Hi Peter, nice video. A few observations from someone who is well versed in shared cockpit having done lots in the Majestic Q400. First a short intro Your Controls would have been useful for those of us who don’t know anything about the app. Your already aware of the audio level problem so I’ll leave that one. As far as I’m aware the whole idea of shared cockpit is to share the workload amongst the crew. My impression of watching this was that apart from a few radio calls and other minor operations your co-pilot had very little to do. You were reading the checklist, doing the flow, responding to yourself and doing most of the switch operations. Normal SOP would be for the PM to read the checklist and the PF to respond. You were doing flaps, gear, mixture, props, lights and heading select etc instead of asking the co-pilot to carry those items out leaving you to do the flying. I noticed your co-pilot connected to Vpilot as Observer when he was the one handling the comms, You should have been. Your ILS tracking was slightly compromised by you taking screen shots but that’s got nothing to do the shared cockpit so not relevant to this. All in all it’s a promising app and one I’m sure to have a go with myself. It’s a learning experience for all us sim pilots that are used to doing everything single handed. Learning to share responsibility is tricky and like most things needs practice. Looking forward to more of this kind of content.
@PeterMatthess7 күн бұрын
Thanks Ian, yes Marvin wasn't confident on flying the DC-3 so thats why we split up the tasks the way we did. But I hope to get into the meat of proper shared responsibility like you say. The good thing about Your Controls is that is INCREDIBLY easy to setup, just a few clicks and your done. None of the difficulty of port numbers and IP addresses like the Majestic. And sometimes getting un-synced, although you did see on approach how Marvin disconnected and reconnected in the air without being kicked and not getting back onto the flight deck, which I think is really good. We could have flown a lot more by the book but neither of us were used to shared cockpit in a long time so decided to play it loosey-goosey on this one
@PeterMatthess7 күн бұрын
would be delighted to have your company in the DC-3 on MSFS shared cockpit!!
@MajorFlawes10 күн бұрын
Nice video, was that the stock dc3 or were you using the duckworks mod? I may try to brave vatsim if the duckworks mod works in yourcintrols 😊
@PeterMatthess10 күн бұрын
@@MajorFlawes yes this was the duckworths mod on vatsim using your controls, worked pretty flawlessly, the only thing that’s not visually synced was the cowl flap controls, but you could see that the cowl flaps were actually synced when you looked out of the window
@MajorFlawes10 күн бұрын
@@PeterMatthess fantastic! Thanks
@colinboone99208 күн бұрын
Killer! Love it!
@relaxwithgriffin539312 күн бұрын
Would be nice to fly with you again
@PeterMatthess11 күн бұрын
@@relaxwithgriffin5393 would happily do so! The server is fixed with the recent hot fix for the ewr, join my discord and we can arrange a time
@relaxwithgriffin539312 күн бұрын
Cherubs - 100's of feet
@Tom-qf3mq22 күн бұрын
How on Earth do you know what supplies to pickup, where to pick them up from, and where to deliver them to? This is the part I'm unable to figure out.
@PeterMatthess22 күн бұрын
@@Tom-qf3mq can’t remember as it’s been a while since I did this video sorry
@PeterMatthess25 күн бұрын
For some reason the livestream ended prematurely - but my final thoughts can be seen in the details
@flyomaАй бұрын
Yes, that's a urinal.
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
lol yea, it just looked weird!
@BaronFlyingClubАй бұрын
I ran my flying school at Shoreham. That was where I met my wife. Subscribed.
@TonyMonyPonyАй бұрын
I think you would be very satisfied flying the Felis 742 in X-plane 12. I know I am.
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
Yea I have seen that! To be fair buying into xp12 is not on the cards for me, especially as msfs2024 is coming out with apparently full compatibility with all the addons I currently have. We just need devs to realise that ppl actually do enjoy flying vintage aircraft!!
@TonyMonyPonyАй бұрын
@@PeterMatthess things are not looking to go in that direction unfortunately. I had hoped A2A would have announced the Connie or another vintage airliner by now but they seem to take path in another direction.
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
@@TonyMonyPony I’ve heard they want to fill out their lineup with aircraft that they can actually get their hands on to fly and test in real life before they do aircraft that they don’t have the opportunity to real world test. Sad but that’s the way it is
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
I’m just amazed that apparently we are getting a 707 NEXT WEEK for MSFS and we’ve not seen any video footage of it yet, just ONE bad foto in a crappy fictional garish livery. I will be going in completely blind but I’ll be giving it a rigorous review on the channel
@captwozza4817Ай бұрын
I know there are companies saying there is no interest in vintage airliners, yet most summers I talk to are gagging for 707s, BAC1-11s, DC-10s etc. Really hoping this 707 will be one of AH’s better products. They’ve been supposedly working on it for quite a while… Love the F28: looking forward to the F70 & F100. I reckon the PMDG is the B747-400. Think they mentioned it a few months back. Just discovered your content and really enjoying it!
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
Thanks for the message Wozza, yea I don’t know if the PMDG 747 is as far along. I think if they’ve already stated that’s the next thing in the pipeline, I don’t know why they would then call it a ‘secret project’. But yea, the 747 will be beautiful, far prefer it over the 777. Which everyone is raving about but it’s so close to the 787 to me that I’m still on the fence. Yea I’m quite sceptical about this 707, especially after hearing that AH are bringing the CIVA INS to the aircraft after launch as a separate addon. Which is ridiculous
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
'we have letters of agreement to keep with the neighbours' is as far as I can make out what the ATC controller said as a reason why I couldn't fly an RNAV aircraft on VATSIM. Have absolutely NO idea what that means lol
@PBRCN-br5svАй бұрын
hi Peter, great video! l love the Comanche! question: how did you manage the carb temp at those altitudes? carb heat bursts from time to time..? l have experiemced iceing at lower altitudes.. ahah you just aswered that in the video while l was typing )
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
never heard of carb heat 'bursting' as such. just be careful not to fly through any moisture at high altitude! maybe if your cruising close to moisture whack in 10% carb de icing just to be safe, especially if your afk in cruise! I've come back to a comanche in it's death throes descending into the side of the Alps before
@PBRCN-br5svАй бұрын
@@PeterMatthess yes exactly, l meant “quick bursts” of carb heater to de-ice. my world-trip comanche has 60h of service right now but l also experienced a baaaad situation over the alps )))
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
@@PBRCN-br5sv ah right! yea quick bursts is all you need, but if your afk in cruise for a while leave it on 10% or something to gradually burn off any ice if there is accumulation over time in cruise. I'm on the last few legs of my world tour right now, arrival in BIKF in a few hours going eastbound across the Atlantic, you can see me on volanta
@jbnb3342Ай бұрын
That was a fun video.✅I am curious as to how you get the group communication like this? Is it discord ? …or?
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
we were just using the server discord
@jbnb3342Ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess 😎
@MrAndersonHimselfАй бұрын
Fantastic video!
@AdamJPestridgeАй бұрын
Orbit Airlines as well as the livery for the 707 😂
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
I KNOW RIGHT???
@RoverAirlinesАй бұрын
Im also looking foward to the 707. I was looking for an older but more known plane. I hope its free or cheap but still ok quality.
@PeterMatthessАй бұрын
It will be a small price like the rest of them, and it will need modding to become good, that’s my thoughts at the moment, I know Aeroplane Heaven too well at this point to expect anything more, but the duckworths mode for their DC-3 fills me with hope that a modded will come along and sort it out!
@postm3n2 ай бұрын
Hey Peter, What HOTAS/Yoke are you using? Nice video! Learned a lot.
@PeterMatthess2 ай бұрын
Thanks, I have the thrust master warthog A-10 stick with a couple of sauté throttle quadrants setup for twin engine control, and some nice rudder pedals
@saxx0012 ай бұрын
Stamfordian, Queen of the East,
@aprendoespanol68332 ай бұрын
do you know when it stopped being an international airport? That's what it was when current terminal building was built in 1936
@PeterMatthess2 ай бұрын
excellent 😀
@Itswelshy863 ай бұрын
How do you get the beep while transmitting on vatsim please.
@jakew98873 ай бұрын
Great presentation. Thanks
@CJamesGoode3 ай бұрын
Good Video, very informative.
@PeterMatthess3 ай бұрын
Apologies for the popping sound that only manifested on this last final render! It’s due to da Vinci resolve ‘de esser’ effect which I applied last minute to try and help handle the sibilance.
@craigwilson99463 ай бұрын
Still holds up very well these guides. I have reinstalled FSX due to nostalgia and a post uni treat and since I had a few of these payware mods sitting in file storage, thought I would start with the 377. And my god is it a somewhat steep learning curve to come straight back into. But it is rewarding to get it right
@PeterMatthess3 ай бұрын
yea I reinstalled P3Dv3 recently, and flew quite a few legs until I got annoyed at how much P3Dv3 crashed on me, now im back waiting for them to give us an airliner in MSFS
@josephinestecak49453 ай бұрын
I lived on a farm Nr. Wisbech, Cambrideshire from 9 - 23. Riding my horse between fields and dykes! Lovely memories! 1963 - 1977.
@jsmr4513 ай бұрын
You retract the flaps. Not bring them in. Are they in the cockpit with you?
@PeterMatthess3 ай бұрын
sorry im not sure I understand what your saying?
@jsmr4513 ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess You said lets bring the flaps in. But you don't actually 'bring them in'. They wouldn't fit in the cockpit. You raise or retract the flaps.
@PeterMatthess3 ай бұрын
@@jsmr451ah I see your point, yes it’s just a way of speaking, technically you do not bring them in, but in the sense that you are ‘bringing them up to fit into the wing without disrupting the airflow’
@jsmr4513 ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess Just playing around. Nice vid. 👌
@MrAndersonHimself3 ай бұрын
Awesome! Love the DC-6!
@markparry633 ай бұрын
Fantastic to see a classic jet airliner. Nice one Peter. Would have enjoyed even more if it was a daylight flight.
@PeterMatthess3 ай бұрын
there will be more coming up! I'm currently getting my brain bent around the VC10 in P3Dv4.
@markparry633 ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess oh wow! I can hardly wait.
@Uajd-hb1qs4 ай бұрын
Alongside the Avro 146, this is the other little airliner I’m addicted to in MSFS. Something about the small regional liners I prefer. I also very much appreciate your preference for the older systems and steam gauges, only you have done extensive flights in vintage airliners and I can’t get enough of it.
@PeterMatthess4 ай бұрын
thanks yea, i love the commercial vintage airliners, ive now reinstalled P3Dv4 to fly some of them that you just can't get in MSFS yet
@Uajd-hb1qs4 ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess Awesome 👍
@CJamesGoode4 ай бұрын
Sorry I missed this live.
@Uajd-hb1qs4 ай бұрын
I’m from the dark, murky past lol. I watched your tutorials for the B377 when I was 15, when they were only about a year old. I’m 25 now. 😄
@PeterMatthess4 ай бұрын
heyyy!!! yo dude. Thanks for messaging. Good to hear someone around here remembers those videos lol. They were bad, but I've stuck with in this past decade and I'm still enjoying flying.
@Uajd-hb1qs4 ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess Haha, I certainly wouldn’t call them bad, except the frame rate but that was a normal frame rate back then lol.
@davidtsw4 ай бұрын
This is a very informative video and it's a shame you're not doing more of these. Orbx Shoreham is looking pretty good too, think I'll pick it up on sale now and fly the brilliant Da42 out of here.
@PeterMatthess4 ай бұрын
In fact, I’m in production on the next video, which will be Exeter Airport, I’ve just been horrendously busy these last few months, I’ve gone from being fulltime employed, to fulltime self employed which has been a big thing. I hope soon to get the next PPL Training video out there, then resume production on the Exeter video, thanks for your interest!
@beausbargarage62134 ай бұрын
my lord that was a long time to get going
@PeterMatthess4 ай бұрын
with the takeoff at 29mins, thats actually quite good for me!
@philiptaylor23664 ай бұрын
Great video! Are you using head tracking to be able to navigate round the cockpit like that?
@PeterMatthess4 ай бұрын
Yes TrackIR 5
@user-zq2pw8xv7f4 ай бұрын
People of order
@markparry635 ай бұрын
Hello again Pete. I thought this was an evening flight given the dark at Manchester lol! Really enjoyed this video, as i do all your flights. Are you not interested in flying British airliners? Viscount, HS748, Britannia et al?
@PeterMatthess5 ай бұрын
yes I would love to fly more british airliners, of a certain time period yes
@romanticatt5 ай бұрын
Hello, could you tell us what pushback addon you used in the video?
@PeterMatthess5 ай бұрын
just the freeware pushback tool you can find on flightsim.to
@romanticatt5 ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess ahhhh thanks it looked very promising, I'll go look it up. btw love ur vids keep up the good work
@PeterMatthess5 ай бұрын
@@romanticatt thanks!
@markparry635 ай бұрын
Hello Peter, she is a beauty isn't she? Do you know what the two bungee cords above the instrument panel are for and what is the large wheel in-between them?
@PeterMatthess5 ай бұрын
good questions! The bungie cords are to hold the compass as still as possible, in these old prop liners there was a lot more vibration than in jets. So being able to read the compass properly was important! And then the big horizontal wheel in between them on the top of the dash is the rudder trim
@markparry635 ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess thanks mate 👍
@sonicgazellepilot5 ай бұрын
Accidently found your channel, there aren´t many sources for learning VFR. Your channel is just great !
@PeterMatthess5 ай бұрын
glad it could be helpful! yea not many ppl doing VFR on vatsim these days. Hopefully you can learn how not to make my mistakes 🤣
@PeterMatthess5 ай бұрын
dude im just realising how old this video is.... lol
@sonicgazellepilot5 ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess still applicable, not sure yet if we always need to mention a VRP (Visual reporting point) when requesting flight clearance. I just say "Request VFR as filed" 😂
@AlexJ.Goldsmith5 ай бұрын
Love this, mate. Thx for sharing.
@jacquesdemolay26995 ай бұрын
Another point you missed is this modern idea of "class" -- humm - humm - No ! it did not apply then - 1 class only - and not a cheap one -- you paid the price but you had quite an experience -- I mean ALL the passengers had very much the same level of service. as I said to my other comment - the layout were polymorphic and could be changed like night and day for ALL passengers. You should lookup and cross section diagram of the aircraft to understand how it is compartementalised.
@PeterMatthess5 ай бұрын
oh yea I'm aware, I may not have talked about it though in the video, people back then paid what it cost and got the service. No multi-class layouts back then
@jacquesdemolay26995 ай бұрын
stratocruiser had the flexibility to change layout for day and for night - something difficult to imagine today as everything today is made to be fixed. bunk beds would unfold at night and tables would recoil and fold, etc. quite a forgotten feat.
@PeterMatthess5 ай бұрын
we sorely need more vintage airliners for MSFS. Everything from the B377 right up through the 707/DC8/VC10 - the pre GPS based airliners. Sadly though so many people don't want the workload of flying them for longhaul
@sonicgazellepilot6 ай бұрын
Finaly a good video on a cessna 152 VATSIM, big hugs !
@markparry636 ай бұрын
Pete was your Dad in the USAAF during the war or did he fly Forts for the RAF? If RAF he wouldn't have been a LOO tennant and you could pilot a B17 As a 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, Captain, Major even both Colonel ranks. On occasion even Brig Generals could fly them as group commander. You use a lot of Yank speak such as LOO tennant and Lever instead of LEE ver. Bloody annoying coming from an Englishman!
@PeterMatthess6 ай бұрын
I’m half English-half American which is why I cross over into American-speak every now and then, I’m a bit messed up that way. So my grandfather was in the 379th, but I was born in England. My grandfather flew from Kimbokton in England from around late 43/44 into the end of the war, missions all across Germany
@markparry636 ай бұрын
@@PeterMatthess Brave men, all of them.
@markparry636 ай бұрын
Another question if I may? I'm extremely ignorant of the Flight Sim world. Do they have or plan to introduce airliners of the inter-war years? Classic aeroplanes like the HP42, the Fw Condor, Boeing 247 crisingvthe skies again. Or the Magnificent flying boats of Boeing and Shorts. One could try to recreate the first non stop transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown in a Vickers Vimy! 🙏
@PeterMatthess6 ай бұрын
Good question! So the P3D sim has the Lockheed Constellation L-049 from A2A SImulations. PMDG has the DC-6. There is a B247 in the newer MSFS sim. Personally I've moved on from P3D to MSFS completely now.
@markparry636 ай бұрын
Hello Pete, another great video mate. Innsbruck looked beautiful as does the Connie. When you fly offline does the sim provide an AI ATC?
@PeterMatthess6 ай бұрын
no if I fly offline its usually without other aircraft or ATC. But I generally don't do youtube content of offline flying
@markparry636 ай бұрын
Particularly enjoyed this vid as my Dad jumped from C47 Dakotas during WW2. Nice one Pete 👍
@facethefaceandmore446 ай бұрын
Sorry to be that guy, but you forgot the prop governor check x3 on the engine run up just before you put it to 1500 rpm. Edit: also fuel pump comes off at 1000 feet AGL.
@PeterMatthess6 ай бұрын
yea i always manage to make it above 1000ft agl before I take off the pumps, and that prop govenor check I will pay atention to in the future! thanks
@ShadowAlmighty6 ай бұрын
Great video! So they only made a portion of the port wing and one engine in the mock up? One of my favorite aircraft! Thanks for doing this.
@PeterMatthess6 ай бұрын
yea they didn't have the room there to make both wings to their fullest extent