Driving through the Sveti Rok tunnel is an amazing experience, as the landscape and the feel of the surroundings is very different on the northern side of the tunnel compared to the south side of the tunnel. The sim doesn't really do it justice. You enter the tunnel in a very green landscape that feels very "mainland Europe", drive a few kilometers through the tunnel and emerge in a landscape that looks almost desert-like at times, with a lot of yellows and browns, contrasting against the dark blue sea. It's truly amazing.
In the beginning of the briefing they mention that the cruising speed of the 172 is 129 kts. This is what they use for the speed, you can double check with the time vs distance. That why your timings are off. Really enjoy your videos, keep them coming.
You solved a major issue for me here I think in one simple comment; I've had a problem getting my Beechcraft single engine over about 5000 feet with IFR and auto pilot etc even though air traffic control at times were asking for over 10,000 feet and I just kept falling out the sky with stall speed. Whilst I'm a renewed newbie to flight sim and I've had every incarnation over the years. I've followed the MS check lists and your flight instructions, one thing I totally ignored was MIXTURE. I just simply left it at 100% and couldn't climb. I feel naeve now but a lesson for others maybe hopefully. I love learning this thing mind.
I don't know why they used the GPS equipped planes for two of these trips. The Sierra Nevada one in the yellow cub without it was so much more enjoyable. There's no point even having all those notes and disabling GPS on the VFR map only to have a massive map in the plane telling you exactly where you are and where to go.
It’s a beautiful county to fly over and to drive through I’m sure. I used to go on Bing maps or Google earth and virtually visit places. Virtual tourism if you will. If I had the $$$ I would certainly travel as much as possible for the rest of my life. I grew up in the USVI and we traveled all over the Antilles in a Beech 18, and Cessna 172. It’s fun going to places I know, but more fun exploring new places, even if for now it’s a virtual trip. I hope they add in more bush trips like this one, or around the world trips or even just scenic flights, but I’m satisfied being able to create my own flight plans. Enjoy!
I had so much hard time finding that grass runway where he started from . I just landed on a random field and just taxied around to find the actual runway for like 15 mins
There was a strip like that for me in the Sierra nevada one, I couldn't see it at all and decided just to land and I somehow luckily ended up landing on the strip, you really could barely see it while flying.
Squirrel, you would never visit? Bro, Zadar is legit man, lots of history, beautiful locale. Croatia is more than “Game of Thrones” Dubrovnik. This airport is pretty major too. Don’t limit yourself.
I can second that, having been to Zadar a few years ago. I think it was Ryan who flew us into this very airport. Nice remembrance. We missed the bus to the city, which gave opportunity for a lovely chat in front of the airport (there's a café) with two Danish Girls. We took a taxi then.
this^, he's having to go into drone camera mode instead of just looking out the window haha i enjoy these videos a lot but it would be nicer to have a closer look at the places hes flying around
I've been on this road IRL in the other direction before, the sensation as you go from the mostly dry coastal terrain through the tunnel and into this lush, fertile valley is mesmerizing.
In terms of refueling, the bigger tarmac airports have fuel trucks and fuel pumps, you're MEANT to refuel at those bigger stops and put in enough to get you to the next big airport, however it is bugged at the moment and the Truck drives over when asked (using the fuel truck hotkey) but doesn't refuel you, I've heard stopping at the pump brings up the fuel box but I havn't tried it. If you wanna go for realism, bind the Repair/Refuel button and ONLY use it in realistic situations like the ones mentioned above, however you can use it whenever you want, even mid air.
I am doing this bush trip now. I apparently did them in reverse order of difficulty, starting with California-Nevada with no glass, then Patagonia, with glass but Andean altitudes, and now this. Definitely my favorite activity in the game thus far.
Just little lesson for ya, with soft field take off, rotate at 51kts, lower the nose to stay at level attitude accelerating (using your ground effect) to your Vx (62) if you have obstacles to clear or Vy (70) if not obstacles to clear. Then bring flaps up at typically 300ft AGL and continuing climb at Vy with flaps up at 80kts.
Pretty surreal seeing all these roads and Sveti Rok tunnel in a game, I drove through that are many,many times Looks pretty accurate,at least from a distance
I finished the Sierra nevada trip yesterday, it was awesome. You don't have the glass so you definitely need the vfr map up. I got lost a few times. I'm nowhere near as accurate as your flying but I always managed to get to the strips, for the most part I was on time too, a couple were hard to see and find. But it was fun not being able to rely on the monitors. I never used back on track or had to reset but once or twice I thought I was going to have to. It is a bit nerve racking being 20 minutes in and not sure if you're heading in the right direction and then something becomes recognizable and you breath a sigh of relief. I was wondering why my headings were off a lot the time though, but I never compensated for the wind so that may have been why. I learn a lot by watching you do things. I'm rookie level.
Sierra Nevada is more difficult than the other two as per aircraft choice (no GPS or autopilot) , but it is an excellent trip, no doubt. The route passes over some very interesting places (that ammo dump!!! whoa!), even though the MSFS version doesn't do it justice i.e. Big Pine area (do a Google image search!). BTW I wonder how they found all those abandoned airfields!
@@Memnoch4711 yeah, it was a cool flight. I started with that trip because I'm from Southern California so I was familiar with and have been through a lot of those areas. It was cool to see and recognize some landmarks and roads I've been on while in the air.
@@sundaygloom8715 The California-Nevada trip is harder to navigate, because of the lack of assistance, but I found the presence of landmarks and towns helpful. The Patagonia one has the XCub with glass cockpit, but the area is a lot more wild, and the landscape less forgiving. I am just now starting the Balkans one, but I assume it will be the easiest of the bunch because G1000 is there, and it is a settled part of Europe.
I know the sim defaults the 172 on the runway with 10 degrees of flaps, and also I agree that normally flaps up for takeoff is best in a 172. But for a soft field takeoff, it should be performed with flaps at 10 degrees and with the yoke back to get (and keep) the nose wheel of the ground as soon as possible. The addition of flaps lightens the weight on the main gear and allows an early lift off which avoids unnecessary and higher speed travel over a rough runway surface. The plan will lift off prematurely at a slower than normal speed. Once airborne, fly a few feet above the field in ground effect until reaching a safe climb speed, then climb normally and retract the flaps. (That's how I was taught to do it.)
Quick tip guys. Never use back on track feature. Youre allowed to use the planes gps AND the insert screen (near the speed indicator, lower left) its literally the route line with the plane.
I just finished the Balkans trip yesterday. Really beautiful all the way through. I find the timings to be very hard to keep up with though (in contrast with the Sierra trip, which seemed really well paced for the Cub, like 80ish knots if direct from point-to-point). I'd just mentally add 10% or more to each one for a more sane estimate. I do think these lend themselves really well to flying exterior view, especially since you're not going hardcore in terms of real VFR maps or anything. Context clues to figure out the roads they want you to follow (they're usually good at pointing to one obvious landmark immediately after takeoff that you can reference from), though I realize the noise may be less pleasant for video purposes. Either way, it's a beautiful trip and I hope you keep following it!
@@NoNameNoShame22 Okay, I double checked now. -Geographicaly : Balkan is in Bulgaria-Serbia -Culturaly: Continental arhitecture and style is more close to Checzia,Austria,Hungary and Slovakia then parts of Balkan. Coastline is more Italy and Spain like. So at the end we are kilometers ahead from Balkans, both geographicaly and culturaly. I would draw border of Balkan at Drina, althou BiH could be added to balkans culturaly.
The "Balkan Bush" series is in 16 parts. It travels from Croatia , through Bosnia , Montenegro , Albania and finishes in Greece. I guess they named it trying to encompass all of these areas.
That's what I prefer, but it got quite hairy on a few legs in the Patagonia trips, because the XCub just couldn't climb fast enough to follow the GPS route over the mountaintops. It was better to be in HDG mode and follow along in the valleys.
You can just add fuel from the overhead menu (where ATC, Map etc controls are) , unless it's different for Bush Trips. Edit: Actually just flew in one, option unavailable. Must be part of the challenge.
Hi Paul. I’ve really been learning from your instructional videos, but I need more of them. However I saw this video and thought this looks interesting, and was it. I was peering into the distance looking for the next waypoint and watching the clock. Wow! I was there! And I was using google maps, I suppose I should have been using Bing, to track you route, immersive or what? As an aside, would it be possible to close in on the instruments when you make adjustments, and describe what you are doing please? I’m watching this on a 58” high def TV and sitting about 8 feet away but it’s still a bit of a job seeing the speed and altitude numbers. Big thanks Noel
Anybody knows how can I change the hour of departure in these bush trips? I need help because everytime that I want to do this activities, appears me 4:07 am, and the runway is evolved in a deepest darkness. I was trying change the hour on world map, and I deactivated the LIVE hour in different ways but I can't do it.
I didn't like this one, it was a lot easier than the first and the scenery is kinda crap until you land in Zadrar. I flew there in 2009 and 2010 for Soundwave Festival in Petra Cane, so it was a nice flight to bring back nice memories.
Tried leg one purely VFR following the ridiculously vague briefing instructions. Nightmare! Just completed leg two tuned to ZDA. But does that mean I don't get the t-shirt when I complete all legs?
Can you do a flight from LMML which is malta to LYNI which is Nis constantin the great airport in Serbia (with the a320pls) if there is a Lufthansa skin for it use that livery
@@Dagroovi Exactly. Its clearly an oversight by the developers as there's no way you can do the whole 950nm on one tank ! I reueled / repaired twice to complete the whole Balkan trip.
@@Tony_P Agreed. I kinda figured it would have been mapped out and there would have been some notice/ pop up or something since this is a developer made activity.
How did you solve the problem of changing the heading by 1° and not by 10°? Also, I've had trouble in setting the altitude on multiples of 100ft and not 1000ft. Does someone have an answer to this? Thank you
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Driving through the Sveti Rok tunnel is an amazing experience, as the landscape and the feel of the surroundings is very different on the northern side of the tunnel compared to the south side of the tunnel. The sim doesn't really do it justice. You enter the tunnel in a very green landscape that feels very "mainland Europe", drive a few kilometers through the tunnel and emerge in a landscape that looks almost desert-like at times, with a lot of yellows and browns, contrasting against the dark blue sea. It's truly amazing.
In the beginning of the briefing they mention that the cruising speed of the 172 is 129 kts. This is what they use for the speed, you can double check with the time vs distance. That why your timings are off. Really enjoy your videos, keep them coming.
You solved a major issue for me here I think in one simple comment; I've had a problem getting my Beechcraft single engine over about 5000 feet with IFR and auto pilot etc even though air traffic control at times were asking for over 10,000 feet and I just kept falling out the sky with stall speed. Whilst I'm a renewed newbie to flight sim and I've had every incarnation over the years. I've followed the MS check lists and your flight instructions, one thing I totally ignored was MIXTURE. I just simply left it at 100% and couldn't climb. I feel naeve now but a lesson for others maybe hopefully. I love learning this thing mind.
This video helped me with the same exact thing. Big light bulb moment for me.
I don't know why they used the GPS equipped planes for two of these trips. The Sierra Nevada one in the yellow cub without it was so much more enjoyable. There's no point even having all those notes and disabling GPS on the VFR map only to have a massive map in the plane telling you exactly where you are and where to go.
30:17 i live there, it is very beautiful
It’s a beautiful county to fly over and to drive through I’m sure. I used to go on Bing maps or Google earth and virtually visit places. Virtual tourism if you will. If I had the $$$ I would certainly travel as much as possible for the rest of my life. I grew up in the USVI and we traveled all over the Antilles in a Beech 18, and Cessna 172. It’s fun going to places I know, but more fun exploring new places, even if for now it’s a virtual trip.
I hope they add in more bush trips like this one, or around the world trips or even just scenic flights, but I’m satisfied being able to create my own flight plans. Enjoy!
I had so much hard time finding that grass runway where he started from . I just landed on a random field and just taxied around to find the actual runway for like 15 mins
There was a strip like that for me in the Sierra nevada one, I couldn't see it at all and decided just to land and I somehow luckily ended up landing on the strip, you really could barely see it while flying.
it's here 44°50'47.03"N 15°17'16.78"E
that's why you use the smartcam.
@@yudha1577 why didnt I think of that
Hey could you answer a question for me? Is MFS 2020 a subscription? Like you have to pay every month/week to keep it?
Hi Squirell, great video. I was there in real and it really looks very similar. Btw Otočac is called Otochats.
I was so sure he'd get it in this video I started cheering when I heard the "Otocha"but then came the "k" at the end.So close.
I bet that farmer was happy you finally got out of his field. LOL!!!
Squirrel, you would never visit? Bro, Zadar is legit man, lots of history, beautiful locale. Croatia is more than “Game of Thrones” Dubrovnik. This airport is pretty major too. Don’t limit yourself.
I can second that, having been to Zadar a few years ago. I think it was Ryan who flew us into this very airport. Nice remembrance. We missed the bus to the city, which gave opportunity for a lovely chat in front of the airport (there's a café) with two Danish Girls. We took a taxi then.
i feel like these are meant to be flying at lower altitudes, your so high up you can't see the roads etc it's talking about.
this^, he's having to go into drone camera mode instead of just looking out the window haha
i enjoy these videos a lot but it would be nicer to have a closer look at the places hes flying around
You can't be at a low altitude where you can see the road when you have to climb over the 6,000 ft mountain when the road goes through the tunnel.
I've been on this road IRL in the other direction before, the sensation as you go from the mostly dry coastal terrain through the tunnel and into this lush, fertile valley is mesmerizing.
In terms of refueling, the bigger tarmac airports have fuel trucks and fuel pumps, you're MEANT to refuel at those bigger stops and put in enough to get you to the next big airport, however it is bugged at the moment and the Truck drives over when asked (using the fuel truck hotkey) but doesn't refuel you, I've heard stopping at the pump brings up the fuel box but I havn't tried it.
If you wanna go for realism, bind the Repair/Refuel button and ONLY use it in realistic situations like the ones mentioned above, however you can use it whenever you want, even mid air.
Love these bush trips, you should definitely continue with them
I am doing this bush trip now. I apparently did them in reverse order of difficulty, starting with California-Nevada with no glass, then Patagonia, with glass but Andean altitudes, and now this. Definitely my favorite activity in the game thus far.
Thanks for these videos. Not only are they very entertaining, they are very informative as well. Cheers Nutty
did he really say "wunderbar" at 33:13? as a german, I am impressed right now :D
Also noticed that, had to repeat that 3 times to be sure :D
Wonderful
English speakers like that word too. It a loan word we borrowed. Thanks for that.
Just little lesson for ya, with soft field take off, rotate at 51kts, lower the nose to stay at level attitude accelerating (using your ground effect) to your Vx (62) if you have obstacles to clear or Vy (70) if not obstacles to clear. Then bring flaps up at typically 300ft AGL and continuing climb at Vy with flaps up at 80kts.
Pretty surreal seeing all these roads and Sveti Rok tunnel in a game, I drove through that are many,many times
Looks pretty accurate,at least from a distance
These are my favs. These bush trips are great.
Nice video Squirrel, always an pleasure to watch your content! You're my example for my simulation CZcams videos. Keep up the good work 👏
Just flown from LHZA to LDRO today, also FSEconomy works with MSFS now and it's really cool
I finished the Sierra nevada trip yesterday, it was awesome. You don't have the glass so you definitely need the vfr map up. I got lost a few times. I'm nowhere near as accurate as your flying but I always managed to get to the strips, for the most part I was on time too, a couple were hard to see and find. But it was fun not being able to rely on the monitors.
I never used back on track or had to reset but once or twice I thought I was going to have to. It is a bit nerve racking being 20 minutes in and not sure if you're heading in the right direction and then something becomes recognizable and you breath a sigh of relief.
I was wondering why my headings were off a lot the time though, but I never compensated for the wind so that may have been why. I learn a lot by watching you do things. I'm rookie level.
Sierra Nevada is more difficult than the other two as per aircraft choice (no GPS or autopilot) , but it is an excellent trip, no doubt. The route passes over some very interesting places (that ammo dump!!! whoa!), even though the MSFS version doesn't do it justice i.e. Big Pine area (do a Google image search!). BTW I wonder how they found all those abandoned airfields!
@@Memnoch4711 yeah, it was a cool flight. I started with that trip because I'm from Southern California so I was familiar with and have been through a lot of those areas. It was cool to see and recognize some landmarks and roads I've been on while in the air.
@@sundaygloom8715 The California-Nevada trip is harder to navigate, because of the lack of assistance, but I found the presence of landmarks and towns helpful. The Patagonia one has the XCub with glass cockpit, but the area is a lot more wild, and the landscape less forgiving. I am just now starting the Balkans one, but I assume it will be the easiest of the bunch because G1000 is there, and it is a settled part of Europe.
You should do the Patagonia bush trip. It is really fun and you basically just follow landmarks
I love you videos squirrel ive been watching for 4 years now keep up the good work
I know the sim defaults the 172 on the runway with 10 degrees of flaps, and also I agree that normally flaps up for takeoff is best in a 172. But for a soft field takeoff, it should be performed with flaps at 10 degrees and with the yoke back to get (and keep) the nose wheel of the ground as soon as possible. The addition of flaps lightens the weight on the main gear and allows an early lift off which avoids unnecessary and higher speed travel over a rough runway surface. The plan will lift off prematurely at a slower than normal speed. Once airborne, fly a few feet above the field in ground effect until reaching a safe climb speed, then climb normally and retract the flaps. (That's how I was taught to do it.)
40:45 Yes I loved it
Thanks for the awesome Videos
Love this!! So fun to combine the instructions with the stuff on the ground. More please!!!!
Nice, thanks.
Very nice flight. Thanks.
Quick tip guys. Never use back on track feature. Youre allowed to use the planes gps AND the insert screen (near the speed indicator, lower left) its literally the route line with the plane.
Would be nice if they tought about refueling at a ground fuel station... i was confused about that too
You are the best! Congrats!
I just finished the Balkans trip yesterday. Really beautiful all the way through. I find the timings to be very hard to keep up with though (in contrast with the Sierra trip, which seemed really well paced for the Cub, like 80ish knots if direct from point-to-point). I'd just mentally add 10% or more to each one for a more sane estimate.
I do think these lend themselves really well to flying exterior view, especially since you're not going hardcore in terms of real VFR maps or anything. Context clues to figure out the roads they want you to follow (they're usually good at pointing to one obvious landmark immediately after takeoff that you can reference from), though I realize the noise may be less pleasant for video purposes. Either way, it's a beautiful trip and I hope you keep following it!
It would be cool to see a idaho super cub flight
Hahaha! I love the way you pronounce Otočac :)
Left Shift + F for fuel I believe, or click the weight in the collapsible menu at the top of the screen
I am doing the Nevada Bush Trip, while you are doing this one. The Nevada one requires a bit more visual Nav as your plane does not have Auto pilot.
Love the vids
You were flying across Croatia coast, and our country is not Balkan nor has anything to do with it. We are partly middle Europe partly Mediterranean.
You might wanna double-check that.
@@NoNameNoShame22 Okay, I double checked now.
-Geographicaly : Balkan is in Bulgaria-Serbia
-Culturaly: Continental arhitecture and style is more close to Checzia,Austria,Hungary and Slovakia then parts of Balkan.
Coastline is more Italy and Spain like.
So at the end we are kilometers ahead from Balkans, both geographicaly and culturaly.
I would draw border of Balkan at Drina, althou BiH could be added to balkans culturaly.
@@NoNameNoShame22 nobody wants to be put into Balkans basket apparently :)
The "Balkan Bush" series is in 16 parts. It travels from Croatia , through Bosnia , Montenegro , Albania and finishes in Greece. I guess they named it trying to encompass all of these areas.
@@Luka-xx5ve Many people in Croatia can speak Italian.
Finally part 2 :)
Loving the vids keep it up
leg 5 , 10.22NM 4m56s works out at 125kts. you're only doing 97kts.
Im using vrfmap plugin to follow the flights, very nice plugin.
Zemunik Is Near Zadar
Surely just hitting NAV and letting the GPS take you there, would be an easy way. You could then concentrate on the scenery and any altitude issues!
That's what I prefer, but it got quite hairy on a few legs in the Patagonia trips, because the XCub just couldn't climb fast enough to follow the GPS route over the mountaintops. It was better to be in HDG mode and follow along in the valleys.
could you please do a tutorial on how to talk to atc, and how to do ifr / vor to vor? I really want to fully understand those things
ATC is borderline broken at the moment so I wouldn’t worry too much with that just yet.
i got a lot of sunshade from my microlight wing
You can just add fuel from the overhead menu (where ATC, Map etc controls are) , unless it's different for Bush Trips.
Edit: Actually just flew in one, option unavailable. Must be part of the challenge.
Hi Paul.
I’ve really been learning from your instructional videos, but I need more of them. However I saw this video and thought this looks interesting, and was it. I was peering into the distance looking for the next waypoint and watching the clock. Wow! I was there!
And I was using google maps, I suppose I should have been using Bing, to track you route, immersive or what?
As an aside, would it be possible to close in on the instruments when you make adjustments, and describe what you are doing please? I’m watching this on a 58” high def TV and sitting about 8 feet away but it’s still a bit of a job seeing the speed and altitude numbers.
Big thanks Noel
I'm from LDRI.
Anybody knows how can I change the hour of departure in these bush trips? I need help because everytime that I want to do this activities, appears me 4:07 am, and the runway is evolved in a deepest darkness. I was trying change the hour on world map, and I deactivated the LIVE hour in different ways but I can't do it.
I didn't like this one, it was a lot easier than the first and the scenery is kinda crap until you land in Zadrar. I flew there in 2009 and 2010 for Soundwave Festival in Petra Cane, so it was a nice flight to bring back nice memories.
Hi can u do Vršac to Ponikve airfield in Serbia(LYVR-LYUZ)
Tried leg one purely VFR following the ridiculously vague briefing instructions. Nightmare! Just completed leg two tuned to ZDA. But does that mean I don't get the t-shirt when I complete all legs?
Can you do a flight from LMML which is malta to LYNI which is Nis constantin the great airport in Serbia (with the a320pls) if there is a Lufthansa skin for it use that livery
Konjsko brdo is Horses Hill
@40:07 B U T T E R
Anybody else here just use the auto pilot so you can actually enjoy thee trip? 😁
Konjsko Brdo translated is Horse Hill and its hard to spell it...you need to use russian accent since it is Slavic language..so Brdo with HARD D...
Squirrel, How are you getting on with the Honeycomb yoke in FS2020? Are you using the default bindings, and if not what changes have you made?
hey, im not first :)
If you find out how you can get more fuel should be appriciated
I had to map the repair and refuel setting on keyboard. I filtered by unassigned and typed in repair and you will find it.
@@Dagroovi Exactly. Its clearly an oversight by the developers as there's no way you can do the whole 950nm on one tank ! I reueled / repaired twice to complete the whole Balkan trip.
@@Dagroovi Thanks, no fuel left after 6 leg. Now it works
@@Tony_P Agreed. I kinda figured it would have been mapped out and there would have been some notice/ pop up or something since this is a developer made activity.
How did you solve the problem of changing the heading by 1° and not by 10°? Also, I've had trouble in setting the altitude on multiples of 100ft and not 1000ft. Does someone have an answer to this? Thank you
click instead of scroll wheel
Anyone else hear the voice of Karl Pilkington when he flies?
Now, drive the A1 in ETS...
How do i find the gate when iim landing can someone plzz tell me ??🤔🤔
Don't you have to set your parking brake?
Can u do more ETS2
Konjsko Brdo is Horse Hill
Otochatz
thought i was first
First
Your croatian language is pretty bad hehe :D