Learn to fly the C-47 Skytrain

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Learn to fly the Douglas C-47A Skytrain in IL-2: Great Battles and be familiar with its cockpit, engine start, takeoff, autopilot usage, and landing procedures. Various engine limitations, combat use, dropping paratroopers, important airspeeds, and notes on flying the C-47A Skytrain are also included.
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"Commercial Pilots"
D Drake, SmellyFella
"Private Pilots"
Gosling, SCG Tigzy, Warfare Institute, N Wicker, Pekiti, G Flansburg, AV8R,
Bill, Niteowl, G Lhoest, Magpie, D Hutchison, Sigma, Heinrich, , M Jaspers,
M Freeman, J Welch, C Francisco, J Lerias
"Student Pilots"
Roger Meatball, Peregryn, Utopioneer, P Angelopoulos, ShamrockOneFive,
T Gordon, D Speare, Wouter, Andy, R Goldblatt, S Elder, Bluenoser, Rasterops98, Nadelbaum, Bbonus, A Bullock, C Stokes
Chapters:
00:00 Cockpit familiarisation
06:24 Engine Starts
07:42 Pilot's Notes
08:13 Taxi
09:23 Normal Takeoff
11:54 Short Field Takeoff
13:24 Autopilot Usage
14:49 Dropping paratroopers
16:27 Landing

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@VikingTeddy Жыл бұрын

I enjoy big planes a lot more than fighters. They're so relaxing to fly, meditative almost. C-47 has always been one of my favorites.

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Yeah the way this one just lumbers along makes for a very chill flight, right up until a fighter blasts you or flak starts kicking off everywhere lol

@awizor Жыл бұрын

Glad to see you back! We were missing your knowledge :)

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to be back too 😊 Life has just been crazy busy keeping me occupied with flight training, flying, and other stuff. Things have settled a bit now though thankfully

@tomservo5347 Жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for this beauty to go on sale for awhile which it just did on Steam. I really am excited to try a different approach to this game in that the C-47 excelled at being a workhorse for supply drops, hauling cargo, and paratrooper drops. On a more technical point, I have a throttle quadrant controller that'll be really nice to separately control the engines. While not a fighter or even bomber the C-47 was perhaps the MOST important plane the Allies had from a logistical standpoint. On a side note my German mom was friends with another German lady that was from Berlin. She lived through the battle, and President Truman's 'Operation Vittles' that kept Berlin alive after Stalin tried starving it. She remembered the endless formations of C-47's bringing in food and even hauling coal to keep Berliners from freezing. She remembered the C-47 pilots and crew making little parachutes with handkerchiefs and dropping candy and chocolate bars to the children while flying over. Decades later she reunited with one of the pilots that started the entire candy drop operation. She emotionally told him just how much that little gesture on the part of the pilots and crew gave her and other children hope in the ruins of postwar Berlin. The C-47 wasn't just a plane-it represented liberation, salvation and friendship on the part of the US not to just Berlin postwar, but to nearly every continent during WW2.

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy it. The C-47 has a great feeling of flight to it, so it makes for a refreshing change in it compared to the fighters/bombers

@lukebraddford3287 Жыл бұрын

Such helpful videos, thanks for taking the time to make them.

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@thunderace4588 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this C-47 tutorial for us Requiem

@Chiffyl Жыл бұрын

Oh how long I've waited for this one. Thanks!

@LuftManu Жыл бұрын

Top notch, as always!

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Was hoping it would turn out ok after such a long break! 😂

@jcommtube Жыл бұрын

I was really looking fwd for this one !!! Thank You !!!!

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Jcomm! This is a plane I've been waiting for too, very happy with how it's turned out

@F-GJIM Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Many thanks for this tutorial. I've been flying on IL2 untill the beginning and had a break for... 10 years now. Airborne again for 2 weeks, maybe for the C-47 ^^. Great to discover your channel and all the advices. Again, many thanks. Jim.

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Jim, as you get back into it if you have any questions feel free to ask them here or on my Discord where more people can answer questions

@F-GJIM Жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL Will be a pleasure, will find the discord. Thanks !

@551Newf Жыл бұрын

That was great! Thank you!

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

No worries!

@flightknight4269 Жыл бұрын

Great vid, many good tips!

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Thanks, a bit on the longer side compared to what I like but there was a lot to cover

@SlayerSuch Жыл бұрын

Love the Videos

@johnnicatra570 Жыл бұрын

Very nice job as usual.Cockpit a little dark don't you think?

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Might have been the lighting or my gamma...it had been such a long time since I'd done any flying maybe my settings got messed up a bit

@jamieh8240 Жыл бұрын

The Trail function on the Cowl flaps does work, you just need to set the cowl flaps to Auto control which from memory is by pressing LALT+O

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Oh that's good to know! I think they may have added that functionality in a patch after I completed this video, but I'm not sure. The amount of keybinds are out of control! haha

@jamieh8240 Жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL Tell me about it. It seems like I'm updating my key press cheat sheet weekly.🤣

@smellyfella5077 Жыл бұрын

I need to give this a go.

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Just remember to text me mate and we'll go fly a paradrop mission in a flight of them sometime 😊

@smellyfella5077 Жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL Ok, I'll be getting my HOTAS set back up next weekend

@DwailHicks 6 ай бұрын

Thx for your awesome videos!. Could you do the Li-2 tutorial? I beg you!

@PluckyUnderdog Жыл бұрын

Been watching a lot of your vids, mate. I have DCS and love it but you've sold me on IL-2, it looks fun as hell and a little less serious than DCS. So I've splurged on a few things in the sale (Stalingrad, Bodenplatte, Cliffs of Dover, few campaigns) and I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl.

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

They're both great in their own right but I look at Il-2 and DCS in a simple way when it comes to WWII warbirds. If I want to fly a WWII airplane I'll fly DCS, but if I want to fly in WWII I'll fly Il-2 because multiplayer is objectively much better there. The feeling of flight is great in both, but for me the main difference is that Il-2 aircraft are a little too stable (not needing much rudder while flying generally) while DCS warbirds are a little too unstable (rudder is needed but the effect of yaw on lateral stability is too much).

@PluckyUnderdog Жыл бұрын

@The Air Combat Tutorial Library that's a good way of putting it. I love it so far, both sims compliment each other perfectly, I think.

@TheRaptorXX Жыл бұрын

Ahhhhhh, the old familiar chalkboard!! Happy New Year!! Oh yeah, just a quickie. Is 'engine 1' always on the port side? On all planes, I mean... Thanks Req, bu the way! 👍

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Yep, #1 is the left and #2 is the right on twins

@WannabeNibiruWarrior 3 ай бұрын

We need a tutorial for the Li-2!

@frederf3227 7 ай бұрын

Despite the keys being shown it should be known that the pilot has no ability to individually toggle the autopilot channels. Only on/off is functional.

@mpowers3779 Жыл бұрын

nice landing…

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Always need a good example, but the C47 makes it easy

@charliemarkovic4301 Жыл бұрын

That's a landing that old Buffalo Joe would approve of!

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Thanks, it's a nice bird to fly. You can really feel a difference in how this handles compared to the usual fighters!

@mari8it Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this great content. I have a question, you said take off power 46’ but you set it at 50’ on takeoff why?, what’s the correct procedure ? Thanks

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

The RL manual states 46" but I was carrying a full load of paratroopers so I just went full throttle which will give you 50" At lighter loads you could even use less power if you wanted, but you'll just use more runway

@mari8it Жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL thank you sir

@Jbroker404 Жыл бұрын

11:11 What do you mean by "we want to accelerate to our 'single engine' climb speed of 120mph" ? I don't understand the "single engine" part of this statement.

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

If you lost an engine then 120mph is the minimum controllable airspeed you should fly at to overcome the left/right turning tendency produced by the remaining engine. This kind of thing is covered in my multi engine specific videos

@tahirballikaya213 Ай бұрын

Do you do the checklists yourself or is there a database somewhere? I have the spec lists of every plane but there is no checklist like how much flaps is needed for landing etc.

@RequiemsACTL Ай бұрын

I do the checklists myself based off real manuals

@torque-drive2488 Жыл бұрын

What's your favorite aircraft?

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

Prop - Spitfire Mk IX, Jet - F18 😊 What about yourself?

@torque-drive2488 Жыл бұрын

@The Air Combat Tutorial Library My favorite prop plane is the Vought F4U Corsair and my favorite jet is the McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender.

@RequiemsACTL Жыл бұрын

@@torque-drive2488 Nice! The F4U is a big airplane...I remember when I was in flight training waiting to take off one day and one of those taxied past me...it's a monster.