Revisiting the Leonardo McDonnell Douglas MD-82 in Microsoft Flight Simulator after a long time away

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Жыл бұрын

Following a number of updates recently, today I climbed back into the MD-82 "Mad-Dog" in Microsoft Flight Simulator and attempted to remind myself how it works. I kind of love that it's much more "hands on" than the modern airliners, and requires a fair amount of knowledge and practice to get procedures down, and to respond appropriately to situations that may arise.
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@crcpathfinder Жыл бұрын

I always enjoyed and appreciate your videos and learn from them. To me the Maddog was from the very beginning in FSX several years ago along with PMDG been the ultimate hands on “study level” aircraft. It has always required a lot of reading and studying to fly it as it was designed. From what I learned it very close to the real thing. It has been one of my top favorites for several years. Very glad we have it again.

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

It's great fun.

@conlethbyrne4809 5 ай бұрын

I like it but am not sure of radios etc. I think there is a sound enhancement in SimMarket as it is fairly quiet. Really enjoyed the video, great landing. I'll do well starting it up. lol. Slainte, JB

@yams900 Жыл бұрын

You've done well Jon ! I love this one, because it's so different and complex...so hard to learn and master, good value for the money, though

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

Yep - it's difficult enough that you need to practice it, and know it - unlike the modern airliners, where having half-a-clue gets you a long way :)

@GumperVanLier Жыл бұрын

What a long body this airliner has. The wings are towards the back and the engines in the rear. You wonder how it actually flies but I'm not an engineer. Interesting and complex cockpit. Very entertaining and informative video. Thanks.

@patrickunderwood5662 Жыл бұрын

Not an engineer either but, engines are heavy-so when they are mounted at the rear, the wing has to move aft to keep the center of lift balanced correctly against the center of gravity. It’s what makes the long MD-80s, ERJ-145 and other similar planes look so cool!

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

What Patrick said :)

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

Just watching this back, interesting to see I completely missed engaging the auto-pilot. That says volumes about saturating yourself with workload in an unfamiliar aircraft, and the effects of doing so.

@ronnyfischer3986 Жыл бұрын

I love this Plane and use it very often

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

It's great, isn't it.

@tonycervone6494 Жыл бұрын

Unlike real life pilots, we simmers go from aircraft to aircraft , thinking that we can maintain the degree of flying competence to make the flight uneventful. That's pretty much an impossible task. Then again, simming is about dreaming of flight without the cost and risk of the real thing.

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

And we get to go from plane to plane :) Real pilots, not so much :)

@Lone_GamerUK Жыл бұрын

I think I've come up with some merch T-Shirts for you: 👕 JB does MD "Looks, It's Doing It!", "Forgot the Landing Lights Again!" x 3 "I Want to See the Green Banana" "Get your Slats Out" Lovely & enjoyable as always - the MadDog loves it alarms doesn't it! 😜

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

It's great fun :)

@CliveDavis-jp4eh Жыл бұрын

Hi Jonathon, Thanks for another interesting video. I noticed that on the ILS chart its showing a 2.5 degree course offset which is probably why it didn't look right. A good hands-on approach well executed though.

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

Yes - I looked at the chart afterwards and noticed :)

@forthydollars Жыл бұрын

This is a handful for sure, isn't funny how we have sitting our most expensive airplane in msfs collecting dust? I myself am guilty as well of not flying this aircraft enough

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

I need to practice with it more - it's amazing how quickly the muscle memory and procedures vanish from your head.

@forthydollars Жыл бұрын

@Jonathan Beckett agreed but with a couple of flights everything comes again

@donaldholman9070 Жыл бұрын

The knobs on the windows..they were left over from the dce3!

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

Oh, the MD-80 family are all a bit odd. There is a fantastic youtube video with a real MD-82 pilot showing you around the cockpit.

@forthydollars Жыл бұрын

Jonathan I apologize for this type of question but I don't have access to my PC at the moment to see the specs but by chance do you know the range distance for this aircraft? I tried to make my flight plan from KIND KLAX in simbrief and right away got a red notification that the flight plan was out of range for this aircraft, I can swear that I did That flight before but I'm not 100% sure though, I'm I choosing the wrong aircraft type profile in Simbrief (md82) ? or maybe the CI parameters?

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

The stats in the menu say about 2300nm - I think it's capable of a LOT further though.

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

I've flown it (with a tailwind) from Halifax, Nova Scotia to London Heathrow in the past :)

@matthewulmer2511 Жыл бұрын

Greetings I have purchased and downloaded the latest MD80 by Leonardo. When I bring up the load manager it only shows the basic Maddog, nothing in MSFS2020. It keeps saying "waiting for Simulator" I did purchase the MD83 and 88. Idk how to activate it. My registration keys says incomplete when I enter it, also copied and pasted it with no luck. Any help would be great.

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

I would log a support call with them.

@maltimoto 11 ай бұрын

FTSIM soundpack is very good, better immersion

@am5362 Жыл бұрын

Is it better than the Rotate MD80 in XP?

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

No idea.

@am5362 Жыл бұрын

@@jonbeckett no worries and nice vid :)

@pilotboy2612 Жыл бұрын

The buttons and dials have just been sneezed all over the cockpit

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

Well... it pre-dates a lot of the modern aircraft - they were still figuring it all out.

@pilotboy2612 Жыл бұрын

@@jonbeckett Makes sense. The plane has a number of quirks like the whisky compass; it's behind the pilots and viewed with a mirror on the glare shield...

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

@@pilotboy2612 Yep - I know all about the compass - which isn't modelled in the Leonardo - but I guess you can't have everything :)

@rccosplay3249 Жыл бұрын

I wish there was a regular DC-9 available as this one way too long, looks almost unstable in the air? Just sayin' It don't look too good to me. Looks matter!

@jonbeckett Жыл бұрын

I don't know - it's kind of fun. I think it's nickname was the flying pencil :)