Just. . . WOW | Heatblur Arrive in MSFS! | F-14 Tomcat Review Flight

Just. . . WOW | Heatblur Arrive in MSFS! | F-14 Tomcat Review Flight | Microsoft Flight Simulator

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6 ай бұрын

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In this video we a look at the Heatblur / India Foxt Echo F14 Tomcat, within Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS).
It's 1985, NAS Miramar - Fightertown USA. We will be running through a full start up, putting the Tomcat through its paces over East Miramar and then heading for the deck of the USS Forrestal, for a carrier landing.
Please note this video and all its contents / materials, is for entertainment / simulation purposes only.
PC Specs
ASUS Z790
Intel Core i9 13900K 5.8GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
64GB DDR4 3600MHz
Hardware
Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog
Saitek Pro Flight rudder pedals
HP Reverb WMR headset
TrackIR5
Earthquake Shell Shoxx transducer
Enjoy the flight!

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@PluckyUnderdog 6 ай бұрын

Anyone who has DCS knows Heatblur is probably the best developer for the platform. Their Tomcat and Viggen in DCS are fantastic. Their upcoming F-4 Phantom looks... frankly incredible. This looks brilliant. Almost indistinguishable from the DCS one. Of course the DCS one is substantially more in depth and you get to use the mighty AWG-9 to lob Phoenix missiles from 60 miles away haha. And if you want to do a proper case I carrier landing, there's plenty of material on KZfaq.

@mikmak3mk748 6 ай бұрын

Heatblur and razbam are easily the highest quality DCS devs... but frankly... don't see the f-14 in MSFS selling too well.

@paristo 6 ай бұрын

The best developer for DCS is not the Heatblur (and Razbam is far behind many others). The best is very uncredited Aviodev with their C-101 and the almost same team Aerges, with their F-1 Mirage. The C-101 has systems simulated far deeply than Heatblur has their Tomcat or Viggen. You can literally take any page from the real manual and run it through with the C-101 and it is from fuses to all emergency procedures and damage modelings right there. Something that is not in F-14, Viggen, Hornet etc. What comes to the 3D work, Razbam is ahead of the Heatblur. Where the heatblur does make great interactive cockpits, they have forgotten the performance requirements and that is where Razbam beats them. As they produce very fine quality 3D work and textures that doesn't require so much resources from the computer, unlike the Heatblur work does. And let's be realistic, while all shaking and randomly changed cockpit textures etc are fun, it doesn't really matter. If you can get 10 FPS more in VR without those, people choose the better VR performance over gimmick graphics. What comes to Razbam products, their AV-8B Harrier is totally incorrectly simulated (navigation system, ground attack systems, cockpit systems etc). Some parts are because DCS doesn't have such functionalities like contrast detection and tracking API. But most are just for the Razbam incapability to even read the real manual and understand the systems technical limitations and engineered working principles how systems really work and what they solve in which way. Razbam as well claimed lot of things back in the day like separated process for their radar simulation, that was total lie. Years after the Multithreading came to DCS it might have changed, but before it there was nothing additional to shifted on any "unused cores" to off-load your performance, that was evidentually demonstrated by community members by debugging the operating system process management that nothing extra was running when Mirage 2000 was flown, installed or at all. The Razbam F-15E is own kind project, I don't go to say thing about that. But I can only believe that it is correctly done based to real pilots comments and demos back before release. The M2000 would never have come great module if the French air force would not have stepped in and vocally voiced that the community is exactly correct that M2000 is totally incorrectly done, and that if Razbam wants then French air force will help Razbam to fix things. And that is why M2000 became totally different plane than what it was for years after launch when Razbam insisted that community is wrong, even when they were quoted with exact pilot manuals and engineering graphcs that how things should work (that French airforce backed up as well). Couple years later Razbam took hat to their hand and step down from their tower and silently admitted that they had no idea what they were doing. Why Razbam hired the new guy to redo all the M2000 weapons and radar system. The hard sad truth is that majority of the DCS modules are left rotting half correct. Look at the MiG-21Bis, that no one anymore knows has right flight modeling or not even close, as it has been so wildly gone from one end to another in spectrum and each time said "it is correct now". Its radar system is still the same old laser based code that it had when it was just a mod. And weapons and RWR systems are unfinished. The MiG-19P (Razbam) is still a superior in flight performance than many 4th gen fighters, not to talk about its radar simulation lacking. The greatest strength Heatblur has is their long lasting time invested to improve their products. And they need to be honored for their challenging workload considering how much ED will cause problems by changing their codes without informing developers that what happens. Why the ED own open beta / closed beta and stable development cycle doesn't work, majority is on the open beta that should never happen in any means. The online community should be 90+% about stable branch and not Open Beta.

@behindthen0thing 6 ай бұрын

the mig 21 is better than the f14

@jonnyj. 6 ай бұрын

@@paristo "The C-101 has systems simulated far deeply than Heatblur has their Tomcat." Holy shit, WTF was that 1000 word essay for?? literally EVERYTHING you spewed out in that essay is factually 100% fucking incorrect. Like... what? Its genuinely laughable that you convinced yourself that your delusions are reality so hard that you wrote this response to a one sentence comment on youtube... Compared to heatblur and razbam, the F1 has mediocre radar simulation, terrible RWR simulation, quite basic flight modelling which was quite inaccurate in the beginning, based mostly on a few charts and pilot feedback, and so on. Heatblur has THE best RWR simulation available to consumers. Its not even close. Both razbam and heatblur use actual radar physics equations for their radar simulations, as does ED for the F18 and F16. The F4 is above everything else so far in flight sims. Its based on physically modelled parts. Literally every part affects everything else. Read up on it.

@skywarp2180 6 ай бұрын

DCS rules

@vecnejhipik5349 6 ай бұрын

Great to see msfs people get something we enjoy so much in DCS.

@AdastraRecordings 6 ай бұрын

Just don't tell them about the flight model, they aint flying what we fly.

@Pendragon1989 6 ай бұрын

By any means. The sound is different too. But overall, it's quite a nice model. $10 discount if you own the DCS version. @@AdastraRecordings

@skywarp2180 6 ай бұрын

@@AdastraRecordings they don't care about flight model... they only care about candy eyes

@Largetalons 6 ай бұрын

@@FroggerQ101most dcs players couldn't keep an r/c plane in the sky, but they're going to comment on the flight model of an aircraft that they wouldn't pass the physical to even train on.

@chris101gray3 6 ай бұрын

@@FroggerQ101Tell that to Ward Carrol

@ParCBur 6 ай бұрын

Cool easter egg about the livery flown in the video, the name tape beside the pilot seat is Admiral George "Skip" Furlong, a retired United States Naval aviator inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Hall of Fame. He was enlisted for three years as a flight engineer on the PBY-5 before enrolling as a Midshipman at the United States Naval Academy. He had approximately 500 hours as a flight engineer and nearly 5,000 flight hours as a pilot, of which over 800 hours were combat sorties over the span of 3 Vietnam deployments in the F-11 Tiger. He was also an F-4 test pilot, and, most importantly, the reason his name is on the side of the plane is because he was the F-14 Fleet Introduction Program Manager.

@D25Bev 6 ай бұрын

Hopefully this isn't the last we see of Heatblur in MSFS.

@johnwicks4936 6 ай бұрын

I heard they plan to move all their planes over.

@AJS86 6 ай бұрын

I'm hanging for the F4 in DCS. It's going to be epic.

@StarBellySneetch Ай бұрын

As along as they get paid. DCS had been withholding payments and everything is at a stalemate with Heatblur

@startrekmike Ай бұрын

@@StarBellySneetch Where did you hear about this?

@JohnMichaelson 6 ай бұрын

This defines "photorealistic" probably more than any cockpit and model visuals I've ever seen in the game before. Appropriately worn, but not artificial looking. It makes everything outside in the world look comparatively low-res. Truly astounding!

@evolicious 6 ай бұрын

You might be blind. DCS is LIGHTYEARS more realistic and photorealistic.

@JohnMichaelson 6 ай бұрын

@@evolicious I said in THIS game.

@kipchickensout 6 ай бұрын

@@jacobfullton5582 I highly prefer DCS graphics, as I find them better, and it even runs a lot smoother than MSFS, and the modules are more detailed and more realistic, and you can actually shoot and damage your aircraft, downside is you don't have the entire globe to work with

@your_local_goose 5 ай бұрын

@@jacobfullton5582...said the msfs fanboy

@cabriskus4700 5 ай бұрын

@@jacobfullton5582okay bud lmao

@GB-tc4hr 6 ай бұрын

The go-to reviewer stuns us again with another brilliant job. Well done!

@IntotheBlueSimulations 5 ай бұрын

Haha, thanks very much GB, very kind of you to say! Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers : )

@jtnt1961 5 ай бұрын

I proudly served with the VF-1 Wolf-pack from 1981 -1984. Hangar One, along with VF-2, VF-21, VF-154 at the same hangar with TOP-GUN Naval Weapons Fighter School. The VF-1 and VF-2 were the first deployed Tomcats assigned to the USS Enterprise (CVN-65).

@IntotheBlueSimulations 4 ай бұрын

Very cool, Jay! : )

@MarkSWest 6 ай бұрын

Ok as somewhat of an expert in MSFS I have a couple things to say about this flight model. I started using FS back in DOS 1.0 days with MSFS 1.0 at Meigs Field in Chicago, and I could only dream of having an F-14 Tomcat back in those days. But the little Cessna was enough to make most of us happy. I am a certificated airman so I know a little about actual flight. But what makes this Release very special for me at least is that back in the late 70’s I was stationed at NAS Miramar, working on those Tomcats, specifically the one squadron in HeatBlur’s stable the “VF-211” aircraft with the TF-30 Pratt & Whitney engines (F-14A). I was an AD (Jet engine mechanic) and I had hundreds of hours in that cockpit. I held low power and high power turn qualifications as well as low & high power turn instructor and taxi qualifications. At the east end of the runways (by Interstate 15) sat two “Hush Houses) where I’d take the Tomcats to do any high power (zone 1 to 5) afterburner testing and calibration. The A model T Tomcat had numerous issues with the Afterburner Fuel Control so I spent a lot of time in those Hush Houses. It was a blast, being a young 20 something hot shot mechanic playing with the premiere Fighter aircraft of its era. I was a Motörhead before I joined the navy and had SS Camaros, Novas & Corvettes to play around with but NUTHIN compared to slamming the throttles into zone 5 afterburner and having that jet kick me right in the ass!! Enough of my trip down memory lane, this is one of the most accurate models of the Tomcat from this era but the startup procedure in NATOPS differed quite a bit than in this model, but as far as MSFS is concerned this is the closest thing yet! Even down to being able to EJECT!! Amazing! I just wish you could see the punch out and parachute opening sequence. Another side note, the Martin-Baker ejection seat actually has about a dozen pins and switches to arm and disarm the seat, but you’d have to model a plane captain arming this seat as the pilot straps in. I do also like to canopy opening lever is exact and the only model that has this modeled accurately. Nice touch. All in all this is a great addition to MSFS and I’m very happy to be able to finally get back to my Naval roots at Miramar in my very own actual Fighter Squadron, call sign Nickel. Our sister squadron was VF-24 the Fighting Renegades and in the early 1980’s we were assigned Hangar 1 with Topgun sharing it with us. After a couple WESPACs on the USS Constellation CV-64 we returned to Hangar 3 and then Hanger 5 after a third deployment. My Airwing was the group that tried to rescue the Iranian held American Hostages and after President Reagan took office and the hostages were released, he came aboard the Connie and declared us “America’s Flagship” President Reagan is the only President that I met in person. Sorry about the long stories but nobody wants to listen to my old sea stories and the grandkids aren’t old enough to appreciate them yet. But my son and daughter in law are also Navy sailors and approaching their retirement here in the next year, so the only things we’ll have shortly is memories and stories. But I hope at least one of you enjoys tales from someone who lived with this fearsome warbird, I wouldn’t change my time with them for the world!! Fair Winds & Following Seas and thanks for this AMAZING MSFS aircraft!! Peace out y’all.

@Herringomann 2 ай бұрын

This comment deserves 100000 Likes❤Thank you! Must have been a blast in these days. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

@IntotheBlueSimulations 2 ай бұрын

Apologies for the VERY slow reply, Mark; it was great to see the Tomcat / video garner so much interest but, it meant I simply couldn’t keep up with the comments section haha. I’m really glad the video brought back some nice memories and thank you very so much for sharing them! I for one certainly enjoyed your post and I’ve no doubt many others will have also. I do hope you’re continuing to enjoy Heatblur’s F-14 (I know I certainly am) - it is truly amazing how far flight simulation has come (though I think the real-world aircraft of your era, were much cooler than most of what we have today haha). Many thanks again for your comments and all the best to you! : )

@99bimmer 6 ай бұрын

The Grumman logo on the rudder pedals is just incredible attention to detail. One of these days I'm gonna get a proper rig to be able to run something this good

@mikekaduce 6 ай бұрын

you demonstrate such masterful control over every new aircraft type you fly. such great storytelling with your videos - always something to look forward to. nice landing - makes me want to dive into military aircraft.

@Loco37422 6 ай бұрын

What a great pilot and talk through throughout the flight, I really enjoyed watching the F-14 and your flight.

@sysabian8332 6 ай бұрын

Hey a real fine job you did with this video. I think your perspective regarding the comparison between both DCS and MSFS are really quite accurate.

@Wulfkai 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic video, keeping up the amazing standards 💪🏻 amazing to be able to fly this bird and what a fantastic piece of work!

@cgaviator 6 ай бұрын

Congrats, great video. Really nailed your photo and videography. All round top notch 👍🏻

@AskMeWhen 6 ай бұрын

I worked on the F-14 radar system in the late 90’s. That aircraft was a beast. It was two engines with wings. It could do over 2 times the speed of sound without breaking a sweat.

@tacticalbacon9877 5 ай бұрын

Thats why the airspeed indicator only goes to mach 1.6 right

@AskMeWhen 5 ай бұрын

@@tacticalbacon9877 The F-14A hit the Mach 2.34 requirement and went to Mach 2.41 during Grumman validation testing. Mach 2.34 is the DoD requirement. Maybe stop playing flight simulators.

@get2dachoppa249 6 ай бұрын

It looks fabulous to a point, especially if you are a casual F-14 fan, but if you know the bird like I do, there are plenty of errors in the jets appearance. Not trolling, just observations from someone in the military aviation industry who is very familiar with the aircraft. Basically, this is a 1974 paint scheme from a Block 70 airframe that was applied to a 1990s Block 145 airframe, and there are a number of visual differences between those two production blocks . The jet depicted is Navy Bureau of Aeronautics number (BuNo) 158979, and was built in 1972 as the 40th F-14 manufactured. Those specific squadron markings are from 1973 till about 1979, after which the white control surfaces & undersides were changed to the same gull gray color as the rest of the jet, so you would not see this exact paint scheme in the 1980s. Since the jet was only in service for two years by 1974, the cockpit would still look a lot newer than whats used in the simulation. This specific jet was repainted into the Heater-Ferris splinter camo scheme in 1976, so again, you would not see this jet in this scheme in the 1980s at all. The temp probe on the radome (its not a pitot tube) shouldn't be there. The gun gas vents are the later NACA vent style introduced in the 1990s, so this bird should have the early 7 panel grill vents. No TCS chin pod was on this airframe either. VF-1's assigned jets didn't start getting the TCS till about 1985. The external drop tanks weren't carried at that time due to the unavailability of the tank in sufficient numbers, and that's from a pilot who was on that 1974 cruise. No JDAMS on F-14s in 1974, just AIM-7s, -9s, & -54s. The MLG wheels are the the last design used, not the early style from Grumman. The tail reinforcing plates on the tails above the rudder weren't a thing yet, those were added to the airframe years later from the factory in the 80s. Lastly, the boat tail between the engine nozzles should be bigger, and not have the ECM hump. This bird was ultimately transferred to VF-301, one of the two Pacific coast reserve F-14 squadrons until it was sent to the boneyard in 1990, & scrapped in 2007. Thanks for reading.

@lastcall170 6 ай бұрын

Glad to save my money from this less than realistic model. That's a deal breaker for me.

@Tekner436 6 ай бұрын

Yes, I also noticed this too.... gonna have to pass

@seadog2969 5 ай бұрын

This F-14 (this paint scheme from VF-1 Wolfpack: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighter_Squadron_1_(United_States_Navy)) Was on the Ranger for its final cruise. I've bumped my head on that Tomcat a few times.

@philknight5879 5 ай бұрын

Who is this guy Tom cruise

@remypascal4872 5 ай бұрын

@@philknight5879 We would get a comparison to the real F-14 flight properties. Maverick has to do with the next M.I. and to talk with alien friends as ambassador for scientology. There is no time for MSFS or DCS.

@timothyparker7739 6 ай бұрын

Another brilliant vid! Thank you so much and best wishes from Australia

@rennyzucker9120 6 ай бұрын

This is incredible. Knew people were excited but now I get it. Also, fantastic production/intros on the last few videos. I really liked the one with Royal Mail for the Short vid.

@IntotheBlueSimulations 4 ай бұрын

The Tomcat is a pretty amazing effort indeed, Renny! I was excited for the addon however, I never thought it would be *this* good haha. I'm really glad you've been enjoying the intro's etc - cheers : ) Many thanks once again. If I haven't said so already, wishing you a very happy 2024, also!

@networkgeekstuff9090 6 ай бұрын

I swear the day any studio achieves planetary rendering like MSFS + weapons simulation DCS style, it will cement the flight sim community to it for ages, and partly ArmA community.

@chrissimonis4446 6 ай бұрын

DCS is apparently working on a "world" map

@networkgeekstuff9090 6 ай бұрын

@@chrissimonis4446 Of course, similarly like they are "working" on a dynamic campaign engine for 12 years now ! :D No really, first time mentioned/promised in DCS World overview in 2011.

@culpepper7665 3 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree... that would be amazing. Currently the DCS scenery is pretty bad.

@Simple-Flight-Simulation 6 ай бұрын

Sir, you are a very talented pilot in this sim and your review videos set the standard for other reviewers to follow. 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼As usual, you've whet my desire to go out and buy the aircraft. Good thing Christmas is just around the corner, so I've got every excuse to do so!! 😉

@reason6835 6 ай бұрын

He's the best sim pilot ever. I thought I was pretty good but this guy puts me to shame.

@ParZIVal19D 6 ай бұрын

Great video. Nice in-depth start up.

@marcosavila8215 6 ай бұрын

somehow the sounds feel even better in MSFS those sub sonic low frequencies are beautiful and give the engine a life feel

@grantmiller6570 5 ай бұрын

I don't do DCS myself, (system, knowledge & time limitations) but that looks awesome, you guys that do, are very lucky to have such brilliant add-ons.

@johnclarke2553 6 ай бұрын

Fabulous review, and video! I must just get this one.

@donaldholman9070 6 ай бұрын

great flying, great video. You are awesome. Thank you!

@MajorTom. 6 ай бұрын

Love this thing in DCS. So glad its in MSFS too!

@srcp1551 6 ай бұрын

I play/watch DCS all the time - never MSFS... But a dcs module in MSFS - the GROUND DETAIL IS SOOOOO GOOOOOOD DUUUDEEE! we missing this in DCS man.

@dreambound. 5 ай бұрын

Man I always love how Heatblur presents their stuff. Especially their trailers/teasers are fantastic. Just waiting for their Eurofighter release in DCS now... :,) Also 240k views? Very nice man!

@AGenericAccount 10 күн бұрын

speaking of crosswind carrier landings: The boat will always drive in the direction of the wind so that at least 10 knots is over the deck. but because the recovery course is 13 degrees left of the carrier's course there will be some wind pushing you

@FlightAce100 6 ай бұрын

Top quality as always mate.

@stephgagnoulet3133 6 ай бұрын

Aircraft and video are Masterpieces!!! Well done Heatblur/IndiaFoxtEcho and Into the Blue... 👏👍

@Ricardo.Sigwalt 6 ай бұрын

Awesome as always, sir!

@pivertalfred4217 4 ай бұрын

yes, indeed!! i had already fount it myself!!!! thanks...

@mrg6182 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic video as always Sir, thank you…

@tflashtube 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely stunning!

@nzbankboyinvr4713 6 ай бұрын

Great review mate, always so thorough! You must invest a lot of time learning the quirks of each before putting the video together!

@ysteinRnning 6 ай бұрын

Seems I’ll be buying a 2nd F-14 for MSFS 😎 Well worth it for my favourite military jet. Thanks for another great review!

@GlenCychosz 6 ай бұрын

I was on USS Ranger CV-61 in VS-38 in 1987. VF-1 and VF-2 where both part of our air wing. CVW2 (NE) = Carrier air wing 2. This video has NK Enterprise. I also did the 1989 cruse with them. I was a white shirt. Troubleshooter final checker.

@cadefoster9279 6 ай бұрын

Great for MSFS!! family friend was a CO of the Wolfpack when they flew tomcats.

@HaraldLabout 6 ай бұрын

Really really good addon of the most beautiful fighter ever build. Once I have seen them in real life at Leeuwarden Airbase in the Netherlands, really impressive airplane. Thanks for the great review as always. I already own the DC Designs version in the Sim but I think this is on another level and it will cost me money 😅

@mauripas58 6 ай бұрын

with the f 14 dcs purchase screenshot you get the discount

@Soundtracks92 6 ай бұрын

That VF-1 Wolfpack paint scheme is glorious 😍

@tedwaetford 6 ай бұрын

Another 'absolutely excellent' review ITB...

@Hustler9g 6 ай бұрын

Congrats to you msfs guys youre gonna love it.

@Universal_exports87 5 ай бұрын

I'm so Glad they released this in MSFS. The DCS F14 module is my favorite one.

@NecroxProduction 20 күн бұрын

Tomcat is so cool looking. Love those wings.

@donaldholman9070 6 ай бұрын

and a carrier landing! Bravo!

@daver7465 6 ай бұрын

Great review! Honestly to have this in MSFS for $25 (with the DCS discount - I got mine within an hour on release day) is quite amazing. If I want to go shoot stuff, I can use the DCS version. If I want to fly an F-14 anywhere in the world (did the Jedi transition today) I have this. Best of both worlds.

@richardstoffel6585 6 ай бұрын

Free today I just looked ! 😊

@birkatron1 6 ай бұрын

There is a dcs discount?

@schmiefel 6 ай бұрын

@@birkatron1 yes, just check their shop site over here: store.heatblur.com/pages/contact-us-f-14-coupon - worked pretty easy for me: I just took a screenshot of the payment entry for the DCS F-14 from my ED / DCS shop profile and sent that to the mentioned mail adress.

@tonybp 6 ай бұрын

Amazing. Imagine 10 years down the road how mind-blowing simulators and videogames will be like.

@jinparksoul 6 ай бұрын

Really it can't go much further than the distance it has in the last 10 or 20 years . I played F-15 strike a lot on the commodore 64. If presented with screenshots of this I would be totally convinced this was real and impossible for any pc then or in the future to do. My youtube feeds are filled up with channels of real jets and Msfs vids and I often get fooled thinking what I'm clicking on is clearly real when its turns out to be MSFS.

@Epsilon6villageidiot 6 ай бұрын

good reviews again as always!

@IntotheBlueSimulations 5 ай бұрын

Many thanks, Monke! Much appreciated : )

@lpcox 6 ай бұрын

great video, still amazed by your skills, sir! 😊 this is definately a must have for me. happy to have it in the sim, as an XBOXer I don’t really need to think about comparing it with DCS 😅

@IntotheBlueSimulations 4 ай бұрын

Haha, thanks very much, Péter! The Tomcat is a superb addon and I guess, even more of a "know-brainer" for those on the console (I've seen so many comments asking "why would you want this sort of aircraft in MSFS?" etc but, I would wonder "why not"?? haha). I do hope you have been enjoying "buzzing the tower" and taking the F-14 "ballistic" ; ) Belatedly, a very happy new year to you! I hope 2024 is filled with great things for you and yours : )

@get2dachoppa249 6 ай бұрын

0:54 The Tomcats in the background with the NM tailcode are from VF-194 Red Lightnings. They only flew the F-14 for a very short period of time, from 1986-1988.

@Fred-rv2tu 6 ай бұрын

I hope this brings more people into DCS!

@filakyle3663 3 ай бұрын

It is like watching real flight instructor. Love your videos and thank you for it.

@IntotheBlueSimulations 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, Fila! I’m really glad you’re enjoying the content - my pleasure! Much appreciated and all the best to you : )

@Jigsaw407 6 ай бұрын

An absolutely fantastic aircraft. Had my first flight yesterday and couldn't stop grinning. 😄By the way... have you ever wondered how much fuel is wasted every day when thousands of aircraft go through lengthy checklists with the engines running the whole time? P.S. how did you do the wingman thing? This doesn't seem to be a prerecorded ghost that you fly with, but rather the 2nd aircraft mimicking your every move with an offset position.

@danconnell182 6 ай бұрын

Absolute favorite aircraft in DCS so glad its in MSFS. I must admit though my favorite is being a backseater RIO with a a human pilot, nothing beats the teamwork and banter in a beast like the Tomcat. :)

@reggiekoestoer1511 5 ай бұрын

I too, have only recently realized this very fun occupation...filling in as a RIO for a human front-seater. Loaded with teamwork and comedy!

@reggiehowze1891 6 ай бұрын

That's a Tomcat attached to VF-1 WOLF PACK out of Miramar,Naval Air Station. We had them onboard THE USS ORISKANY back in 1974. V-2 BOUNTY HUNTERS.

@sYd6point7 5 ай бұрын

Awesome, Heatblur is one of the kings

@retrorewindllc9363 4 ай бұрын

That was quite impressive to watch & listen too

@IntotheBlueSimulations 3 ай бұрын

Thanks very much, Retro! I’m really glad you enjoyed it : ) All the best!

@jessyblue863 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful 😮

@allgood6760 6 ай бұрын

Awesome! 👍✈️

@stephenmiles8424 3 ай бұрын

what a beauty

@hummerz 6 ай бұрын

holy moly. incredible

@j.patricklindor6828 6 ай бұрын

Question(s), is the wingman another player and if not, how? This is stunning!

@cano228 4 ай бұрын

it is ai, you click the green screen in the middle of the cockpit and it brings up like a selector and u can do stuff its really cool!

@bitmanagent67 6 ай бұрын

Amazing. Heatblur rocks!!!

@EagleFighterJet 6 ай бұрын

Well done

@postalz2108 6 ай бұрын

Wow! Where is that scenery of Miramar from?

@DanBlake3rd 6 ай бұрын

Excellent review. Well worth the 41 mins.

@jfboisvert9624 6 ай бұрын

Great video :)

@edutaimentcartoys 6 ай бұрын

wow, awesome

@hanzandfranz5337 6 ай бұрын

I have about 500 hours of the F-14b in dcs. It looks so strange seeing the heatblur f-14 with msfs graphics. Im pretty excited to fly this, though.

@SteddyEddie 5 ай бұрын

I work on Miramar, I know exactly where he is on the flightline. Scary.

@IntotheBlueSimulations 5 ай бұрын

Haha! Amazing that the devs did such a great job with the scenery then, Christopher - must be an awesome place to work! Cheers, all the best : )

@JBAlternate 6 ай бұрын

Wow! It's graphically stunning! I know there are other developers who don't put as much effort into the visual model, but in a sim, a highly detailed, photorealistic aircraft always immerses me in the experience more than anything.

@tonyplokes12 3 ай бұрын

Espetacular!

@CTTechGaming 6 ай бұрын

great review as always ITBS! are you using sky dolly for the wingman?

@branjosnow6244 5 ай бұрын

Looks pretty damn good.

@jjsemperfi 6 ай бұрын

This just makes me want DCS with FS2020 graphics. Maybe some day, with a NASA supercomputer haha. Great video showtime off a product from an amazing team.

@vantage3154 6 ай бұрын

nah, all we need is the new engine for DCS, but i know it's like rewrite all game code again

@jamesprice6381 6 ай бұрын

As a AE who was @ MIRAMAR in the roaring 80s w/VF=114 Aardvarks, its funny ta see a EAST coast squadron in Cally! Thats my HANGAR in first frame of VF-2....:)

@piloto2412 6 ай бұрын

Loved it too

@notnice9873 5 ай бұрын

the level of detail..... just wow.

@davidenativo 6 ай бұрын

Love the F-14, such childhood memories!

@otterspocket2826 6 ай бұрын

You're lucky - my Mum wouldn't let me have one until I was 16 😂

@davidenativo 6 ай бұрын

@@otterspocket2826 🤣🤣

@SDsc0rch 6 ай бұрын

ha! I've driven those areas in San Diego county :))

@AV8R_1 6 ай бұрын

EXCELLENT walk through! Couple Questions. Where is the manual? I can't find it in the files from the in-game marketplace version, so I have no idea how to find the carrier, and second, Is your MCAS Mirimar scenery an add on?

@steffenlze0178 5 ай бұрын

i just saw that one in the MSFS2020 marketplace for i think 35€. i also like the F35 Lighting II. for 30€ it comes in all three versions. especially the F35B with it's vtol capabilities is very interesting and there are many helipad's in MSFS2020 to land the F35B on. i absolutely love this flight simulator!!

@D0cJekyll 2 ай бұрын

Laser scan of the cockpit in the DCS and MSFS for the Heatblur F-14 was done on the tomcat located in Titusville FL at the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum. It's the most complete cockpit on a non-flying F14 in the world.

@IntotheBlueSimulations 2 ай бұрын

Very inserting, A.I! Thanks for the info : )

@pilotpawanc 6 ай бұрын

Nice vid. Can you do a detailed and slow 😊 startup video explaining what is being done and why? Thanks

@chassembarquee 6 ай бұрын

You don't have to take so long to start your plane bro, the war won't wait for you

@metulski737 6 ай бұрын

To be honest, when I saw this add-on in the Marketplace, I thought: No, I'm not going to buy another poorly designed add-on. My opinion changed drastically after watching this review. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was central to the 1986 film Top Gun. Producers paid the US Navy $886,000 (equivalent to $2,411,000 in 2022) as reimbursement for flight time of aircraft in the film with an F-14 billed at $7,600 (equivalent to $20,700 in 2022) per flight hour. Now you can virtually fly a very realistic, photo-realistic F-14 in MSFS for a few dollars. Another great review from iTB. Just. . . WOW.

@colin5577 6 ай бұрын

Looks like they went to trouble to set up the Top Gun briefing hangar as it appeared in the movie - camo’d A4 outside, open doors, American flag and possibly Charlie (I couldn’t make her out and we weren’t shown, but it looked like black skirt and white blouse).

@Parabueto 6 ай бұрын

Got to admit, this is probably going to be a serious staple going forwards. I just need to figure out how to latch the autopilot on because the real thing uses a switch on the stick to engage/disengage and I think that logic is replicated here. It would be interesting to see if other aircraft from DCS can be ported over. But this is certainly up there with the Hawk, if not better because Jester will actually run his startup sequence so you don't need to go to the backseat (which I find tricky in MSFS for some reason). I did have one odd thing flying it yesterday though. Was doing a low pass over an airport and suddenly went to 0 airspeed and span down to the ground like I'd hit an invisible wall or something. But FS recently seems to have been doing odd stuff in general, like the harrier entering a permanent wing stall even in post recovery conditions.

@DigitalImageWorksVFX 6 ай бұрын

This graphic engine and terrain combined with DCS flight and system modelling would be king!

@roberthorton9599 6 ай бұрын

The first Airfix model kit I ever built, in exactly those colours, except maybe 101 not 100. Nostalgia overload! Thanks for the great review.

@nuraalek8296 6 ай бұрын

Yep, I will forever have a soft spot in my heart for this colour scheme after making the ssame model back in the late 70s.

@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM 6 ай бұрын

Same here. My Dad bought me a giant model with this same livery. Ever since then, I've always had a soft spot for VF-1 Wolfpack.

@Anikin_ 6 ай бұрын

Just downloaded this iconic add on for microsoft flight simulator. I don't get stressed out between the msfs and dcs fan boys, I just enjoy the both contents. Does anyone know how to start this thing 😂