It's huge, isn't it.

What he said :)

Thank you :)

All the money paid for this plane is going to be used to rebuild the damaged antanov as I understand it. So I'm going to buy it even if I rarely fly it.

@@meganjperry9489 oh, definitely fly it, it's fun, and I bought it immediately because of where the $ is going! Just don't attempt taking off from Lukla with it... it's impossible.

Don't hold your breath. It was estimated to cost $300 million to finish the second Mria. The original was build by USSR. Ukraine will never be able to afford it.

@@alexsarakapudau1146 another ray of sunshine :)

I was just thinking this, while watching the video, it would be amazing having him flying in the Sim and talking about his experience in the real one.

I was a student at a GA field a couple miles north when this thing came to my country. Safe to say there were a lot of cessnas and Tecnams going that way to gawk at it. I'm still very salty that I missed the oportunity to see it in person because I didn't hear my alarm in the morning.

Yep :)

There are some great videos of it in real life on youtube - it visited Canada a few years back, and there's some fantastic footage of it.

It's great fun :)

Slava Ukraini

It's great :)

Glad you like them!

I said as much in the video :)

Yes. Apologies if I didn't make that clear.

Exactly :)

Welcome aboard!

how can I buy it I cant see it?

​@@kbc4612 enter the Marketplace in the flight sim.

​@@Stellaris556 I also can't see it in marketplace. Was it a limited offer?

Fantastic!

It's not actually that bad - it's just the cyrillic wording that makes it look worse than it really is.

Yeah thanks

Hope you enjoy it!

It's awesome, isn't it :)

That would make it too easy :) The DC6 crew are really good at messing up though, aren't they :)

Awesome :)

@@jonbeckett love your vids man. I’m on Xbox for now but hope to get the antonov on Xbox soon

You're welcome :)

Great to hear!

Good luck :)

Have fun!

Fantastic :)

You're welcome!

Thanks for the tips! Lol

Fantastic

It’s releasing omg yess I can’t wait 🥲😊

It does!

It's good fun :)

It's great :)

Yes - but not until a few weeks time - I will be away all next week.

It's very good.

Yep. Not getting involved in politics - and if anybody mentions anything about politics, I will start banning them. We're here for aviation.

Not looked that deeply yet.

I will admit I had eyes out on stalks during that approach - watching everything at once. It is pretty easy to fly though.

It's great.

I will be doing one - but not for a week or so.

@@jonbeckett sounds great, looking forward to it.

Yeah lol - I realised I said the wrong thing after :)

It really is. Easy to fly though.

Too low ?

@@jonbeckett I heard it in a documentary about this plane. But it was a long time ago so I don't remember everything. But you can still try landing on it to know if it actually works

It is!

Probably just same way those with just a single throttle axis control any multi-engine plane.

I used the same mapping as the 747. The sim allows for 4 engines - I have the 4 mapped to 2 axis (my throttle levers). Obviously for this aircraft, the 5th and 6th engine share an axis with the 3rd and 4th engine.

Yes - I don't think it's coming to XBox for a while.

@@jonbeckett It will be released to XBox with SU12 in March.

We shall see!

It's very, very different :)

There is. It was 70% complete before the Russian invasion. Let's see what happens.

It's only in the MCP :)

@@jonbeckett Ah. Figures. Would be *huge* work (on top what is already done here) to do that with second set of graphics for all cockpit surfaces with lettering. My (interpretation) bad, then. 🤷🏼‍♂️

(Luckily, I've worked a couple of weeks in Bulgaria two decades ago and went on a trip in 2016 to watch the launch of Союз of МС-03 from Байконур, so with some effort I can usually still phonetically voice Cyrillic, which might help some, when I finally get my hands on this beast on Xbox later this year. 😉)

Drone cam.

It doesn't affect many places.

@@jonbeckett It doesn't but you can def just put on tool tips.

Hah - so was I :)

Probably not the same as the 430 though :)

@@jonbeckett supposedly it was the GNS550

@jonbeckett the pictures I have found online show a simple GPS system. With that being said, the MSFS version of the 225 uses the GPS from MSFS so it's not quite realistic.

@@jasonspiskey4148 yes - my mistake - it's the 530 that's in the MSFS version, isn't it

I didn't - I mapped the 4 engines that the sim exposes to the two axiis on my controller. The aircraft obviously connects two engines to one axis for the 5th and 6th engines.

@@jonbeckett oh theres no instruction manual . Thank you

Only in certain places.

Yep - apologies if I didn't make that clear.

I've done a follow-up video showing the full start-up.

Very probably - I haven't even looked that up yet :)

yes you can, you can even rotate the fans

I think so. Or at least approximated. The real thing whistles.

Hah - group flight with one plane :)

Remember this was a first ever flight in it! :) Not offended at all.

@@jonbeckett I enjoyed the video, especially so quick after release. Allows us to have an exciting look at a new aircraft. That being said, these principles apply across all aircraft and will improve your ability to fly aircraft you have never flown because the principles do not change. its exciting to see so many people interested in flight simming after all these years of it being somewhat of a niche area, but many jump in without ever really learning the principles of flight or ground school and focus more on the aircraft systems and how to operate them. I've met many a sim pilot with hundreds of hours who doesn't undertand the basics. You should always have a positive AOA (nose up) in almost every aircraft on approach and should never fly the aircraft down to the runway. This is counter intuitive for most and I'm mostly posting this for others who may stumble on the thread now so they can inquire further. If you pitch up and you are climbing during approach you are going too fast. Your ideal AOA will vary between aircraft but in general you should have a positive pitch and descend at 300 feet per minute on approach. If you start to climb, throttle back and vice versa if your sink rate increases.

With respect, I don't agree at all. I have flown real aircraft. Saying throttle controls descent rate is a gross simplification. It's a combination of attitude, angle of attack, thrust, and configuration. You of course knew that though...

@@jonbeckett I didn't once say "thrust controls descent rate" soooo....

@@trevoC132 you said exactly that in your first reply !?

Doesn't.

But that wouldn't be realistic. That's like saying "It would be nice when I visit France if everybody spoke English, and everything was written in English"...

I remember in a dev preview devs said english textures to be included with it.

It only changes the language in the MCP

I guess the problem with that is there isn't one to record :)

*d-18 turbofans; they were recorded from the an225 itself

Relatively easy. If you can fly the 737 or MD-82 you'll be fine.

@@jonbeckett The hardest plane i ever flew is Airbus A-310 and (Darkstar when you land it.) lol

Hoorah!

There is no english version in the real world, so no :)

@@jonbeckett obviously not

Indeed.

It comes with lots of orginal livery variants.

@@jonbeckett thx

The funds are going towards the Antonov.

What's the fun of just CTRL+E if we can always do the hard and fun way???

The fun is in learning how things work. Understanding. Observing how systems were designed, interconnect, and integrate with each other.

There are many real liveries with it. This is just the default one. There are many historic liveries going back 30 years that come with it.

@@jonbeckett Yes I just saw a video with out it, thanks for notifying