X-Plane 12 | RealSimGear DA40NG | First Look Review 

I was surprised by how little attention this aircraft is getting. It was a really silent release as well, I'm really glad you covered it! Seems like a masterpiece, what got me the most are those teaching elements for the systems, you can see it was first and foremost developed as a training tool and then polished. You did a great showcase of it, and from all you showed, it seems like one of the best GA add-on with the torque sim cirrus family and AFL as a complete package.

Beautiful aircraft. When u start adding up the aircraft, the flight dynamics and autho ortho- xplane is back. A true aviation experience

I’m lucky to fly the DA40 NG in real life and I can confirm it’s a beautiful plane to fly and those sim sounds are spot on.

Hello and thank you so much for the video! You can get the volume up and down with a mouse over the plug of your headphone actually.

Nice video! I hope this can get to MSFS, or at least any other GA aircraft at this same level. Btw, not sure if anyone commented already, but the temperature rise after shutting down a hot engine is perfectly correct. I'm impressed that they got to this level of detail. This temperature rise is called heat soak. During normal engine operation, the coolant flows quickly around the cylinders walls to remove heat. It flows quickly enough so it absorbs a limited amount of heat. Once you shut down the engine in a hot state, the coolant stops flowing, and the coolant that is stopped around the cylinder walls (which is also typically very close to the coolant temperature sensor) continues to absorb all that heat from those cylinder walls, and that's where the temperature rise comes from. This happens to basically any water cooled reciprocating engine, including the one inside your gasoline/diesel car engine. Reminding that combustion temperatures in "regular" engines can get above 800 Celsius, so the metal from the cylinder walls also get's very hot. It would have been nice if you checked if the temperature drops quickly after you start the engine again. That would be the expected behavior as well. Also, would be interesting to know if this could have any consequence to the engine/airplane too. In your video, you came a long way with a lower power setting with the descent and taxiing after landing, so combustion chamber temperatures surely are already much lower. Because of that the temperature rise due to the heat soak was very limited. But if you do what is called a hot shutdown, which in its most extreme case involves turning the engine off while being at full power and stabilized temps. (reached their highest point), that could cause a coolant expansion tank (not even sure if these exists in airplanes) to leak coolant due to excessive temperature expansion. It should not happen though in a well projected engine installation (as I would expect from this airplane). In this case the coolant temp. could rise above even 120C. There are other consequences that could happen, but their extent can vary a lot depending on various aspects of an engine.

I did a short flight yesterday and overheated the engine oil and ended up having and engine failure. So i would say it's a study level aircraft.

Thank you very much for the review Q8! Bought the plane and really enjoying it !!

I wasn't going to purchase this aircraft. Now I will, if for no other reason than to show appreciation for the level of modeling. We need devs to push X-Plane's aircraft into dimensions that are difficult to replicate in other sims.

Wow, what a beauty. That’s one of the planes that made me buy a new SSD and Setup XP12 parallel to MSFS, which is far away from the in depth planes that are offered by X-Plane. One can really see how enthused you are by this little one! One question, please… how would you compare performance to other single prop GA‘s? Regards, Stefan

The aircraft and X plane 12 match phenomenal!.

Excellent review Captain! I want this bird! ;-)

Love your videos, Q8. Unfortunately couldn't watch as it was 4am my time and I've got exams but definitely gonna have to scrounge up the money for this one. The last plane to rival this in terms of quality and detail is probably the CL650. AFL's C172NG and KingAir come close but this looks like it's actually better, at least from this video.

wow awesome vidieo so good to see you still doing awesome content on flight simulstors i used to watch you a few years ago brought X-plane 11 and failed horribly but i have watch a few of your recent releases and your still as good today as you was back in the old days thinking of buying X-plane 12 but all i got is a keybaord and mouse and buddy says you cant play this simulator with a keyboard and mouse so maybe someday ill invest in a yoke and rudders hard todo being on a fixed income but i really appreciate your vidioes and will watch more thanks so much Peace Jas

One of my favorite flying in XP 12 is Diamond D-50!

Kinda wish they included documentation for this addon, especially at this price point.

How do you steer the DA40NG so smoothly? I'm all over the taxiway when I try steering with the toe braking.

Ah man....if it was the DA40-180 I would have jumped on it. More complexity in operating the engine is a good thing for the sim, and is the one I flew.

Amazing aircraft. Did you usw any other add on's, Like xenviro, activeskyxp, ortho4xp / Auto ortho or Others in this Video?

It looks really good, just a shame that they use the default X1000.

hello Q8 sir hope all is well, may I ask if this aircraft has distance attenuation (or GPWS? correct me if im wrong sir..) like the aerobask DA42 NG?

Hi @q8pilot can you share a bit more info on what's there in terms of the custom G1000? Engine page? Checklists? Thanks

is there any fs DA40s that have the prop and mixture levers?

Is it correct that the front gear seems to be out of the middle? 6:01

anybody else getting ctd trying to fly this plane? sadly i get ctd after 3 minutes when it finishes loading. every other payware and default aircraft are working fine.

With this level of detail it is a crime not to include a fault and maintenance module as in the sr20.

I was wondering how you'd compare this plane against the AFL 172? Is it better, worse? What are your thoughts?

I forgot in the stream does this include a POH?

Ground noise seems over the top doesn't it?

oh sweet

Q8 how u pan around like that? Looks really cool

Hello, so far I only play MSFS2020 on console (Xbox Series X). I would like to use the simulation on X-Plane 12 (because many people say that XP12 is more realistic as a simulator) and I was wondering if the author of this video or someone else in the comments could tell me how much would a decent PC cost that delivers the same graphics in this video or similar level? For price range references, I live in Germany. Thanks a lot in advance! :)

Great video

Long time no see Kuwait. I've been using a youtube client with no sign in. What do you think of Simfly? Lots of people saying its a scam

Hello

No engine page ?

I t does not handle well on the ground.