Earlier today I stumbled onto this and have now watched a number of your videos. They are all excellent. It makes a huge difference to watch someone who has actually flown an aircraft professionally. It is also exciting to discover high speed low level navigation in the sim. I would really like to see a video on how you plan your sorties. thanks
@@cgaviator Thanks I will take a look. I think it is the timing and fuel calculations that I can't get my head around at the moment. I will be ordering a HOTAS system later today and, when fitted, I will download the Hawk. I have just flown the Scotland sortie in the Kodiak; enough said about that...
You have outdone yourself with this video. It was interesting, enjoyable, and useful. Looking at you flying inspires me to improve myself. I'm way far from being able to handle this jet and it can become very frustrating at times. I struggle to trim it right, to manage speeds, to land it decently, every kind of possible mistake, you name it, I do it. Please don't ever refrain to explain even the most simple things you do because nothing is obvious for a beginner like me. I can't explain enough how much I enjoyed this video. I wish you to expand your channel and to have fun with as many different aircraft you like, but the Hawk will always remain my obsession, especially because I suck so much at flying it while you make it look so simple.
Very kind, thanks! Remember that I had to learn 2 aircraft before this, and then spent plenty of time on jets before I became remotely comfortable with it.
Fantastic work, Chris. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and insights from the real thing, this is a priceless resource for us mere mortals. I appreciate your time and effort for producing this material. Cheers from Down Under, Max
Just to Echo what Max said really, excellent video, and an insight into the world of real military aviation and navigating with time and landmarks was very interesting
Thoroughly enjoyable, thanks for taking a passenger! Stunning graphics. I was a simulator engineer for Rediffusion and Thomson-CSF before programming avionics (Harrier FADEC BITE and Airbus FQIS) at Smiths Industries so can really appreciate the advance in sim technology and graphics. All the best, Rob in Switzerland
I've just spent 3 days at the Mach Loop on top of Cad West watching Hawks fly past and it was ace. It inspired to me jump back in the JF Hawk and whizz around the loop in VR. Just the best thing! I looked back for some older videos and discovered this one. Thanks again for the navigation tips. Love it.
@@cgaviator I know you've flown the loop and had a better view than I had but I did upload a 4k video of some of the things I saw. Feel free to have a look if you have a spare 3 minutes 🙂
That was totally awesome! Being able to do this kind of exercise with this amount of precision in MSFS certainly shows the capabilities of the sim from a visual standpoint.
Thanks again for another entertaining trip. I met one of the navigators on the Dams raid, Sidney Hobday. A modest man who regarded the navigation as another day at the office. It would be great to see it done in the Hawk.
That was awesome! I live in Bristol, on finals for the old Filton Airfield that is thankfully still in the sim. I have the whole world to fly but I still do most of my flying to or from Bristol or even my favourite 20 minute Filton to Bristol trip! Great video, definitely some landmarks I will be checking out! 👍👌
You're right, CG. The "castle" on Castle Hill is actually on old Victorian era tower, but it can be seen for miles around! When I have dinner at my Grandparent's we can see it out of the back patio doors from their dining table :P It does get rather windy and chilly up there, though! Great flight, loved the video :)
Fascinating video, watched the whole thing. A real privilege to get a glimpse of how this might work in the real world, through a sim we can play at home 👍
Loved this. I haven’t tried fast jets yet and do love look or the Hawk. These sorties feel like they’d be more meaningful than just flying randomly around at speed.
Thoroughly enjoyed this, Spent 5 years at RAF Leeming with XI Squadron was nice to see the A1 on departure. I've subscribed and look forward to more content! Thanks!
100% tell you're a RAF pilot, just some of the terms you use. :) I did EFT at UBAS, Cosford, im gonna LOVE this one. You will know some of my mates for sure - Keep up the great content!!
What a brilliant video - it makes you realise what a beautiful country we live in here in the UK. Really enjoyed this so have subscribed to your channel and looking forward to exploring the rest of your content and future videos. PS You have an amazing broadcasting voice too. Very clear and relaxing. You should be a therapist haha. Thanks again, take care.
Brilliant video! Super interesting and relaxing. Been binge watching your content over the past few nights and it's all great!. Hope you do longer flights like this more :)
@@cgaviator That's totally understandable!. You can tell you put a lot of time into your editing 😊 always top notch!. Long or short, your videos are always brilliant. Definitely the best MSFS videos on CZcams. Hope you're keeping well mate!
@@cgaviator I do classic regalularity rallies in early Mazda MX-5's. I have 3, a standard one, a slightly modified one and a highly modified one. On a regularity rally one has to be at a certain point at a certain time. Marshals are at secret locations and note the time to the second as one passes. Usually one is required to average 27.5 mph though this can vary. Thus one needs a navigator with map reading skills and also timing skills to ensure one maintains the required average speed. Penalty points are added for each second fast or slow as one passes the marshals timing point. The crew with the lowest points is the winner.
Take care and "FLY SAFE"… he says, after flying under the Clifton suspension bridge! 😅 I know,,, sim… Great video and well narrated. Liked and subscribed.🛫
This channel is amazing. Always wanted to be an RAF pilot as a kid until someone told me my eyesight would disqualify despite wearing contacts me so I never pursued it, now at 32 one of my biggest, if not the biggest regrets is not at least going to speak to someone from the RAF and see if that was true or not
@@cgaviator I've often thought about it but I have no idea as of yet how I'd find a route into such a career :) I still have the goal of at least somehow managing to find a financially viable way of attaining a private pilot licence but that'd be a long way off simply though being so financially demanding. I would imagine the requirements for becoming a civvie pilot would be equally as demanding :(
@@nicwilson89 yeah, big risk committing to commercial/ATPL licence. Especially with the uncertainty of travel these days. But you could always fly smaller things. There’s always a way, just rarely an easy one! 😅
@@cgaviator can you talk about the hardware you're using. What kind of HOTAS system do you recommend. I'm planning to get one. I have a Logitech G940 force-feedback one. But it's little buggy now. Too old i guess.
@@Aerospatial used to have a Microsoft sidewinder force feedback waaaay back in the day! All my specs and peripherals are on my website. Link should be in the description 👍🏻
@@cgaviator @cgaviator oh yah. I had the same. That was like most famous joystick back in the days. If you could remember in MSFS 2000, john and Martha king instructional videos. He used the same. 🙂. Good old memories. It was really nice and fun to learn. As there was no CZcams back in the days.
Over my house at 16:04. The route out of the Manchester CTZ at Congleton down to Alton Towers was a regular pleasure trip I used to take friends and family on when I used to fly out of Woodford. Sadly Woodford is no more, but would be great to see it modelled in FS2020 for old times sake with a Vulcan or Nimrod aircraft added to the aircraft in FS.
I've been based at Valley and Leeming in my time, so very familiar with the Hawks. Had a flight in a 19 Sqn Hawk when I was at Valley. Great aircraft in my opinion. Nice video 👍
Hey Chris, my second reply to one of your videos in recent days. I can confirm there is a Stone Tower on Castle Hill overlooking Huddersfield Town. It was opened in June 1899 and is called Victoria Tower. From memory there's been various settlements and forts on the site over the last few hundred years and the site has been settled for at least 4,000 years. Also, randomly did a motorbike trackday at RAF Leeming in 2010 where I had a huge moment and had an excursion at the end of runway 34 after completely over cooking it on a Suzuki gsxr 750. Loving the videos pal, commentary and insight is fantastic and (take this the way it's intended haha) your videos make for very chilled out viewing with random music on and commentary off. Looking forward to trying some of your techniques in my own flying though I imagine I'll be task saturated before I've even reached top of climb. If you had checklists or literature to share I'm sure people would consider a pattern or maybe visiting a webshop of some sort :)
@@cgaviator ahhh “I don’t know if there’s a castle on the hill” as in, within msfs 🤦🏻♂️ sorry Chris. On another note I just found out there’s an old ww2 anti aircraft battery about half a mile south of castle hill. Blew my mind as I must have driven past it hundreds of times without realising
I've never had a go on a home sim before, could never see the attraction. But, this was a lot of fun👍. I'm off to a professional flight sim at an airport soon, now I'm looking forward to it 😎.
Great video. I'm based in Harrogate so quite often fly from Leeming and Leeds Bradford in sims. Love going low-level around Grimwith and through Nidderdale etc. Occasionally used to see Hawks and Tucanos in Niddderdale in real life.
@@cgaviator Out of service now. Its now Texans, which look like mini Tucanos. You know you are getting old when you can remember Tucanos coming into service and have now gone.
@@cgaviator Vy why was my favourite. Was young and single then. Lived off base in a flat in Trearddur Bay - great in the summer when the tourists came with their daughters!! VY was crap in the winter with horizontal rain. Linton is pretty close to me.
Great video as always! Oh yes, Sally's t*ts.... I use to watch aircraft go through there all the time. I've got a video of a Jaguar going through somewhere. I was told by a pilot that due to a bird of prey sanctuary they avoid it now. Not sure how true that is but it's certainly rare to see anything through these days. 😔
Gutted! But I’m going to have to ween myself off the IL2 Sturmovik brand, I won’t be making any more purchases on their latest releases (was really looking forward to Battle of Normandy too). Hey-ho.... these videos are excellent, and are a big help for me making this choice. Looking forward to learning some modern, fast jet low level navigation as part of my transition to MSFS, and some of the other products advertised in your videos... many thanks.. 👍🏻
What ho Chaps, Prune here Just joined you for your low level Leeming to Bristol, as your Nav / back seat jockey, Not for me all this rushing about, my flying was at a much more sedate pace, joined the jolly ol RAF spring of 67, smartly off to El Adem, went back into civvy street 82 then joined JACIG1990 till 95 when I was politely asked to go back to the Brylcream boys so been here ever since leaving the service in 2008 after 32 years service do all my flying now from this jolly ol desk my own, Mahogany Bomber. brm brm hold on chaps this flying is a right lark hold oc ops ain't about
Most enjoyable. Retracing well known features from forty odd years ago. No GPS. But who needs GPS if you have VOR's. I would fly a little higher and a little slower in a C185. In every other respect spot on. The rendering is incredible.
Excellent video. I’m really getting to know my round the UK using your techniques and weaning myself off GPS. It’s so much more fun flying VFR at speed. Thanks for all you effort.
Fantastic, I'm convinced enough to buy a new flight-sim rig purely based on this video! Outstanding airmanship too, makes my usual behaviour pattern of barrel rolls until bingo fuel , then bailing out over populated areas seem somewhat amateur! Hah.
@@cgaviator Don't be , I'm about to start a new gig next week and have already worked out what t blow my first paycheck on! “I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.” ― WC Fields
The Navigating officer on board HMS Southampton in the 1980s WAS a chopper pilot until he flew under tower bridge for real!!!! He drove destroyers after that!😂
It’s great learning something new. The Airbus is supposedly simple but get the autopilot plugged in just so is a challenge I find! I like stick and throttle flying for that very reason! 😂
Enjoyed your flight - just like to point out that the Severn bridges are both the same - the modern M4 bridge - whereas crossing bBachley Head should show the older suspension bridge(M48). Checked comments - could not see ref to this - if missed I apologise.
@@cgaviator That must be a real ball ache. Hope they sort it out soon. Maybe the next update. It's strange though. I've got a, barely minimum spec, laptop that hardly ever crashes. Think I had a few CTD's trying beta heli's. But none since. But then, I'm not recording my flights.
Excellent video cgaviator, only just found your channel..i hail from Stoke On Trent so Jodrall Bank, Macclesfield and Alton Towers are all well known to me...Subscribed Pal
As ever excellent video with lots of tips. Will be looking to replicate when I get chance. This Hawk is amazing. I don't get any Ctds apart from when I fly the f35b ... Shame as it puts me off flying it. However the Hawk is a great frame to learn on. More of the same please Chris. 👍
Excellent video! Really enjoyed. I'm hoping you do a round up one day of all the features on the aircrew map of Britain with flypasts and maybe the backstories!
Great video the detail is good, I am sure Kirklees Council is working on it becoming a city, however at this point in time Huddersfield is only a town!
Both informative and yet very relaxing viewing! I must give something like this a go. It's only 4 times faster than when I used to do it 😉. Having hit invisible bits of Tower Bridge and Clifton Suspension bridge, I had sadly had to give up on them but good to see it's possible but I guess not with many bridges? I wonder how many virtual cups of tea were spilt or vehicles crashed on the M5 bridge over the Avon as you roared past? 🤣
You should look into spad.next as it will let you bind a lot of controls like the clock you may not be able to bind in the config settings within MSFS directly. You can also bind gps controls. Fantastic for binding lots of stuff to a hotas for VR flying.
I used that for P3D but I prefer not to use additional software where possible. I’m not sure if the clock would be bindable without the developers making it possible? In any case, I hope that they will be adding a key bind for it in their next update 👍🏻
It’s a completely different sim but the simplicity of the aircraft and the amazing scenery has me hooked. I’m trying DCS again having not flown it for a while. Lots to learn again!
What is it with British veterans having a silky smooth voice? Between you and The Mighty Jingles I'm sorted! Awesome sortie, instant sub. Cant wait to dive in your video library. This is going to be fun!
Yep, Radio communication training. Dad had the same, he was a radio operator for the Navy. He loves to surprise us with his, and i quote, "Bob Harris" voice. To me, it means I'm in trouble.... Mum drops her panties... heh. @@cgaviator
Excellent and enjoyable video, thank you so much. I can also report having CTDs recently in MSFS, related to, I believe a recent Nvidia driver update (which apparently has now been fixed by the most recent driver release) and related to Live Weather, which I think is still an ongoing issue. If I set weather to clear skies, then it seems fine.
Earlier today I stumbled onto this and have now watched a number of your videos. They are all excellent. It makes a huge difference to watch someone who has actually flown an aircraft professionally. It is also exciting to discover high speed low level navigation in the sim. I would really like to see a video on how you plan your sorties. thanks
Thanks, and there is a planning vid on my channel. It covers how I planned the Scotland sortie. Only a broad brush intro of course.
@@cgaviator Thanks I will take a look. I think it is the timing and fuel calculations that I can't get my head around at the moment. I will be ordering a HOTAS system later today and, when fitted, I will download the Hawk. I have just flown the Scotland sortie in the Kodiak; enough said about that...
@@lentunicliffe7824 awesome, enjoy!
You have outdone yourself with this video.
It was interesting, enjoyable, and useful. Looking at you flying inspires me to improve myself.
I'm way far from being able to handle this jet and it can become very frustrating at times.
I struggle to trim it right, to manage speeds, to land it decently, every kind of possible mistake, you name it, I do it.
Please don't ever refrain to explain even the most simple things you do because nothing is obvious for a beginner like me.
I can't explain enough how much I enjoyed this video.
I wish you to expand your channel and to have fun with as many different aircraft you like, but the Hawk will always remain my obsession, especially because I suck so much at flying it while you make it look so simple.
Very kind, thanks! Remember that I had to learn 2 aircraft before this, and then spent plenty of time on jets before I became remotely comfortable with it.
I agree Attilio. Pleasant viewing and very informative. I think novices like us need to train in small increments. Nobody learns everything at once!
Fantastic work, Chris. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and insights from the real thing, this is a priceless resource for us mere mortals. I appreciate your time and effort for producing this material. Cheers from Down Under, Max
You’re very welcome, thanks for commenting!
Just to Echo what Max said really, excellent video, and an insight into the world of real military aviation and navigating with time and landmarks was very interesting
Thoroughly enjoyable, thanks for taking a passenger! Stunning graphics. I was a simulator engineer for Rediffusion and Thomson-CSF before programming avionics (Harrier FADEC BITE and Airbus FQIS) at Smiths Industries so can really appreciate the advance in sim technology and graphics. All the best, Rob in Switzerland
Thanks, much appreciated 👍🏻
I've just spent 3 days at the Mach Loop on top of Cad West watching Hawks fly past and it was ace. It inspired to me jump back in the JF Hawk and whizz around the loop in VR. Just the best thing! I looked back for some older videos and discovered this one. Thanks again for the navigation tips. Love it.
Great whenever you can do things for real and in the sim! 🤘🏻
@@cgaviator I know you've flown the loop and had a better view than I had but I did upload a 4k video of some of the things I saw. Feel free to have a look if you have a spare 3 minutes 🙂
How amazing it is to see such skill at work. This was like watching a dance! Thank you for 42 minutes of pure enjoyment.
Thank you so much for your very kind words, very much appreciated
The town you chickened out of pronouncing is my home town: You-tox-it-er. Brilliant by the way. Loved it.
Haha! Thanks! Totally would have gotten it wrong. You should see the feedback I got for calling lochs, lakes in the Scotland video!! 😂
That was totally awesome! Being able to do this kind of exercise with this amount of precision in MSFS certainly shows the capabilities of the sim from a visual standpoint.
Absolutely!
Great video. Very obvious you’ve got a few hours under your belt. Always a pleasure to watch and listen to a professional that makes it look easy!
Thank you, very kind 👍🏻
Thanks again for another entertaining trip. I met one of the navigators on the Dams raid, Sidney Hobday. A modest man who regarded the navigation as another day at the office. It would be great to see it done in the Hawk.
Thanks, and what an excellent experience to chat to guys who did it!
Brilliant video. I love the calmness and precision. Imagine if people saw this a couple of years ago before anyone knew the new sim existed yet
Yeah, absolutely leaps ahead of where sims were a while back!
Absolutely adore this aircraft.. hits all the same aesthetic notes as the A1-Skyhawk but with that _beautiful_ canopy
Agreed!
That was awesome! I live in Bristol, on finals for the old Filton Airfield that is thankfully still in the sim. I have the whole world to fly but I still do most of my flying to or from Bristol or even my favourite 20 minute Filton to Bristol trip! Great video, definitely some landmarks I will be checking out! 👍👌
Thanks 👍🏻
You're right, CG. The "castle" on Castle Hill is actually on old Victorian era tower, but it can be seen for miles around! When I have dinner at my Grandparent's we can see it out of the back patio doors from their dining table :P It does get rather windy and chilly up there, though! Great flight, loved the video :)
Thanks 👍🏻 And a nice view they have!
Fascinating video, watched the whole thing. A real privilege to get a glimpse of how this might work in the real world, through a sim we can play at home 👍
Glad you enjoyed 👍🏻
Loved this. I haven’t tried fast jets yet and do love look or the Hawk. These sorties feel like they’d be more meaningful than just flying randomly around at speed.
Yup, always good to achieve something 👍🏻
This mission was lovely! Amazing video and amazing to see the precision nav
Thank you, very kind!
@@cgaviator can you one with ILS ?
@@219dale check my channel.. already done 👍🏻
@@cgaviator thank you
Thoroughly enjoyed this, Spent 5 years at RAF Leeming with XI Squadron was nice to see the A1 on departure. I've subscribed and look forward to more content! Thanks!
Good to hear, thanks 👍🏻
Driving to Newcastle on A1M getting buzzed by airplanes out of Leeming great!
That must be some sort of driving hazard with a lot of drivers looking at the jets! 😄
100% tell you're a RAF pilot, just some of the terms you use. :) I did EFT at UBAS, Cosford, im gonna LOVE this one. You will know some of my mates for sure - Keep up the great content!!
Lol, thanks!
Great video. Always enjoy watching you fly the Hawk.
Thank you 🙏🏻
What a brilliant video - it makes you realise what a beautiful country we live in here in the UK. Really enjoyed this so have subscribed to your channel and looking forward to exploring the rest of your content and future videos. PS You have an amazing broadcasting voice too. Very clear and relaxing. You should be a therapist haha. Thanks again, take care.
Haha, much appreciated! 😄
excellent don't watch many things all the way through but did with this...thank you ...
Great to hear, thank you 👍🏻
Enjoyable to watch, especially as I live not too far from Jodrell Bank and was once stationed at RAF Hereford back in the 80's.
Do you visit it much? Was wondering if there’s much to do?
Wow, that was hugely impressive. You were always way in front of the plane and the situation!
Thanks! Much appreciated. Many years of practice!
@@cgaviatoryes, that's pretty evident. Using a timer manually as a positional reference so accurately.
Best flight sim vids on youtube. Nice work and many thanks. Learning a lot from them.
You’re very welcome, thanks for watching. Hoping to get back to doing videos before Christmas
I have no connection with flight sims, but i find these vids really interesting and entertaining
That’s great to hear and interesting CZcams is throwing these videos your way!
Brilliant video! Super interesting and relaxing. Been binge watching your content over the past few nights and it's all great!. Hope you do longer flights like this more :)
It takes many times longer to edit than to fly so don’t often get chance to. Maybe I’ll figure one out soon 👍🏻
@@cgaviator That's totally understandable!. You can tell you put a lot of time into your editing 😊 always top notch!. Long or short, your videos are always brilliant. Definitely the best MSFS videos on CZcams. Hope you're keeping well mate!
I wish my rally navigator had your skills! I enjoyed that, thanks.
Rally navigator!!? 🤘🏻 Thanks for commenting 👍🏻
@@cgaviator Car rallies..
@@peterbonnez lol, I got that bit! 😅 What sort of car if you don’t mind me asking?
@@cgaviator I do classic regalularity rallies in early Mazda MX-5's. I have 3, a standard one, a slightly modified one and a highly modified one. On a regularity rally one has to be at a certain point at a certain time. Marshals are at secret locations and note the time to the second as one passes. Usually one is required to average 27.5 mph though this can vary. Thus one needs a navigator with map reading skills and also timing skills to ensure one maintains the required average speed. Penalty points are added for each second fast or slow as one passes the marshals timing point. The crew with the lowest points is the winner.
@@peterbonnez cool! I’ve heard of that. Sounds like a blast!
Damn the exterior shots are soooooo real. Was expecting water on the canopy with rain showers
You do get water on it. May not have shown clearly, but heavier downpours produce streaming water. Very cool indeed!
Take care and "FLY SAFE"… he says, after flying under the Clifton suspension bridge! 😅 I know,,, sim… Great video and well narrated. Liked and subscribed.🛫
Need to work on a better tag line! lol - and thanks, much appreciated!
This channel is amazing. Always wanted to be an RAF pilot as a kid until someone told me my eyesight would disqualify despite wearing contacts me so I never pursued it, now at 32 one of my biggest, if not the biggest regrets is not at least going to speak to someone from the RAF and see if that was true or not
I can understand that completely. You could still be a civvie pilot?
@@cgaviator I've often thought about it but I have no idea as of yet how I'd find a route into such a career :)
I still have the goal of at least somehow managing to find a financially viable way of attaining a private pilot licence but that'd be a long way off simply though being so financially demanding. I would imagine the requirements for becoming a civvie pilot would be equally as demanding :(
@@nicwilson89 yeah, big risk committing to commercial/ATPL licence. Especially with the uncertainty of travel these days. But you could always fly smaller things. There’s always a way, just rarely an easy one! 😅
@@cgaviator Haha, indeed. I will find a way to make it happen somehow, some way. It may be a long way off but one way of another, it shall happen :)
Another brilliant video. So much to take in and practise. Many thanks.
Fantastic - really enjoyable trip. I know if I tried the same thing without GPS I'd end up somewhere near Aberdeen!
That wouldn’t be a bad journey though! 😄
Watched more than 6 of your videos just for today
. addicted
Wow, thanks! Any requests for future videos?
@@cgaviator can you talk about the hardware you're using. What kind of HOTAS system do you recommend. I'm planning to get one. I have a Logitech G940 force-feedback one. But it's little buggy now. Too old i guess.
@@Aerospatial used to have a Microsoft sidewinder force feedback waaaay back in the day! All my specs and peripherals are on my website. Link should be in the description 👍🏻
@@cgaviator @cgaviator oh yah. I had the same. That was like most famous joystick back in the days. If you could remember in MSFS 2000, john and Martha king instructional videos. He used the same. 🙂. Good old memories. It was really nice and fun to learn. As there was no CZcams back in the days.
Over my house at 16:04. The route out of the Manchester CTZ at Congleton down to Alton Towers was a regular pleasure trip I used to take friends and family on when I used to fly out of Woodford. Sadly Woodford is no more, but would be great to see it modelled in FS2020 for old times sake with a Vulcan or Nimrod aircraft added to the aircraft in FS.
Shame airfields are closing down!
Loved every minute of it!
Thanks 👍🏻👍🏻
I've been based at Valley and Leeming in my time, so very familiar with the Hawks. Had a flight in a 19 Sqn Hawk when I was at Valley. Great aircraft in my opinion. Nice video 👍
Thanks 👍🏻
Hey Chris, my second reply to one of your videos in recent days. I can confirm there is a Stone Tower on Castle Hill overlooking Huddersfield Town. It was opened in June 1899 and is called Victoria Tower. From memory there's been various settlements and forts on the site over the last few hundred years and the site has been settled for at least 4,000 years. Also, randomly did a motorbike trackday at RAF Leeming in 2010 where I had a huge moment and had an excursion at the end of runway 34 after completely over cooking it on a Suzuki gsxr 750. Loving the videos pal, commentary and insight is fantastic and (take this the way it's intended haha) your videos make for very chilled out viewing with random music on and commentary off. Looking forward to trying some of your techniques in my own flying though I imagine I'll be task saturated before I've even reached top of climb. If you had checklists or literature to share I'm sure people would consider a pattern or maybe visiting a webshop of some sort :)
Thanks, yeah, I know the tower well. Went to Uni in t'Huddersfield! And thanks, lots of plans and not enough hours in the day lol!
@@cgaviator ahhh “I don’t know if there’s a castle on the hill” as in, within msfs 🤦🏻♂️ sorry Chris. On another note I just found out there’s an old ww2 anti aircraft battery about half a mile south of castle hill. Blew my mind as I must have driven past it hundreds of times without realising
Wow this is some seriously great piloting and navigation skills, nice work!
Thank you 🙏🏻
I've never had a go on a home sim before, could never see the attraction. But, this was a lot of fun👍.
I'm off to a professional flight sim at an airport soon, now I'm looking forward to it 😎.
Think of it as a method of escapism! And in MSFS I can visit anywhere even though I’m stuck in one place. Enjoy your pro sim! Business or pleasure?
Another great video!! Always looking forward to a new Hawk video. Thanks for sharing!
You make this look really easy! 😂 Great to see your videos, I was an Opsie on 72 Sqn when you were instructing at Linton.
Great to hear from you! Hope you’re well!
Another great video, enjoyed jodrell bank, which I remember from my qxc, low level route to egnh! Keep them coming Chris 👍
Thanks, will do! 👍🏻
Love the Jodrell Bank scenery! I live not that far from it
I’m jealous, would love to visit!
Great video. I'm based in Harrogate so quite often fly from Leeming and Leeds Bradford in sims. Love going low-level around Grimwith and through Nidderdale etc.
Occasionally used to see Hawks and Tucanos in Niddderdale in real life.
I do like a good Tucano!
@@cgaviator Out of service now. Its now Texans, which look like mini Tucanos. You know you are getting old when you can remember Tucanos coming into service and have now gone.
@@jjsmallpiece9234 yup, shame they got rid of Tucanos and Linton at the same time. Beat base in the RAF #biased!
@@cgaviator Vy why was my favourite. Was young and single then. Lived off base in a flat in Trearddur Bay - great in the summer when the tourists came with their daughters!! VY was crap in the winter with horizontal rain.
Linton is pretty close to me.
Great video as always!
Oh yes, Sally's t*ts.... I use to watch aircraft go through there all the time. I've got a video of a Jaguar going through somewhere. I was told by a pilot that due to a bird of prey sanctuary they avoid it now. Not sure how true that is but it's certainly rare to see anything through these days. 😔
Shame! It’s not in the 500k map, but the military low flying charts are more restrictive.
Recognising the Airmanship checks from my online tuition.FOEL, FIRADS HASLL. Great video. May see you in the skies if ever you're in multiplayer 👍😎
Perhaps! 👍🏻
How smooth was that landing. Brilliant. Thanks for the tips.
Gutted! But I’m going to have to ween myself off the IL2 Sturmovik brand, I won’t be making any more purchases on their latest releases (was really looking forward to Battle of Normandy too). Hey-ho.... these videos are excellent, and are a big help for me making this choice. Looking forward to learning some modern, fast jet low level navigation as part of my transition to MSFS, and some of the other products advertised in your videos... many thanks.. 👍🏻
Thanks for the kind words! And welcome!
Totally enjoyed that flight, well presented, regards from Auckland NZ
Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
What ho Chaps, Prune here Just joined you for your low level Leeming to Bristol, as your Nav / back seat jockey, Not for me all this rushing about, my flying was at a much more sedate pace, joined the jolly ol RAF spring of 67, smartly off to El Adem, went back into civvy street 82 then joined JACIG1990 till 95 when I was politely asked to go back to the Brylcream boys so been here ever since leaving the service in 2008 after 32 years service do all my flying now from this jolly ol desk my own, Mahogany Bomber. brm brm hold on chaps this flying is a right lark hold oc ops ain't about
What ho back atcha! I hear those mahogany bombers are pretty tough to handle! Thanks for commenting 👍🏻
Brilliant video thanks, so interesting to see the stopwatch being used for navigation, Really inspiring.
Thanks - I like to keep things old school!
Most enjoyable. Retracing well known features from forty odd years ago. No GPS. But who needs GPS if you have VOR's. I would fly a little higher and a little slower in a C185. In every other respect spot on. The rendering is incredible.
Who needs VORs when you have a map and stopwatch! 😉
Love your videos you make flying the Hawk look so easy .
Everything’s easy when you know how. It’s just getting to that point that’s difficult lol
Everything’s easy when you know how. It’s just getting to that point that’s difficult lol
That’s cool - I was brought up in Bristol and lived not far from Filton all very familiar
Excellent video. I’m really getting to know my round the UK using your techniques and weaning myself off GPS. It’s so much more fun flying VFR at speed. Thanks for all you effort.
You’re very welcome. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
i really love your videos it gives me such a cozy vibe
Fantastic video and talk through I was on the flightline at Valley on T1s nice to see one so well represented have a sub
Thanks 👍🏻
Love your content. You really deserve many more subs. I’m sure they’re on the way...
With hope and a little patience! Thank you 👍🏻
Fantastic, I'm convinced enough to buy a new flight-sim rig purely based on this video!
Outstanding airmanship too, makes my usual behaviour pattern of barrel rolls until bingo fuel , then bailing out over populated areas seem somewhat amateur! Hah.
Haha, I’m sorry for your wallet!
@@cgaviator Don't be , I'm about to start a new gig next week and have already worked out what t blow my first paycheck on!
“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”
― WC Fields
@@MilesB1975 😂👍🏻
Saw the start of the clip, didn't read the title, thought it was real.
Well done...thoroughly enjoyed watching your video!
Glad to hear, thank you 👍🏻
Thanks for the ride!
Any time! 👍🏻
The Navigating officer on board HMS Southampton in the 1980s WAS a chopper pilot until he flew under tower bridge for real!!!! He drove destroyers after that!😂
😂
Brilliant really enjoyed that ! Thanks for your time and effort. Currently trying to learn the Airbus but think this is a great avenue to explore.
It’s great learning something new. The Airbus is supposedly simple but get the autopilot plugged in just so is a challenge I find! I like stick and throttle flying for that very reason! 😂
The Hawk looks amazing, I initially thought that it was real, ie not simulated.
It’s an amazing sim and a fantastic model. Microsoft just need to improve the flight dynamics and add helicopters properly and it’ll be exceptional!
That was brilliant. On the way down the Bristol Channel I was hoping youd fly under the Clifton Brdige and you did. Great stuff
Would be rude not to!
Serious navigation and informative, but very enjoyable. Thanks.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Jodrell Bank Planetarium is worth a visit.
Nice! 10:53 you flew right over my house :)
I get a lot of that! Constantly buzzing over peoples’ houses lol! 😆
Enjoyed your flight - just like to point out that the Severn bridges are both the same - the modern M4 bridge - whereas crossing bBachley Head should show the older suspension bridge(M48). Checked comments - could not see ref to this - if missed I apologise.
Thanks for the info 👍🏻
I'm just gutted my pc won't run this programme sufficiently!
Time to upgrade me thinks 🤔
Great video, nice 1
Thanks. I used a 980Ti for a while and it just about cut it with no other traffic etc. 3070 as a minimum for the good stuff me thinks!
Great video, thanks. Glad you managed it without a CTD.
Thanks! And I did get CTDs on 2 previous attempts! 😬
@@cgaviator That must be a real ball ache. Hope they sort it out soon. Maybe the next update. It's strange though. I've got a, barely minimum spec, laptop that hardly ever crashes. Think I had a few CTD's trying beta heli's. But none since.
But then, I'm not recording my flights.
@@51im i don’t think it would be the recording, that’s separate to MSFS. I’ve heard it could be detailed weather setting it off.
That was excellent. Really enjoyed it. 👍🏼
Thanks very much, appreciate the comment 🙏🏻
As always a very enjoyable but informative video. Thanks!
Excellent video and made it look so easy. I am a complete newcomer to MSFS on xbox series S and would love to be able to fly as smooth as you do.
Will be tricky with a small control stick but I wish you well!
Great video - you certainly know your stuff 👍👌
It’s still in there somewhere! 😅
Excellent video cgaviator, only just found your channel..i hail from Stoke On Trent so Jodrall Bank, Macclesfield and Alton Towers are all well known to me...Subscribed Pal
Thanks, much appreciated!
Absolutely fantastic! I need to buy the Hawk and join the RAF :)
They’d definitely take you if you brought your own jet! 😆
Great homage there to the Tower Bridge incident!
Excellent, the Hawk is my favourite aircraft! Not sure I could handle all the different timings though :-)
It can get quite complicated, especially when you add in some wind!
As ever excellent video with lots of tips. Will be looking to replicate when I get chance. This Hawk is amazing. I don't get any Ctds apart from when I fly the f35b ... Shame as it puts me off flying it. However the Hawk is a great frame to learn on. More of the same please Chris. 👍
Roger that!
Lovely video thank you, come to Suffolk, Lakenheath be great to see, keep at it..
It’s a bit flat around there but I do have plans for something in the vicinity 👍🏻
Excellent video! Really enjoyed. I'm hoping you do a round up one day of all the features on the aircrew map of Britain with flypasts and maybe the backstories!
That would take some doing but I’ll certainly take in a few more!
@@cgaviator you've got a few covered already. I imagine some back stories could get you demonitised!
@@calummacfarlane8476 very true! 😅
Great video the detail is good, I am sure Kirklees Council is working on it becoming a city, however at this point in time Huddersfield is only a town!
Fair point!
Thanks, does Microsoft Flight Simulator have a flight training option?
@@billmmckelvie5188 it has some challenges and I believe there is a tutorial built in, yes
Both informative and yet very relaxing viewing! I must give something like this a go. It's only 4 times faster than when I used to do it 😉. Having hit invisible bits of Tower Bridge and Clifton Suspension bridge, I had sadly had to give up on them but good to see it's possible but I guess not with many bridges? I wonder how many virtual cups of tea were spilt or vehicles crashed on the M5 bridge over the Avon as you roared past? 🤣
Haha, yeah. It’s a shame they’re not modelled for flying under. Perhaps it’s a photogrammetry thing. No idea, beyond me
Cracking flying over my old hunting grounds
I said to my student if we are using Alton Towers as a turning point, so could someone else. As we turned a Tucano came the opposite way.
That is the hazard of course. Though pretty rare to find a Tucano that way!
Definitely useful, interesting, and enjoyable. Thanks, nice flying.
Thanks 🙏🏻
You should look into spad.next as it will let you bind a lot of controls like the clock you may not be able to bind in the config settings within MSFS directly. You can also bind gps controls. Fantastic for binding lots of stuff to a hotas for VR flying.
I used that for P3D but I prefer not to use additional software where possible. I’m not sure if the clock would be bindable without the developers making it possible? In any case, I hope that they will be adding a key bind for it in their next update 👍🏻
Very nice nav teach with plenty going on! With scenery looking this good, MFSF is almost enough to tempt me away from DCS.
It’s a completely different sim but the simplicity of the aircraft and the amazing scenery has me hooked. I’m trying DCS again having not flown it for a while. Lots to learn again!
a great help... much appreciated..
My pleasure!
I've never been able to fly the Hawk that smoothly.
Lol, thanks! Known pitch and power settings, select hold trim, lookout picture instruments - fast jet flying in a nutshell!
What is it with British veterans having a silky smooth voice?
Between you and The Mighty Jingles I'm sorted!
Awesome sortie, instant sub.
Cant wait to dive in your video library. This is going to be fun!
Part of the fast jet training! 😂 I’ll have to do some more navigation sorties. Now I have a tornado to play with…
Yep, Radio communication training. Dad had the same, he was a radio operator for the Navy. He loves to surprise us with his, and i quote, "Bob Harris" voice.
To me, it means I'm in trouble....
Mum drops her panties...
heh.
@@cgaviator
Fantastic and educational, cheers!
As always, a brilliant video. Thanks.......
Excellent and enjoyable video, thank you so much. I can also report having CTDs recently in MSFS, related to, I believe a recent Nvidia driver update (which apparently has now been fixed by the most recent driver release) and related to Live Weather, which I think is still an ongoing issue. If I set weather to clear skies, then it seems fine.
Aah, perhaps as I suspected then! Thanks 👍🏻
Nice flight, love to see it.
Almost thought you were flying over Oxenhope ‘International’ I could have waved.
Probably would have seen you! 😁