when I did that flight sim game on my iPad last year I had one or two people
leaving comments saying can you please play X plane 11 so Kelsey plays X plane
11 coming up hay 74 crew welcome back if you don't know me my name is
Kelsey I'm a 747 pilot by channel 74 gear is all about aviation last year
someone had left a comment asking me if I can download this app and play this
flight team game in my iPad and I thought that's 5 bucks why not and after
I did that video I had a lot of people commenting asking if I could play a
bunch of different games one of the ones that I got a lot of comments on was X
plane 11 so I jumped online for the 74 crew ordered all the different
things I thought I was gonna need in order to make this video so now you're
gonna see my first few landings on X plane 11 let's get into it I downloaded
everything and I've set it all up and I believe I got it set up to do the ILS
I'm flying on a 6 left into LAX which is going to be actually my new base and I
have loaded everything up - oh it just grabbed the localizer I guess I've
loaded everything up so that way it will come in bound and I don't know if this
thing can auto land like the normal plane that we do I'll be honest I put it
on a 10 mile final it took me so long to figure out how to get it on there I
actually went into the explain forum to ask someone about how to get it out here
because I didn't want to keep having to do do a pattern work on this so I got it
set up there and now I'm gonna come in on the autopilot and we're gonna see if
it's going to grab everything and actually take it in and land it I have
so far it seems we're doing a pretty cool thing I I should tell you I'm not
sponsored by X plane or anybody else I bought this yoke and if you're curious
to all the different things that I got in order to play this game I'll put a
link to it in the description below so you guys can check out what I got and so
I don't they explain it here while I
this looks like it's lining up on actually the wrong runway yeah this
looks like the wrong runway here so to get some of the flaps out I am really
high this is not the right runway this is not coming down all right so let me
get everything configured here this is totally not a stable approach oh babe
nothing like a face full of the seat as you coming in to lay it let's go ahead
and roll it out here take the autopilot off all right so that's definitely the
wrong runway we are definitely low I'm gonna have to get it over here
this is not ideal all right now I got this all right come on back come on
no that's gonna be a wicked straight
oh you can steer on the ground with your yoke just for all you that are wondering
that's not how it actually works in real life all right let's see how this looks
on the replay I don't think this is gonna be a very good landing that looks
good I'm fully configured for totally the wrong runway and then sliding over
now in real life sometimes they'll actually have you slide over usually not
that close but I've had them do it usually not in the seven-four either but
on smaller jets I've had them asked to slide over runway so that's not too
uncommon but that whoa that right wing tip is way too low yeah that's
definitely I'm pretty sure I would have struck an engine if I did that one thing
about flying heavy jets is you always want to have the wings level always when
you land because obviously if you have a pod strike that's gonna be a big deal
all right well at least I finished in the middle of the runway let's see a
different angle I'm gonna see a different angle from the runway I see if
I can load that up
all right this is actually pretty cool you get to see all these different
angles at least I made it to the runway this is the better start that I might I
played that other sim game so this is pretty cool yeah no that's way too heavy
of a bank coming in but that's a really cool shot though isn't it let's see if I
have a oh it doesn't show but I'm pretty sure that would be an engine strike for
sure we call it a pod strike I'm sure that's what would have happened
all right so since it did work really well I'm gonna try to dis hand fly it in
and see if that goes better because that for some reason it was lining up on the
wrong runway I don't know why and it didn't catch the glide slope I know how
it works on the real plane but for some reason I couldn't get it to activate on
here I don't know if it does out of land this is like my second day messing with
this so I got to see how it all works but it's pretty fun actually flying with
this yoke and stuff it's pretty cool all right let's do it again I'm gonna hand
fly it let's see how this time messes with all these
different settings and I found this one where it takes you around the whole
plane that's pretty cool I'm all configured up ready - well I'm not
configured but I've got the gear down and we ryan ban it was I set it on a
ten-mile final coming in and while most of you know I don't fly for United I
have flown some of their 747 so it's actually pretty pretty cool they have a
little bit of a different setup than some of the other plans that we fly let
me get us back in here alright so there's been some things that on that
last one that didn't seem to work out quite right and the reality is I don't
know if it's me messing up how it's supposed to be done or it's actually the
game isn't set up for all the same features that we have on the actual
plane so we'll just do a little hand fly in here and see how this goes and
hopefully it ends better and I selected it again same thing six left because we
don't normally land this way normally we end up taking off this way mostly
because the noise noise the baby boys abatement coming out they want it to be
as quiet as possible and so we take off over the water and we usually we land
coming in over the water
this is pretty fun though for for any of you guys that play this I mean I got
this yoke and you know I've been using this keyboard for the power settings
it's not quite as good but I got this yoke in it you could do a lot of stuff
you can do the gear and flaps and all that stuff with all the different
buttons on here it's actually pretty cool but it looks like you know I've got
it trimmed out coming in here and we're lined up for the right runway gears down
flaps down and I'm sure there's a way to get that checklist out I actually I
should probably see what the checklists are compared to what what they actually
are thing is is every airline is different as far as for what what your
checklist will be so there's no one standard for everybody it just depends
on on each individual airline but this is pretty fun if you if you're if you've
never flown a 747 before come this is actually a pretty good overall image of
what it looks like I'll have to mess around with some of the features and get
the see see how the with the FMS and how all that stuff works because when I was
messing with it earlier it wasn't doing what I want and part of it I don't know
if it's the computer or just I don't know how to program it correctly for
what this computer game wants me to do
but hey this is looking a lot better I don't know why it's shown me off track
this is a you know for those of you that get to play all these games you guys can
probably tell me how to do some of these things better as far as for programming
some of the different things within the FMS and some of the computer earth
camera angles and things like that because I have not messed with that yet
but overall this is pretty good and power setting looks good usually it's
around depending on your weight which I haven't quite figure out how to figure
that out yet but usually it's around 60 something percent is what you want to
come in on when you're fully configured and honestly that works out to be about
that for just about every plane you know you'll come in and you'll come in at
about that power setting so it's pretty nice keeps
it standard
we know a little bit off of the centerline and again I'm steering with
the yoke I guess I need to get rudder pedals too I mean I I can't really do
any like tight crosswind landings because of this I don't have anything to
do with my feet I'm just doing it all with my hands all right well that was
better let me let's check out that on a couple of replays and see see how it how
it went I think it was better though it looks a little bit low to me I think
we're a little low there so low were blowing out some of the dirt on the
approach end oh oh it looks like I may be bounced it a little bit all right
but it better starts in the first one let's see about coming in over here off
of the other runway
it looks pretty good except I'm really low I'm doing like a like what you see
some of the smaller aircraft do where you land really close to the numbers
normally don't land for that we normally go for the thousand footers this will be
a better angle where you can see how it's coming in and where I'm actually
landing at I really like these different camera angles though because you could
really see how did you do and you could probably have a bunch of like
competitions with your friends to see who can land oh yeah oh I definitely oh
and I bounced a little bit to see who can land that the best spot but these
different camera angles are really cool I'm really having fun with the flying
with this yoke and everything so I'm really enjoying this and I'm gonna stop
to the middle room I know it's the the speed brakes didn't come up I don't know
why they wouldn't come up though oh I didn't hit the reversers what idiot or
armed them I guess that's part of it I mean that's one thing when you have a
crew there's a normal rhythm and a flow that you get into normally when you land
the speed brakes are armed so as soon as those wheels touch up the the actual
speed brakes will come up or if you put the thrust reversers and they'll come up
and I don't know which button I'm supposed to do for the thrust reverser
so none of that came up and I've heard some gamers say things like oh you need
to have your thrust reversers and and your speed brakes a lot stuff because it
slows you down more and it actually doesn't especially on the Boeing
aircraft the auto brake system is actually what it is that slows it down
what happens is the thrust reversers and things like that actually help with not
making your brakes do all the work but as far as for your stopping distance
it's based off of your auto brakes I think it has nothing to do with your
thrust reverse so you could lead use no thrust reverse you're just gonna smoke
your brakes but you can land on a really short runway you use no thrust reverse
and your brakes are gonna land in the exact same distance or at least that's
what Boeing tells us all right let's try this one more time I've got two landings
and I haven't crashed yet so let's do this third one and see how it goes all
right so I got everything set up here again to the third one I brought up the
FMS and it's loading up there but for some reason I can't get bit to go direct
and Nathan that's really what you wanted to do is
you want to go direct to Nathan and then engage the L nav and it would actually
come in and then on the altitude it would grab the glide slope so I'm gonna
get some flaps out I pulled the speed brakes and I tried to
arm them it's showing fully extended which is not good but you see him and
they're fully extended there and I've got the outer brakes set but I armed the
speed brakes but I don't know if maybe that showing is armed in real life it's
just you pull it up and back just a little bit and it sits in this spot and
it shows armed but the way it is right now it's showing that's fully pulled
back and it would also show on that this screen right here if that was actually
happening it would show on that screen speed brakes so that I don't know if
that's me or it I'm not quite sure and you know I know this is not this is a
$60 game and it's not meant to be the same as a couple hundred million dollar
aircraft for the most part you're kind of you're getting a pretty good idea of
overall kind of what it looks like in there actually it's pretty realistic a
lot of the switches are all in the right spot so for me I'm pretty familiar and
comfortable with everything as far as for what way to look for the things that
I need so there are a few variants on different 747s but overall you know this
is actually pretty good and it's kind of cool flipping through these different
screens here now see again it's lining up here onto six right and I'm not sure
why it wants to go to that and that's honestly probably something that I'm
doing but it looks like everything set up here and that's got the auto brakes
to max and then yeah see it's not it's not continuing on I didn't know if maybe
it would just take a minute to process but I don't it's pretty cool all these
shortcuts you can do on the keyboard to give the different screens and the mouse
I mean I got a lot going on I guess it's time to head towards the runway
supposed to be answers wanna be be that guy landing on the wrong runway
one of these days I have a party and get my friend over here I have a landing
competition and see who can land better I think I need to practice a little bit
more at least so don't embarrass myself even though these are like my first
couple landings ever and I'm putting them on the internet but you know I
don't know seven four crew that's myself I'm actually headed up to recurrent next
week so if you guys are on the Instagram I'll show you some pictures of the
simulators that that we fly on it'll probably be on my stories more than
anything so this is not going where I want it to go this yoke is pretty cool I
mean the plane responds a little bit differently obviously like every plane
and obviously they can't make the game respond exactly like the plane does but
I'm going to get here and land and where's the key for the the speed break
thing oh look at me going off I think that's it and now I'm almost going off
the runway come on back to the runway there we go
well we landed all three legs none of them were really good but let's see what
some of these look like on the replay though I'm kind of curious to see how
this one looks like I think this is honestly one of the best angles I think
it's so cool to be able to see the plane from this angle obviously you can see I
got it all flaps all the way up to 30 which is nice
and it looks like oh I didn't pull the power back fast enough I really think I
need to get one of those throttles because I floated that thing but I made
it into the touchdown zone and that's the rule into the touchdown zone and
then obviously I'm going way off of the centerline here because I'm looking for
the button what actually happens in real life there is when you land the speed
brakes will come up right because they'll be armed and you'll have that
thrust reversers out and the other pilot will look down at the screens and say
speed breaks up versus normal so that way you'd know
without having to look away from what you're doing which is land and maybe
keep your cross one component in and keep yourself going down the runway with
the pedals the other pilot will let you know exactly what's going on so that's
what actually happens in real life you wouldn't be looking down if you were
ever flying the plane by yourself to don't know what scenario you'd be doing
it in alright let's see how the rest of these replays look I think this is
pretty cool angle to come in from the other side I'm picked up a little bit
high but a little bit it's a better descent rate yeah that's definitely a
better descent rate than what I did on the second one but the but I floated I
kept the power in too long yeah you can tell I'm kind of rocking the wings a
little bit you don't really want to be doing that you're just trying to
maintain the centerline but you can see I'm at a better descent rate and that's
probably why the plane didn't see if I pulled the power back at about 50 and I
cut off all the audio so that way I could talk to you guys I wasn't talking
over it but normally what you'll hear is about 50 and you pulled it pull it back
a little bit and then at about 20 I like to start pulling the powder all the way
back these landings weren't that great and I think part of the problem was is
that on one I pulled the power back too soon the other one I kept it in too long
but as far as for maintaining center line and things like this this yoke does
a pretty good job and obviously it's a lot better than moving around on your
iPad but if you've ever wondered why pilots have hard landings in real life
I'll put a link to it right here I look forward to hearing from you until then
keep the blue side up