A Realistic NIGHTMARE in Microsoft Flight Simulator (with ATC) Random Autopilot Failure

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Delta Air Lines flight 1506, Airbus A320neo service from Minneapolis Int'l Airport (KMSP) to Chicago O'Hare (KORD) on the VATSIM network in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Auto-rudder and auto-pilot team up to make me look incoherently drunk as I fly one of the worst ILS approaches ever recorded. God bless air traffic control.
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[@HR_Racc]

LOL those cuts to the passenger reactions to the Tom foolery being committed are amazing.

[@Bassotronics]

Freakin hilarious!

[@JD-lh2ve]

I love how they are specific, I like to think he is just in a closet yelling these and then auto tuning the hell out of them

[@HR_Racc]

@@JD-lh2ve my favorite ones were the spirit airlines video, and the tail strike takeoff one.

[@MrJest2]

I love the chaos in the cabin... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ThraceVega]

The dedication to the running joke is admirable, and I hope he keeps doing it.

[@richardr2389]

4:59: "Oh, hell no. You better turn this thing around. This pilot's drunk." Gold. 😂

[@theog700]

Fr 😂😂

[@JamesDavis-mm2mi]

I died at the first one “what the hell happened back there? This muh fucka hit a speed bump?”

[@Yamato-tp2kf]

I loved that one a lot!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@bubbalewis84]

Absolutely sent me 😭

[@Engbob123]

One of the main reason I love Airforceproud95.... Immersive 😂

[@milleniumsword1558]

Gotta be fun when your Flying and you suddenlly hear the Pilot saying "Hold on let me call a real Pilot"

[@ruatonim]

Warning, Pilot Trial has expired.

[@oldRighty1]

It's probably similar to the phone they have to call company ops.

[@exitmygamekid3007]

True Affordablehealthcare22 behavior.

[@TheIndoGod]

I'd Shit Myself 😂

[@BigTylt]

​@@oldRighty1 Company Ops: "IDK bro, just start turning stuff off and on again"

[@aviay]

1:04 only the best pilots go outside to see if their control surfaces are working

[@rubbishnubbish]

the power of the cameraman

[@ruatonim]

Selfie stick out the swing window.

[@corpsimmons575]

9:31 Alternate Law is a mode for the fly-by-Wire where it disables all stall protections (And any other automated protections) due to disagreeing speed/AOA data. Basically, when in alternate law, the flight computer will no longer push the nose down automatically to prevent a stall, nor will it stop you from pulling up INTO a stall.

[@dinguslopper]

Yep, and IIRC failure to understand this is a large reason why Air France 447 crashed. Iced pitot tube led to computer disconnecting autopilot and switching to alternate control law. The co-pilot didn’t realize he was repeatedly stalling the aircraft due to his belief that the flight computer wouldn’t let this happen- which would’ve been true if the system weren’t operating under alternate law. That investigation was such a fascinating lesson in the complex interplay between human factors and automation… it just really sucks that 228 people died before we learned it.

[@mugfordbydesign]

Holy shit I was literally just watching the Mentour Pilot video on this

[@WiiPetUwU]

Now I want to see him handel the plane in direct law UwU

[@donborvio]

@@dinguslopper So MSFS emulates the frozen pitot tubes in cold/winter conditions? That's neat. So there should be a defrost function now to fix this in game as well?

[@TheMightyHams]

@@donborvio I think FBW are more to commend for this than MSFS. Frozen pitot tubes and the resultant effects on flight systems are definitely something that was coded specifically into the A320 model rather than hardcoded into the engine. The aircraft also has anti-ice as shown at 3:00

[@Zebra_M]

This is a beautiful train (plane?) wreck of a flight. Also loved that you called an actual pilot for tech support, and that the answer was basically "try turning it off and on again"

[@n35ql]

And he wasn't wrong. Last resort would be to reset the circuit breakers, but some parts of the computation systems can only be reset on ground, or as a really last resort, because they reset themselves, messing up the computations systems making things worse.

[@LordDragox412]

We all know that the real solution to the problem would be percussion maintenance. Even an autopilot will tremble in front of the might of a chancla.

[@P51Princess]

I like eating trlns

[@NotTheRambo]

@@n35ql Resetting the circuit breakers reminds me of something and it isn't good.

[@n35ql]

@@NotTheRambo What do you mean?

[@bryces8153]

I really love when you break out of the clouds and just admire the beauty of this game. As a person that has been watching since high speed hot air balloon passings in FSX, I'd have to agree that we've come VERY FAR. Thanks for the fun videos AirBudDad66

[@AccAkut1987]

I've been flying in the MS Flightsim since 2000... it's incredible how far things went and what data masses our computers just swallow these days. I still got an install of the FS2002 on my harddrive, it really does not like modern hardware, getting like 30 fps with... well, 2002 optics. Meanwhile I run the MSFS, high graphics settings, at double that, with the PC using no more than 150 Watts.

[@Dorraj]

I have 0 interest in flight sim in actuality, but when I had gamepass and MSF actually worked, I would just sit at an airport and have autopilot (attempt to) bring me from one place to another just to enjoy how amazingly beautiful the game was. It was always breathtaking looking at the clouds.

[@kingoftheroses]

I spend a lot of time flying in VR and this game invokes the same feelings of awe as real life. It’s weird to experience a deeply beautiful vista but not be able to share the story of the experience with others because it’s not real. It’s oddly lonely.

[@thecman26]

I actually miss seeing the hot air balloons sliding bye at 200 knots!

[@alekshewitt]

NB4 High Speed Balloon as well.

[@michaelthelen7505]

Today I realized that my auto-rudder has been unintentionally on, too. I’ve been wondering why the plane has been impossible to control on the ground. Thanks for that, lol

[@kokoeteantigha389]

By the beard of my sainted aunt, that has to be what's messing up my approaches!! First thing I'm checking next time I power up the Sim.

[@shinkicker404]

… God dammit, how did that turn back on.

[@giantpickle]

@@shinkicker404 A bunch of the settings seem to randomly change with updates. Had MSFS disable my online connectivity settings during on eof the first few updates (4 or 6, I think) which led to a very big headache.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

What I don't understand is why Auto Rudder doesn't well AUTO rudder. Like if I don't have a rudder (sometimes I like to just grab a stick at main my PC and fly), the auto rudder won't actually keep you on centerline on its own.

[@Demonslayer20111]

@@JohnVanderbeck even with auto rudder, the rudder axis is so damn sensitive you almost lose control half the time anyway. And nope, turning sensitivity down, and increasing the deadzone does absolutely nothing to fix that.

[@harvestbirdy]

The passengers reactions were great and the screaming from the passengers of the other Delta flight at the start was hilarious xD

[@reubenlaoagan7598]

1:47 Terrain Glitch 2:30 Passenger rant 1 4:58 Passenger rant 2 8:08 Autopilot Failure 8:28 Asking a real pilot 12:23 Passenger rant 3 14:40 Frustration lvl 7 and up

[@gamingplex2208]

Iv been watching this channel for so long, the new cabin passenger sounds are such a holy grail, that last spirit flight where they were fighting had me in bits😂😂😂.

[@infinitescream]

Imagine your pilot turning on the passenger intercom and saying "alright we're about to takeoff, bYe ByE!"

[@kxkdksnaofnd]

Or "I don't know what that is let me ask a real airline pilot real quick."

[@JoshuaPeisach]

that may have actually been me (see other comment), was on March 10th and callsign was MARIO7 or something. I remember it was at Minneapolis.

[@ohkaygoplay]

I've heard an LAX ATC actually say "ByeBye" after a pilot said "ByeBye." It was wholesome. :) Sometimes they get goofy and I love it when they do.

[@grantfinch22]

Good to see the pilot stay calm during all those glitches. Really speaks to the quality of his training.

[@evanscott6323]

4:05 TIP: Your life would be a bit easier if you setup the aircraft for takeoff. The TO Config checklist is displayed on the ECAM, and when you throttled up you didn't have the Autobrakes set to Max, and the spoilers weren't armed. Also, when you set power for takeoff, you left the levers in CLB, where they should be in FLX/MCT or TOGA (should be TOGA considering the state of the runway). Leaving them in climb wont engage the autothrust and there wont be any FD guidance for takeoff, not to mention severely reduced thrust. In fact, during the takeoff roll you can see a Level 2 alert on the ECAM for setting the thrust levers to TOGA. You can see after rotation the FD fell back to VS mode, but without A/THR on the plane has a good chance of overspeeding unless you either increase your climb rate or reduce thrust. 8:10 Clearly a sim hiccup, which threw off the computers and knocked you back into alternate law.

[@python.programmer5567]

why would you arm spoilers on take off out of curiosity?

[@razorsharpshark]

⁠​⁠@@python.programmer5567if you have to abort a takeoff for any reason, you’ll need anything that can help slow you down. The spoilers will help slow down along with auto brake activating and reverse thrust.

[@schan4188]

@@python.programmer5567I assume for a rejected takeoff procedure so that they deploy

[@Subiwu]

@@python.programmer5567incase of a rejected takeoff

[@johm6602]

@@python.programmer5567 In case of rejected TO to help slow down.

[@FireStorm2791]

Man, nothing beats the view of looking out a plane window as you break the cloud layer! Especially at a sunrise or sundown! Absolutely fantastic!

[@TheMNWolf]

The last time I flew out of MSP into Chicago, the captain informed us "We have reached our cruising altitude and will now be starting our descent into Chicago."

[@Aerogamer158]

I have said something similar as a captain at Alaska over the PA system going from SEA to PDX.

[@Smok3yR1der]

Gotta go up to come down, I guess

[@pilothyper]

Pulled this from reddit: Alternate Law (no protection) will happen if any of the flight computers encounters an error or is shut down. You might be disabling/enabling something you shouldn't. The first thing that comes to mind is disabling the ADIRS.

[@ZhalekXishailri]

Hell yeah! Love to see representation of the MSP airport! Thankfully we usually don't have as many nose taxies or unexplained Illuminati terrain activity!

[@bryguy062485]

......that you know of!

[@nana-uj2yz]

you know you've made it when you can casually call a real pilot to fix your flight sim

[@aquaticllamas28]

No, you’ve made it when you are a real pilot

[@hermanappelgren]

I’m fairly new to flight sims and am still quite nervous to mess up whenever I’m on vatsim, so it’s nice to see that even someone as experienced as yourself can have a plane wreck flight with both you and atc taking it in stride 😎

[@madeupwithit]

Me too. So good to see a sky god also struggling with the FBW A320.

[@teknikal_domain]

As much as it *is* a simulation, at least most of us still understand that it's a *game* and mistakes will be made. The goal is to have fun, not to enforce realism and proper communications to real-world standards

[@ThatBMWguy19]

Can confirm this is what it’s really like flying delta to Chicago O’Hare from Minneapolis international

[@technologystrong5190]

10:52 make sure you turn on the Landing System button beside the Flight Director button under the altimeter to get your localizer and glideslope data on the pfd

[@brucebanner52]

I'm really glad you didn't just discard this recording and reshoot a flight that went 100% smoothly. That's doubly impressive when it's a sponsored video as well and they might expect a perfect result but the rudder issues and that terrain glitch at the beginning just made it all the more entertaining.

[@pittvypr]

I like how you put your stick in frame, just to accentuate how large it is.

[@ebnertra0004]

1:45 It's spring thaw season here in MN, so roadway surfaces are all kinds of janky right now. Probably a culvert being frost heaved up. It'll get beat back down in a couple weeks when the ground finishes thawing

[@MechakittenX]

This is the most Minnesota sentence i've read in years.

[@AxolotlAndy]

It’s been like 3 sim updates and I still keep finding those weird ass speed bumps and terrain irregularities. I believe that in Tokyo Haneda you could probably find one of the worst with a whole runway’s island taxiway bridge that connects to the mainland with like a 1 meter difference with the rest of the taxiway.

[@notziz]

As someone who lives in a small town just north of Minneapolis in MN, the details of the airport are wild! Wonderful job by all the MSFS Developers and team.

[@LennoxMatt1]

Gotta say after that takeoff I'd not be unbuckling and would instead be getting real familiar with the emergency procedures

[@Peekofwar]

When Flight Simulator throws a problem in your face without warning... It's almost like you're flying a real aircraft.

[@johnstjohn1987]

40 Seconds in and we have a Delta literally Breakdancing at the Gates. 😂 😂

[@CrossWindsPat]

You know its gonna be fire

[@johnstjohn1987]

@@CrossWindsPat 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jacobhansberger9423]

This will never get old

[@phoenix1826]

Love some mishaps in videos once in a while. Makes for good watching experience, but also I would be terrified if that happened irl lol. It makes me all the more appreciative of our pilots.

[@ischmidt]

As someone who's been in and out of MSP dozens of times on Northwest (RIP) and then Delta, sometimes even from Gate F7, the takeoff sequence was weirdly nostalgic. And that terrain glitch definitely doesn't exist outside of MSFS's imagination.

[@psycoape5753]

Ya pushing out from the odds on the F concourse is really weird and can be tricky.

[@LightningBlaze100]

Imagine you're a passenger on a plane and midflight your pilot hops on the intercom and just does a fucking sponsorship. "Attention all passengers, this is your captain speaking. I'd like to give a shoutout to this flights sponsor, Raid Shadow Legends-"

[@gailfroelich9633]

Hey y’all❤️

[@gailfroelich9633]

Love takeoffs

[@gailfroelich9633]

Roger and out. Good jb❤️

[@robertstevensii4018]

That whole thing was simultaneously eerie and calming. Having someone competent at the stick beats everything.

[@BRIANumber7]

I love how the passenger commotion gradually intensifies as the video goes on, haha! Great editing!

[@MIDWESTHOUNDTV]

7:23 bro I just heard myself I was FedEx 185 heavy love the the videos keep up the good work

[@killsalot78]

I've been waiting so long to see a flight go like this, I knew you couldn't be entirely superhuman

[@N3tworkG0d]

That was the most NOT BUTTER landing that I've ever seen from you, but I was laughing my ass off the whole time. Love your content, man!

[@azura_2437]

Love the cuts to passenger dialog, all pilots should do more manual flying in civ air sims. great vid ty.

[@RCHeliJet]

Fantastic, i like the ATC, landing come-in to high..

[@MasterD1279]

Crossing the speed bump clearly sent you into The Twilight Zone, which caused all the issues that followed.

[@mrsiborg]

Those cabin sounds really crack me up lol.

[@mark_barrentine]

I hit one of those "speed bumps" on a taxi way for a small GA airport, I believe it was the Lake City FL one.

[@TrackingZCONTENT]

this is so cool and neat. the game is amazing wish i could get it one day

[@stefano738]

It's amazing how you make any video fun to watch with a great sense of humor. I love it! Greetings from Brazil!

[@BattleCattleSA]

I always appreciate your cabin chatter, it's so immersive

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

I love these videos! Informative, great editing and camera angles, professionally done, and some good humour!

[@currybatman]

watching this guy makes my day 10x times better and its not a joke

[@Area_Of_Defect]

I absolutely love these kinds of videos do more whenever your able

[@duck0893]

Don’t know if you do requests, but I’d love to see some 737 flights if your able! Either way, it was great having you in Minnesota, even if it’s through a sim.

[@TurtleBeachVideos]

"Let me call a real pilot real quick" O_O

[@WhiteEyeSkyReacts]

I love the little bits of reaction to the plane the passengers to " oh god, hell nah, turn this plane arround this pilots drunk!" 5:04

[@oofman1911]

Underated and I MEAN this cause for someone to be funny in these times is rare these days

[@sahandmousavi]

Dude flew with TCAS off, auto throttle off, APU on, god bless you! You knew what was coming at you

[@jtavi8ion]

Always an interesting flight when something goes wrong, especially on vatsim.

[@DaRespect88]

I like the notes on the side of the screen that you wrote down as you did the video.. Love the realism

[@nickmastervlogs]

I don't remember how hard I've laughed at the end of the flight when he mistakenly went toga instead of resetting the speed brakes. I couldn't stop laughing

[@liljahjay]

I know a lot of people complain about how they miss the old days of AFP’s videos but these vatsim vids can be just as funny. A very good step in a new direction.

[@ewicander9045]

The cabin audio cuts are ::chefs kiss::

[@paulpietschinski3282]

These videos are awesome. I do miss the troll vids as well.

[@igotes]

The cacophony of children was too much, but I do miss the mach 2 balloons.

[@willsell456]

I've taken off from that airport many a time. Its nice to see my home airport represented in MSFS.

[@bwc1976]

I miss when all those Delta flights were Northwest flights.

[@boyo2012]

Agreed; love seeing MSP get some love on the KZbins.

[@dfgdfg_]

Buzzer and alternate law. Shivers. I'm trying to relax here man!

[@JustIsaac134]

At 6:49 notice how he still had the APU On 😂😂😂

[@UltraProchy]

man this game is gorgeous, i hope us steering wheel people will get a new ETS this good at some point

[@forest4283]

That take off was precarious lol. Love the voices from the cabin - or the cockpit from the cabin, I'm not exactly sure.

[@penutaviation]

you are by far my favourite flight sim youtuber, your videos are so entertaining and bingable

[@igotes]

I like how it's mostly very professional. Sometimes not so much. I come back for the not so much ;)

[@ajnaguy]

That flight was fraught with peril! MSP - my hometown airport. Lots of invisible cliffs and jankiness generally, although the heavy, wet snow we got might have had something to do with the speed bump (not to mention the lovely cloud tops). Lord knows it clogged my snowblower a few times yesterday when digging out. Perhaps your video will inspire iniBuilds or FlyTampa or somebody to put out a better version of MSP, but it will probably wind up being Captain S- hiyoooo! Entertaining as always, and thanks again for showing the Twin Cities some love.

[@SLR_6]

NTSB got involved and Concluded that the main cause of the Runway excursion at Chicago was faulty maintenance on the rudder.

[@jamesknauer540]

Yes. Yes we have come a long way from the 320 x 200 x 4 colors flightsim in a pixelated "Chicago".

[@FatAmericanTrucker]

Omg the passenger cuts with the guy freakin out was killing 🤣

[@mattiasdesmet]

APU running on take-off, ecam all blue, that seems like a incomplete checklist...

[@RawBoins]

Loving the videos! Keep up the greatwork, Airpotatobold68!

[@RawBoins]

@@makarstetskevych6787 I hope you know that he always calls himself in the subtitles weird ass names?

[@Gabor0527]

I thought my flights were chaotic until I watched this video damn, plane was not having it 🥲

[@armastat]

Alternate LAW means you are no longer using 3 computers (or 2 depending on Mode). In simple words there is no longer a computer checking to make sure the other ones are working correct.

[@UhYouFoundJoe]

If you ever have that happen again, disable AP, disable ELAC 1 then go over to the FO Chair, disable ELAC 2, then renable both, then renable AP. You'll be golden then. Had the same thing happen in the stupid headwind like 6 times on a 9 hour flight... absolutely blew.

[@codingvio7383]

The commentary when switching to a wing view is always hilarious!!

[@bradyjohnson1383]

"Awh HELL naw! You betta turn this plane around, this pilot's DRUNK" -Legendary passenger of Delta 1506

[@MSRTA_Productions]

The sounds of souls complaining on board these flights makes it more enjoyable

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Love that he calls Austin for help while in flight.

[@jeremeh911]

i love the new camera shots of everything you do, and even pointing out the entries you make in the FMC

[@kingpim8]

i have no idea what everything means but i like it how serious it is

[@MillionFoul]

Brother I'm so glad this came up in my recommendations this video was kicking my fucking ass bro

[@bradives2226]

"look at that cloud layer, we've come a long way". *me noticing the coffee on the window sill* 😮

[@Tigerhawk1981]

"oh hell no, you better turn this plane around, this pilot is drunk" LMFAO!!!!!!

[@hank10111111]

Damn as a Minnesotan that Msp speed bump always gets the out of state passengers

[@gigachad3099]

bro the guy in the the plane though whej they went over the speed bump 2:30

[@Saqu0007]

Normal law=full autopilot Alternate law=autopilot only smoothing out pilot inputs Direct law= no autopilot, direct input by pilot

[@delayedkarma488]

Im actually glad he is posting more regularly. I missed this channel

[@trains2u185]

This is still better than half of my vatsim flights

[@Gsoda35]

just you wait for them to call out moma instead of papa. I love a little bit of change. thanks for the upload!

[@kishna2612]

Loved the video! I've just started playing flight sim myself after having watched you for years now. Any chance you might look at flying in New Zealand with the new content added? Since I live there ;)

[@the2belo]

Now that was intense. What a fustercluck.

[@dailywisdomk]

I had the same problem with Auto-Rudder, imagine a new VATSIM player first flight, playing with ps5 controller and unable to control his aircraft. The amount of frustration i had it's insane. I've tried for 3 days until finally played the first flight correct on the network.

[@michael7738]

Awesome video Sir. Not that usual flying from A to B with nothing happening in between. I'm impressed how you handled the issues you had - especially the deactivated AP - and still got to the destination.

[@theOnly_Gatsby]

I'm an old guy but these works are always entertaining. Thanks for creating these videos.

[@BjerkeRobin]

Good old auto rudder on with the a32nx 😂 helluva flight.

[@Vessekx]

Props to the Delta pilot who managed to hold the ‘stoppie’ that long!

[@scottcher]

Cuts to passenger dialog is some of the funniest content on YouRube

[@luismontiel2850]

Hey airforce proud, I just want to tell you, I’m not sure if you have the Fenix A320 but it is WORTH IT. Insane realism with every button, switch, screen, page all working. I think you should fly it on the channel more often