PMDG FedEx MD-11F EDDF to KORD Full Procedures

[TheGospelTrain]

Nice vid!! I just got this AC today (Christmas 2011) and I must say I am up a gumtree with it. I have flown the PMDG 747 and the PMDG 737NGX and I find them easy but this beast has got me stumped at the moment!

[SubSevenHacker]

@TheGospelTrain I know exactly what you mean. The brilliance of this aircraft is in the way you operate it. It is completely different from the 747/737. This goes towards everything, starting from the startup of the aircraft itself and ending with the FMC - keep in mind, the FMC on this bird is, well, let's just say, a completely manual version of the 747/737 FMC. Learn to fly this bird, and you will pretty much guess your way around any other advanced aircraft :) Merry Xmas! :D

[TheGospelTrain]

@SubSevenHacker Thanks for your encouragements. I found a guy on a VA as I fly online at VATSIM and he has flown almost 5000 hours in this bird. He did a complete walkthrough with me and I have now begun to understand 100% more than I did a few days ago. From a cold start to getting the aircraft airborne is becoming fairly easy now. My sticky part now is the descent on a STAR and getting it to catch the LOC for a ILS landing! - Hope you had a great Christmas and thanks!

[SubSevenHacker]

@TheGospelTrain the most exciting stuff comes when you start flying with failures. I have been flying A LOT of failure flights, and I have yet to have crashed - that also includes the unlikely failure of 20+ things, which I let my friends set for me without looking - nothing beats descending into an airport with one engine, attempting to line up with the runway, only to realise that while you were descending you had a hydraulics leak and have to land using the rudder/elevator!

[flyingnome]

Great job looks like a lot of time to put it together. I just recently picked up the PMDG MD-11, great aircraft.

[keeganjordan]

Nice Video I Enjoyed It And subbed

[SubSevenHacker]

@keeganjordan Thx :) Give it a rating, if you wish, that is :)

[SeIebrity]

Great video! I was thinking to myself, "No way I'm watching 15 minutes of this" but I sure did! Having worked (non-flying) on and around the FDX MD11, I'd also like to say that plane looks really good.

[SubSevenHacker]

@SeIebrity It's totally beautiful - I have quite a few real life photograph images saved on my PC, which I took from airliners(dot)net - I really like their livery repaint: it is simple and outstanding.

[TheFsJunkie]

Sweet Awsome Video what else could i say, Great Job A+++

[ryanmlt1]

That programming into the FMC looked painful, this is why I haven't really been flying big Iron you need a degree to program these things and I get really frustrated.

[SubSevenHacker]

@ryanmlt1 When I was just getting started on the FMC's back on PMDG's 747, it was frustrating (but I promise you that the MD-11 FMC is more complicated than the 747 one :P) It's not that bad really - you just need to do the tutorials and a few flights. Although, if you want to know everything there is to know, you should go through the whole manuals just for the FMC - I did that, and it definitely helped.

It takes a few hours to get acquainted when you are completely new to this.

Good luck ^^

[thestig747]

You sir have a talent for making Flight Sim videos. This IS one of the best flight sim video I have ever seen. I love it when people put time and effort into their flight vids, which I am guilty of not doing :) Can't wait to see some , maybe a Level D 767?

thanks mate,

Ollie

[SubSevenHacker]

@thestig747 Thanks a lot for appreciating the time and effort I put into making this personal project of mine. I actually spent a separate two and half weeks planning this one in my head as well as on paper. What really got me started was the soundtrack which I overheard on the radio on my mp3 player, which I immediately started recording, and then just used midomi.com to identify the music. In the end, I simply got a proper recording of it, and there was the takeoff of the project :)

[slaven607]

Very outstanding indeed! Actually one of the best flight sim videos i've seen so far!

[SubSevenHacker]

@slaven607 Thanks =)

[MercuryOneOne]

Outstanding Job! It would have been nice if you had done a voice over... It would have made it just a bit more informative.

[SubSevenHacker]

@MercuryOneOne Glad you liked the video :) Yes, it would have indeed. Perhaps I will make an audio overlay in the future, but I would need to talk really fast to explain everything there is to explain - on time :P