Real 737 Captain LIVE | Flying the PMDG 737 with a FAILURE every 10 minutes!

[@pjtren1588]

Jim the copilot was cool calm and collected throughout this flight. Unfortunately the captain was running around like a headless chicken.

[@flightdeck2sim]

Pahahaha! Jim was just there with his feet up on the dash reading a copy of Airliner World (other Airline magazines available) FD2S

[@gmitchell_tc]

28:00 Pushback 40:20 Clear for takeoff 45:40 Here's where the fun begins

[@flightdeck2sim]

Haha! The Failure/Non Failure! Then lots of little minor issues until a catastrophic failure at 2:02:23 and it then goes downhill from there! FD2S

[@idk-vo7dg]

lifesaver, thanks

[@markstott6091]

Great stream, Captain. Handled it magnificently. So many failures - although Aeroflot Tupolev pilots called this scenario "Wednesday".

[@flightdeck2sim]

Hahaha! I think I'd rather fly the Tupolev again tbh! FD2S

[@megalifts]

@@flightdeck2sim Fly the TU144, the soviet Concorde

[@thk184]

That was like driving a British Leyland car in the 1970s. Great entertainment, thank you!

[@coolkirk1701]

Heard about this channel for years, first time watching an actual stream. As a dispatcher in the US, it’s wonderful to see a sim pilot who is conversant with MELs, failure limitations, and all the other things I deal with at work.

[@AdamA20N]

Great stream, would enjoy seeing another similar stream on a different route in the future.

[@flightdeck2sim]

Definitely haha although I'll need a few weeks to recover after that one! FD2S

[@randolphlee4586]

A fantastic 🎉flight. [For my sins, after I lost my medical, I was a simulator torturer er... instructor. This was in 1970, and it was on a 727 system at United at staperton], and the randomness of this stream of yours was just magic. The overload of your inputs as things failed was quite realistic. As was the way you worked them. This stream of yours, and the one where you flew the low-frequency range, brought back my memories of learning the A-N system. They got me to join as I am building a PC simulator as part of my stroke recovery. I got the Boeing yoke pack based on your review. I am now quite old, but I am excited to “fly” once again on a home simulator. In 1960 all I had to use was a war surplus Link Blue Box, so this digital world is quite an upgrade

[@flightdeck2sim]

Thanks for the lovely comment Mustrum, it's incredible how far sims have progressed in the years! Have you managed to make your way into the Members Discord channel? If not follow the guidance here - support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/215162978-KZbin-Channel-Memberships-Integration-FAQ That way you can talk to me directly and enjoy more of the membership perks! See you there! FD2S

[@randolphlee4586]

@@flightdeck2sim

[@gryzor]

I genuinely stayed until 5 am to finish this. One of your most entertaining (if not "educational") streams; I naturally enjoy (and have learned a lot) your 'regular' flights, but this one had a special spark, perhaps it was the fact that there was very little scripted out of this. We all knew you were going from A to B, but suddenly, and unknown even to you, the plan dynamically changed over the course of these 3 hours. Great Job, and superb flying skills (to Jim, that is). ;)

[@flightdeck2sim]

Thank you Martin! Yes there was definitely an air of tension because not even I knew what was coming next, will definitely re-visit it at some point! FD2S

[@adamgunn2885]

My favourite stream of yours of all time, sad to have missed it live. Insane work Captain!

[@flightdeck2sim]

Much appreciated! Still recovering........ Haha! FD2S

[@sander8928]

I so hope PMDG looks at your videos and starts looking on implementing the missing features. :) Awesome video, thanks again!

[@warren6815]

This was the most intense stream I've watched!! I was on the edge of my seat from the moment of the rapid decompression! Better than any movie!

[@flightdeck2sim]

Haha thank you! FD2S

[@ryanedmonds5159]

I wasn't even a part of the stream, and the window knocking had me checking my damn windows lmao. You definitely got some of us good haha.

[@ianfromoz1]

Missed the live stream… But had a very entertaining morning watching your head explode 🤯 lol. Excellent job for single pilot cockpit 👍

[@flightdeck2sim]

Still shaking....... FD2S

[@vicentelecourt1605]

That last part of the flight was really fun to watch, great video

[@FelixGryph]

Honestly this was a super interesting watch, definitely earned my sub and I hope you do more of these failure ridden flights.

[@flightdeck2sim]

Welcome aboard! Thanks so much for the feedback! I will definitely repeat another flight like this in the future :-) FD2S

[@richardswede]

TOP NOTCH FD2 sim, Flights to and from where getting stale, but this is the best stream i have seen in a long long time. Shows the professionals from the Amateurs.

[@adamwallace0929]

Probably my favourite ever stream, great effort mate 👌🏻👏

[@flightdeck2sim]

Cheers Adam! We survived, just......... FD2S

[@jamesmonks]

Definitely need a mug with the quote “things I do for excellent content”

[@somewaresim]

Very entertaining. Thanks for the great content!

[@L1verpool1]

First time watching and had a blast and subscribed.

[@flightdeck2sim]

Welcome on board, don't how we survived tbh ahah! FD2S

[@firmaneffendi2801]

1:55:00 autopilot disconnect noise make him look up the glareshield 🤣

[@hey8you]

Great video. I'm wanting to try the same thing on my live stream. Im going to do it drunk though lol.

[@steveb2529]

Best stream ever. Sorry missed it live…

[@NacGT4]

Absolutely amazing!!

[@ClarkeRoberts]

This was superb. Thank you for such amazing content!

[@flightdeck2sim]

Glad you enjoyed it! FD2S

[@ElitistMagi]

Thanks!

[@ElitistMagi]

This stream was just too good.

[@flightdeck2sim]

That’s very generous of you, thank you! 😊

[@allanj]

You really need to do this more often - it's so good practice for you! .......... and fun for us...

[@flightdeck2sim]

No doubt we will, currently still recovering...... FD2S

[@jayrermars8493]

Hi, some help needed please. Have I missed an update? When on the ground I'm trying to click the FMC Gross weight but just shows blank? In the past I'm pretty sure you could click this periodically when loading passengers or fuel and this figure would change accordingly.

[@jayrermars8493]

Ok I've entered the ZFW and now the GW shows in the FMC. However, when loading passengers or cargo the GW figure is not rising but the CG is? How comes the GW figure doesn't increase?

[@tf51d]

PMDG models a number of airline settings in its options, is it possible master caution on a FMC failure is a airline specific option you don't know about, that PMDG models which is why it was lit?

[@flightdeck2sim]

Ive never seen any instance of a master caution light illuminating just on its own, it shouldn’t happen and I doubt something as critical as that is a Boeing option! The master caution light should highlight one of the 12 recall items. Eg MASTER CAUTION - AIR CONDITIONING - PACK and then you action the QRH. The FMC has its only fail light on it which did illuminate during the stream and I’m pretty sure that illuminates the FMC message light. Weirdly the FMC worked perfectly. FD2S

[@AvsSensBest]

Most entertaining flight sim stream occurred in January. Others can take the rest of the year off

[@neovo903]

I reckon the hole was on the port side of the aircraft, all the failures were on the left hand side of the aircraft, the screens, the A/C, the radios...

[@flightdeck2sim]

Who knows but now you've mentioned it, the majority of failures did indeed fail on the left hand side! How bizarre! FD2S

[@victoraatg]

Hello captain. Nice stream as always. I noticed almost every flight in the PMDG, the aircraft requires more than 20 degrees pitch up to maintain V2+20 on the initial climb, whereas in the Zibo this is hardly ever necessary and it settles around V2+20 at 15 degrees pitch. I know this of course depends on weight, temperature, assumed temp yada yada. However it is clear to me, after testing both aircraft at the same configuration, the PMDG is more overpowered on the takeoff, can you comment on that? Thanks.

[@flightdeck2sim]

You know what Victor, that is something I have noticed. You'll only ever see the F/D's pitching up above 20 degrees when very light (-50 Pax) with high thrust settings (26k) but the PMDG 737 more often than not does command a higher pitch attitude. Maybe it is pushing out a bit too much thrust. The ZIBO MOD needs a lot of work for XP12 but when I worked as an SFI I got the exact performance data from the Level D sim and these figures were plugged into the MOD. This tutorial (kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3PYpWyHlrd3fJo) the ZIBO MOD performed perfectly. I know because I replicated it in the Level D sim and it was almost identical! When I get a bit of time I will compare to the PMDG, feel free to do so yourself and let me know the results! FD2S

[@victoraatg]

@@flightdeck2sim thanks for the response. Just as I imagined then, the PMDG is very overpowered on takeoff. The interesting thing is that the performance on both are exactly the same on the climb out at 280/.76, both matching the QRH. But on the initial climb with flaps, the PMDG outperforms the Zibo by a large margin. My guess is PMDG has too little drag with flaps down. If only we could get pmdg systems, Zibomod flight model, and msfs graphics. Maybe one day.

[@ElitistMagi]

very entertaining! thanks for the content!

[@flightdeck2sim]

Glad you enjoyed it! FD2S

[@JoshGratton]

Awesome video.. watched it twice!

[@flightdeck2sim]

Awesome! Thank you! FD2S

[@richardwilson9906]

You did a live stream not too long ago where you simulated a failure. I personally thought that was awesome. I'd like to see 1 random failure on your live streams. my humble opinion

[@flightdeck2sim]

Noted! I'm going to turn on one random failure ever 3-5 hours so every other PMDG stream we should see something :-) FD2S

[@achidoki21]

great video, gotta love the tension 😂

[@kenGPT]

Have you thought of doing these streams in VR? That would be fun.

[@flightdeck2sim]

Hi Ken! Maybe for me but I don’t think the experience for someone watching on a monitor/TV/phone would be as good. FD2S

[@ConcordeFan]

2:41:01 This is what I call cold and dark

[@AtonicMike]

Best stream yet!

[@thatthingyoudo279]

Well done Captain.

[@LyraTheWeasel]

@flightdeck2sim, Thanks for a super entertaining video! Was holding my breath for catastrophic failure but glad you made it to EGKK! Hope you don't mind me bothering you with a technical question: What exactly will trigger a PSEU fault light? I'm working on some normal/NNCs for the Zibo mod and am trying to trigger the PSEU light so I can find the dataref. I'm not sure if it's modelled on the Zibo, but I was doing some research that says it should turn on if the overwing exit locks fails before takeoff. I put the plane in T/O config with throttles

[@flightdeck2sim]

Hi Eshka, thanks for the kind words! The PSEU monitors several warning systems so there's a lot of things that can trigger it, including an overwing exit lock failure. It would be very difficult to model so I guess that's why ZIBO/PMDH haven't modelled it. Resetting it requires maintenance action. FD2S

[@LyraTheWeasel]

@@flightdeck2sim Thanks so much for the prompt reply, appreciate it! So it's a warning system for warning systems as well as a fault indicator? And your guess was a good one - I asked on the XP forums and apparently it's not been implemented. I'll try to find a workaround for the dynamic functionality. Thanks for the insight! Looking forward to your next stream!

[@PolarPenguin526]

My Audio Checklist Voices isn’t working. The checklist works but the voices aren’t saying anything.???? Help please

[@theHDRflightdeck]

Turning off track was removed lately! :D

[@mykweb]

What an amazing stream

[@johntaylor2433]

I wonder if PMDG has some “failures” happening, that you cannot see, that will eventually lead to a failure that you can see….. I know this is probably not one of them, but what if the wrong oil was put in the engine? Your oil readings would look fine, but there’s something seriously starting to go wrong in the engine that may not be detected immediately… It seems like scenarios like that would be reasonable for a “study-level” simulation.

[@reticentsimmer]

@flightdeck2sim Have been missing your streams for the better part of 6 months due to different time zones and also because I'm going through a bit of a rough patch in real life. I always enjoy your streams. They never fail to entertain me. This particular one's title caught my eye. One question: Does the weather radar work in the PMDG 737? I've not seen any working radar for most MSFS planes.

[@flightdeck2sim]

Thanks for the kind words and I hope you can work out everything, stay positive my friend. Yes the title pretty much summed up exactly what happened haha! The WX radar in the PMDG 737 does not work, I think there are limitations in MSFS preventing devs from making an accurate WX radar. FD2S

[@reticentsimmer]

@@flightdeck2sim Thank you for the encouragement

[@kevykevTPA]

How can I get a copy of that spiral bound FCOM, QRH, or whatever it was?? Awesome flight, I about pissed myself!

[@angelsaviation]

You might be lucky and find one on ebay as they do come up every so often. The one he was using was the one issued by the airline he flies for.

[@OlliWoodification]

Just Google it, there are loads of B737 QRH’s available online, and they’re all practically the same

[@kevykevTPA]

@@OlliWoodification Oh, I've got it in a PDF, probably several. I was talking about the physical spiral bound one. I know I can probably take it to Kinkos or what have you, but I'm thinking if I could buy it premade, that would be likely be cheaper.

[@mercster]

Great video. Outside of testing software, all your streams must be this now. :-)

[@mercster]

I'm kidding of course I know this was stressful, but for the audience it's pure gold.

[@mercster]

Well done captain. I will give you a membership for that one. :-)

[@anthonyvallillo422]

Looks like you were preparing for recurrent! Been there, done that with the LevelD 767!

[@flightdeck2sim]

That would be a recurrent and a half! FD2S

[@paulborisiv519]

when did the 2nd failure happen?

[@flightdeck2sim]

Absolutely no idea haha! We had 14 in total! FD2S

[@sillyfoxgirlnya]

ok who forgot to do the inspection this time

[@helicopterovirtual-msfs6254]

Magnífico

[@jontrout2010]

I would love to have random INOP's at load. Then we could pretend to run through MEL items. This improve immersion and impress many potential suitors, further increasing the already blistering sex appeal of flight simmers.

[@Alex_is_flying_sims]

Hello! Sorry but the rotation looks a bit odd... are you not supposed to turn the yoke into the wind?

[@flightdeck2sim]

Welcome to MSFS! Yes and with this crosswind you'd probably need full aileron into wind in the 737. At 41:40 I only needed a small amount of aileron into wind (right) to keep the wings level during rotation. The inputs needed are more realistic in X-Plane, be sure to check out my 737 Crosswind Take Off Tutorial if you'd like to learn more. FD2S

[@Alex_is_flying_sims]

@@flightdeck2sim but you say "we have a massive crosswind here", and you are barely turning yoke into it. And then the rotation looks very unstable and cowboy... don't get me wrong, I am just confused about this manoeuvring... you almost ran off the runway

[@flightdeck2sim]

I think you missed what I was saying Alex. When I say "Welcome to Microsoft Flight Simulator" I'm implying that the simulator does not model strong crosswind conditions that realistically. The aim during a crosswind take off is to maintain centreline and wings level throughout the take off roll and rotation. I indeed needed some aileron and rudder but not that much at all (because of MSFS). In reality a 38kt crosswind (over maximum limits) would require a significant/almost full input in rudder/control column during rotation. As you have correctly pointed out twice I didn't do that but that was because it was not needed and that's because of how it's modelled in MSFS (not very well) If you could point out the part where I almost ran off the runway that would be appreciated! I'm a modest man but I think I did a pretty good job, I'll do my absolute best for you next time. FD2S

[@h00vy82]

You willing to challenge yourself by doing this in the Airbus Cap?

[@flightdeck2sim]

No.

[@steveb2529]

Spoilsport….

[@greaser3069]

Donations are so annoying

[@nearpanic]

#1😊

[@pokemonguy6579]

I clicked on because of the clickbait thumbnail...

[@flightdeck2sim]

Wasn't too far off what happened tbh! FD2S

[@pokemonguy6579]

@@flightdeck2sim Twas good 🙂 I wanna see a belly landing HEHEHE

[@paulg2234]

omg now i hear your voice your the guy on tick tok that went to the movies to watch that aviation film