INSANE REALISM - RTX4090 | FlightSim Studio Boeing 727-200F | ATPL Pilot | Full Flight Review | MSFS

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In this video, we carry out a full flight in the FlightSim Studio AG (FSS) Boeing 727-200F, within Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS).
We will be recreating the last real-world American Airlines 727 service (AA765), with a flight from Tampa (KTPA), down to Miami (KMIA).
Please note this video and all its contents / materials, is for entertainment / simulation purposes only.
PC Specs
ASUS Z790
Intel Core i9 13900K 5.8GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
64GB DDR4 3600MHz
Hardware
Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog
Saitek Pro Flight rudder pedals
HP Reverb WMR headset
TrackIR5
Earthquake Shell Shoxx transducer
Enjoy the flight!

[@340ACP]

I flew this wonderful workhorse of an aircraft for 7 years and it’s still one of my favourite aircraft of all time. I truly enjoy flying her in the SIM now and it really takes me back to much better days of aviation. Now if someone can produce a DC-8 all my wishes would be complete!

[@sundar999]

I guess you wished you had an APU on your DC8 to cool the cockpit a very hot day on the tarmac?

[@eduardozarate1414]

Wow, where did you fly??

[@blastofo]

Isnt the sim underwhelming after flying the real thing? I know a private pilot who used to be big into sims but now that he owns his own plane and flies for real he has zero interest in flight sims.

[@andrewmarsden1970]

Someone put diesel in by mistake.

[@leokimvideo]

I remember these old jets being smokey, but that was totally over the top. Looked like all 3 engines were on fire

[@yowie69]

The latest version has fixed the smoke and flight model is way better, it's a beautiful plane to fly. They also modified the textures so American is now shiny reflective aluminium .

[@JohnDuffy-c3t]

I am currently flying as a Flight Engineer on one of the last 727s in the US, so in the interest of accuracy I will point out a few mistakes. At 8:45 you referred to the Yaw Damper Engage switches on the captains forward panel as “Fuel Dump Switches” …The fuel jettison (dump) panel is located on the Flight Engineer’s aft auxiliary panel, not on front panel. After you started the APU and you went back to the Battery indications, your video showed the DC AMPS needle off scale low to the left, which is a negative 50 AMPS. This needle should be closer to straight up pointing to -0+ After engine start the 2 white synchronization lights on the AC electrical panel should be blinking, not steady as your video shows. When you turn those FREQ adjusting knobs for each generator, those blinking lights will slow down and speed up. When the lights are extinguished (between blinks) that indicates that the generator is in a condition to accept parallel operation. Unlike the 707, the 727 has an auto paralleling feature and this manual paralleling procedure only come into use during some electrical malfunctions. Then, when you closed the #3 generator breaker, the RED Essential Power FAIL light came on. This is inaccurate since the APU will continue to power the Essential Bus and the red light will stay extinguished. The before takeoff checklist should have a step for arming the AUTO PACK TRIP SWITCH. On the after-takeoff checklist where you move the Auto Pack Trip Switch from NORMAL to CUT OUT, your video showed the green ARMED light going out. This is inaccurate as the light will automatically go out when the flaps are up.

[@rolex87]

were you ever on the Getty 727? It was based here in Sacramento for a while but I heard it has been retired and sent elsewhere.

[@JohnDuffy-c3t]

@@rolex87 I never flew it but my friend was the Flight Engineer on that jet for a long time. Very fun job.

[@gregh335]

Great video! Why was the exhaust so cartoonish? Is that something in the model that’s adjustable? Cheers! Greg

[@richbonneau]

The exhaust effect is being updated.

[@pi-sx3mb]

Recently retired, wrenched for a year on "The Harley" in 1989 and flew 3 more years as FO. The 727 was my favorite airliner - a true pilot's airplane. Solid as a rock on final, and loved the basic airmanship it required to operate it. It did take a while to get going - I do remember seeing the last 2000" of runway a lot... 😱 I barely remember any of the specifics though. All I remember from the panel is "High, high, bleed, pack" after takeoff, and if anything went wrong, everyone had to shout in unison "CHECK ESSENTIAL!!!". The panel was a bit intimidating at first, but after about a month there was that one day when being the FE abruptly went from busy to boring. The manual spoilers on landing meant you could really kiss it on like a feather. Of course the swept wings also meant the occasional controlled crash. 😜

[@johnduffy5448]

I'm flying FE on one of the last 727s in service in the US. You are correct about the 2 pilots shouting "CHECK ESSENTIAL" on V1 cuts, loss of all generators, and many other engine and electrical malfunctions. My response is either ESSENTIAL ON OPERATING GENERATOR or ESSENTIAL ON STANDBY. Makes more sense for the guy controlling the ESSENTIAL Power switch to actually state what he's doing than to shout check ESSENTIAL.

[@pi-sx3mb]

@@johnduffy5448 Congrats! That's a pretty sweet ride you've got there. Probably the only times I participated in the CHECK ESSENTIAL! contest was in the sim, and it was the two pilots up front arguing over who yelled it first, and I'm back on the panel thinking hey pipe down, I'm trying to figure out what's going on here... 😜

[@meemoos6133]

The jet smoke is really bad. looks terrible

[@shinkicker404]

it looked better, something messed it up... I think if he using SimFX it will mess it up, but not sure.

[@KyleCowden]

I was waiting to see what you were talking about. It was obvious and I thought,"Oh." Yeah, that's pretty bad.

[@Superamazing110]

FSS improved it in the most recent update (1.0.4). It looks a lot better now

[@TrueBlade-1889]

Particule effects hammer your FPS too. Should akways be able to disable such .fx files

[@eduardovillanueva0685]

I agree, the one in FS2004 looks more realistic

[@larrysouthern5098]

This is a beautiful jet ..Thanks for showing her off!!

[@FOXYhogger]

Amazing! You have helped rekindle my interest in FS. Thank you!

[@scottl.1568]

Long live the tri-jets!!

[@ddsdss256]

One of the first planes I ever flew on (1971) and one of my favorites. Crazy climb angles and a very cool design with wonderfully complex wings (love the three-slotted and Krueger flaps). As you mention, JT8Ds weren't nearly that smokey, plus most of the three-holers still flying have been hush-kitted. I know this is supposed to be a throwback, but as cool as that INS is, most current '27s have FMS and even at least partial (ADI and HSI/ND) glass panels, so that would be a good option (as well as the wx radar you mention). Re AP, just about every a/c in MSFS has problems with that in my experience. Everything's fine, and then I get an uncommanded roll (generally to the left) requiring disengagement to reset it (and sometimes that doesn't even work--they'd better have resolved that for 2024). BtW, the Panhandle is well northwest of Tampa (it's the narrow E/W bit on the north Gulf Coast).

[@davidtsw]

I love the way they modeled the cockpit. Looks very realistic to me. Good on the rudder like you said, the rotation looked very smooth and heavy, as expected for a plane this size and age. Systems modeling seems to be good too. Is this a new heavyweight among MSFS airliners?

[@scotty6346]

Another great review ITBS, I think the exhaust smoke on take off was a tad excessive for a 727, The devs must be thinking of a TU-154! 😂

[@Superamazing110]

FSS improved it in the most recent update (1.0.4). It looks a lot better now

[@aaronrazz9676]

Love it! amazing no master caution and engine fire procedure lol

[@bruces3613]

In the 1980's I remember flying out of San Antonio International on an AA 727 and due to noise abatement the aircraft took a very steep angle. Great fun really!

[@Nemura12]

I used to fight to KMIA in the late 80s and 80s on the Americans 727s. The good old says.

[@nehuge]

It's always INSANE REALISM until the daytime sunlight effects look like a cartoon.

[@DeepSkySimulations]

Very well done video, thanks for the detailed intro to this beautiful airplane. For the smoke effect, I guess I would try something like Parallel42.

[@Michael.Chapman]

29:07 the outside noise is unrealistic. I remember hush-kitted 727s taking off regularly in the mid-1990s from YSSY. The noise was so loud it felt like the atmosphere might actually fracture. By a huge margin the loudest aircraft I’ve ever experienced. BTW, yes they were smoky, but that simulated smoke is too dense. Otherwise, what an impressively simulated aircraft-loved the procedures too.

[@amosmoses8656]

I love your videos ITB, thanks for making them.

[@jerlewis4291]

Those small windows above the cockpit windows were there because they did celestial navigation.

[@brandyballoon]

28:44 Wow that engine exhaust looks so realistic you'd be forgiven for thinking it was real.

[@meemoos6133]

You are joking i hope. I thought it looked bad.

[@jhallock]

That was awful wasn't it 🤔

[@boeing_RBLX]

Lol I loved the joke, nice one

[@afridgetoofar1818]

You mean, this is just a flight simulator? I had no idea 🤷‍♀️

[@boeing_RBLX]

@@afridgetoofar1818 don't worry it's okay I thought it was at first too!

[@mightymackrel5548]

Great video, as always! You are running an old version of the addon here though, in V1.0.4 the flight model, textures and effects had a massive update. In addition, the systems have been worked on. The differences are such that I feel a rerecording may be warranted, the aircraft is portrayed in a way that doesn't reflect the current product in my opinion. The development team are also working on a way to alert the user as to whether there has been a crash in the WASM modules, which may have been the cause of your autopilot issues. These issues usually crop up before powering up the aircraft, and a restart of the flight tends to fix them.

[@IntotheBlueSimulations]

Hello MM, I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks very much for the info and it’s great to hear that the FSS team are continuing to work on the addon. At the time of recording, I was running the most up-to-date version of the aircraft (I downloaded the addon from the “Aerosoft One” portal and started recording immediately). My videos do take a couple of days to create however, so it’s certainly possible that the addon was updated again, ahead of the video’s release. Unfortunately, I can’t cater my content to each new update otherwise, for better or worse with some developers, I would be left chasing my tail. All this being said, I very much enjoyed the 727 so, I’m sure it will feature on the channel again, at some point : ) I hope the above doesn’t come across as argumentative / defensive; I’m simply trying to clarify why there may be a disparity between the version of the product reviewed and the current version available. Many thanks again and all the best!

[@Fizwalker]

The 727 is hands down one of my favorite planes..... The only planes that are more interesting would be the Trident or the BAC 1-11 But I grew up flying on the 727.... Love it.

[@Sansoloz]

I flew on the actual aa 727 couple of things; The fuselage was almost chrome-like and reflective not matte as seen here and yes had its share of scratches visible through the shiny body work. Even the retro livery on the airbus is incorrect. It would be too expensive for aa to replicate. Btw they did smoke in the 80s but not like this sim turn the effect back at least 80% to translucent. Speaking of which it had ashtrays in the seat arms but they were welded shut.

[@surgc6278]

I am amazed, this is amazing.

[@andersschoen3613]

I also flew B727 in my early aviation career. Amazing aircraft. Lucky to fly all version except the Valsan conversion. So managed to fly the B727-100 and 200, B727QF, and Super27. She was a beast. 🎉 Those were the days. 😊

[@haramaschabrasir8662]

My favorite aircraft ever in MSFS. I'm absolutely hooked. Although I think the FlyJSim one in Xplane sounded a little better, especially external. And both heat blur and smoke look ridiculous on this one, but I hope they will sort it out.

[@michaelwayne7887]

Lol!!!! They weren't THAT smoky. Hilarious....

[@rogerrees9845]

Remarkable aircraft...Thank you for another wonderful presentation.... Roger.. Pembrokeshire

[@donaldholman9070]

So fast! Good piloting!

[@jay-rus4437]

Purchased this aircraft, but have yet to even fly it. Always so many aircraft to fly and enjoy 😁

[@tomtalker2000]

They always say insane realism on these flight sim videos. And for the most part they are. Yet mostly every one of them skips the tire smoke on touch down. C'mon how hard could it be to add that in.

[@bowser515]

Looks like the engines are on fire....

[@jaysmith4302]

Excellent video. The older airliners like this and the F-28 are a welcome addition to the sim but they're getting harder to fly, at least in the U.S., due to the wholesale decommissioning of VOR's. We used to have a VOR or NDB on every street corner. Now they're on their way to becoming extinct. SID's and STAR's based on VOR's have already disappeared. One minor correction: the panhandle of Florida is actually that bit that runs from Tallahassee to Pensacola. Several other states, notably Texas and Oklahoma, also sport panhandles. It must be a goofy American thing.

[@musiqtee]

True, also here in Europe (well, not the Panhandles…). Maybe someday a developer would make an “overlay” of extinct radio navs, and LittleNavMap or Navigraph follow up with a set of heritage charts? I know, it’s an impossible task for “realism”, but at least just to a certain degree - a “ca 1980” pseudo-realism… Better than simulated radio-silence…?

[@brownwhaledriver]

Make sure those leading edge slats are clear before you open that ground interconnect 😂😂😂

[@bestpilot98]

Amazing graphics, but the trail of black smoke from the engine's exhaust during takeoff & climb looks ridiculous. The late-model 727's JT8Ds didn't blow smoke like the early 727's JT8Ds.

[@RawSkit1977]

American's best livery. 😊

[@sax003]

39:15 "Can I get direct to the numbers?" "No...no...you're number 2." Tower's not letting this guy cutoff a 737 😂

[@ButchNackley]

This is the only jet airliner I want in the game.

[@mikecoffee100]

Aonther Good Video Thank Youuu

[@57thEvilSquirrel]

*staring at the engine fire lights and wondering why no one replaced those*

[@marianostarosiliz]

That chrome fuselage looks odd. And I pretty much want that 727 for the American livery😢

[@KyleCowden]

The 722 is the sexiest of jetliners IMHO.

[@DanielNavas1]

I laughed every time you said SaraTOSA. The name of the VOR is SaraSOTA 😂. Easy mistake😅

[@TheMrdhyde]

If this is the plane that is like $15 bucks then it is really worth it. Gotta get it.

[@samuelm3766]

"Saratosa" 😆

[@michaelvane6827]

New subscriber and enjoying it. Definitely needs a radar for aesthetics. Even if it doesn't work. Do the reverser lights work?

[@FlywithAbdul]

Your sim looks already like 2024😹🕺

[@randybarnes7050]

One minor quibble, Tampa is not part of the Florida panhandle.

[@mwreyf1]

Never seen a plane rolling coal

[@nashdp]

Sara*SO*ta. Florida panhandle is up on the NW part of the state along the Georgia border. 😉

[@MARKLOCKWOOD2012]

Macdonald’s Douglas used to smoke a lot.

[@ke6nez]

So why is this an AAL 72 with a US N number, but a British G number on the panel?

[@ChrissS3630]

Is this coming to Xbox ?

[@bigB6flyer]

Rolling coal on that takeoff…

[@johnarmstrong3782]

Until they manage to get the FMC coded in the Ejets...No sale. I'm beginning to think it's beyond them and they've given up.

[@ajones-c4b]

Sarasota, my brother. Sarasota.

[@mr.sir.]

Where did you get the 727 mod?

[@tiagomagalhaes1009]

the smoke .....

[@aaronrazz9676]

Stunning video! As always thank you for sharing! Give me that kerosene with a touch of paraffin all day long. 5x5 from here. C'ya!!

[@TrueBlade-1889]

What's gonna happen when 2024 is out ? You're running out of superlatives IBS ! 😂😂😂

[@MrSunlander]

I flew this in FSX/P3D, CS actually, but prefer the PAX model. Will they be making that? The freighter doesn't work with GSX and jetways (PAX loading), right?

[@IntotheBlueSimulations]

Hi Mr S, I believe a pax version is in the works also, yes. The freighter does work with GSX / air bridges / pax boarding (via L1 only) but, better to wait for the appropriate version, if that’s what you’re after : ) Cheers and all the best!

[@MrSunlander]

@@IntotheBlueSimulations Thanks, Boss! Glad this flies well.

[@Rsantana380]

smokey joe 727 ops

[@alfredsnyder4]

Where Did You Get This

[@hiroshiando2852]

There's something peculiar about how you synch the generators...

[@Bortolon11]

Bro please make the tutorial of Beechcraft B-60 duke, i really need this 😮‍💨😮‍💨

[@fecardona]

A 727 of back when AA was good.

[@HartsfieldSpotting]

MSFS2020 might be great for Cockpit Graphics and 3D imagery, but I'd keep "INSANE REALISM" reserved for FSX videos. The exterior shots of this are very... cartoony.

[@AJMVideoGamesandGamers-xz3yz]

35:05 - 🔖

[@shaymcquaid]

Cockpit looks nice, but that external model looks bad...

[@MobileGifte]

Where is a BEA RED SQ TRIDENT

[@tubie666666]

It didnt smoke THAT much

[@andrewadkins5567]

The soot coming off the engines during take-off was not good. That's a lot of poor, incomplete combustion.

[@djken4k864]

They gotta fix the black smoke.....not good

[@jxk4500]

Is it good to buy now ?

[@myZisfantastic]

No, it’s full of bugs. Impossible to start the APU, CSD oil press Lo, Gen lts off when engines are off, fuel & hydraulic pumps have no effect on the APU load etc…

[@jxk4500]

@@myZisfantastic thanks for the update

[@anthonyvallillo422]

@@jxk4500 Not all of those problems are affecting everyone. Although it is true that some of the actions and reactions at the FE panel are works in progress (and progress is being made, with updates coming regularly), little or none of that affects the flying aspect of the sim and would probably not be evident except to one who had served as an FE on the real airplane (and most, if not all, of those are now retired, like me!). I, for example, am having no trouble starting the APU. And the generators operate, no matter what the CSD pressures are. Actually, with the latest revisions, all of those complaints except the gen lights have been fixed, at least for me. Things affecting the APU load is definitely not going to impact your experience flying this. The start-with-all-engines-running ( as when spawning on the end of a runway) now seems to set everything up correctly for flight, and since I started these things several thousand times in real life, I can now content myself with just taking off and flying! In my opinion, considering the effort that is being made with updates and improvements, I would have no hesitation in buying this now. This is very good now (with some relatively minor exceptions) and will surely get better over time.

[@sili780]

I don't have the problem with the friend above, it's worth buying if you like retro planes.

[@johnduffy5448]

​@@anthonyvallillo422I'll give you the "MOST" 727 FEs are retired, but definitely can't give you the "ALL" as I still fly the 727 along with 2 other FEs.

[@Srdr727]

The exhaust fumes seem very exaggerated.

[@stevenwatson4526]

I think they put coal in for fuel.

[@ANERDYGAMER-p3n]

I say overall, the aircraft is nice but the textures are cartoony almost, but i assume thats to be expected being msfs 2020. Also, that smoke looks really bad, almost too thick

[@joemac5363]

This is ok realism, not insane. Still looks like a game.

[@qwerty85620]

shoud hard shaking dashborad

[@GB-tc4hr]

How excited are you for MSFS2024

[@anthonyvallillo422]

Not much. From the videos now coming out, it is definitely a game, and in some respects rather sophomoric one at that, that is played on a very realistic stage - sort of an aeronautical version of Grand Theft Auto 5! It appears that there will be waaaaay to much Walter Mitty play acting, like being forced to take instruction and "checkrides" to even access much of the content. Career modes, and that sort of thing, mean little to a real pilot who wants to use something like this as an adjunct to real world flying, as I did when I was flying the big ones, and as I do now for my Cessna flying. That's just me, of course, and more power to anyone who looks forward to this as a game or game-like experience! After all, you say tomato.... But for myself, it will be some time before I look at this seriously. All the better to have them work the bugs out of it I guess.................! But I hope they sell millions of it, because maybe then they will keep the franchise going as it looks like they want to do.

[@ishiddddd4783]

​@@anthonyvallillo422 it's more of a sim than 2020 for what has already been showcased, in sim charts, proper flight planning, all stock planes with a working efb, fully remade flight model and water physics, proper gear behavior based on what type of terrain the plane is above of, etc, we simply got accustomed that updates on flight simulators were some graphics, with flight model changes, and market it as a new simulator. Career mode has been in most msfs sims, 2020 being the recent outlier, but like all of them, you can simply hop on a plane and do the procedures you want and ignore that mode completely, or do it if you feel like it.

[@anthonyvallillo422]

And that is why I will eventually get it. But as I said, from a few of the previews it appears that just hopping in and flying may not be quite as straightforward as it has been in the past. Hopefully they will get feedback on this and correct it before too long.

[@davecody4326]

DB Cooper

[@scottskinner577]

Roll that coal

[@Skywarriorguru]

Wow that smoke is so not real

[@Skywarriorguru]

That’s why got rid of X-Plane years ago

[@thebestisyettocome4114]

I believe this is a waste of my time. People who want to be something they are not.

[@Georg-r4q]

727 friter 😂😂

[@TheBullethead]

"INSANE REALISM". And this is clickbait. I thought better of you beforehand.

[@RealFluse]

😂

[@FlimFlam08]

💀💀

[@sergegalland6019]

The jet smoke is really bad. looks terrible....,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????

[@paulmiddleton7215]

"Insane realism" cliché again - yawn🥱

[@Ashore88888]

W⚓

[@paulmiddleton7215]

@@Ashore88888 Itself a playground cliché. 🥱🥱

[@tecumsehtm]

He puts a ton of work into making these realistic and true for a time a place, probably tired of other vids getting more views just because they have the catchier title.

[@Ashore88888]

@@paulmiddleton7215 your mum is a playground cliche

[@brandyballoon]

@@Ashore88888 Google's "translate to English" doesn't know what w⚓ means 😂