Flight Simulator 2024 - A400M First Flight - Stunning Systems/Great Immersion! | Real Airbus Pilot

[@TomAndreasstrem]

This is my new favorite aircraft in 2024🙌🏻🤩 It’s like an offroad A380😅😎

[@baomao7243]

Great flight. You infuse your flights with a wonderful amount of reality/realism (incl. being jaded and “calling it like you see it”). Truth. I like it !

[@yowie69]

Hahahaha "🤣The bloody thing is taking us where we want to go". love it, a German talking like an Aussie..🤣 Love your work Emmanual.

[@gwalker3092]

Tbf I just did a 3hr flight in this aircraft and it’s crazy fun. Sim actually worked mostly 😅. I’ve criticised the 2024 a lot and fairly in some regards but I give credit to ini it’s a really fun plane and nothing exist like it that I’ve seen in any sim to this detail. Def a fun plane have not even tried the dirt strip aspects. I think this plane will be a big hit with the community with its flexible opps. As said flying airbuses makes this a lot easier

[@Tuskin38]

I'm an hour away from finishing a RKSI to EDDF flight in 2024 in the new 747-8F and smooth sailing so far, I did sleep for most of it, and came back to a working aircraft and sim.

[@tompsu9536]

Yeah even though the airbuses are amazing, I believe this sim really shines in bush planes and GA in general.

[@schweinekillerlp2245]

@@Tuskin38 Is the 747 able to fly SIDs and STARS, etc.?

[@carolebaskin138]

​@@schweinekillerlp2245 yes.....

[@hypieyo]

I live in France near an A400M base which regularly makes low-level passes over the city, this aircraft is magnificent. :)

[@xeels2708]

Proche d'Orléans ?

[@hypieyo]

Oui

[@bluefinn7032]

yess, I was waiting for this A400M video!

[@julsom9346]

I think the reason why the METAR shows at a different time is that the simulator uses the weather of the past 24 hours and therefore shows the METAR from the time your simulator is set to

[@germano77rm]

This Microsoft decision sounds like shame. It's terrible

[@julsom9346]

@germano77rm I mean for my purposes I quite like it, because I mostly fly offline and therefore find it better to have weather based on the time my simulator is set to (so you don't have like the night temperatures when in your sim it's daytime). But especially for people on VATSIM it is terrible to not be able to have real live weather

[@joaocanadaa]

Inibuilds is killing it!! They’re almost being responsible to make me jump into msfs prematurely

[@pm110978]

Right,Lately they have been on fire 👍

[@DirtyJobsGames]

Wonderful A400M, soo look nice this flight simulator

[@leichtester]

29:20 this is probably due to NVG usage in formation flight. You dont want to get blinded by these bright lights. Love the videos!

[@alejandromartinezalvarez9584]

Normal SOP in the start up all of them in feather and when the 4 its AVAIL all to run. Another funny thing it’s that in the A400 the callouts don’t include the colors. So MAN TOGA SRS ATHR Armed since normal ops are done via the HUD and everything is green so the blue would be like armed. The RA starts at 5500 and synthetic callout at 2500.

[@A330Driver]

Thanks! In the manual available on flightsimulator.com it says different, but what you say totally makes sense. Do you have any source for a proper SOP for the A400M?

[@alejandromartinezalvarez9584]

@@A330Driver Since FCOM and FCTM is restricted it’s difficult to share things but I will take a look to that document and try to share and improve as much as possible!!

[@lordmashie]

Thought that might be the case since the DH8 is that way too

[@chris22capt]

​​​@@A330Driver not document, but airclips filmed Luftwaffe A400M ops last year, a full 2 hours flight video is available for free on their channel.

[@gizmo104drives7]

Always a great watch. Infectious enthusiasm. I know its not you thing exactly but id love to see more helicopters and ga flights in the same style as these airliners

[@PluckyUnderdog]

They have actually done a great job with this. And like yourself, it's an aircraft I've wanted to fly for some time. I love how it feels different, yet very familiar. It's a fantastic aircraft.

[@yegorchornyi614]

Great video from you, as usual. By the way, the prop anti ice is probably to be switched on in flight together with the engine anti ice. I have similar system flying Antonov 12. On the ground in icing conditions we put ENG anti ice after starting up and PROP not earlier 5 minutes before takeoff. In flight we put them on together

[@yegorchornyi614]

@ thanks for a good explanation😁

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

Fun fact on A400s the inboard propellers rotate in the opposite direction to the outboard propellers.

[@gwalker3092]

Looks like only thing that works reasonably well in 2024 is anything made by ini. shame the actual fsim doesn’t work. Looking forward to flying this if I ever get it to load 😅

[@A330Driver]

Indeed, the iniBuilds aircraft seem really excellent! I wish all others would be up to that level!

[@Thuner67776]

The asobo 737 max has an excellent exterior/interior model We just need some community help with how it flies and the avionics and it should be really good!

[@flyguy7287]

@@Thuner67776 Or wait for ifly to port their Max across. I’m holding off from installing 2024 until they sort out the issues and my fave payware aircraft come across.

[@KitsuneKiera]

I’m wishing ini would sell the 321 LR, 330s and 400M for MSFS2020 so I don’t have to touch the dumpster fire that 2024 has been tbh.

[@nawnaw4709]

And the efb made by working title 😂

[@rosen9425]

Super cool aircraft, can't believe the level default aircrafts has gotten too

[@dolf1010]

Thank you for that video on your layover Emanuel. This A 400 is a really fascinating plane .👍

[@aero3831]

2:22 don’t forget the A300/310 because of the overhead. 😉👍

[@baomao7243]

A400M is a sweet ride. Yeah, i bet those props turn into big airbrakes when you pull power - they’re just monstrous. Impressive beast.

[@fortel7939]

I had the chance to get in an A400M, and all I can say is that it is really impressive 😁 It is definitely an amazing airplane

[@Reaper88-rw8tb]

I got a chance to sit in the cockpit of a400 and was super excited to see it coming to msfs and glad Ini made it well, I’m sure with later updates and bug fixes it will be amazing.

[@SonsOfAnarchy96Bavaria]

Wieder mal ein super video. Weiter so!

[@DarkAndVelvetNights]

Will you make a tutorial series on this beauty?

[@CptSleep]

"oh well...good luck first officer" lol

[@-Strit-]

The switches has a dimmer setting because you want it to be low light when you are flying nights with nightvision.

[@JoJo-vm8vk]

For the record, M0.72 is supposed to be maximum Mach cruise. But I saw them cruising around M0.68 on FlightRadar24 😉 And yes, A400M is A380 cockpit minus one EFIS on each side replaced by "volume controls" because more radios and audio systems.

[@Louis_Delgres]

I like the texture, it's very good.

[@ahmettaskn5687]

A400M APU has howling sound which is very cool to hear. We need that on A330 too because also its APU howls in real life

[@A330Driver]

You barely hear the APU unless you're standing almost next to it (then it's seriously loud though!). In real life I typically put the ear protection on once I walk past the aft cargo door, that's where it starts to get really loud.

[@ahmettaskn5687]

@A330Driver yeah but I'm talking about the instantenous howlig sound that is created by the inlet guide vane at a particular angle when it is close to the idle speed. It sounds like blowing a glass bottle. You can hear the sound in this video below. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4G3q6Z-i7WIhacsi=-49l44tKZ8ECvEOl Time: 6:11

[@ahmettaskn5687]

@@A330Driver kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4G3q6Z-i7WIhacsi=V0GVFpxTfTmOEIet Time: 6:11

[@ahmettaskn5687]

@@A330Driver kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4G3q6Z-i7WIhacsi=-49l44tKZ8ECvEOl Time: 6:11

[@AliGee550]

I can confirm the APU is quite loud on this aircraft. The howling sound comes from a turbofan on each side of the forward wing to fuselage fairing which is used to ventilate the unpressurized bay area. Earplugs is a must have when Apu Bleed is connected!

[@kaeptnbaloo]

You said a interisting thing: "scenery servers". I think its exactly that. Servers providing scenery data. Formerly (2020) mainly Bing Data were streamed. Now it looks more like Bong Data.

[@remphey]

LSZH is my home airport, thank you for flying there

[@metroflyboy86]

Does the aircraft come with tom cruise hanging off the side?

[@lincoln537]

You need to contact ATC - ground controls and ask for pushback. It is from the above menu - communications

[@RAVIOLIdS]

Completely not related to video, I think uni builds are doing a340 for the sim. I mean they have an a300,a310a330,a320,a321,a400m, a380 in the making and a350 in the making. They are really only missing the a340 that’s on high demand. There is even a really nicely modelled a340 ai which makes me believe they have already modelled the a340. This is all really a big stretch but I don’t see why not

[@A330Driver]

I woulnd't be surprised if they do. An A330neo would also be a logical step for them to take.

[@RAVIOLIdS]

@ that’s is also very true. Love the content btw keep it up and ignore the stupid haters :)

[@nicksouthon1557]

Super video. It inspired me to try 2024 again and it was an almost perfect flight (lost some panels after switching to external views) bur such a capable aircraft. It will become my second favourite after the Fenix.

[@darkhanzhangeldi4295]

I love your videos!! The first time I watched your video was iniBuilds A330-300 review for MSFS 2024! Incredible, I've no words to express my emotions. Can you please add timecodes to the video next time so we can see where the cold & dark, cockpit prep, TO, descent, and landing are marked in the video? Thank you!

[@bikeguy3034]

Higher hydraulic pressure means smaller actuators etc to save weight.

[@Izmael1310]

The ground streaming malfunction is really stupid issue. Also what Air New Zealand A321 does in Zurich? :D

[@JoJo-vm8vk]

48:23 For tanker mission, A400M can take a huge supplementary tank in the cargo hold. 😉

[@A330Driver]

I'd love to get some data on that, the iniBuilds is already at MTOW when I just fill up the wingtanks.

[@njyde]

This makes me more confident in the iniBuilds A380... and A350!

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

This aircraft being so quiet is indeed realistic. I live near EDDK and sometimes I hear an odd sounding quiet engine sound that I can't identify. When looking at FR24 then it was identifiable as A400M. You basically don't hear the props at all, jus the motor of the engine. As for Stuttgart being broken I have a suspicion: Back when MSFS was released Stuttgart was completely missing from the sim, because of its Military part. It was added much later and then even got a bespoke airport. But maybe the default database hasn't really been updated and that is why it doesn't know that it exists?

[@The_Devil_Riser]

I always thought the dim position on the lights was for low visibility like fog so it doesn’t blind you by illuminating the fog/snow/rain/sand

[@CyclonesShorts]

How is your sim working?

[@neo2264]

As a plebian, I'm a sucker for those external shots

[@dikhou]

Excellent demo!

[@JDSleeper]

This looks excellent and about what I hoped for in a 2024 default aircraft.

[@smithkenny8034]

i had never thought someday inibuilds will save msfs2024 great job inibuids !!

[@A330Driver]

haha indeed, but they've done it!

[@smithkenny8034]

@@A330Driver thank you sir! great video

[@JobuRum]

Ini does have a Simbrief on their site.

[@jxk4500]

Thanks for this. hows the SAAB systems wise? it looks pretty cool imo

[@sibzy1]

I don't know what they have done to the graphics, but whilst much of it from the air looks better than 2020, on the ground it almost looks a bit cartoon-ish. You're videos are outstanding, incredibly informative.

[@jamesbowyer3578]

Totally agree. It’s really weird. It just looks sort of rounded, which I can’t explain. Sticking with 2020 now as I can’t even get the pushback to work 😢

[@CicaeMeow]

@@jamesbowyer3578I hoped that everything what GSX has to offer will be included. Maybe they will, but I don't even know now how does the pushback work. But for the other planes I've seen buses coming, people boarding and even doing other stuff. So I've no idea how to toggle that.

[@weirdboy7]

I noticed that as well. Some of the default planes looked “off” to me, and couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Cartoonish is a good way to describe it. I just hope all the upcoming payware planes take their visuals to the next level.

[@lordnakirim]

True, for me it feels a bit too colorfull. Just look at the loading screen, everything is just so bright.

[@Galf506]

You may have server issues, because the ground looks like 9000 times more detailed, I flew around the alps and it was jaw dropping

[@Shiroko0516]

I suggest you to use mouse when controlling the camera in walk around mode. Just like anywhere else, right click and drag or middle click.

[@oliverhelms2157]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I like this aircraft even more than inibuilds a330. And the a330 is awesome

[@Minecraftzocker766]

How can I extend or retract the speed brakes on that airplane? I always get the warning that they are extended

[@ReignIsLyfe69]

Do you have a link to that documentary you mentioned? Sounds interesting, and I'd like to check it out.

[@Ficon]

What laptop specs are running MSFS 24 smoothly while also recording?

[@mainframehardcore]

Watching this video, I felt both happy and sad. Lord, this could have been such a great game!

[@sandboxie97]

when trying to land the Auto throttle always turns itself on for me and only lets my select full power or no power????

[@teckwhelk2629]

It great that the charts have a lot of coverage, the flight planner just needs to be good than I can confidently drop navigraph

[@Jason-ye4vy]

That glideslope issue is the same I see in the ATR on 2020.

[@booster524]

You don't mention how to activate the Companies button...mine is still greyed out despite having all the basic certificates. Thanks for the video, the fuel tip is great!

[@rjs1138]

The A400 and the availability of the C-17 are what is selling FS24 to me atm... I'm not taking the plunge until there is an FS20 type offline option with cache and the until the main bugs are ironed out. 🇬🇧

[@A330Driver]

Indeed, for airliners FS20 is very good at the moment. However the A330 and its different versions, including the Beluga, are very good in FS24 as well already.

[@connorAv8]

On a turbo prop especially the one i fly (atr) you do drop like a stone in the flare when you cut the power to soon

[@lockheedelectra]

I believe MSFS24 is missing a full nav database. SID's/STAR's/Runways/Waypoints are missing all over the world in a lot of the new aircraft

[@chrismckis6843]

Yes others have reported that

[@DarkAndVelvetNights]

I'll definitely try some antarctic ops with this beast

[@jubenator1232]

Is anyone having an issue where when they try to free look with the mouse, the camera goes crazy and goes all over the place?

[@MattBerks]

It's dreadful. I'm not at my PC, but in settings, turn down/off "Freelook Momentum" and then in Controls, you can go into your mouse settings and turn down the sensitivity - helps somewhat.

[@karamich75]

I tried it, seems awesome but as I fly everything like a C152, it was a tricky one . The MSFS2024 aircraft seem to have this floaty yaw effect that reminds me of XP aircraft behavior?

[@lincoln537]

My favourite aircraft ❤

[@subjectc7505]

I always been looking forward to fly this and the C-17 (I have been to an Airbase and got to tour one) but the sim disappointed me but I'm willing to wait.

[@QF332]

Hello! I have a problem with the inibuilds A330. I am on Xbox and it keeps freezing, crashing and I keep getting blurry textures. What should I do? Thanks and have a great day

[@PaulTf]

Get better intert ore wait until Downloads are available

[@boyermchristopher1]

Same here. Xbox x

[@ItsMarioFer]

Nothing you can do, it's Microsoft problem with their servers. Also all the most of the planes on Xbox are crashing, check the known MSFS24 Top Issues on their forum.

[@Minecraftzocker766]

How did you switch between outside and the cockpit? Is there a default key binding set?

[@jamesbowyer3578]

Wow, look at those lovely scenery textures on landing 😂 I think I will be sticking with 2020 and just keep jumping back into 2024 to see how it goes. Shame

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

Which air force options does the aircraft have - which nationality markings?

[@fn0rd-f5o]

I really like this airplane. It's about time that we had a good military planes

[@Dalamain]

Great video and while I would love to get my hands A400M seeing the laggy loading of the scenery is enough to keep me on 2020 for a few years until Asobo sorts its $hit out.

[@Germansimaviation]

Good Video as always. Which AI Traffic Tool did you used for This Flight?

[@rocketleaguejake]

i have an issue with reverse thrust because when i set the throttle to idle it goes to max reverse thrust on my honeycomb throttle does anyone know how to sort this

[@MaxRank]

I said I’ll wait until next year to buy this sim and boy what a great choice.

[@TheSaintArmando]

The sim is perfectly flyable at the moment. Yes, i was there on launch, sitting before a loading screen for 5 hours, but the recent 2 days i've been able to do everything i expected to.

[@awxkejc9389]

On simbrief what plane type you choice for a400M?

[@moitoi4064]

How did you activate the flaps. I tried to bind my Thrustmaster throttles but it doesn’t work and the mouse also doesn’t work.

[@markburton3306]

Being a prop plane, can it reverse on the ground?

[@bootstrapflyer]

An impressive looking model, apart from one area in that the model looks like an airfix model that has just been built and painted. Where is the wear and tear on the landing gear, fusalage, around exhaust's etc for the immersion. That is my only criticism. Eveything else looks awsome.

[@Rookblunder]

Im starting to wonder if the effort was put on the career mode to begin with. That seems to be working fine. Its when I try to use my PMDG planes that things start to go iffy. Ooh this plane looks like a challenge.....I got to try it :) We can't take nothing too seriously...... for now...........😂😂

[@germano77rm]

Thanks. What input field of the control under msfs2024 I need to map with my aibus joy for autopilot disconnect ?

[@gustavpicora]

The FD doesn't shows the vertical and horizontal lines in this plane?

[@A330Driver]

No, it doesn’t

[@gustavpicora]

@@A330Driver😮. I will have to try that.. but im so used to the fd guide lines.. lol😅

[@kr15t14n_]

What's the pros and cons on this with propellers vs the C17 with jet engines?

[@Danimalpm1]

The A400M isn’t really a C-17 competitor. It’s really more of a C-130 replacement and slots in between the two. The A400M and C-130 are tactical airlifters with shorter range missions, and often smaller and/or unpaved runways and the C-17 is a strategic airlifter with longer range missions where jet engines are more practical and is likely to use airbases with larger, hard surface runways.

[@MarekHron]

Best IniBuilds airplane included in MSFS2024

[@Shiroko0516]

To use that checklist now, you probably have to use LOCK mode instead of LEGACY mode.

[@MarkusM521]

Great aircraft, really well made by ini. For the landing i can give you a tipp wich maybe helps also on the A400. On the Dash 8 Q400 Power stays on on landing, you not retard the power-levers to flight-idle. When the main gear touches down you reduce the levers to flight-idle, and with the nose gear you go to ground-idle or as it is called on the Q400 "disc", then you apply brakes and if needed you apply i tiny bit reverse but rarely max, maybe this helps on the next landing. My 2 cents for the new Sim is that MS/Asobo really need to give the opportunity back to download all the content and only imagery and photogrammetry should be streamed like before, otherwise i don't see a bright future for MSFS2024. Even when they fix it, peoples internet can't be fixed, some had already problems with MSFS2020 and needed to turn off photo imagery, and those people wished that there where at least an option to download a chosen area. Asobo should considering implementing this.

[@nk458]

Having issues a400 wont take off on KPIT Pittsburgh Int. With parking off and break offs. Microsoft issue? Im on a Xbox series X full throttle. Moves forward but acts like breaks are still on.

[@mcbutton55]

The sim Runs on my old System. But Most likely need to upgrade soon. Seeing the issue with sids and Stars in cologne shows, that nobody at asobo or airport developer have taken the Community comments into account. It was already a known issue with 2020, at least for EDDK. I think in General the sim has huge potential, not everything is there yet. I think the best experience is with a nice System which can run it at 4K with a good processor of course. Still Long way to go.

[@Kjarn]

Hi, dunno if im missing some addons or something but I'd like to know how to get those static aircraft in the sim. As far as I have tried, I only get GA with generic liveries and some airliners completely white or with generic liveries too. Also, they spawn at a really close distance (seems I need to get a setting higher to get them to spawn from far away but I dont know) I want no traffic tho, I just want to see the statics properly. Hope someone can help me, thanks in advance!

[@lordmashie]

Shoulda done a powerback like all the cool kids do

[@Brandonrockynewman]

The c17 is really laggy I don’t know hot to fix it

[@Flowmotion-Parkour]

Moin Emanuel, ich wollte fragen, ob du mir ein Aeromedicalcenter in der EU (Am besten nicht Deutlschland) für die Erstuntersuchung Medical Class 1 empfehlen kannst. Ich habe Angst vor dem LBA, weil ich Horrorstorys aus meinem Umfeld gehört habe und in Foren gelesen habe. Über eine Antwort freue ich mich. Viele Grüße

[@ivanbeinner7143]

The only plane i haven't been able too load up in the hame lol

[@AVIATIONSOUNDEXPERT]

Hello Emanuel, many A400Ms, like those from RAF, have a hard altitude callout at 150ft AGL. So you would hear every time "ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY" at that altitude. Regarding 4000ft RA: It makes sence that the Radio Altimeter is triggered earlier, in this case at 4000ft AGL. It is impirtant and very helpful in case of a tactical descend. By the way, the C-17 RA is triggered at 5000ft AGL. It makes sence when the descend rate during tactical descend is more than 30000ft per minute. There is one thing that is different in the A400M, I guess. The Retard Callout seems to be triggered in different situations. I have watched many A400M videos, and I never heard it, except one time in a fullflight A400M sim. So I think that there might be a different logic implemented compared to the Airbus jets.

[@aengberg1]

This is an amazing aircraft considering it's default. But I'm definitely waiting to see if Microsoft can fix the scenery streaming and weird AI aircraft behaviours before I upgrade to '24. I'll give it a few months and hopefully these bugs will be sorted.

[@randysaad5236]

Hi . Appreciate the videos. In fs2024 in boeing and airbus rt engine drops to idle so cant takeoff or fly. Thoughts?

[@AlphaGhoost]

Looking forward to implement refueling missio soldiers transportation army vehicles delivery etc

[@mauricecox7954]

I can only get 2 engines working on the right side the other two are on Idle and it will not let me do anything to the ones on left

[@A330Driver]

Sounds like you may have accidentally closed the crossbleed valve?