THIS is thee most important video on youtube this week

I really want to see a vet F-4 pilot strap-in to the Heatblur Phantom via virtual reality, blind to the Heatblur manual/instructional, and start this thing up from cold and dark. What I’m most interested in here is their reaction to the fidelity and how fast their muscle memory kicks in. Cool that you got to do this! Can’t think of anyone better, really.

Yessss of all the content creators to have the trust of the developer and the honor of releasing a cold start video I'm glad it was you Reflected 🔥

Bitter sweet to get this under these circumstances. I think we all were hoping to be following along at home

I can't wait for HB to implement the updated Jester and ground crew for the F-14! This looks so good!

You've done a great job here, Reflected!

And there it iiiiiissss. Finally. Now we just need the ACTUAL update. 🤣😂

Now I can sit in my phantom with peace of mind and get started! Many thanks Greg😎🤘

I love how the F4 USAF pilot is not just image of (well kinf is), it is Col. Robin Olds. The F4 legend. The immortal Phantom II driver.

yeah i agree and i said on my review, this cockpit is the best looking cockpit in the history of simulators, i dont even think being a matter of opinion but a real fact, tx brother for this, we love your guides man!!

Awesome, Greg! =) When I read the embargo for cold-start videos was lifted, I immediately thought no one would be able to do a more meticulous, in-depth tutorial than you - happy they got you to do it! =)

I loved your Tomcat tutorials and sure as hell love this one as well! Looking forward to some more of your work, campaigns, tutorials and everything else.

God Bless Heatblur Simulations.

Excellent video! Thorough and well detailed!

This is awesome... I am patiently waiting for the quickstart though :)

Absolutely awesome video !!!!! Great realistic start up and excellent cockpit and exterior images !! Thanks a lot!! 👍

Many thanks Reflected for this tutorial. Just like you, I always try to adhere to real world procedures. I always have a real manual at hand. I would like to note that the Phantom model and cockpit are a real masterpiece. You can admire them for hours.

Ridiculous, the sounds and immersion are incredible. I can almost smell the BO and grease from the cockpit. Thanks for the startup video. I will be following this once we finally receive the jet.

Thanks, I waited for this!

I'll watch this later today. Sad that ED have ballsed up the release, but as long as they don't push it back any further, no real harm done. 👍

Thanks Reflected! Will watch this a few times, so im ready...

Thank you for the most-excellent start up video. Incredibly informative. Thank you for getting this out for us.

The resemblence to Robin Olds is uncanny. That's impressive detail.

Thank you for yet another great tutorial. Top notch presentation as always.

Mate, what a pleasant discovery your channel has been. Thank you so much for sharing this video, new fanboy here. Thanks again!

I was a crew chief on f4 at nellis for red flag I did engine run ups all the time now that I’m older I can’t believe I did all of that as a 20 something kid. It’s all sort of overwhelming now as I watch this, I have my start up check list notes.

That was awesome. Thank you very much. I can't wait

Oh this is gonna be fun starting every mission in your campaign...

What a great video, and what an incredible implementation.

Very nice video .Thanks😀

Excellent as always

I was waiting for this!❤😊

Nice tutorial! I like your SEA skins for the F-5E, btw.

Very thorough - Thnx - Got an extra day to memorise it all 🤣

I appreciate the work and talent it took to make this video as life like as possible. However having worked in these birds in the early 80s I assure you it was a beast to maintain and deal with. Plane nearly killed me. Maintenance nightmare.

Great job sir!

Great video man. Loved your Princess Bride reference. 🤘

Intake covers are usually off prior to the crew arriving. -60 starts are noisey. Try doing a cartridge start. Much more exiting, especially when one torches 👍

Unfassbar professionell ❤

What a great video ... thank you so much :)

Exactly what I like ! Details heheh. Well done mate

I got a couple flights in last night finally. All in all about what I expected, which is a very good thing. A couple observations… - On my first landing, which was a bit rough at Creech but certainly nowhere near as hard as a carrier landing, Jester makes a comment about needing the undercarriage replaced and then I find out I have no brakes. Now, I’m an old US Navy carrier guy. I’m used to planes that get slammed on a pitching deck all day long. That little tap and I lose my brakes??? C’mon, man! - I didn’t look too hard cuz I was wanting to get in the air and I knew I had yet to spend an hour or more setting up the controls, but all I saw were skins for either USAF jets or allied nation jets. Nothing from the United States Navy. I mean, the thing was designed and built as a FLEET defense aircraft for the US Navy. They have six skins for the USAF Thunderbirds, but not one navy skin. What is up with that? As an ex-US Navy flight deck veteran that actually served on a carrier that still had a squadron of Phantoms on board, I take great offense to this. - I may be doing something wrong procedure wise and no, I haven’t RtFM yet, but I found as I was screaming around the southern Nevada skies last night, that no matter how I set the radar up from the WSO seat, once I went back to the pilot seat, after a second or two the radar would go back to a B scope and 50 mile range. Am I missing something there? Is it supposed to do that and if so, how can I change it? Surely the pilot can do a PPI and isn’t locked into a B scope. I mean, it does show PPI for a second before it changes. - I’m also wondering why there doesn’t seem to be a Jester command to change ranges on the radar. I can tell him to change the elevation and scan size, but not the range? Edit: I looked again this morning and no, there are no US Navy skins at all. C’mon guys, this thing was built for the Navy! Edit: Okay, I get it. The Navy used the B and J versions, not the E. Well, I hope they come out with a US Navy variation someday.

I just hope that the cold start training mission is in as much depth as this is. Thank you Reflected.

well done sir

love that Robin Olds is in the cockpit at start

My tanks will be empty and I'll be hungry by the time I finish this! 😜Love it!

Big help here!

I can only assume to turn off the aug switches to prevent wear on the actuators, as during taxi all those bumps will cause the surfaces to flutter/deflect very rapidly.

Excellent

I love how pilots looks like Robin Olds... Wolfpack Vibes!

Everyone, tomorrow: I'm a bit of a Phantom pilot myself

"Pitot is ready for the buns, sir." lmao

Your video was great.! Brought back A lot of memories, ....good and bad I used to work Aero/ Repair during My hitch in AF. Late seventies,early eighties. Worked on F-4Es....R/R & rig flight controls, throttles and landing gear, let me say the F-4 Phantom is a friggin beast of an Aircraft! It was not an easy bird To maintain.

a little sad that the HUD camera won't be available at launch but this module is so advanced that I don't mind as much.

stab aug is turned off during taxi because the stab aug system does not understand that the plane is on the ground and moves differently than in the air. It will attempt to "correct" for this difference between what it expects the plane to be doing and what the plane actually does while on the ground, and may damage the flight controls by thrashing them about in the process.

That’s Robin Olds!!!! So cool!!!

yessir! atleast we get this today!

Glorious 🫡😎

Fantastic video thank you. Noice.

The details are insane🤣, we can hear the pilot putting is helmet!

Do I have to connect the air source again for the left engine?

Link a next video from cold start to retract flaps you'll do RP, with all checklists voiced(?) coming from ground crew, ATC, pilot and the weasel?...2 billions views for sure 🤩🙏...or ask your youtubers friends 😋

So real it’s unreal. I can almost smell the JP-4. This sim is far beyond anything the crews actually trained in. The only thing missing is full motion platform. The actual simulator did have the pilots sitting in a full scale cockpit to train muscle memory but this as close as it gets.

Top👍👍

I love the Robin Olds pilot model! Shout out to the baddest ass bad ass to ever live!

Great video, thank you for uploading. Are the BITs for the WSO implemented as well?

Ho nice !

This will come in handy if it's ever released.

Thanks, great video! Have you seen anything about the release being delayed? It's past 1500 z here and no emails, no changes in my startup conig???

finally start up

Nice video Reflected. Great stuff for those who want to do this every time they start the jet. Just curious, in your upcoming campaign is there an option to skip this startup procedure or even have a Hot Started jet when you start the mission? Don’t jump on me for asking please! I’m just wondering if there will be an option for this? I love these campaigns and the missions but some days I just don’t have the ability to do this due to back issues. I love procedures and checklist etc when I go for a flight in real life because they keep things Safe, but in the sim it sometimes is great to skip all this and just go fly or fly the mission. Anyway, thanks for the video. You do some really awesome things in your missions and campaigns and I’m really looking forward to seeing your missions for the F4. Thanks again…

The reason the centerline selector switch ground procedure changed from off to on, was the adoption of the F-15 centerline tank. But..... problems did happen.

Robin Olds all so there love it......

i love it ... I Love it !!!! I LOVE IT! IiiIIiiI LLLoOOOOVEEeE ITTT!!!!!!!!! 😮😮😮😮

I would like to see a start-up video using only the right engine.

It looks like they modeled the pilot on Robin Olds.

Hoping for a "starting the Phantom in 60 seconds" video next....

Figured Heatblur were to upload this kind of video before anyone else to show when they were ready to release?

Any tips for the key bindings? I started last night and having trouble/confused with the key bindings

Great detail HB. What is the insignia on the pilot and reo flight caps at the beginning of the video?

How do you displace in the cockpit like this to check all the system ? Great video by the way

Just thinking of it: Is this actually the first Cold & Dark video that's been upped at all? I've opened a gajillion already and didn't find enough time yet to watch all of those, but none of them was a startup procedure thing...

Comprehensive.

Stab Aug opposes any uncommanded aircraft movement sensed by the gyros and stick force transducer. I presume any bouncing around during taxi or even brake check etc would induce unnecessary and potentially erratic control deflections.

Would be so cool to actually have the ground crew walking Infront and underneath the aircraft.

1:00 even Robin Olds is in it.

Beautiful video, as always. What is your gamma setting? Your cockpit looks a LOT lighter than mine... Mine is so dark at 1.7 that I can barely see without the flashlight on, even at mid-day...

For that speedbrake check after both engines are started and just after the RADALT test, did you have to select anything from the jester menu ground checks or does the crew chief make the "Speedbrakes out/in" call automatically?

Great video. Just curious , are these the proceudres from the 1979 -1 manual?

1:20, that reflection, is that the default reflection in DCS? Never noticed it like this.

How are you getting the ATIS? Great video. Now we just need clear and easy to read Pilot and RIO kneeboard checklists.

Lately in the Tomcat I've taken to turning Jester off entirely and doing the alignment myself manually in the back seat. Helps me learn the position. Any chance we could see that procedure? (No worries if not. I am capable of RTFMing. Even if there's no Chuck to guide me! LOL!) Thanks Reflected! MAYBE I'll join you tomorrow in the Phantom!

Soon, Brothers. Soon.

40K views and only 13k subs, MANG WTF!

I'm making an educated guess but you turn off stab augs in the taxi phase because if there is a failure with one of the stabs(yaw, pitch, roll) it wont actuate any control surface while u are on the apron(which on some airfields might be pretty busy with vehicles and people running around or even aircraft close by with weapons being fitted) so it stops the control surfaces from hitting ppl while stationary and if there is a failure when you start your initial taxi to the runway it wont turn/steer the aircraft towards people, aircraft etc. Like I said I'm making an educated guess so dont take my word for it.

Isn't there a restriction on startup videos, because HeatBlur wanted to relase one themselfs?

Holy diver

Every switch dial and knob is modeled. Except the ones that aren’t.

So does that mean it will become available at 12 midnight EST tonight when it becomes the 22nd of May on the East Coast or...? When should we look for this thing?

Damn beat me to it!