkIX, which first flew in June 1942 and once again put Britain back into the lead! Some say this was the archetypal Spitfire! It still had graceful lines and a more powerful Merlin engine ( before the appearance of the Griffon engine spitfires) But it still flew with the grace and precision of the Mk II and MkV's! This new version Merlin engine had a 2 stage Supercharger which gave this new Spitfire differing levels of Power for the different altitudes, this greater Power resulted in a 4 bladed prop as opposed to the 3 bladed version as seen on the MkI, and MkII spitfires of Battle of Britain fame! It also had a slightly larger tail fin once again to aid in stability with the new powerplant. Incidentally this spitfire usually had cannons as can be seen on the wing. Battle of Britain Spitfire Mk I and Mk II's generally had 4 X 303 machine guns in each wing, and although a few spitfires were fitted with early Hispano 20mm cannons during the Battle of Britain these few were soon abandoned after the cannons locked up after firing a few rounds, sometimes as little as 1 shell being fired. Plus these early cannon experimental spitfires had just that...1x a 20mm canon in each wing and nothing else unlike the later spitfires which could have, say 2 x 20mm canon in each wing or 1 x 20mm cannon and 2 machine guns in each wing. This was after the teething problems of the early Hispano cannons had been resolved. Basically the later Spitfires including the MkIX could be fitted with these different wing/gun configuration and I believe the correspond wing layouts were given a letter to identify, i.e. wing type A, type B etc. Also the Machine guns were 'upped' to the browning 50 cal ( although not 4 in each wing as the 303 versions were) Having given a brief concise history of the early Spitfire types and yes I know there were various versions of the MKV, and MK IX to name but a few and no doubt bored a few people, it was great to see Squirrel back and I appreciate the early lessons he gave on MSFS2020! Without them I would be still stuck on the virtual ground in my virtual Cessna! I may be a fan of aviation but did not have a clue on PC flight sims! (well I am 63!) Once again. Thankyou Squirrel

Looks great. Now we just need Browning's and some 109's.

This game is absolutely amazing im blown away omg im loving this on the series x 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀