Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Career | Forest Fire!

[@deehill3578]

Well this aged well

[@timschols4834]

Even more so with the Hughes fire now literally burning around the lake this mission uses to scoop at... 😅

[@RPGames03]

I found your channel a few days ago and it was the spraying the crops with helicopter one and i just want to say, your video is really fun, relaxing and kinda therapeutic in a way to watch Keep up man, i love your videos

[@CowTown]

I appreciate it thank you 🙂

[@jonmartin8593]

Its been a joy to watch. Ive been playing for about a week now. Your rescue mission was the first one and it helped me a ton. Thank you!

[@CowTown]

Thank you! Awesome to hear it helped and was enjoyable to watch! Starting something new tomorrow with flight Sim that I hope you'll also enjoy! 🙂

[@UnB135]

Bro is the best KZbinr out there keep it up

[@CowTown]

Thank you 🙂

[@dafox0427]

approach down the canyon, fill with water and exfi over the dam. Avoid flying into dead end canyons where you havent enough power or airspeed to escape from. Then, you'll stop committing the mistake that has cost many real pilots their lives.

[@timschols4834]

I knew the lake near the Hughes fire which started today looked familiar from this video so I came back to confirm. Yes, it really is the lake you used to scoop for this mission, Castaic Lake.

[@lawdpleasehelpmeno]

I'm enjoying your daily videos, I'm away for work and can't play so it's nice to see some Flight Sim content.

[@CowTown]

Very nice! Glad you're enjoying the content! 🙂

[@NotThatNugget]

They Need you now :) Also Hi

[@homgrwn]

Holy Cow, that was crazy ...😂! Do a video on tips and shortcuts, like the key bindings.

[@jonathanadderly3458]

This aged well

[@kevenmercier6380]

It's not a bug actually i think, with this plane you never whant to go in the red (puting full throttle) because the temperature goes in the red and the engine are cooking but to take off you without that much power you need more distance and fully filling the tank so in other mission every time i need to go to much larger lake then what the mission recomand to scoop and i manage to do them without skiping and cook the engine buth i always finish with 0% on the execution part. These mission are clearly the most hard to do so far but anyway almost none are spawning in the world so its impossible to do a lot of testing

[@dash8brj]

Dash 8's are also tempermental on their engine temps. You flat out the throttle on takke off then as soon as you're airbourne and have the gear up you wind her back from 1050 to 925. rpm. She'll cruise upt to altitude quuite happily at that power setting.

[@dylanhuculak8458]

Google "comma" and "period". They're these really useful things that group words into legible phrases and sentences.

[@CowTown]

It happens regardless of what the power is set to

[@GodWasTaken76]

After a couple firefighter missions and many sky diver drop missions, it feels like a disconnect between the business side and good flying practices. I can fall out of the sky at 10000' directly over the airport, having a landing that irl would require an NTSB report. The operator comes on comms and tells me how much fuel I saved and how awesome I was, and I am pretty sure without the friendly MFS physics round over I broke that plane up mid descent and my flying days are over

[@kevenmercier6380]

@@CowTown next time you try that type of mission watch to make sure both your throttle and rpm stay in the green range and that should prevent the temperature to go in the red and cooking the engine 😉

[@hollywood84660]

My Group 1 and multi engine flight test examiner has been doing this for the last 35 years in Saskatchewan started off doing it in Catalinas. He is a super cool guy

[@CowTown]

Oh that's very awesome!

[@randuxy]

I think the engine malfunction might be from over torquing the engines, Turoprop's have a lot of perimeters you have to manage.

[@CowTown]

Except that it happens no matter what the throttle is set to lol

[@randuxy]

@@CowTown - At your first scoop you had the "ITT" in the "Red". you can see it at time stamp 7:18 before you get the engine malfunction.

[@andresvalencia-motorsportn7324]

​@@randuxyexcept that even when you throttle down ITT goes up and with a 100% full tank you need full throttle to take off from the lake... so there is no way to maintain a healthy ITT if the mission parameters are fucked lol at least they should reduce the scooping to 50% so you have more chances to take off

[@randuxy]

@@andresvalencia-motorsportn7324 Well, part of the challenge in that mission is to manage the stress on the plane. The pilot has complete control over how much water they scoop, so if you want to take 50% than take 50%. Choosing the scoop path is important as well, you want as shallow of a flight path as possible after you scoop, Scooping in the direction of the mountains is not a good path.

[@jaymac7203]

Having to fight the bugs as well as the fire is so frustrating 😭😭 Hopefully its fixed soon lol

[@CowTown]

Lol was crazy!

[@AMironman1985]

Great work here mate! Love your videos! Subscribed too! One note.. you do know you have flaps right?? I mean your life will probably get a lot easier when scooping..

[@CowTown]

I know but I was already doing the scooping unrealistically with way more speed so wasn't worried about flaps

[@AMironman1985]

@@CowTown you went rogue but I see your point! Great videos mate! Keep it up!

[@DB-lm1nj]

Do you use any flaps to help with lift out of the water?

[@CowTown]

Didn't use flaps since I was already way over what speed I needed to go so had enough to lift off, if I went too slow on the water you'd be stuck in it

[@JoseEnriqueGomez]

Sure you can help with first percentage of the flaps to help you out of the lake instead of getting so much extra speed that will make it very bumpy

[@DB-lm1nj]

My other thought is can you approach the lake from the opposite direction and egress over the dam instead of trying to climb over the hills

[@HarrisonBrennan-r1r]

Should be a lot in Australia

[@jacobsmith5748]

The most stressful landing in my guy's career... 😂

[@awaisjatt1499]

❤

[@trent_dyrsmid]

Cool video! Do you do the narration after the flying or are you talking and flying at the same time?

[@CowTown]

All the narration is during the flight! 🙂

[@trent_dyrsmid]

@ I’m amazed at how many views you get! I have more subs than you…but my MSFS vids only get hundreds per video. Whereas my videos about my pilot journey get tens or hundreds of thousands of views. I would have thought that my MSFS vids would do better…so I’m trying to figure out why they aren’t.

[@greyox1636]

We need you now 😂

[@JPOC226]

I know this is a Flight sim game so its aimed at Aviation enthusiasts. BUT would it be a stretch to use basic Wildland Firefighing terminology when on missions like this?

[@CowTown]

I’m sure over time terminology and stuff will change and improve for all the mission types in career! And just general ATC wording as well

[@Oldguy1900]

😅😅😂😅👍

[@Bear0690]

i can't get this because i was only able to do 5 out of 10 for the initial attack ones and i can't get anymore to show up even after unlocking new places

[@Harry-n9o3r]

Did you know that their is a Boeing 747 Firefighter. It is the biggest in the world!!!

[@CowTown]

Yup can't use it in missions just yet but in a future update!

[@TheFlyingSheep69]

Is there a chance that you were cooking the engine or something like that?

[@CowTown]

It happens no matter what power you have set for the engine.

[@TheFlyingSheep69]

@CowTown ah that's really annoying.

[@VietnamT0M]

When you went back to cockpit view after the popup, you can see that the temps are well into the red. So the engines were indeed being cooked. Whether the temp getting that high was a bug or not, I'm not sure, but I didn't see you adjust prop rpm or mixture or anything

[@thehighwayman78]

Yeah I had it too. It's the engine temperature getting too high if you just floor it.

[@dustincriddle]

I noticed when u skip your throttle not always set properly u have to re throttle on the hotas to read correctly when i play anyways

[@multiplataformagamer2121]

I always get engine failure for the second release of water

[@chcustoms2369]

If not the throttle, try the “propeller” lever if this has one, basically too high of a value here and the prop angle of attack is too high, moves too much air and puts too much torque in the engine no matter what the throttle % is

[@CowTown]

We actually revisited this in a stream and tried everything and still had the same thing pop up unfortunately, but thanks for trying to help out though! :)

[@chcustoms2369]

@ good to know, did yall learn if it is mission specific? Or the plane is just fukt

[@shepardzhao9985]

I think a few missions at the moment are bugged, including a few rescue missions, the engine will cut off randomly

[@JoseEnriqueGomez]

You need to open the rear and front gas tanks and turn on the plane again with Ctrl +E

[@Nickelevatorconstructor]

Looks like Castaic lake

[@labhusky3]

Little nit pick. Around the 3 minute mark they called you a bird dog. An attack plane at least in my neck of the woods isn't a bird dog, they're bombers. Bird dogs are the spotters and recon planes that are sent out ahead of the bombers that tend to mark the drop zones. Weird little things in this game that I didn't expect them to get wrong or flop on

[@CowTown]

Pretty sure it's just pulling the wrong dialogue at the moment. It'll all get ironed out 🙂

[@labhusky3]

@CowTown I hope so. It isn't in my budget right now and I'm not sure my rig could run it anyway so by the time I get a new GPU hopefully the game will be silky smooth 😁 Ps: been wondering. Is your screen name based on a certain Canadian city?

[@CowTown]

Awesome hopefully you'll be able to dive in soon! 🙂 But no it isn't haha just a name I switched to awhile back!

[@jld1278]

I thought the same thing, why are you referred to as Bird Dog, that's the spotter! But the radio chatter isn't very good anyway. "Sorry, not sorry" 🙄

[@Junderwood93]

is the engine problem to do with power settings and it overheating etc or is it a bug? happened to me in free flight also

[@CowTown]

I believe it’s bugged, we revisited this in a stream and feathering, lower rpms, all the things to see if that was the reason and the engine malfunctions just still appeared

[@justinhanley8512]

If u head along the mountain side to scoop the water then u will not have to worrie about not making out

[@69adrummer]

sad to see that whomever programmed this sim is not a pilot or has ever fought wildfire!! haha

[@aeraxe]

i wish i could do that but i have all the certification and an S tier reputation but the small firefighting doesn't show up

[@olivierauclair787]

Flaps 15, probes down , scooping Check, you forgot the flaps on the first scoop, second tip, scoop facing the fire to avoid Mountain Climb WHEN you can (in this scenario)! Ask me why I know 😎

[@khurrum7533]

What is your internet speed? Data streaming looks very good

[@CowTown]

1 gigabit speed!

[@SuperTrb0]

You’re cooking the engines man. You are using too much power and are basically flying around at full power and over torquing the engines.

[@tim8801]

I have had the issue with the engine bugging out too. In the cargo light missions as an employee I had trouble with the turbo prop tail dragger and the carbureted tail dragger. The turbo prop would lose power no matter what rpm and power I gave, same with the carbureted engine. Anyone know if this is a bug or skill issue?

[@CowTown]

If you're using a peripheral for some reason, sometimes the planes just go idle whenever you touch the throttle. I had that going on today so probably not a skill issue. Just a random bug!

[@Prahdigee]

20sec ago W

[@Gdub33]

Anytime i skip it loads my plane stalling or overspeeding into the ground. This game is so bad right now its funny.

[@nadger1337]

Can you do it at night?

[@CowTown]

Not at the moment no

[@PixelCity2-BruteSlayr]

ayyyyy 2nd comment

[@justinhanley8512]

Then ur exit will be over the dam

[@themultitube5915]

7 min ago