How to fly at Mach 9 in the new Darkstar for Microsoft Flight Simulator
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2022
- The Darkstar is part of the “Top Gun: Maverick” expansion, which you can now download. More information on the update can be found here: www.flightsimulator.com/becom...
To find out more about this fictional aircraft, take a look at this piece: www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...
*CORRECTION*: At 1:03, I say "until you hit Mach 9". This should be "until you hit Mach 0.9".
If you have any feedback or questions, do get in touch!
For anyone struggling to get to Mach 3: ensure you're above Mach 1 in the dive, and, as I do in the video, make sure you're pitching out of the dive *gently*. The engines really start to get going at around Mach 1.5.
For Xbox users, follow this guide to assign a button to toggle the afterburner: forums.flightsimulator.com/t/.... I play on PC so use #, but you can assign any button that works for you.
[Bear in mind that you need to be above Mach 3 to engage the scramjet - I suggest following the parameters in this video closely, because I've found the aircraft somewhat temperamental otherwise!] 
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Welcome to the era of "shit-for-brains" and botox injections!
Here in the UK, hearing “pound key” when not in reference to our currency (£) is like fingernails down a chalkboard.
@@SiGoodchild1 Pffft, like yall didnt use pounds for measurements before you used pounds for currency, lol
@@WarlordFlanker we dont use pounds for measurements
Thanks so much for this! After a second try at the inverted, I was able get to 120,000 altitude and average Mach 9.34 and made it to Cape Canaveral, Florida in 39 minutes. I think my highest was Mach 9.6. This has been my best experience in Flight Simulator so far, that stratosphere flight is incredible.
I am so glad this new update has happened. When you are that high up, it can be exceedingly beautiful.
I hit Mach 10!!!! At 270,000 feet and was able to land back at NAS Fallon
I hit Mach 10.1 idk how but I was around 300k ft
You can hit Mach 10
Tops out at 275,000 for me🤣😂🤣😂. Not sure if glitch or what. Fictional anyway
For those struggling to get to mach 3 after inverting, the single most important thing is to pitch VERY GENTLY. Dont exceed 1.5g of pitch. When you pitch too hard (3g+) it slows you down and wont let you speed up to mach anything really.
I took off from Honolulu to Los Angeles to race the horizon and hit Mach 10 at 275,000 ft.
Both of those seem to be max height and speed in this game, was hauling ass though.
Well thats good. Anything over 10.3 has results of explosive intensity
@@alejandrohernandezcarrillo2436 Lol Yeah
Idk how but I glitched the game and racked it up to Mach 12.5
Yeah my vs was 10000+ and alt locked at 275k
I was able to get to mach 10 a little easier but this tutorial still helped
If you get up to mach 0.9 then you can more or less level out and turn on afterburners
At a slight upwards pitch continue until you reach mach 3.6
At mach 3.6 you'll have to wait until your EAS speed lowers to around 760 still at the slight upwards pitch
Then do all the steps to turn on the scramjet as outlined in the video and you'll reach mach 9 a few minutes after the scramjets are activated
*CORRECTION*: At 1:03, I say "until you hit Mach 9". This should be "until you hit Mach 0.9".
Apologies for the error - my mistake during the voiceover!
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For anyone struggling to get to Mach 3: ensure you're *above* Mach 1 in the dive, and then, as I do in the video, make sure you're pitching up out of the dive *gently*. The engines really start to get going at around Mach 1.5.
If you pull out of the descent too early, you won't be able to reach Mach 3.
Oh so that’s why I wasn’t able to Mach 3 my second flight I must’ve pulled out of the decent too early
@Quinzerrak not when I tried
np, the gage is there and visible. Good and concise, ty.
What about those 2 lower left switches (gen...)?
Yeah that was funny . I thought the whole tutorial was take off and climb at 10 degree until you get to mach 9.That's all. thanks for coming... lol
Also scram jets don't "spool up" they have no spool, no rotating parts. Maybe you could say the fuel pump might have a spinning impeller that spools up. But that must be one hell of a fuel pump like a rocket engine turbo pump. Now I think about it maybe scram jets do need really powerful fuel pumps that spool up?
Haha , try the scram jet take off
Awesomee, finally the thing I missed all this time was the afterburner and how to activate that scramjet, this kind of videos are awesome, keep up the great work sir..👍
For a lot of the special aircraft there's a magic switch on the dashboard. For the pelican it's hover/cruise mode. For this bird it's the scramjet setting
I have to try this! So far, I've hit Mach 3.8 - 4...still flew from Cape Canaveral, Florida to NYC JFK in about 25-30 min. Maxed out at 275K height (Sim starts to get a little buggy, but flyable) Hard to control, takes some patience to fly super-jet, but fun! *When you get this high, turn on "Storm" for weather, max out the lightning and see the numerous lightning bolts below you.
I just flew LAX to JFK in 35 minutes, mach 10 @ 275k. I had the same issue last night not being able to get above mach 3.75ish then watched this and off I went like a rocket.
Awesome! Sounds like your weather guy too.... I did a few vidy's on it, the hurricane was cool. I find the weather reasonably accurate.... no naders tho.
*hard to control* yeah no bloody shit sherlock,...
@@joseph299 we almost have the same username lol
I turned on autopilot and dude hit the scram jets at like 25k feet on a cloudy day. my pc couldn't keep up lol.
Fast and precise, no useless words, thank you !
Glad it helped!
There's no need to invert the aircraft to achieve those pitch adjustments, there's pretty much no point in making an effort to turn on the beacon lights (as if they're going to sufficiently warn people in time of you approaching at mach 9 or something lol), and a scramjet has no moving parts and does not have to "spool up". Either way though I guess the procedure technically works so go through the ritual if you want lol
Re 1) - yep agreed. The theory supposedly is to minimise negative G on the pilot during the pitch down (per the tutorial), but clearly there’s no consequence in not doing so.
On 2) - fair enough. Again, was just part of the aircraft’s checklist, so wanted to include in the video. On 3), yeah 100% my error/stupidity!
It is currently 3:20 am est, I hadn’t been able to get it above Mach 1.20 for a long while but after following this guide as closely as I can, I’m in space at 10.02. Glorious. Very good video.
Edit: Forgot to mention that apparently the altimeter stops at 275,000. Good to know.
Thank you for the tutorial, now i can go from A to B really fast.
The darkstar is amazing I did a cross Atlantic flight from San Fransisco to Rome in about 45 minutes
Wow I knew I was missing something with the jet scrambler. Hit Mach 10 in the challenge and blew right past Canaveral
Lol where did you end up?
@@dantew2942 off the coast a good amount ended up finding Canaveral but by that point it was dark and very hard to land
This absolutely helped. Thanks. Mach 10 was amazing!
Thank you for the simple tutorials 🙏
It worked! I got the aircraft to mach 9 at 140,000 ft. and flew it from New York to San Francisco in about 30 minutes. It continued to climb to 250,000 ft and briefly reached Mach 10.1 before I had to slow down for landing. But you can't turn this beast at all at speeds above Mach 2 - it's like the SR-71 in that respect. And the stall speed is really high unless the fuel tanks are almost empty.
Yes I really enjoyed your tutorial, I was trying to figure out how to reach mach 9. Thank you so much. I'll try it.
Very nice tutorial. Concise and well explained. Thanks!
Love it I don’t know but you are my hero I just couldn’t complete the mission now i can
Glad it’s helpful :)
Same
But it's even explained. It literally guides you.
I dont know if i messed up some sequence but when i turned on the scramjet at mach 3 i got the most unexpected turbulence. It felt like the thing was about to explode!
Luckily i stabilised it but that was for sure my most intense moment of MS flight
Literally the best one who explain the way to reach mach 10
Thank you I would not have been able to do this without you. I reached a max speed of Mach 10.1 and averaged Mach 10 at over 275 000 feet
Thanks for the information boss
Thank you for this totourial it really helped 🔥😁
Very helpful, thank you!
this has helped so much, thank you!❤
I finally got it, thanks so much🤗
Awesome addition to Flight Sim
Last night done a flight from RNZAF Whenuapai in Auckland, NZ to RAAF Base Pearce in Perth Western Australia….it only took 58mins & still had 17% fuel left 😳
Mann this is so much fun. Brisbane to Sydney in 5minutes. Such a great free plane.
Getting to mach 9 takes time but it's fun once you reach it, it's a whole new level of landing procedures to lol
I was just going straight up after takeoff and wondering why I could get about Mach 2. 🤣 Thank you for this.
yeyyyyy!! much needed air support/ PILOTS need to help other pilots. Cheers everyone. BIG THANKS!
Been looking for a guide as I've tried a few times but they don't give guides of how to approach it!! Thanks for posting!
Agreed - the MSFS default aircraft never have guides which is always a tad frustrating!
If you want to do a follow-along flight, the Darkstar “mission” in the sim’s menu has tips for each stage of flight.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials thanks!! Didn't know that!
I'd like to add that I'm having trouble after the role breaking mach 1 and then going to 10°, I seem to be holding as I'm climbing at 1.13 mach. I can't seem to go any higher than that as I'm climbing up through 50,000 ft. Is there a moment when the air thins out where you just break through for speed?
@@blaster915 from what I can tell, the air density does play a part. You won’t be able to get to Mach 3 until you’re fairly high. Give the mission a go I suggest!
I skipped it in the tutorial because it’s dull to watch, but getting between Mach 1 and Mach 3 took several minutes of climbing.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials I'm currently playing it as we speak and I think this is my fifth attempt to try and get the damn scram jets working 😂😂 I just can't seem to break the mach 3 barrier! The higher I go the less power I get, The lower I go the more I'm fighting against. The highest I've been able to get is Mach 2.2 and that was in a forced dive from 55,000 ft 😅 gahhh!
To make it easier, just pitch down at 30k feet until the Mach meter starts to go up fast past Mach 2 then pull up slowly to 10 degrees and you'll reach Mach 3.
Thank you for sharing.
Edwards AFB to Barcelona, Spain in 1.5 hrs. Thanks for the video!
One of the coolest thing you can do with this aircraft is to start at Nighttime, near the terminator... you'll go faster than Earth's rotation so you'll see the sun rise as a consequence of that, it's super cool especially if you're far up in the sky!
Is it possible to change fuel cells? I see pop ups about changing your fuel cell when it gets low but I can't figure out how to do it.
Thank you!
Well done.. tips: set options'flight mode to modern, accelerate from land strip(don't thrust untill wheels are tucked away), climb say 30k or above, level off, roll 180 & dive 20dg or less(untill 1.5 mach approx.) roll 180 to upright and pull out to say between 1&10 dg's, climb if you may to 275,000 ft & roll 180 + level out perchance maintain 10 mach+.. note air currents behave different as you transcend every so 10000ft... Hope this helps... Oh! .. make sure access fuel system panel accessed 2nd green top left button & open all fuel valves) hrhr!.. and be sure to fill up 😂
Good stuff!
I cannot even get off the ground. I get the afterburners lit just fine. I have the Honeycomb Yoke and when I pull back, there is a gentle lift, but nothing substantial that would normally get me off the ground. It appears the yoke in the cockpit is being pulled back.
What speed is being displayed when you try to rotate?
turn off the parking brakes. worked for me
You did not release the chassis parking brake. The engines have tremendous power, so they overcome the braked landing gear, but the aircraft is not able to reach the right speed to lose.
Whenever I fly it, on takeoff it just sticks to the ground and even if I do actually manage to get in the air it just starts flying straight up on its own. To put this in simple terms: I have no control over what I’m flying
Yes me too
Might be that parking brake is set. You’d think you notice but the engines are so powerful that it’s not obvious at first sight. Having parking brakes set will let you go around 300kts on the runway but won’t let you pull up the nose gear.
@@wavegreen no I turned my parking brake off
I can't even get it off the ground it's really annoying bc I was excited to try this thing out it only works in the mission
I’ve read somewhere about going into the settings and turning your flight control from legacy to modern.
Xbox series X and when I try to take off plane starts bouncing like the landing gear is broken 😢
Same. Can you get the P-51s from the Reno Air Races to fly? I can’t get them to fly either and I feel like PC users don’t have the same problem so Microsoft doesn’t care to fix it
Good tutorial. I managed to hit Mach 10 on Series X.
Easy to do, but in the sim doesn't explain anything of activate the fuel switch. Thank you for the help!
Nice and simple! Thanks. Other videos on RUclips is like 30+ minutes
I was about to watch this but then I said: NO! I'll try to figure it out on my own first. And I did!!! I just had to follow all on-screen tutorial instructions carefully including the carefully measured and calculated G pulls!
This plane represents Top Gun Maverick ❤
ty for this!
The aircraft takes off fine within the mission but when i try to fly outside of the mission it just shakes everywhere and i can't take-off. How do i fix this?
you can get to Mach 13.6 if you put weather temperature to -130 only when hit Mach 10 then do it
For all who wanna start the scramjet easy (in free flight). You just have to reach MACH 3. Get there without silly inverted rolls with my Checklist:
- Start (Full throttle, gear up)
- climb (full throttle + afterburners) with 15° pitch at around Mach 0.85-0.96
- for the afterburners bind a Hotkey in the settings or click the thrustlevers with rightclick while holding leftclick
- reach 40.000ft altitude
- nose down to -20° for accelerating to Mach 1.45
- With Mach 1.45 pull up slightly (max 2G) to +10° and just maintain it
- Scramjet-transition: while the plane is accelerating activate the fuellcell ((Green) Square right byside the yoke) and the Scramengine (open red cover left of the screen and activate)
- Keep on holding +10° pitch until the scramengine spools up once you reached Mach 3-3.1.
---Enjoy Hypersonicspeed in the stratosphere.
Approachtip for free flight: You can type the ILS frequency in the small upper display. Type it in, click NAV1 ON before enter. You can use the glideslope and locator manually for easy landing even with synthetic view.
I've tried this multiple times but whenever I get to Mach 2.9, something weird happens and the aircraft starts to lose speed drastically, the scramjet never comes on. What am I doing wrong?
@@ricardoalr once you reached Mach 2.5 at a 10° pitch, its nearly impossible that the plane starts to decelerate. You activated you Fuelcell (Button right of the yoke)??? The mainthrusters can reach up to Mach 3.5 - 4 only with afterburner. So I really dont know how you construct this situation. To much pitch?!
This worked for me!
Thank you!
@@zackblackmon You are welcome
here's a quicker way. Press Y and then F4 and bring jet up to max height or whatever height you want preferably pretty high and then press Y again and then pitch down and turn on scramjet and fuel cell button. Give it a sec till you hit about Mach 3 and then boom it's on. Have fun. I'm cruising at Mach 10
Hmmm...seems to be missing gear up...Mach 0.9 is a sufficient speed in most aircraft to either rip the landing gear from the aircraft or to damage them where they will be unable to retract 😅 Usually, landing gear is retracted as soon as the altimeter needle moves and the pilot verifies a positive rate of climb.
even tho I assigned the afterburner hotkey, it still doesn't turn on... and I was wondering why I'm not able to go past 0.87mach... I think that is the reason I'm not able to go even further, do you know any tips to fix that?
I have the exact same problem
One thing you could try is after advancing the throttles to full, press and hold F3 to force the throttle into the afterburner section?
It may be worth taking a look at this: forums.flightsimulator.com/t/f-a-18-afterburner/472799
In my case the afterburner wasn't assigned, so I assigned it in the control options
This plane is so cool. I was able to reach Mach 10 on free flight :)
Thankyou that worked
Well thank you cause I was literally doing a backflip thinking it would help m accelerate to the speed of time. How they gonna give us training on an F18 Super Hornet and not this?
Outstanding! Can you explain the instrumentation? How do you activate autopilot? Key presses?
Hey there! From what I can tell, the aircraft isn't actually fitted with autopilot....frustrating!
@@EasyMSFSTutorials Well... it is an experimental craft 😄
To my impression it’s a fly-by-wire type thing. Holds whatever heading and pitch I put it into when I let go of the controls.
@@EasyMSFSTutorials That's a big mistake in my view. An autopilot would make it that much better. The 60 year old SR-71 had one.
I tried the new mission blind and beat it on first try. I got to mach 10 but accidentally went to 300,000ft i was like "whoops" but it let me go back down and the. I leveled out where it wanted me to. I want to know if this inverted maneuver to gain speed is a real thing people can do in reality.
Would it be possible to give a descnet tutorial as well? It's a little confusing still. You seem to get the grasp of it.
Of course - that’s the plan tomorrow! Just wanted to break the videos up between climb, and descent + landing.
I managed to stick a crazy landing last night. The key to this is following the sim instructions to the letter. If you are being asked to hold 1.2g when building up speed, release pressure as soon as you lose the green tick ✅ symbol above 1.5g and let it get back to 1.2 or 1.1 then gradually pull again. This will build your speed more easily above Mach 1 to 1.5. Then after you eventually reach Mach 2 you’ll keep going through Mach 3 if you’re doing what the sim has asked and then it’s scramjet time.
My current Top speed record, thanks man, highest i got was 9.84 Mach
Update: It is Mach 10.04 now
This got me from RAF Scampton to Orlando florida pretty quick...
Great video, one problem though. Took a few re views to realise you meant mach .9 as opposed to mach 9!, all good now though and cruising mach 9.99 at 275'000 feet, with your good help, 👍
This was so good I was able to go mach 10
anyone know why my first two engines aren’t running after i turned on engine 3/4? i’m at mach 9.8 but won’t go faster than 600
Very helpful. I attempted it on my own and failed at every turn. Booting up MSFS right now to give it a try. Thanks for the video!
One thing I can’t do is get the horizontal stabiliser to show that camera like view… anyone any ideas?
Anyone had the issue with Darkstar’s avionics screens not lighting up? Can’t get mine to turn on which makes flying it rather useless. Yes I’m ensuring Ive gone through proper checklists to try to get the screen on… maybe it’s a bug? Any input would be appreciated
There is no requirement to invert the aircraft. The in-game tutorial tells you to do it so as to reenact a scene from the movie. I’ve made six flights in this aircraft since downloading a few days ago. Not once have I inverted it.
When I do it the plane doeasn't reach Mach 3, it just gets slower by puling 10° up. So I reached Mach 1.5 and slow down while climbing. What's my mistake?
same problem
Hey there - my suggestion would be to ensure you’re pulling back up to 10 degrees as gently as possible.
How are you “accelerating” to Mach 3? I roll over and nothing changes. When did you change the throttle from mil?
same question here
Also wondering
my problem in the challenge is, that i´m not able to reach mach 9. I came to maximum around 6, then it slows down to about mach 5. The messages tell to hold 10 or 20° during challenge, but then its for me definitive not possible to reach any of the planed speeds.
Did you definitely manage to engage the scramjets? Did you see them spool up on the screen?
I was at a 10 degree pitch and the jet never made it to Mach three it was staying super low. Can anyone tell me the problem?
Idk why i can’t reach more tan 1.2 Mach even full trotthle afterburners turned on, i have already made the roll pitching down and everything.
I don't have enough time this week due to work, will download it this weekend. Is this thing easy to land? Does it get rid of that speed "easy"?
At the beginning you said "go to mach 9, then rotate" but its "mach 0.9", love the video thought
I couldn't get it to accelerated to Mach 3 in a 10 degree pitch up so I just pitched down to minus 5 until I reached it and then pulled up
thanks so much.
Thank you very much I'm going to subscribe 😊!
That's very kind - thank you so much :)
Is it normal after having the scram jets activate at lower altitudes for it to be extremely hard to control?
Yep - I've found the scramjets are a bit of a nightmare below around 80,000 feet. They work best at higher altitudes.
I can only get one of the scramjets to work, the other just stays dead, i have no idea what to do anymore to fix it
"The scramjet will spool up" i died a little with that one
Yeah that was my mistake - I misread the physics….😬
Is there a setting where I can free roam with the Darkstar and go Mach 10 at like 3,000 feet?
i did just as in video and isntructions but but plane not accelerating after 1.5 mach , is there something i am missing ?
Excellente tutorial ! You could think of a
When i try to take off my plane glitches and bounces and skids along the ground can someone tell me upon how to to take off please. Thanks!😊
I hit Mach 10 and maxed out the altitude at 275k ft. Took a while but I got it
Dah. Where's the toggle switch for AB in the cockpit? Don't recall Tom C. hitting # key. It didn't work when I tried. Isn't there switch under a red cover somewhere. Am I missing something obvious?
What's up with that roll at transonic speeds? Is it due to aerodynamics? Stress on the airframe? Engine airflow?
Hey there - aim is to minimise negative G on the pilot when doing the controlled descent.
5900X 3080Ti 32G usually most missions frame rate is about 30~70 ish. But only this Darkstar mission keeps show 7~9 Frame rate. Any idea why for my computer or settings ???
I can't get this thing to fly right at all, its wobbly af all the time. Barely responds to control inputs
Can someone explain the physics of why you need to roll at 25,000ft and pitch down? I’m guessing to build speed but why when it’s powerful enough to get up too Mach 3 without the scram jets
It's similar to how the Concorde did, it could fly to Mach 0.9 without the afterburners but then the pilots needed to activate the afterburners to overcome the transonic drag, after Mach 1.5 the afterburners were deactivated by the pilots on the Concorde and it would supercruise to mach 2. So it would be similar here in that the roll maneuver and acceleration is to help overcome the transonic drag.
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Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but after I activate the scramjet, it refuses to go much higher than Mach 3.75. The plane basically gets capped at that speed.
too much angle maybe?
In that case, the fuel isn't burning in your scram jet. Pay attention to the temperature. It needs to be somewhere above 300 degrees F before you turn it on for the fuel to ignite. During the first ascent, the scram jet temperature will dip into the negatives.
For me only 2 of the engines turn on fully and the other 2 turn on half way
How do you get to Mach 3
Hi there - as a few other people have said, it's important to get to to around Mach 1.5 during the dive, before you then pull up. *Above* that speed, the aircraft accelerates pretty well, but I've found if you're too slow, it just won't accelerate to Mach 3. It seems the engines only really seem to go wild above Mach 1.5.
Also, try to ensure that when you raise the nose out of the dive, you're doing so as gently as possible.
Shout if that doesn't work.
why you not try to climb and reach the outer space at match 9 speed? :D
I got mach 10.04 at 275,000 feet :) good vid rly helped
After I level out, my speed decreases on the 10 degree pitch. This is the 3rd time, what am I doing wrong?