This particular airplane SX-DAD has quite an interesting history, including having been hijacked once in the 60s. Its career continued until 1986 and it appears to have been in storage since.

You really don’t need to mess with the throttle like we do in the jets. You can keep the BMEP gauges around 80 with flaps 40. If you fall below the glide slope, reduce the flaps to 30 until you’re back on line. If you then get above the glide slope, go to flaps 50 to bring it down.. all without touching the throttle. It’s a bit of a balancing act. Really quite an incredible design feature since the piston engines don’t like lots of throttle changes. Glad you’re enjoying the airplane, though. It is quite a bit of fun learning to navigate the old fashioned way!

Waking up to nearly an hour of my favourite Airbus pilot flying *not* an Airbus; great way to start the morning!

Very nice looking retro plane in MSFS nice to see some older piston aircraft in the flight simulator great video!

Awesome video. I can't imagine the amount of work from modeling to coding that goes into each one of these plane models. Simply amazing.

Asobo should've hired these guys to do all of the planes in MSFS. Can't wait to see them do more!

Love how those engines PURRRR.... :) The DC6 was one of my favs back in the day.

Purchased this on release day. Had a quick chance to load her up into MSFS. Just had to listen to those engines. Sadly gardening and family put paid to getting airborne. I was really chuffed you had time to show us the DC-6 in all her glory, thank you. Huge respect to the PMDG team… simply stunning!

In the tutorials the PMDG person said that they were planning to add the smoke effects on engine start. Also the flap lever loks like the beak of a duck or goose.

Flew in one of theese in the 60' as a boy home from charter vacation in Italy. The crew could not start one of the engines and ran up and down the runway and used wind to get it going. We had to bord , engines running and a man became quite hysterical and demanded a parachute. Very upsetting if you are 9 years old. Came home in one piece, though. Feel old though looking at the technology.

Downloaded this today and flew earlier in VR with my GTX1070. And it was fab, good FPS (which for me on that GPU is 25 and up) and very impressive. Love it.

Great 1st look! My dad used to fly these in the US Navy during Korean War and after.

Great plane, great first impressions. It really is crying out for a Padday/Manta livery! Really looking forward to getting my teeth into this one and some future livestreams! Many thanks 👍

PMDG has 19 tutorials on this thing. About half done watching them, next thing I knew is I bought it.. 🤣🤣🤣 It is study level and something to goof with and enjoy. I didn't crash the second time I flew it...... Amazingly well designed...

PMDG are world class with their modelling. I loved the 737 800 & 900 in FSX. Payware but worth it.

A really excellent video, so nice to see top quality add-on aircraft starting to come out! One of the things I love about this channel is that while you are an Airbus pilot and do so much teaching about how the A320/321 works, you're also not afraid to fly the 737-200, 757, A350, the 787 like in your last video, and in GA the Piper and so on- I guess the principles of flight apply whether you're in a Piper, this DC6, or a modern jet like the A350 / B787.... Keep up the good work, and give the FO some Dreamies for me :)

You chose SX-DAD because ... it's Father's Day!

Great video mate! You're very easy to listen to and very informative. I bought the DC-6 last night and spent an hour trying to get an engine started but to no avail. I followed your method exactly but my engines would start under the boost pump but would just cut out after 5 seconds. Presumably this is fuel not working but I tried with the fuel leaver both lean and rich. Cheers

Great video... This just looks like a stunning aircraft to fly and I can’t wait to do some flights between Brisbane and Sydney/Melbourne 🇦🇺🤙

Excellent demonstration, professionally done. Aircraft is so well presented and I love flying it. Will try an ILS approach next which is very well domonstrated. Well done.

Nobody can resist Pan Am. First livery I used for this was the Pan Am one. Looking forward to some flights down to the Caribbean.

This is so beautiful, i'm glad my graphics card is capable of playing back this video !

I jump on this airplane like 30 min ago my jaw still on the ground They could sell this 120 I would not even care ! This is a stunning model !!!

Nice Flying!!! Think i will wait for the PMDG B737-777-747. Thanks for a very nice vidoe!!

Fantastic in-depth review. This really looks like a wonderful addon and I think I'll be buying it when payday comes around :)

Love the dc6, a few of them here at my home airfield (FAGM) and a few dc4's, one still flying ! Lots of cats at the airfield too, they must like the radial engines ? Haha

I've just bought this, I can't wait to try it out.

16:01 Awww, you got a fluffy co-pilot.

love the level of detail on an older aircraft :) looking forward to there 737 ive heard they are working on. was the registration a nod for fathers day? lol

Very informative, thank you!

Been waiting for this one🥳

The video i have been waiting for :D Incredible aircraft, just so hard to land lol

Had my first flight in this b autiful aeroplane today. I think I broke the link to the gyro-pilot at some point as couldn't turn it off! Really looking forward to learning this one in lots more detail. Thanks for another great video which helped tick a few questions off the list!

A great add-on aircraft. 👍

Thumbs up for the Olympic livery !!! Greetings from Greece !

BRAVO Sir !!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you very much.

Super coooool!!!

Great video of my home town!

Love this plane but I don't see how I could ever fly it. Happy to watch you do it!!

16:11 my favourite part 😂

Thank you sir! I subscribed!

Great livery !

When the effects system arrives with the Xbox release I am really hoping PMDG is quick to add the smoke to those radials. The smoke and angry growling is what makes watching these monsters start so cool.

What a fun video

Great video!

Fantastic vid thanks really enjoyable. Hope one of the third party software outfits do a VC10 simulation, now there's a real retro gem..

Very nice.

PMDG added a video for energy management on final. Go and have a look I think you'll find it relevant. I think you should have been more like 110 @ flaps 50 on touchdown.

i love your content mate

Thank you for this. excellent Video...as always. Do you use a replay tool? which one?

Awesome plane. I love these older planes. Imagine if someone created concorde? That would be amazing!

to center the gyro pilot you can just click the click spot in front of it.

I think the touchdown speed speed is around 100 - 110 knots. And I never seen prop reverse on taxi but always after touchdown. Taxi would be ordinary pushback. In those times there were ramps only so the planes would have the “gate” on the left side and did not need pushback.

For reference, the gyropilot has roll center button on top of the black wheel.

comment for the algorithm. great plane and vid

Love the South African (afrikaans) accent of the engineer.

Quick question mate. If the engineer is controlling the throttles, where do you put your physical throttles? Do you leave them at idle? Half way? Full throttle? EDIT: @40:00 I think you answered my question. It doesn't matter where you have your physical throttles as the Simulator takes full control, locking you out. When you take out the engineer you get full control back. This is genius. PMDG knocked it out of the park, and across the continent with the DC6. I'm blown away. They have firmly moved the goal posts, and put all other developers front and centre. There can be no more excuses now about the SDK.

takes a real chad to be able to fly this = SX-DAD

What, no brake-to-vacate? 🤣 They have done a superb job, as we expect from PMDG.

28:01 Why does the mountain in the background look like a plane? 🤣🤣🤣

I only need one thing . The original Olympic dc6 livery was in a darker blue and the letter on the wings were black

Dear 320 Sim Pilot, may I ask, how did you do the long flyby shot at the start of this video ?

what do you think about the flight model? Pmdg import its own flight model or use the flight model of msfs 2020?

Great video. Is this one from PDMG considered study-level ?

Can we buy this soon also inside the flight simulator store it self?

You can click on the coin-like button between the red and blue lights of the giro-pilot to center the turning-knob... They did not show this on the tutorials-video's of PMDG(?)

Nice tail number for fathers day

What do you use for replay?

Are you using the drone for the fly over in the begining??

love the dc6, just wish msfs would add a bit more immersion especially on landing as its dead smooth on the way to the runway and butter smooth rolling down the runway to final.. should be bumping about, rattling, seats squeaking :) etc as its a 70 year old plane.. goto youtube and search : DC-6 Final Approach & Landing - Cockpit View

What is your pc spec this look so beautiful...

Great plane, great video. Thanks. Oh, but the ads are a bit over the top, every few minites. 😎

You usually have aradial engine runnign at about 1000 rpm when just sitting on the apron. Also you do not idle a radial. it is really bad for the engine. Also the really bad vibrations is called harmonising. This damages the engines really badly.

dieses flugzeug mit GSX :)

Believe it or not full flap of 50 is to be set for landing. Other than that nice job, it's a lot to take in for sure and im sure after a few flights you will be ahead of thr curve

Please tell me I am not the only one who waited till there third flight before removing the gust lock! No, just me then. 😂

The engine start order is 3 4 2 1.

How did those planes navigate when crossing the Atlantic before GPS was implemented? Only using the compass?

Does the fuel/load manager actually change the weight and fuel in the sim itself or just on the tablet?

Visual model is quite low res, seems they just ported it across.

Where can you download the plane?

Nice video, how to see the replay of the landing in the game? How do I do that?

what playback mod you are using plz?

How can I get the subtitles when the mouse is on an instrument to be black and simple like yours? Edit: I mean the tooltips

fully functional?? as in xplane?

Hello, can pmdg dc6 control by xbox controller? thank you

watch the tutorial videos from the dev at PMDG. 😉

Indiana Jones theme song playing in my head for some reason...

As nice an aircraft it is I do wonder why they prioritised this aircraft over their more popular aircraft such as the 737 I know there’s probably a reason but couldn’t tell you why

I've tried it a few times now in tutorial 1, I don't know what I am doing wrong but I have only been able to get to get it to lock onto the Localiser and follow the ILS once. I dunno if the tutorial is weirdly worded, out of order, its missing something or if something is bugging in the sim or if I am missing something but after you do the descent and do the turn to HDG 020 it just doesn't re-engage when you switch the Gyro back to Localiser and the CDI needles just stay and don't move. Even if I force it to turn and head over to the airport following the track on the GPS and the CDI needles show it it just doesn't capture, even if the GPS is set to VLOC with the correct frequency active, have the AP set to Approach and the needles are moving about on the CDI.

I can't get an answer to this question. Does this aircraft have a heading bug?

So where did they hide the DME?

The only thing about PMDG is that they make their models look way too good they should included a beat up version of those deliveries, just a bit more of ware and tear.

Am I the only one who thinks that the AI flight engineer sounds like Boba Fett from Star Wars?

11:10 ReVeRsE

Doesnt Buffalo Air fly the DC-6?

how do you change views like that

Please can you write your pc specs?

A good pilot will always take the full runway for take off. Come on old chap don't let standards slip :)

Maybe you can make a suggestion 2 PDMG 2 lower their prices.