Thanks for the video Emilie. My Dad took up both computers and flight sims in his 80s. He didn't even know the keys on his keyboard he was that green. I remember him creating huge manuals in binders, going through checklists, flight plans, interacting with the tower etc. as best he could in FSX. Every day he would make a flight after breakfast for a couple of hours. Sadly he passed away in 2017, still flight simming at 88. He would have been over the moon with this version of MSFlight so it's kind of bittersweet for me. I'll pick it up and do some flying in his memory.
I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad, I was a mad FS pilot too, so much so I bought every MSFS on the market. I gave it up later because Windows updated and FSX would no longer work on my pc.(And my controller broke). I'm now looking to re-establish all my stuff and carry on flying. I hope you find the same passion as your Dad and realise how relaxing it all can be. Please continue his legacy. (hugs and condolences)
Agreed. For non-pilots like me, just having stuff saying "click this switch" isn't very useful. I want to know *why* I'm clicking the switches. What do they do? Of course, I doubt anyone could really go into detail on it as the videos would be hours long, but it is nice to have just a general idea. Very few of the videos I've seen out there do this.
The channel “Squirrel” is another pilot. He did an interesting video a few days ago on how you navigate the many overlapping airport control zones around London. If my hair weren’t grey already, it sure would be after a single flight around there.
Pro-tip that I only learned by accident yesterday: When you're moving a dial (such as the heading dial), you can use the mouse scroll wheel up or down to change it instead of clicking for every degree, as long as your cursor is over the dial. Made my life a lot easier to figure this out!
Anybody else low key want a q400 to come out for this sim that's 10/10 so Emilie can fly it. Imagine the possibilities haha, proper walk through and a glimpse into what and how you do the checklists upfront. Ill be starting flight school soon and the way you speak through your flight explaining what you're doing is solid, really easy to follow along for any new pilots. But the fact that your smiling through this whole experience shows how much you love what you do! If I can experience that with any instructor then is going to be a really fun time! Thank you for the content really fun watching this. Have an amazing day!
The company majestic that make professional q400 for fsx have said that they will work on making a q400 for fs 2020 but because they didn't had early access to the SDK it won't be for at least a year.
@@fatmoleman mhhhmmm. Hand crafted airports without ground markings... also what would it help to have unflyable q400 by asobo like their a320, 787 and 748. 3rd party devs are the way here
Vladimir Bartalos having hem is enough, I mean there’s already a group attempting to make the A320 better, The shell is just that gorgeous not to make use of,
My last preflight check at home. Coffee: check Chips bag: check Lemonade: check Feet on desk: ON Pink Floyd: ON ....it was an uneventful flight all in all, coffee ran out tho.
I would have liked to have had such simulators when I took my flight course 40 years ago. Young people now have the chance to have fabulous learning tools at a reasonable cost. 😎
Since you're a real pilot and you obviously know these things pretty in-depth considering you've gotten to where you are, could you make a few more comments about why each of these checks are made when it's important, the importance of the order they are in, etc. Something that a person like you with a lot of experience would understand. I know a lot of simmers are into it because they can't necessarily afford to do the real thing but still want to learn the technical stuff. Don't have to go too in depth, just a few comments with useful information would be interesting to see. =)
There are a great many private pilot 'learn to fly books' covering the private pilot syllabus. If you are serious about learning the 'in depth' of how to fly an aircraft you should buy and read them. They are not all that expensive and that is what 'real' student pilot have to do. The instructors give you the practical and brief theory lessons, but you are expected to put some effort in yourself.
@@alexanderschieving5847 Let me check it out. I learned to fly some 45 years ago. I have seen many current instructional books ( I am more interested in advanced stuff) but I will get back to you. There are so many.
You mentioned it being hard to look around. There is a product called TrackIR 5. It attaches to your headphones and has an infrared sensor that you attach to your monitor. It tracks you head movement and moves the camera in game so you can look around just by moving your head a bit. A lot of us simmers use it for racing/flying games, the immersion is so much higher. Later on ASOBO is adding support for VR which will be even better!
Keep up the good work. I appreciate that you treat the viewers as if we were flight students. I've been looking for a flight simmer who can teach us real world lessons. And the bonus is- you're a simmer who is an actual pilot. Subbed!
Honestly this type of tutorial is exactly what I have been looking for. It’s very helpful. The first time I watched this I was incredibly overwhelmed with the layouts and zillions of knobs lol by the second time I watched it all the way throughI really felt a much better understanding of the workflow and why you would need to do things like check the battery and fuel and everything BEFORE you are in flight lol
As a 50+ year real life pilot as well as a 35+ year Flight Sim pilot, I find you refreshing and fun to listen to and watch. 2 suggestions for future videos to help real and sim pilots be the best they can be, are: #1- describe a solid Take-Off briefing... discussing the aspects of the takeoff and emergency procedures associated with each part... on the ground, runway remaining, in the air, in the climb out, etc. #2) discussions of engine failures and how to handle... straight ahead landing or a return to the airport. This is one of the fantastic things about the simulator... I have a reference sheet for over 100 of my favorite aircraft in my 2 present sims (out of the roughly 300+ aircraft and helicopters total in both sims) that list the minimum altitude (agl) and the maximum distance (miles) for each aircraft to be able to return to the airport in the event of a total engine failure. By the way, in some under powered single engine GA aircraft, there is no combination of altitude/distance that works (in takeoff configuration) and you must land straight ahead. It was great fun to test each plane until success was achieved. Yes, I know that engine failures are rare, but in my 50+ years of real life flying, I have encountered 3 complete engine failures... landing in a cow pasture once... on a highway once and one return to the departing airport. A good pilot is always practicing.
Captain Emilie you are awesome. Giving out tutorials like this on how real pilots do stuff is really inspiring. You made me come back to flight sim-ing. Downloading FS2020 again in steam. Amazing checklist, I could imagine calling out "check", "on", "off" for you on that seat next to you. Hehe
Dunno if you realize it, but you land it like a Dash, with a ton of power in. Taking nothing away from your flying skills--sim or RL--but the similarity in landing technique made me smile.
I have just watched some of your videos. OMG they are amazing. I have been using FSX for a while now and in your videos you have explained alot more on checklists etc. Hope you are keeping safe. A huge congratulations on your promotion. Keep up the great work
This is so well done. You can ignore the Patreon message about your rig. It's all here now (to be fair I sent that before this posted). A capable system woohoo.
Excellent Emilie, It is very clear you are a great flight instructor and pilot. Thank so much for taking the time and your skills to teach us virtual pilots the basics. I'm looking forward to your smile and more adventures in the future. Merci beaucoup!
I am here in 2022 but this video is still so helpful and will be helpful for years upon years! People wanna lean a bit more advanced detail with video explanation and you do it so good! Thank you for this video!
5:39 Emily you can hover the mouse over the border to scale the window so you can see all text😁. I've waited so long for you to upload msfs2020 again. Thanx!!!
The very best MSFS2020 videos I’ve seen. I’d love to see some help on variable speed props, I can make it work but your videos are so helpful on doing things the RIGHT way. Thanks Emilie!
Man, the checklist on this plane is so much more relaxed. I tried the checklist on the TBM930 and if you don't go through it _faaast_ and start moving your butt the engine just overheats. 😂
I dunno, Emilie, weren't you right the first time about which hand to use for throttle and yoke? Your instincts sounded right to me, assuming you're in the left seat as PIC. Maybe it's the hardware that's wrong. A lot of the joystick and throttle combos out there seem to be aimed at gamers wanting to fly F15s or shoot lasers at asteroids, rather than practice aviation procedures. I'm planning to buy the Honeycomb yoke and TQ for this reason. Great video anyway, I haven't flown for over a decade now so this kind of resource is great for jogging my memory. You remind me of my instructor, she was similarly relaxed and matter-of-fact, with good banter, a deep love of flying and (luckily for me) endless patience!
If someone wants to fly an f-15 that does not mean he's a gamer. Try dcs world f/a-18, that's a very deep and accurate simulator, and you want to have the throttle on your left hand if you're into it.
I've been watching your videos ( some of them many times ) i'm an FS enthusiast . and there's stuff I really would like to know and understand. You explain things really well , really naturally .I would really enjoy a course from you about Autopilot, or even the basic physics of plane (inclined plane force, flaps and elevation . vertical speed . horizontal speed and all those things, in relation to flying with said instruments . Also procedures like VOR/DME & SID/STARS. (the whole take off/ approach procedure), and flight plans . I think it would also boost your channel too. I'd be really happy to go through those things explained by you because it's a pleasure watching your content.
Loved this thank you so much. Never been a fan of flight sims till i played the latest Microsoft flight sim 2020. And I love it to bits. Just bought a whole new PC and monitor because of it. And bought Yoke and pedals. Also for my Birthday my wife is getting me flying lessons at a small local airfield that is actually on the sim, Barton airport. You're lovely and your vids are fantastic. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
Am trying to figure this out myself, I find using button 1 on my joystick, the trigger, give the view to the nearest landmark, when landing that'll be the airfield, giving me a quick check for when I"m at 45 degrees or whatever. I feel you pain with the adjustments you need to make. I got FS the first time for my Apple ][ and had a homemade joystick with no self centering. My brother in law was a flight instructor building up his hours so he could work with his dad with Flying Tigers way before they were bought out by Fed Ex. He couldn't fly it at all but he talked me into my first successful landing. Neat thing, just before his dad retired they had a chance to fly together as pilots on a 747 international flight. Gary lost his seniority after the buyout, ended up flying 727s domestic at the end of his career.
Thank you so much for this video! So cool to go through the checklist, makes me feel like I am actually the pilot! You described it perfect! love the detail in this game, so incredible!
Thanks for the checklists, learned things I never knew after 20 years of FS on and off. Also, I once had an add-on for a 182 that could simulate the walk-around, fuel checks, etc. Hopefully that will be a reality for this new version too some day.
Great video Emilie, as always. Those who criticize can go to some other "game" youtuber and push the gas and go. Many don't realize the thousands of hours you have flown, learned, and taught and the expense of becoming a CFI. Just the fact that a pilot can use a checklist and not use the highlight focus in the sim proves you know what you are doing. Second, all student pilots should put the throttle and stick/yoke exactly as you find them in the planes you fly. Muscle memory. In a Cessna, yoke in left hand, throttle and switches in the right, except when you are teaching from the right seat in real planes and then all CFIs (Chief Flying Instructor, which Emilie is) learn to fly from the right seat when showing students manouvers. So she can fly right or left handed configurations... for hundreds or thousands of hours. Don't let the criticizers faze you. They are used to games and used to pretending to be authorities on their games. Keep up the insightful and entertaining real flying using simulator. My channel, ForderLearnToFly, promotes you and your endeavors all the way. Trust her everyone. We would all be so lucky to have Emilie as our flight instructor in real life. (by the way, got my licence on GNJ, a Cessna 150 out of Toronto Island Airport). Love this place. And don't trust the built-in ATC that sends you over the city... avoided at all costs unless they have to. Around the islands for your circuits and come through the eastern gap for noise avoidance procedures.
Did you think about creating an amazon wishlist or a donation pocket? So people could buy you for example a YOKO Joystick and Throttle or Honeycomb Joystick and Throttle? Being able to use the sim realistically helps you and your viewers, but the peripherals are quite expensive, but maybe viewers are willing to donate? :-) I am working for Lufthansa myself, so I know your situation... :-(
Hi Ty for your video it has shown me alot i usually just start on the runway now I'm going to try and learn how to flight from parking spot, you explain everything clearly and easy to understand thanks again I look forward to your other tutorials.
Seconded. Emilie you'd make bank on there and people are currently interested in MFS2020. Make sure to check out Stream Elements (google it) to get a good setup going. Also more Ninja plz! Maybe get him a co-pilot cap? :D
OMG, I LOVE your kitty! I was blessed to have a very similar, near pure-bred Bombay, in my life for many years, from kitten to death, and he was my favorite feline companion in my life. I'm 60+ now and have enjoyed a number of feline companions, but none compared to that one... Love your channel and content, keep it up!!!
Great video of properly starting the c172. Have subscribed. Keep it up with the videos ... I will be watching! PS. Don't worry about people negative comments... You will improve making these videos as you learn the Sim...love that you are a real pilot😊
Look likes the landing was a 3points one... the nose wheel seems to touch first, which is not very good :) Little tips for the knobs : you should be able to scroll over to rotate those buttons, which will much more easier than click multiple times! Nice video as usual, with very useful explanations for non pilots viewer... and pilots who never use G1000 (my case :) )
Thank you, thank you, thank you for making these videos!!! I like your style, videos like this are invaluable. I'd love to see a video that has tips on better flights, from takeoff, climb out, cruise, descent, and landing. Especially landing. It seems like I'm ok on every other part of the flight, but am all over the place on final approach, and inevitably land next to the runway (but, haven't crashed....yet). Keep em coming, and I can't wait until you're able to make video's in the cockpit of the Q400 again!
I just want to thank you so much for your video. I am a complete newbie who has just bought the simulation and I need to find some very basic tutorials. Please keep sending more video about how to use certian flying functions specifically. Once again thank you so much. Jeremy from Singapore
After a looooong search, I finaly found someone doing a start from cold and dark with explaination! Thx for yout tutorials overall, these are very good for beginners and give a lot of usefull background information! Best regards from Austria!!
So... right hand, left hand controls..... I'll defer to my Q400 driver when she's landing on 02/20 or 12/30 at YEG with crosswinds and icy tarmac. Pretty sure she's got that !!🤘🤘🤘🤣🤣🤣
Nice video! I've only been to Toronto once, for a layover, at night, so I didn't get to see how beautiful it is! Also, I was thinking... I know you don't consider yourself a gamer, but you're definitely appealing to that crowd when you do the FS2020 videos. :) Given your rapidly growing viewership, have you considered streaming live gameplay? If you take the streamer route, it could be a nice supplement to your income. Plus it'd allow live chat for Q&A, more interaction, etc.
I really like your videos Emilie...hopefully, you'll be getting back in the real seat soon. Also like your simulated walk-around on the outside of the plane..."Yea, looks good!" My sim walk-around..."Lets see, wings, tail and propeller...yea looks good."
Great tutorial! Brisk and fun to watch while packing in the details. BTW, for better viewing, TrackIR is great. It's what I'd be using if my son hadn't broken the IR headset clip.
Excellent Emile, and your using the same controller as me, now I know how bad I am and can't blame the controller anymore ha ha. Maybe I should go back to being a Air Traffic Controller, you make it look so easy. Thanks again.
Wow, you are rather meticulous with your check-list. I'm more of the "Is the plane still there?" check. FIREWALL IT, BILLY!!! While making some sarcastic welcome announcement to my fictitious passengers like "Thank you for flying Air Charlie. Today's route into Seattle-Tacoma is estimated to be 95 minutes, but we think we can do it it 60. I have turned on the "fasten seat-belts" light because the co-pilot has been smashing cocktails of night-quill and Redbull since 5 am and is currently engaged in a shouting match with demons that only he can see, I'm anticipating a dog-fight to commence at any moment. We know you have a choice in air carriers and you chose poorly"
Ok just starting watching it but I have to comment. Set your damn stick up however you want! The joystick can actually be configured to work on either side. Makes perfect sense why you did that to me. I think just about every commercial plane has the throttle on the right, not the left. So it would make sense that is where you would put it. Only thing I have seen with the throttle on the left is fighter jets. F-16's had the throttle on the left and the stick on the right. Older ones like F-4's and stuff like that ( I was a mechanic on F-4's in the Air Force) have the throttle on the left and stick in the center. And since you fly commercial planes for real I would think your right hand would naturally drop down to the throttles to control them. Just like shifting a car, unless you live in the UK lol. I wouldn't reverse your controls just because some internet trolls get triggered. It isn't your fault the controls were made wrong.
Actually this joystick can't be configured to be on the left. I mean you can use it on the left, but it won't be comfortable, as there will be nothing to rest your wrist on. It was clearly not based on commecrial aircraft controls so it's not 'made wrong'.
@@ovatone The throttle is where you would really get in trouble trying to switch hands lol.. and ya the X-52 is an older HOTAS that is general-purpose so it's not "made wrong." I'm sure if the MSFS content gets traction it'd make sense for her to grab some better gear.
@@ovatone Hmm I thought sure my x52 came with extra panels to convert it to left hand. However after looking in the box you are correct it can't be swapped. I wonder what stick I was looking at that could be? I know it was one of them I was looking at. I swapped my controls to see how it would feel. Not bad honestly. The stick is fine. Feels good enough and you can hit all the buttons just fine. The throttle is a little strange but usable. And to be honest if I remember correctly that throttle was a pile of crap out of the box. I really wish they wouldn't bother with the contours, hand rests and hand specific button layouts on them. They would work just as well without them and be more universal. The x52 especially seems to be more about looks than function though. Not the best purchase I have ever made. I don't hate it, but for the money I feel it could have been better.
I love this video. Thank you. Not many people are doing tuts that talk about checklists. Also FYI, you can turn knobs with the mouse wheel, in case you weren't aware.
In the video you mentioned the 172 was used in training. It’s actually the 152. Great training aircraft. First one I flew when I commenced my training.
Love the attention to detail and running through the checklists. I haven’t flown since I moved to Houston. I need to get back in the air. Thanks for great videos and inspiration 🤗❤️🛫
do you think after playing this for hundreds of hours, you will need a mouse when you go back to flying a real plane? ...maybe you can just bring the cat lol
Like your videos on MSFS. Would like to see you try the Courchevel challenge... Also and more importantly a tutorial on IFR, ILS in MSFS 2020 with comparisons to real world would be great! Take care and fly safe.
Hey, bright eyes. Very nice city tour. And excellent touchdown. The next time you're on the outside view try looking around like you do in the cockpit.
I started to try out this game yesterday and after watching this from a real PILOT, I realised that the AP is doing a lot fro me. I only learned the controlling, I do not perform all of that checklist. Wow! I don't even know a quarter of what pilots do.
This was AMAZING. The level of detail here is so cool. Thanks for doing this. I'd like to see more detail in future flights. BTW...will you get a full sim set up in the future (three screens, rudder, physical front panel, etc...? Keep up the great work.
Another great video Emilie as always. Another priceless facial expression on landing. You seemed so proud from the previous adventures, Lol. I sent you a msg on FB. Unfortunately I am deployed now to the Middle East so my flying is put on hold for the time being. Looking forward to your next video. HIGHLY recommend getting TrackIR. It will make a world of difference when you want to look around.
Hi Emily. I've been interested in learning to fly almost as long as I can remember. I bought FSX a few years ago with the idea of learning, but never got to do it. Today I purchased the new MSFS, and as luck would have it I saw one of your videos. This re-sparked my interest. I just know I can learn a lot from you, a real-life pilot. Now I can hardly wait for my sim! I just need to download it first, then I can start my flying training. Thank you for making this possible for me as a novice. You make it look so easy, but that is obviously because of years of experience. 😉
Thanks for the video Emilie. My Dad took up both computers and flight sims in his 80s. He didn't even know the keys on his keyboard he was that green. I remember him creating huge manuals in binders, going through checklists, flight plans, interacting with the tower etc. as best he could in FSX. Every day he would make a flight after breakfast for a couple of hours. Sadly he passed away in 2017, still flight simming at 88. He would have been over the moon with this version of MSFlight so it's kind of bittersweet for me. I'll pick it up and do some flying in his memory.
I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad, I was a mad FS pilot too, so much so I bought every MSFS on the market. I gave it up later because Windows updated and FSX would no longer work on my pc.(And my controller broke). I'm now looking to re-establish all my stuff and carry on flying. I hope you find the same passion as your Dad and realise how relaxing it all can be.
Please continue his legacy. (hugs and condolences)
You're the first person I've watched go through the checklist in this game and actually explain what they're for. So neat! Thanks a bunch!!
You can check Captain Joe
Agreed. For non-pilots like me, just having stuff saying "click this switch" isn't very useful. I want to know *why* I'm clicking the switches. What do they do? Of course, I doubt anyone could really go into detail on it as the videos would be hours long, but it is nice to have just a general idea. Very few of the videos I've seen out there do this.
The channel “Squirrel” is another pilot. He did an interesting video a few days ago on how you navigate the many overlapping airport control zones around London. If my hair weren’t grey already, it sure would be after a single flight around there.
@@CantankerousDave Yes, I saw that video. Very interesting!
@@CantankerousDave Interesting. I didn't know that Squirrel was an actual pilot.
Pro-tip that I only learned by accident yesterday: When you're moving a dial (such as the heading dial), you can use the mouse scroll wheel up or down to change it instead of clicking for every degree, as long as your cursor is over the dial. Made my life a lot easier to figure this out!
Anybody else low key want a q400 to come out for this sim that's 10/10 so Emilie can fly it. Imagine the possibilities haha, proper walk through and a glimpse into what and how you do the checklists upfront. Ill be starting flight school soon and the way you speak through your flight explaining what you're doing is solid, really easy to follow along for any new pilots. But the fact that your smiling through this whole experience shows how much you love what you do! If I can experience that with any instructor then is going to be a really fun time! Thank you for the content really fun watching this. Have an amazing day!
The company majestic that make professional q400 for fsx have said that they will work on making a q400 for fs 2020 but because they didn't had early access to the SDK it won't be for at least a year.
@@QGofGAMER So god damn Carenado of all groups gets a plane out on day 1 but Majestic gets screwed out of the SDK? GG.
I was disappointed the game didn't come with a Q400 considering they made a hand crafted YTZ Billy Bishop airport. Would have been cool as hell!
@@fatmoleman mhhhmmm. Hand crafted airports without ground markings... also what would it help to have unflyable q400 by asobo like their a320, 787 and 748. 3rd party devs are the way here
Vladimir Bartalos having hem is enough, I mean there’s already a group attempting to make the A320 better,
The shell is just that gorgeous not to make use of,
Just love the facial expressions and excitement ..... imagine announcing to your passengers in real life how happy you were with your landings :)
I love watching professional pilot such like Emilie flying an aircraft in fs2020
Indeed.
@@chillpanda2873 Cool indeed.
My last preflight check at home.
Coffee: check
Chips bag: check
Lemonade: check
Feet on desk: ON
Pink Floyd: ON
....it was an uneventful flight all in all, coffee ran out tho.
Certified Real Sim Pilot.
Ha...too funny
Uneventful?! You failed to provision adequate coffee resources for the flight and youre calling that uneventful? I’m gunna have to write you up.
Charlie a good pilot has a contingency plan....he had his lemonade!
Best comment 😂
The smile on your face when you landed was priceless, Emilie. Thoroughly enjoyed your vid, and your inclusiveness of N1-NJA. Stay well.
The don't sink annunciation is actually a bug that has been reported to the developers.
I had this last night and thought the same thing kinda strange taking off with altitude only to have dont sink lol cheers
Yeah, it looked like a safe takeoff.
They still haven't fixed it =/
This lady is a real pilot.Thanks for all the explanation.It's nice to finally understand complete check list....
November India November Juliet Alpha...phew, that’s a mouthful!
callsign is _Cat1_ for that reason :D
I absolutely look forward to a G1000 tutorial. Its one of the more daunting things I look at learning in Flight Sims.
Always appreciate real pilots taking their time to share their skills with us mere mortals!! Thank you
Well she's got laid of so she ha plenty of time at the moment!
I would have liked to have had such simulators when I took my flight course 40 years ago. Young people now have the chance to have fabulous learning tools at a reasonable cost. 😎
Are you now a pilot?
Yep golden age, immersion is off the charts - pun intended 👍
Indeed it would have. But when I went through it, there were NO home computers ...
Since you're a real pilot and you obviously know these things pretty in-depth considering you've gotten to where you are, could you make a few more comments about why each of these checks are made when it's important, the importance of the order they are in, etc. Something that a person like you with a lot of experience would understand. I know a lot of simmers are into it because they can't necessarily afford to do the real thing but still want to learn the technical stuff. Don't have to go too in depth, just a few comments with useful information would be interesting to see. =)
Agree with this. Would be great
There are a great many private pilot 'learn to fly books' covering the private pilot syllabus.
If you are serious about learning the 'in depth' of how to fly an aircraft you should buy and read them.
They are not all that expensive and that is what 'real' student pilot have to do.
The instructors give you the practical and brief theory lessons, but you are expected to put some effort in yourself.
@@charlesbrewer6552 What would be a good suggestion for a learn to fly book?
@@alexanderschieving5847 Let me check it out. I learned to fly some 45 years ago. I have seen many current instructional books ( I am more interested in advanced stuff) but I will get back to you. There are so many.
@@charlesbrewer6552 that is so kind thanks
You mentioned it being hard to look around. There is a product called TrackIR 5. It attaches to your headphones and has an infrared sensor that you attach to your monitor. It tracks you head movement and moves the camera in game so you can look around just by moving your head a bit. A lot of us simmers use it for racing/flying games, the immersion is so much higher. Later on ASOBO is adding support for VR which will be even better!
From watching this and reading you description I can tell already that this is going to be a great and highly useful series. Thank you very much!
Keep up the good work. I appreciate that you treat the viewers as if we were flight students. I've been looking for a flight simmer who can teach us real world lessons. And the bonus is- you're a simmer who is an actual pilot.
Subbed!
That was great Emilie, really appreciate the detailed coverage of the checklist items, I look forward to your tutorials on the G1000 features.
Honestly this type of tutorial is exactly what I have been looking for. It’s very helpful. The first time I watched this I was incredibly overwhelmed with the layouts and zillions of knobs lol by the second time I watched it all the way throughI really felt a much better understanding of the workflow and why you would need to do things like check the battery and fuel and everything BEFORE you are in flight lol
Thank you! i'm trying to get into flying as a hobby and your channel has helped explain a lot of things prior to flight school for me!
Great to hear!
As a 50+ year real life pilot as well as a 35+ year Flight Sim pilot, I find you refreshing and fun to listen to and watch. 2 suggestions for future videos to help real and sim pilots be the best they can be, are: #1- describe a solid Take-Off briefing... discussing the aspects of the takeoff and emergency procedures associated with each part... on the ground, runway remaining, in the air, in the climb out, etc. #2) discussions of engine failures and how to handle... straight ahead landing or a return to the airport. This is one of the fantastic things about the simulator... I have a reference sheet for over 100 of my favorite aircraft in my 2 present sims (out of the roughly 300+ aircraft and helicopters total in both sims) that list the minimum altitude (agl) and the maximum distance (miles) for each aircraft to be able to return to the airport in the event of a total engine failure. By the way, in some under powered single engine GA aircraft, there is no combination of altitude/distance that works (in takeoff configuration) and you must land straight ahead. It was great fun to test each plane until success was achieved. Yes, I know that engine failures are rare, but in my 50+ years of real life flying, I have encountered 3 complete engine failures... landing in a cow pasture once... on a highway once and one return to the departing airport. A good pilot is always practicing.
This is fun learning the game with you! Please keep making these great videos!
Captain Emilie you are awesome. Giving out tutorials like this on how real pilots do stuff is really inspiring. You made me come back to flight sim-ing. Downloading FS2020 again in steam. Amazing checklist, I could imagine calling out "check", "on", "off" for you on that seat next to you. Hehe
Dunno if you realize it, but you land it like a Dash, with a ton of power in. Taking nothing away from your flying skills--sim or RL--but the similarity in landing technique made me smile.
Thank you for your light hearted approach. It takes the stress out! And, yeah LOTS of great info in this new "to me" journey. Big Thank you!!
I have just watched some of your videos. OMG they are amazing. I have been using FSX for a while now and in your videos you have explained alot more on checklists etc. Hope you are keeping safe. A huge congratulations on your promotion. Keep up the great work
This is so well done. You can ignore the Patreon message about your rig. It's all here now (to be fair I sent that before this posted). A capable system woohoo.
Toronto ... yea ! I love your tutorials... if you can continue on this trend that would be great !!
Just don't look at the checklists for basically anything other than the C172. You're lucky if they make it past engine startup.
Excellent Emilie, It is very clear you are a great flight instructor and pilot. Thank so much for taking the time and your skills to teach us virtual pilots the basics. I'm looking forward to your smile and more adventures in the future. Merci beaucoup!
Didn't know you were from Toronto. Huge shout out from the 6. :)
I have watched this video twice now and I’m still learning more each time. Your a great teacher. I hope you come back and do more.
I am here in 2022 but this video is still so helpful and will be helpful for years upon years! People wanna lean a bit more advanced detail with video explanation and you do it so good! Thank you for this video!
00:00 cat wants to become pilot 😂
I approve of furry copilots.
your channel is growing as fast as light ! great work, have fun !!!
5:39 Emily you can hover the mouse over the border to scale the window so you can see all text😁. I've waited so long for you to upload msfs2020 again. Thanx!!!
I have been looking around for a good instructional video. THIS IS AS FAR THE BEST! Thanks Elilie!!!
Glad it was helpful!
'DON'T SINK' 'DON'T SINK' 'DON'T SINK' i was telling myself that all the time while i was fishing in harbor freight pvc boat
The very best MSFS2020 videos I’ve seen. I’d love to see some help on variable speed props, I can make it work but your videos are so helpful on doing things the RIGHT way. Thanks Emilie!
Emilie Don't worry about not being on the line when you were taxing to the runway at 15:37....... they obviously put the line in the wrong place. :)
Obviously!!!
That face when you landed though! 🤣 Priceless....
Darren Jackson Obviously loves what she is doing!
Man, the checklist on this plane is so much more relaxed. I tried the checklist on the TBM930 and if you don't go through it _faaast_ and start moving your butt the engine just overheats. 😂
I can't wait for Microsoft to add the Q400 and watch you fly in game. Loving your videos. Captain.
I dunno, Emilie, weren't you right the first time about which hand to use for throttle and yoke? Your instincts sounded right to me, assuming you're in the left seat as PIC. Maybe it's the hardware that's wrong. A lot of the joystick and throttle combos out there seem to be aimed at gamers wanting to fly F15s or shoot lasers at asteroids, rather than practice aviation procedures. I'm planning to buy the Honeycomb yoke and TQ for this reason.
Great video anyway, I haven't flown for over a decade now so this kind of resource is great for jogging my memory. You remind me of my instructor, she was similarly relaxed and matter-of-fact, with good banter, a deep love of flying and (luckily for me) endless patience!
If someone wants to fly an f-15 that does not mean he's a gamer. Try dcs world f/a-18, that's a very deep and accurate simulator, and you want to have the throttle on your left hand if you're into it.
@@andrealioce4341 fair point 🙂
I've been watching your videos ( some of them many times ) i'm an FS enthusiast . and there's stuff I really would like to know and understand. You explain things really well , really naturally .I would really enjoy a course from you about Autopilot, or even the basic physics of plane (inclined plane force, flaps and elevation . vertical speed . horizontal speed and all those things, in relation to flying with said instruments . Also procedures like VOR/DME & SID/STARS. (the whole take off/ approach procedure), and flight plans .
I think it would also boost your channel too.
I'd be really happy to go through those things explained by you because it's a pleasure watching your content.
"There's definitely an aircraft on the runway."
*PROCEEDS TO LAND*
"That was much better!"
Can't stop laughing at that!
Thanks for taking the time to show us this. As someone who wants to really learn this stuff, it is very nice to get free tutorials from a legit pilot.
It happened to me on climb out, and wouldn’t shut up so I turned the avionics off and then on again, problem solved 😂 surely there’s a better way...
I was trying to do exact same thing and fly around the cn tower in MFS and I just randomly ended up watching this and subscribed.
I wish Microsoft had the Dash 8 in FS2020. Then you could show us how you fly!
Loved this thank you so much. Never been a fan of flight sims till i played the latest Microsoft flight sim 2020. And I love it to bits. Just bought a whole new PC and monitor because of it. And bought Yoke and pedals. Also for my Birthday my wife is getting me flying lessons at a small local airfield that is actually on the sim, Barton airport. You're lovely and your vids are fantastic. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
Am trying to figure this out myself, I find using button 1 on my joystick, the trigger, give the view to the nearest landmark, when landing that'll be the airfield, giving me a quick check for when I"m at 45 degrees or whatever.
I feel you pain with the adjustments you need to make. I got FS the first time for my Apple ][ and had a homemade joystick with no self centering. My brother in law was a flight instructor building up his hours so he could work with his dad with Flying Tigers way before they were bought out by Fed Ex. He couldn't fly it at all but he talked me into my first successful landing.
Neat thing, just before his dad retired they had a chance to fly together as pilots on a 747 international flight.
Gary lost his seniority after the buyout, ended up flying 727s domestic at the end of his career.
Thank you so much for this video! So cool to go through the checklist, makes me feel like I am actually the pilot! You described it perfect! love the detail in this game, so incredible!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the checklists, learned things I never knew after 20 years of FS on and off. Also, I once had an add-on for a 182 that could simulate the walk-around, fuel checks, etc. Hopefully that will be a reality for this new version too some day.
Great video! I'm happy u're feeling better with the hotas now! saw the throttle fitting graceously in your hand :)
You're right; I never even thought about the throttle being on the right side in a real plane. Sorry... that's just the gaming industry being lazy af
Great video Emilie, as always. Those who criticize can go to some other "game" youtuber and push the gas and go. Many don't realize the thousands of hours you have flown, learned, and taught and the expense of becoming a CFI. Just the fact that a pilot can use a checklist and not use the highlight focus in the sim proves you know what you are doing. Second, all student pilots should put the throttle and stick/yoke exactly as you find them in the planes you fly. Muscle memory. In a Cessna, yoke in left hand, throttle and switches in the right, except when you are teaching from the right seat in real planes and then all CFIs (Chief Flying Instructor, which Emilie is) learn to fly from the right seat when showing students manouvers. So she can fly right or left handed configurations... for hundreds or thousands of hours. Don't let the criticizers faze you. They are used to games and used to pretending to be authorities on their games.
Keep up the insightful and entertaining real flying using simulator. My channel, ForderLearnToFly, promotes you and your endeavors all the way. Trust her everyone. We would all be so lucky to have Emilie as our flight instructor in real life. (by the way, got my licence on GNJ, a Cessna 150 out of Toronto Island Airport). Love this place. And don't trust the built-in ATC that sends you over the city... avoided at all costs unless they have to. Around the islands for your circuits and come through the eastern gap for noise avoidance procedures.
Thank you Howard for your kind words! 😊
Did you think about creating an amazon wishlist or a donation pocket? So people could buy you for example a YOKO Joystick and Throttle or Honeycomb Joystick and Throttle?
Being able to use the sim realistically helps you and your viewers, but the peripherals are quite expensive, but maybe viewers are willing to donate? :-)
I am working for Lufthansa myself, so I know your situation... :-(
I gotta look into this as I am not familiar yet! But I really appreciate the offer & suggestion! :)
Hi Ty for your video it has shown me alot i usually just start on the runway now I'm going to try and learn how to flight from parking spot, you explain everything clearly and easy to understand thanks again I look forward to your other tutorials.
You should start streaming on twitch. People would love you!
Seconded.
Emilie you'd make bank on there and people are currently interested in MFS2020. Make sure to check out Stream Elements (google it) to get a good setup going.
Also more Ninja plz! Maybe get him a co-pilot cap? :D
She's a girl!! Ahahaha but ok I shall try :D
OMG, I LOVE your kitty! I was blessed to have a very similar, near pure-bred Bombay, in my life for many years, from kitten to death, and he was my favorite feline companion in my life. I'm 60+ now and have enjoyed a number of feline companions, but none compared to that one... Love your channel and content, keep it up!!!
Great video of properly starting the c172. Have subscribed. Keep it up with the videos ... I will be watching! PS. Don't worry about people negative comments... You will improve making these videos as you learn the Sim...love that you are a real pilot😊
Nice video Em...can't beat the real deal 😀👍
Look likes the landing was a 3points one... the nose wheel seems to touch first, which is not very good :)
Little tips for the knobs : you should be able to scroll over to rotate those buttons, which will much more easier than click multiple times!
Nice video as usual, with very useful explanations for non pilots viewer... and pilots who never use G1000 (my case :) )
My mains definitely touched first 😉
Pilot Emilie j’ai eu un doute en regardant l’horizon artificiel... mais soit 😁
Thank you, thank you, thank you for making these videos!!! I like your style, videos like this are invaluable. I'd love to see a video that has tips on better flights, from takeoff, climb out, cruise, descent, and landing. Especially landing. It seems like I'm ok on every other part of the flight, but am all over the place on final approach, and inevitably land next to the runway (but, haven't crashed....yet).
Keep em coming, and I can't wait until you're able to make video's in the cockpit of the Q400 again!
And today I learned I've been saying "pitot" wrong
I just want to thank you so much for your video. I am a complete newbie who has just bought the simulation and I need to find some very basic tutorials. Please keep sending more video about how to use certian flying functions specifically. Once again thank you so much. Jeremy from Singapore
After a looooong search, I finaly found someone doing a start from cold and dark with explaination! Thx for yout tutorials overall, these are very good for beginners and give a lot of usefull background information!
Best regards from Austria!!
So... right hand, left hand controls..... I'll defer to my Q400 driver when she's landing on 02/20 or 12/30 at YEG with crosswinds and icy tarmac. Pretty sure she's got that !!🤘🤘🤘🤣🤣🤣
Nice video! I've only been to Toronto once, for a layover, at night, so I didn't get to see how beautiful it is! Also, I was thinking... I know you don't consider yourself a gamer, but you're definitely appealing to that crowd when you do the FS2020 videos. :) Given your rapidly growing viewership, have you considered streaming live gameplay? If you take the streamer route, it could be a nice supplement to your income. Plus it'd allow live chat for Q&A, more interaction, etc.
great flight over TO and learned quite a bit with regard to quicktake-off & landing but checklists were very informative! Adrian from Ottawa
Glad it was helpful!
I really like your videos Emilie...hopefully, you'll be getting back in the real seat soon. Also like your simulated walk-around on the outside of the plane..."Yea, looks good!" My sim walk-around..."Lets see, wings, tail and propeller...yea looks good."
I hope so too! Thanks Patrick!
Hello Émilie, thank you for this trip to Toronto, nice landing.
look forward to the next videos on FS2020, good luck
Thanks for the video. Looking forward to your Garmin overview. Much appreciated
Great tutorial! Brisk and fun to watch while packing in the details. BTW, for better viewing, TrackIR is great. It's what I'd be using if my son hadn't broken the IR headset clip.
Emily,
Can you try to fly military jet planes like F-18 or SU-27 in DCS?😀
Or one of the old jets, like an F-86.
@@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p Yes, that would be epic 😃
Excellent Emile, and your using the same controller as me, now I know how bad I am and can't blame the controller anymore ha ha. Maybe I should go back to being a Air Traffic Controller, you make it look so easy. Thanks again.
Wow, you are rather meticulous with your check-list. I'm more of the "Is the plane still there?" check. FIREWALL IT, BILLY!!! While making some sarcastic welcome announcement to my fictitious passengers like "Thank you for flying Air Charlie. Today's route into Seattle-Tacoma is estimated to be 95 minutes, but we think we can do it it 60. I have turned on the "fasten seat-belts" light because the co-pilot has been smashing cocktails of night-quill and Redbull since 5 am and is currently engaged in a shouting match with demons that only he can see, I'm anticipating a dog-fight to commence at any moment. We know you have a choice in air carriers and you chose poorly"
Ok just starting watching it but I have to comment. Set your damn stick up however you want! The joystick can actually be configured to work on either side. Makes perfect sense why you did that to me. I think just about every commercial plane has the throttle on the right, not the left. So it would make sense that is where you would put it. Only thing I have seen with the throttle on the left is fighter jets. F-16's had the throttle on the left and the stick on the right. Older ones like F-4's and stuff like that ( I was a mechanic on F-4's in the Air Force) have the throttle on the left and stick in the center. And since you fly commercial planes for real I would think your right hand would naturally drop down to the throttles to control them. Just like shifting a car, unless you live in the UK lol. I wouldn't reverse your controls just because some internet trolls get triggered. It isn't your fault the controls were made wrong.
Actually this joystick can't be configured to be on the left. I mean you can use it on the left, but it won't be comfortable, as there will be nothing to rest your wrist on. It was clearly not based on commecrial aircraft controls so it's not 'made wrong'.
@@ovatone The throttle is where you would really get in trouble trying to switch hands lol.. and ya the X-52 is an older HOTAS that is general-purpose so it's not "made wrong." I'm sure if the MSFS content gets traction it'd make sense for her to grab some better gear.
@@ovatone Hmm I thought sure my x52 came with extra panels to convert it to left hand. However after looking in the box you are correct it can't be swapped. I wonder what stick I was looking at that could be? I know it was one of them I was looking at. I swapped my controls to see how it would feel. Not bad honestly. The stick is fine. Feels good enough and you can hit all the buttons just fine. The throttle is a little strange but usable. And to be honest if I remember correctly that throttle was a pile of crap out of the box. I really wish they wouldn't bother with the contours, hand rests and hand specific button layouts on them. They would work just as well without them and be more universal. The x52 especially seems to be more about looks than function though. Not the best purchase I have ever made. I don't hate it, but for the money I feel it could have been better.
If you sit in the right seat of a commercial jet the throttle is on the left.
In light general aviation aircraft, throttle is usually on the left.
I love this video. Thank you. Not many people are doing tuts that talk about checklists.
Also FYI, you can turn knobs with the mouse wheel, in case you weren't aware.
Emilie looks cute every time she looks back at the camera. Although, I think she's actually looking to see if the camera is still on or something. lol
Yep - I had to refilm an ENTIRE segment because my camera died half way through 😅😅😅. RUclips noob.
In the video you mentioned the 172 was used in training. It’s actually the 152. Great training aircraft. First one I flew when I commenced my training.
Yay! Great Show been watchin for last few weeks great to see a fellow Torontonian!
Love the attention to detail and running through the checklists. I haven’t flown since I moved to Houston. I need to get back in the air. Thanks for great videos and inspiration 🤗❤️🛫
do you think after playing this for hundreds of hours, you will need a mouse when you go back to flying a real plane?
...maybe you can just bring the cat lol
Like your videos on MSFS. Would like to see you try the Courchevel challenge... Also and more importantly a tutorial on IFR, ILS in MSFS 2020 with comparisons to real world would be great! Take care and fly safe.
Damn this woman is beautiful.
Emilie that was great, I learnt so much. Thank you.
Hey, bright eyes. Very nice city tour. And excellent touchdown. The next time you're on the outside view try looking around like you do in the cockpit.
I started to try out this game yesterday and after watching this from a real PILOT, I realised that the AP is doing a lot fro me. I only learned the controlling, I do not perform all of that checklist. Wow! I don't even know a quarter of what pilots do.
You should do landings in bad weather at night, or landings without landing gear at night, or ditching in water at night.
Great video, thanks for that! Looking forward for following episodes :) Greetings from Hamburg!
This was AMAZING. The level of detail here is so cool. Thanks for doing this. I'd like to see more detail in future flights. BTW...will you get a full sim set up in the future (three screens, rudder, physical front panel, etc...? Keep up the great work.
Another great video Emilie as always. Another priceless facial expression on landing. You seemed so proud from the previous adventures, Lol. I sent you a msg on FB. Unfortunately I am deployed now to the Middle East so my flying is put on hold for the time being. Looking forward to your next video. HIGHLY recommend getting TrackIR. It will make a world of difference when you want to look around.
Your success face was a picture and you can understand those who can't pilot for real the experience is rewarding ~ John
Hi Emily. I've been interested in learning to fly almost as long as I can remember. I bought FSX a few years ago with the idea of learning, but never got to do it. Today I purchased the new MSFS, and as luck would have it I saw one of your videos. This re-sparked my interest. I just know I can learn a lot from you, a real-life pilot. Now I can hardly wait for my sim! I just need to download it first, then I can start my flying training. Thank you for making this possible for me as a novice. You make it look so easy, but that is obviously because of years of experience. 😉
As my wife and I would say.... Know what? Cat but. YYZ was my home for 12 years, now out in NC. Great tutorial.
Thanks for all that information,very interesting as I have never played a flight sim and all the advice to learn what to do will be a big big help..
It's uplifting just to see how much fun you are having with the flight simulator!!