The sentence your 4 virtual passengers loved to hear from Captain Squirrel: “Let’s press this button (VNAV) and see what it does... I’m not convinced...” -LOL-
Another rule of thumb for the descend: To achive a perfect 3° descend your ROD should be 5x your GS. If you descended with 300KT groundspeed a 1500ft/min descend will get you just there. This is also really handy to check on final approach with any airplane, if you fly 5xGS you are in a stable 3° descend. So for a 60kt approach with a cessna you will only descend at 300ft/min while in an A320 at 140kts you will get about 700-800 ft/min
I’m relatively new to flying detailed cockpits in the prop aircraft so you’re explanations to why you do something (e.g insertion separator on/off) really helps. Thank you for your good work👍
Oh, Paul... You landed at a military base (MCAS stands for Marine Corps Air Station)! The GA airport is Montgomery-Gibbs Executive (KMYF) located about 9 miles south of KNKX
He's doing a run supplied by a third party website, FSEconomy, to deliver passengers, so didn't actually choose the destination himself. In this case, they were probably military passengers.
I grew up with that view coming out of Ontario where you were parked. Lived just a few miles north. Amazing seeing it after so many years exactly as I remember it. Learned a ton from the video as well thanks!
I'm a new player, 30:06 now i finally know why the inert sep warning always appear in my Citation CJ4 cockpit :D Always learning from your videos thanks!
Two Tips about the Flight planner on the TBM930. 1) you can scroll through the flight plan by “grabbing” inside an the list itself like you would swipe on your cell phone. And 2) you’re not allowed to enter enroute waypoints after you’ve entered an arrival or approach procedure. You must enter the enroute fixes prior to specifying approaches and arrivals.
It is amazing you can do 95% of the stuff right within the base game, just need the ATC to actually follow height restrictions and not send me up to FL120 when I am 10miles from the airport. :p
I was about to write all airports in the US start with a ‘K’ but that’s not always true, so not very helpful. But I think it is true the other way around though. If you see an identifier that starts with ‘K’ it’s a US airport.
I'll pay $150 for a premium F-14D for FS2020 and fly to all the military bases around the world in it. And of course fly inverted with my polariod camera and middle finger XD. A B-1B would be nice to fly too.
RNAV can be flown with autopilot, you just have to intercept the glideslope at the final fix at the correct altitude and make sure that APR mode is on.
Yeah I was going to post about this myself. He needed to arm APR before JLI. It also would have followed the gradual turn it was supposed to if the approach had been armed. I did an RNAV approach into Salt Lake City a couple of days ago and the approach involved flying past the airport and doing a long sweeping turn to intercept the runway. The G1000 followed both the turn and the glideslope fine for me.
@@zOMGREI I'm a little confused about when to arm APR for RNAV, what's the protocol - I've missed it a few times and got it others and don't know why, what I tend to do now is try to be lower than I would expect further out and fly into the GS, but there must be a correct way : )
@@redjumping So the way I'm doing it atm probably isn't by the books (I gave up on the G1000 manual since there's just too much that isn't implemented in the sim currently), but basically as soon as I pass the last part of the enroute/arrival leg, I hit APR, hit PROC>ACTIVATE APPROACH>ENT and then just let it do its thing. I've had to mess with setting my own vertical speed a couple of times since it seems like some of the approaches have the wrong altitudes set, and there's no way to tell since the G1000 currently just shows -----FT as the altitudes for approaches and there doesn't seem to be a way to set these. The LNAV part of the approach phase always works fine though.
Also, the other giveaway seems to be that once you're in the approach phase the active leg won't change if the approach hasn't been activated. If you see a white GPS line instead of the magenta one, you're definitely not in an active approach and the plane is just flying LNAV along it.
@@zOMGREI Yes, this was the issue I have found. The GS is really the most important part I would say, but for some reason I find that with RNAV I'm not picking up the GS like you say. I'm starting to wonder whether (now you mentioned it) that I have been loading LNAV approaches instead. Generally I have been picking RNAV over ILS just to make it simpler so I dont have to go into the waypoints/airports and then find the ILS Nav frequency, but perhaps in my glee to see APRs other than ILS I have neglecting to see that they are LNAV and not RNAV : / maybe anyway...
The departure in the GPS was correct, with the "weird" waypoint at the "other" and of the RWY. Remember, you were supposed to fly a RIGHT turn after departure and loop back over the field and then down south. You did turn left instead, which was not matching the SID.
Not if he was departing from Runway 26, which was the original plan. The NIKKL1 departure is a left turn from rwy 26, but when he re-entered the NIKKL1 departure in the MFD, it changed the departing runway and he never noticed.
Did you note that on the AirNav page for KNKX, it says "private" field and "prior permission needed" for landing? Lol. Well it's a US Marine Corps/US Navy Base and I don't think landing there without special permission would end very well! But hey, maybe those FS Economy passengers are high ranking government officials or defense contractors! Let's hope they are and the base was expecting your arrival. 🤣
@Buhs They either do corporate or charter going into military bases for business... We ran a lot of PPR flights from different companies, most were not charter though.
@@svoigt2622 I have no doubt it's a government chartered flight here. $795.00 per ticket to fly each passenger 75 nautical miles! It has federal government (probably US Congress) written all over it! 😉
@@skyhawk_4526 $795 a head, a bunch of suits sitting at a table talking about how the flight will go and a flight that never actually gets off the ground. Yep, sounds like military.
Hey Squirrel. Great Video. One quick thing, if you press the Approach button (APR) anywhere before the final approach fix on a RNAV approach *given that you're at the correct altitude as specified on the approach plate* the Auto Pilot/GPS will guide the aircraft down to the runway just like it would during an ILS approach. Which makes RNAV approaches much easier as opposed to ILS where you'd have to set the frequency, switch to NAV1 and press the APR button.
This is definitely one of the more useful video I have seen. Especially when you "fumbled" with entering the flight plan. Useful to see that even you can have your problems. I will soon be buying FS2020, so keep up he good work!
Thank you for that, as usual! I would like to just add one point. Skyvector is trully great, however, charts are available only for US. For the rest of the world, you will find no charts at all. So for the instance, I am from the Czech republic, thus I have to use paid Navigraph anyway :) Have a great day!
its such a nice and easy plane to fly even over bigger distances i flew from australia to japan in one now granted i had infinite fuel but still such a dream to fly
is that your car in your picture if so could you make a video on it for me what you did to it im thinking og buying a 86 or brz to widebody as a project
The Italian Dandy he must not be a car person respect all builds even tho it’s not your cup of tea we don’t need toxicity in our community P.S. I got a 5.0 mustang 😉
@@Dsynced_ jupp friend of mine got a civic now they might get hate alot but his is genuinely fast it has a rb20det in it and about 450hp and it doesnt sound like a fart can because he has some mufflers
Squirrel, the Vfe speed for the take off flaps position is 178. You can put the first notch if flaps in then. It will help you slow her down a little better, instead of waiting until 122 to dump all the flaps
All those years ago as a kid watching The Krypton factor, the only good bit was when they had to land the plane in a sim. Now we all get to have a go 😁
You didn't notice that when you re-entered the NIKKL1 Departure, the MFD changed runway from 26R to 08L. My OCD was going through the roof! "WHY HAVEN'T YOU NOTICED!!". Even when you got to the runway and thought "That looks weird", but didn't look (you checked, but didn't look :) ). Nice tutorial as usual, though. :)
Squirrel, please do a dedicated tutorial on how to read all the charts! I would love to be able to share that information directly with my friends without me (a prior controller) explaining it--you do such a great job of breaking everything down.
I havent flown into Mirimar yet however its close to me. As it is where it was made famous by the Top Gun Movie and its also known as the #1Airshow here in the states. And I have been to the airshows they are a lot of fun. Got the opportunity to see the Red Arrows last year and that was a treat here at Mirimar.
sorry, one more thing...if you just set the bottom altitude for the approach, and fly the 3 degree glideslope, you should make each altitude at each waypoint on the approach with out having to set each altitude separately. It is designed to be flown that way.
I am always surprised that there is people who actually down-vote videos like that. What did they expect from the video and why don't they express their expectations then?
Really enjoying these videos, i've had to teach myself ILS and RNAV approaches in the last couple of days (using skyvector and google for UK ILS codes) and successfully flew in IFR into Birmingham (UK) in thick cloud conditions using the ILS. using the Garmin system etc and doing all this research (looking at maps etc..) is certainly adding to the enjoyment of the game for me.
Max flaps speed on this plane is 180kts according to the PIM (takeoff flaps/half flaps). I haven't tested in the sim but you should be able to deploy takeoff flaps at 180 (and landing gear as well). Landing flaps are restricted to airspeeds of 120kts IAS. Hope this helps people who are struggling to bleed off airspeed during arrival/approach!
Hey SQ any chance you could do some flights around the Alaskan Bush.. maybe fly to Kavik.. as seen in "Life below zero" Maybe you could do a whole series where you fly to all the locations in that show ! Life below Zero is HUGE in the US!
Hey Squirrel, if you change the world map to High VFR you get the options for all the SIDs and STARs to select from in sim. You can also alter the cruise height etc and go from ramp to ramp.
Don't know if they still do it, but back in the day, in SoCal they had tower enroute procedures that were canned routes and if you were going IFR you got assigned one of those. They were actually published for the pilots so that they would know what they were going to get between airport pairs. Going that short, you would probably also be capped at a fairly low altitude...
@@svoigt2622 I'm intrigued how you found that "route"? All those waypoints (airports) in that order, would bounce you back and forth all over so-cal/ the inland empire area. Cable to Chino to El Monte to Hemet and so on...
@@type1aviator668 It is on the FAA's website for Tower Enroute flights. We had Tower Enroute since the early 70's. In fact before computers and the internet, the FAA published the routes on a slider that you would line up the airport you were going from and going to and in the middle the canned route would show up. The airspace is so crazy and with so many aircraft and arrival and departure routes they had to come up with this to streamline the process. You will find that props are capped at lower altitudes and even jets staying within the SoCal area are also kept from climbing to where they would like to. All for efficiency.
mee tooI just found out about it today and I loved! It is so agile, so fast and at the same time you have the pleasure to hand fly an single angine aircraft!
It's my favourite too, partly as it's the fastest thing in the sim at the moment without inopp switches. Great video again Paul. I've learnt so much the last few weeks!
Thanks for the vid of my home! Orange County. Did you know UPS has their California hub in Ontario? I Used to work across the street watching them land
You should do a fly around the world. A live stream. Just take off from any airport and flight straight until you reach the same airport. I'd watch that.
Hey Squirrel, you flew over my house in this one... However, you did just land at a Marine Corps Air Station (former home of Top Gun) but whatevs. Very comprehensive video.
I tried to do an IFR flight following ATC. Their directions for altitude seemed impossible to keep up with. If I tried to come down "too soon" they complained. If I waited for them to tell me to decrease altitude I would have needed to be in a fighter jet :
I learned a lot from this video! So, when I choose an aproach, or the atc gives me clearance for an aproach, I have to follow the altitude changes, even if the ATC didn't told me so. It's in the procedure, he didn't need to right? I was thinking that I needed to be aware of the FL, but the ATC should give me every clearance to change my altitude... I was trying myself to learn all this, and the MSFS2020 ATC left me 500ft above the glide slope. And I was not sure if it was a bug, or my mistake.
ATC in MFS is a bit wonky, often telling you to do stupid stuff like climb to FL210 when you're already doing the approach, only to then tell you to go down do 3000. Follow your flightplan, especially for the approach part.. You can request appropriate altitude from FMC or, if they're being dumb - straight up ignore them.
Hi Squirrel. It's been a few months, so you may have resolved this issue already. BARO button will only set STD if already at or above current FL, otherwise it will adjust QNH. Seems to only work above FL 180.
This was suprisingly fun to watch despite not actually owning any flight simulators including MFS. It's temping to buy it just to play with all this, but don't really have a stick or anything to play it properly, i don't think i want to play with my xbox control and keyboard. I dunno. But it's fun watching you play and explain all this nonetheless. I do have a saitech x52 back when i used to play elite dangerous,, etc. Do people use that for this simulator or is that mainly only for helicopter/space sims? Obviously doesn't look anything like Yoke in many of these planes though.
Hi your videos are great I’m using Neofly so doing a lot of quick flights when using the G1000 I find it very easy to set a course Enter destination and select approach The plane will then capture the GS regardless of the altitude I am at But finding with the TBM doing it this way I have to bring the plane down myself and I need to be under the GS or on it for it to capture Is there a simple way like the G1000 (Kodiak) on the TBM to do it this way or not? Thank you
