Thanks for the review, really enjoyed it and good to see it in 'a new environment' - a couple of pointers from JF's FDE designer (i.e. me!) Take-off trim, the POH states neutral as default, but obviously that is going to be CG dependant. As it loads up, it's on the forward side of the CG and it's only really if you start loading weapons as well as full fuel that you head towards the rear half of the CG range. That's actually where neutral trim works, the POH does suggest 'up to 2 units' of nose up trim (so two notches on the trim gauge) for any forward CG situation. Going on to the stall / spin situation you looked at - again, from the POH: "The low speed behaviour of the aircraft is docile; the aircraft is fully controllable down to the point of stall (CL max) and the controls remain effective even beyond the stall. The stall itself is not obvious but the aircraft may be flown under control until the control column is fully aft. Recovery at all stages is immediate when the control column is eased forward." CL max for the wing on the T1 is 13 degrees. Spinning (again, POH, summarised but direct quotes with nothing unnecessary removed. Otherwise, you'd be reading for hours): "General: The aircraft is very spin resistant . . . it can be made to spin by the use of recommended techniques. If the controls are mishandled the characteristics will vary and the spin may become very agitated. To enter the spin, close the throttle, smoothly and progressively apply full rudder in the intended direction of the spin and simultaneously apply full aft stick ensuring that the ailerons remain neutral." Recommended entry height for a spin is 25,000 - 30,000 ft and if recovery has not occurred by 5,000 ft the recommended course of action is to eject. Well done with your recovery in the vid!!!! I hope that's all of use, I think it addresses a fair bit of what you AND OTHERS have perceived as a weak point of the Hawk. Given the restrictions on what we can actually adjust in the flight model and that this is nowhere near where I wanted it to be as a direct result (i.e. we had far more control in FSX/P3D), I don't think it's too shabby!

An interesting review, thanks. As a retired FJ Nav with over 3000 hrs, incl about 40 in the back seat of the Hawk, I’d offer the following: 1. FJs do not “creak” when you pull “G”. The onset of this noise at 4G is rubbish. 2. 4 G is normal, you have a G suit on, and it doesn’t stress trained FJ aircrew one bit, so the breathing noises are an unnecessary theatric. 3. At 6 G you have to work a bit, especially if you are holding onto the grab bars, looking behind you and giving the pilot a running commentary on the “fight”. 4. The Hawk has a very violent, erratic, spin. 5. At high level, Fl 330 ish, it has the same fuel consumption as a LandRover, and can go for miles. But the JF Hawk is fun to fly, just like the real thing. Rgds Chris

The engine start sounds are absolutely mesmerizing. Seriously wow! You can really feel it.

Thanks, just about to take my second sim fight in this Hawk so really have enjoyed and benefited from your flight. Clear positive audio explaining everything you are doing. Makes my learning curve much easier.

Your content is by far some of the best out there for flight sim, I love that you narrate your knowledge of the local area and describe what you're doing with the airplane all the time, it adds such a level of detail and reality to the videos! Thank you!

I was looking for a review before I purchased this plane, but what I really enjoyed was your flight commentary - I could listen to that all day!

Very good review. Thanks. I grabbed this bird as soon as it was released. Very impressed with the systems depth. It complements this remarkable simulator beautifully.

Nice video Blue! Great to get in the front seat of the Hawk, I’ll be sure to keep it all smooth for your cup of tea in back. :) Keep the vids up. Really enjoy them :)

I loved that i can t get enough of your flights Chris

everything i've bought from just flight until now have been a pure enjoyment for me. Espesially the Arrows, i've flown more in those planes than the flybywire a320 wich says allot cause the Flybywire 320 is amazing

Great vid as always. I now like before watching as I know the quality will be really high. Agree with everything you said, such a joy to fly & I spent a good 15mins just looking over the model, so realistic! A little disappointed that you didn't team up with friends to perform an official aerobatic display complete with tricolour smoke. Slacker! 😜

Thanks for the nice review (and preview). Bought this before watching your vids (well I am a bit late heh) but the videos were enjoyable and the plane really is great! I'm on Just Flights mailing list and the other day I got an email from them about the patch for the Hawk and it had a few quotes from reviewers including one from yourself, so congrats!

Enjoyed this review and it was very well presented. Liked it that much I bought it and can't wait to give it a proper flight as all i have done so far is powered up the engines and listed to the superb sound. Thank you

Excellent video, many thanks. I viewed your previous videos on this product, so today it’s really good to see it again, and of course the scenery is spectacular. I appreciate your hard work in putting this video together and of course Just Flight have produced a fantastic add on for MS FS 2020, the veritable Hawk T1, the Red Arrows as we all love and know so well. Impressive !. I will be purchasing this. Just a small mention, I still notice slight morphing of the mountains as you fly past. You can see the sharp details of the mountains from a distance, but as you approach the mountains their edges tend to smooth out and morph slightly, as if being stretched, it’s difficult to describe but I guess “ morphing “ is the terminology. I hope Asobo can fix this. A temporary solution is to increase terrain level of detail to 400, but that can seriously affect FPS in some areas. Please don’t let this observation affect the excellence of your video, it’s just something I noticed. I know terrain morphing can be an issue even with a fully updated MS FS 2020 to date. I’m sure Asobo will introduce a fix in the future.

This is the one I have been waiting for. Wow the engines sound so good. And just in general the details of the aircraft. There's going too be some hour's of fun with this aircraft especially we have smoke now too. Watch out the Mac loop.

Fantastic review again. I'm just about to get this based on this great video. Thanks.

just wanted to come back to say I flew this route last night - incredibly beautiful and challenging (especially the approach to landing). Many thanks again - I will save the .pln and use again with other planes, too :)

Its a great circuit with some stunning scenery - thanks for the video!

Nose heavy, yes. I feel the sweet spot for many of these early jet engines is more like 95% RPM for cruise. Lovey scenery! I love the work of the Just Flight team! Thanks for another great review. Can't wait to get my hands on that one.

Thanks for sharing the route and great video as always! Have been enjoying this bird immensely, and great to have yet another place to fly. Going to run a bunch of the military training routes in the US. Started them in the T-45C, switching immediately to the Hawk! :)

I always instantly like your videos, you make them look so good !! This one is no exception, outstanding production values IBS !!

Great product from JF (as always!) And, great video from Into the Blue Simulations (also as always) Whenever a new addon comes out, I wait for your review. Except for JF products, I just buy those :)

Great review. I bought this yesterday and thought to check your channel to see if you’d done a video. It’s great to fly. I took her out from Valley this morning and had a blast barrelling around the countryside and up into the soaring pillars of cloud. Only disappointment from me is, like the Arrow, it seems a bit pitchy…. But I’m getting used to it.

great review, sir, as well as the preview! personally I prefer this scenery, I think it’s way more pretty for the eyes as the mach-loop. I have to try this round myself! :) I hope that I will see this beauty on XBOX as well, but as I realize JustFlight prefers rather their own shop, also the Arrows aren’t available on the console… would be nice to have a community flight as a Red Arrows formation or sg like that. :D btw. that spin you finally managed to get into scared the sh.. out of me! :DDD

The external start-up sound I ran through my sub-woofer system. Sounds great!

Absolutely love your videos. Ive purchased the Hawk T1 and I'm having trouble trying to keep it stable. Would you be kind enough to make a video explaining how you adjust your trim for level flight?

Great video and awesome intro!

Brilliant and enjoyable review.

The X Plane version of this was excellent too so I will love getting my hands on this at some stage. Great route though. Well done.

Fantastic aircraft, very little to complain about. I wish the TACAN worked but i understand it's a MSFS limitation which I hope will be fixed in the near future. I do use a few degrees of nose up trim on takeoff which helps a lot, the aircraft flies pretty much hands off after takeoff as a result. My favorite thing to do is the penetration descent where i start my descent from high altitude at about 10 nm from the runway with idle thrust, airbrakes out and 350kts....just amazing how steep the descent is. Really fun aircraft to fly!

Great vid, Great route. Thanks.

Fantastic aircraft and a great review

Great preview! By the way, you flew over my house!! 😎

I play on Xbox series S and am currently really disappointed that the best planes are not being released on the Xbox. I had high hopes that developers would take advantage of another income stream but it seems I’m missing something as only Carenado have released 3 of thier planes on Xbox. Hope more developers start supporting the Xbox.

Excellent video, as always. What is the music used in the opening sequence? - brilliant choice!

Time to revisit, as its released on the x box, much thanks 👍

Do the Axalp aproach in this! (Axalp shooting range of the swiss airforce, take off from LSMM and then circle over Lake brienz and do the approach. Pull and turn over Wildgärst Mt. for full realism :D )

the sounds are so good

Amazing man just wow.

A great route you picked out; I'm looking forward to trying it. Although I'll always have a soft spot for the Mach Loop, it's great to have alternatives. This "most shiny and most red" livery was different from the one in your preview, and I saw another KZfaqr using the 50th anniversary livery - not that I watch other channels, of course! Are all of them included in JF's package?

just flight is, in my personal opinion, making top tier addons for msfs. gonna grab this one since you recommend it.

beautiful intro, looks so real.

I was really happy to see a landing.

Great review - did you have a start up checklist or was this all from memory?

Great review for a great addon. Just Flight are undoubtedly one, if not the best 3rd party addon makers out there. What elevates them for me is they listen to user feedback, and since this video was made, we now know seeing the pilots in interior is going to become a thing in update 1.1. Worth every penny. Now then, all we need now is to be able to slide the glare visor and detach the oxygen mask like in the X-Plane version Just Flight (hint hint) ;)

Nice review- I'd like to hear about any experience from flying it in VR - Ideally G2

@42:48 The pitch of the pilot/copilot views can be changed in the 'cameras.cfg' (SimObjects/Airplanes/JF_Hawk_T1). In the [CAMERADEFINITION.0] section, edit the values for 'InitialPbh =' to 0, 0, 0 (from -17, 0, 0) and in [CAMERADEFINITION.3] to 0, 0, 0 (from -20, 0 0). This will set the view dead ahead, and you can tweak it from there if necessary. The values are for degrees of pitch, roll and yaw respectively. The rear seat especially felt extremely uncomfortable for me in vr with its 20' downward pitch, but with that fixed I don't think I'll ever fly from the front seat again.

So close to DCS that I hit F3 for a flyby after first takeoff! Systems seems to work - the RAT deployment is simulated. And the 130 page manual reflects this. But in flight relight seems not to work. Motor spools up to 15% - with no rise in EGT. Could be an Asobo limitation, the same with CRJ aircraft - But close to - over envelope strange things happens. It refuse to go high AOA (IMO). Pulling max G - 9 - in tights turn, it is closer to F-16. Flying several 360 will little drag. It drops slowly to 200 knots and holds 4 G with no sign to stall. But within normal envelope everything feels correct. At touchdown other aircraft just stop to fly. JF Hawk you can feel and hear the touchdown, and you can hold aerodynamic braking to under 100 knots. Such a great aircraft - immersion is close to100% - Nice to learn that GPS is supplied in original Red Arrows. It is very basic nav with the VOR installed. BTW: Thanks for converting Tacan to VOR frequencies - well done. On cruise you need to be patient to trim off pitch. Use throttle for the finer adjustment. Holding heading is no problem. Thanks to Just Flight for pushing M$F$ in our serious simmers direction, and not making cheap money on the xBox kids.

Have you considered making a video on fighter jet flying technique? I would be interested to know how to fly these fighters and why you make the turns the way you do, some banking to the point of being upside down etc. Cheers!

Thanks for a great video! Got the T1 after this. I find it interesting that that you can select ordnance for attachment. I don't have options for this with the A variant and only the option for fuel tanks. I presume this is an additional mod of sorts or i'm perhaps missing settings somewhere?

Great video as always - Can I just ask you, when you click the stop switch on the throttle for shutdown, is this triggering the end of flight pop up menu for you?

Thanks for another fantastic video, and in particular this route! I've just blasted around it in the Hawk and dare I say this will be my preference now instead of the Mach Loop, as the scenery is much more spectacular than Wales - apologies to my Welsh friends! ;-)

Should need bugger all rudder input once off the ground. In your vid, I did notice the slip ball bouncing around a lot. No idea whether that was pilot or flight model induced.

Well, the Hawk is on my must buy list. Especially since it is nice on my FPS. However, I need to save my money. Got some expensive things coming up. At the same time I really do want to fly it... I just have nothing like it in my hangar (anymore). And I do have to agree regarding Switzerland. They have done a stellar job with the last world update. I guess the wait was worth it. As I imagined the Alps have become my favourite region to fly in along with the pacific north-west in the US.

Great video, thank you. I love this plane and I am amazed how fluid is your flight. I unfortunately get a significant FPS drop with this plane (from 35 PFS for the F14, down to 18 FPS for the Hawk) and am not sure why.. Would you be able to share your (VR) graphic settings with the Hawk ?

These video's have allowed me never to have to buy a pc desktop!... Big thumbs up

Holy crap, I’m going to buy this thing and fly the exact same route. Crashing into mountains… killing innocent and unsuspecting villagers… over and over and over.

I’ve read that this is available on the marketplace inside the sim, but I’ve looked and cannot find anything. There’s a similar aircraft, but it’s for about half the price and a different developer.

dope!

Why have I only got one pilot that appears in mine, how do I get the co-pilot to appear also ???

Hopefully someone in the know can answer this - should I set my POV in the cockpit so the gunsight is level with the horizon?

I'm 20 minutes in, please tell me this bad boy has smoke?! How can it not especially having the red arrows skin right?

Such a nice plane.i auggest let it run out is fuel and see what happens. look at the back of the plane and see what is extending once the fuel is gone . That is live to detail

I haven’t played FS2020 in a while. Something happened with the mouse. It no longer clicks when in game 😩. Haven’t been able to find a fix. Been playing Cyberpunk and trusty DCS instead.

I saw red beacon lights were still on in the sky and they should be both switched up for Color white ;-)

So, Im new to this. I originally purchased MSFS on Xbox but have downloaded it to PC through the play anywhere. Can I use this Hawk on my PC or do I simply have the xbox version on my PC ? ?

Awesome vid 👌 keep up the great work! But one question the community would you say its way better then the T-45c because I love that jet and the hawk cost 41 euros so don't now if its worth it for me. Would you say that the flight model and the systems are way better then the T-45c?

I just got the Hawk, feels good so far, just crashed with a uncontrollable spin while testing some stalls ^^ what i don't like is that the tablet for setting up the plane (take off ready/cold&dark...) is placed on the seat, i fly VR and so it is not really nice to do the settings there. Is it possible to put it somewhere else?

Fantastic review, thanks for the effort mate! Was an instant buy for me. Beside the fun flight model and stunning visuals I'd like to emphasize on the quality of all sounds of this addon. Combined with a hefty speaker setup and a Buttkicker under the sim seat: incredible experience!

38:12 glad to know 1400 miles isn’t particularly far to hand fly for you. 😁

really wish this was on xbox series x. anyone know if it's coming out and when? being British I really need this plane lol. red arrows main base is round the corner from me and I'm always seeing them practice.

Please tell me you have some type of Warm filter going on. On my Tab S it looks more orange than red.

I need this available for Xbox asap can’t wait

I'm having an issue when taking off that it's so difficult to keep this plane straight. It veers to one side and the nose wheel steering I've noticed seems to stop working after around 50kts?

I would love to see just flight bring this to DCS.

I bought and downloaded this Hawk today for my sim, but every time I go to load a flight with the Hawk it crashes the sim, is there a fix for this? Thanks.

Just announced for xbox!! What's the music at the start?

Mine won't work with My thrustmaster airbus stick. The throttle just will not budge for some reason. And it keeps going backwards. Any help ?

I have tried to create this as a VFR flight plan in fs2020 World Map but cannot 'Add' waypoints by lat/long, they just don't take and in the absence of a Manual (!!!) I have nowhere to look. KZfaq videos only use airports as WPs. Can you explain how you did it or drop the flt plan in here please?

I bought this addon from in game marketplace a couple of months ago, after the second latest MSFS update the aircraft throttle no longer responds and is now always stuck at idle. Just Flight hasn’t been bothered to release an update to the marketplace, and their support web form is also broken. This is quite disappointing.

Let's petition Asobo to enable all the TACAN's in the sim?

In any real a/c I'd expect those wacky oscillations in all 3 axes (mostly in pitch) only with an out of limits aft centre of mass. I think that this is a dreadful snag in all of the MS flight models. Err, are you sure about the Arrows smoke controls, when I were a lad these were wired into the weapons switchery.

So, how is it compare to the T-45 goshawk?

The only way to nav is by VoR?

is the scenery bought? it looks pretty amazing!

Oi, I really like this scenery for a loop. You don't have a Navigraph/SkyVector flight plan you can share eh?

That's bound to scare some sheep!

How do I add more fuel to the aircraft I can only get 64% worth of fuel very annoying

Is the black trainer version available as well?

Thanks for the flight. Very very informatief. I like the way you are talking about your machine. My turn now ........:)

Hope you will do a review on the F-16. looks like another FS9 type of release? Most functions missing, but looks great! I think its sad we are descending into childrens games here, instead of pure simulation! I want PMDG to put things right in this sim!

I wish this was available for xbox

Is this multicrew

Love your reviews, left a 👍, but I can’t watch this because I don’t have faith it will be available on my platform ever. MS/Asobo are playing corporate games as players suffer (Su-57 gets updated out of reg. marketplace rotation within days while other devs wait weeks/months to have updates “approved”). Still no JF Arrows, Milviz Corsair, or Carenado twins on Xbox and almost every add-on has bugs where custom code is used (doors don’t close on Spitfire[xbox] preventing C&D startup. Shame!

Should of done star wars canyon

Very well balanced review of a poorly appreciated trainer aircraft

MEEEW

Whoever wrote this software dedicated far too much attention to pretty graphics than to aircraft handling. Even spam cans behalf horribly. Check this video at 20:10. I think that says it all.

Obligatory "Hurry up and release on Xbox, JustFlight." Also, I have 2 hawks already >.> Lol

Waaaayyy too slow and brutal aircraft, it literally stalls from over 300kts when you input a harder turn. Unbalanced. Indiafox t45 is better handling