 Hi everyone and welcome to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and what is Commander Rini's first proper flight in the co-pilot position? Today we're flying the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan in Ethiopia. We'll be departing from the airport at Lallabella That's Hotel Alpha Lima Lima and we're landing at Hotel Alpha Delta Charlie in Convulture and en route We're hoping to find and photograph some giraffe We're using a third-party application called your controls which lets Rini jump into the co-pilot seat while I fly and She'll also be acting as a camera operator on our little virtual safari If you want to try it yourself, you'll find a link to the application in the description below. Enjoy Right well runway 28 28 that's go out and turn left I think Trust me, I'm a co-pilot. Yeah, I saw that one way to eight. Okay, so is that Yeah Taxiway in front of me. No, you need to pull forward. Yeah And go right without squishing either of them. Okay. We'll see how that goes quite honestly Where is the parking brake? What's there? Okay parking brakes off? Oh Put the flaps to the takeoff position Okay, so I'm so I'm pulling out and we're going we're going right Once I've got past all the people who are about to get chewed up. Yes Hi, buddy, sorry There's a car. Yep I'm to the cars skillfully avoiding the cars So my screen okay, just about missed it on my screen Okay, so the runway is there it's like to your right straight ahead. Got it. Got it. Okay. I mean you want to turn Left left. I think I said I don't know go left They should have like little signposts. They're not No, some do some yeah, some airports. It should be left for 28 and right for yep No, a lot of them do have that literally have little signs that go left and right They're not brilliantly clear to read sir. I'm just looking at my compass So we think 28 is left. I I concur. I think 28 is probably left accent. Okay, so I need to call It's quite squeaky handle. It's quite squeaky. I need to call a traffic control again We are cleared for takeoff from moment to eight. I acknowledge that shut that down Okay, I'm rolling so at this point I'm checking left and right anyway Just because just because they say you're clear to take off. It doesn't mean there isn't I'm checking for planes So all gold. Oh, right. There's a so there's a tabletop mountain sort of thing to our right there I see as I'm texting now. We've got to go over that Now my understanding from a little recon I digested a is that that's the safe kind of clearance altitude for that is about 11,500 feet. Wow. Yeah, but we're already at 7,000 feet Six around six and a half already at around six and a half thousand feet, but oh, yeah, it's twenty past seven What? Are you looking at one of the analog dials? Yeah, okay? All right, so we've got to go to twenty past seven feet Yeah, we currently at twenty past seven feet. We're gonna go quite high Okay, much higher. Okay, I'm struggling with the turning circle at the moment, bear with me Well, there is a bit of a turning space here, isn't there? Yeah, okay, that's good Okay, this this plane's got quite a short takeoff. Excellent. Which side of the runway we're going. Fortunately, sir Are we driving European or we're driving English? No, we're not going on a side of the runway. We've fallen the line up the middle Okay, here we go Okay, hold on to your bounce Yeah, put your tree your tray tables and your seats in the upright position Any any drums away from your children Should be looking Sorry, that's me Okay, this thing takes off a lot quicker than I was expecting. Crikey. Crikey It's a beautiful plane this is just wants to fly it's lovely Okay You actually get proper We're in Africa somewhere by the way folks We're gonna do an introduction to this video which we haven't recorded yet so So I don't know why I've already told you I moved into one of the back seats. Oh well done Are you are you literally backseat driving now? You can have a little look around the cockpit, so I've got to spend a bit of time now climbing Okay, I've got to spend a bit of time now climbing to Around 11 and a half thousand feet. We're already at seven and a half. So that's good Okay, I don't know how you got there How did you I don't know okay, so I have got to spend just a weenie bit of time getting some altitude here I was at the wrong way. We just came off. That is the runway. We just came off Okay, we're clear now What are you expecting? Why don't I really I don't know I know I do get I do get it actually I do yeah I do get it is kind of nice to take off from something that was so close to you and then to look back and go I do get you get that yeah, it's one of the things I like about flight simulator is just the sense of Self and being away and then going towards it. Yeah, that's weird. I don't know. I'm not gonna follow our I mean, it's very Very closely at my navigation now I can't see anything I don't I don't know and so in the so there's three TV displays in front of you. Yes, the middle one should be a sort of brownie color like a map Yes, there are pink line on that map. No, okay. I've so where I've programmed in a flight I've got a pink line on that map that is basically telling me the direction that I need to head in. Yeah It is very cool That's GPS is handling that for me, which is quite nice. So I'll be doing for altitude Nine and a half. This is going I know it's a really nice place and so the under so the outside of the aircraft Yeah, there's a big sort of bulbous lump underneath and that's that yeah, I know right and that's actually um luggage space essentially all like cargo Essentially, these are like, yeah, so these planes. This is a Cessna caravan 208 grand caravan 208 and they get used um tourist planes the buses basically they're big sort of yeah she seemed going in and out of you know place, I don't know bush bush flying so places like alaska and Australia and you know the more sort of extreme environments And the reason I've chosen it for this is that it can go nice and high, which obviously we need Um, but it can also go very low and very slow Which is good for spying giraffe Low and slow There's a moon There is a moon. Where is the moon? Where is the moon? The moon is straight ahead above you and it looks like it's smiling at you Okay, oh, you've got the time for they slept slightly differently to me. Well, you have to Was that she was talking oh, okay, I don't think they were talking to me. I think that was just generally a traffic Okay. Yeah, that moon literally It's like There's old man's Is she talking to you? Uh, I don't well not on my simulation. She isn't so yours might be slightly differently Rini and I are using a third party application, which I'll link to in the description below to do multi crew Um, so Rini is sitting in the same aircraft, but she's not flying it. I am I most definitely not flying Um, but it's kind of fooling her pc into thinking that she's flying the aircraft, but she isn't it's actually me from a different pc Just to go with it. Um, so yeah, it's really really cool application when it works. Actually, it's called um, it's called What do we call it your control? It's your controls. It's called isn't it? Yeah, which is a little bit Which is quite confusing when you're saying can you set your controls for one? Yeah, I'm looking at my desk going what? Yeah, he's looking at the controls in her airplane and I'm actually talking about the app Which is the degree of confusion When I think of where I started off, I'm going to get a bit old man now When I think of where I started on simulations, I've missed my pink line, but that's okay It's okay. It's back here. So like a backtrack to that. I need it You know like on the radio they used to do like stories used to play some really cheesy 70s track. Yeah, yeah My tune or whatever it was called. Yeah. Yeah. So you need to do Yeah So when I where I first started on simulations on the on the spectrum the ground was flat and and dark blue And airports were represented by moving dots a number of moving dots that spelled out the rough shape of a of an airfield But it was literally a runway made out of dots And there was a there were three lakes that you could fly to a triangle one a round one and I believe a square one Yeah, and but there were no the terrain had no ups or downs on it whatsoever. It was a flat landscape And I wait until now I'll be honest one plane. Yeah, and now where we are now you're looking at sort of moderately photorealistic Just amazing Okay, I'm gonna say we're comfortably above the mountain So I'm gonna turn back towards my pink line. Okay Oh Are you okay? You're getting a bit vertiginous. Are you all right? Yes, if you look out the left window now, like straight down at the ground It's a nice room. Yeah, I don't Teacher half o'clock Can you Yeah We're going so what I'm trying to do now is descend without ripping the wings off and I'm not kidding when I say that so I wonder if I could feather the Let's change the pitch on the propeller blades I believe so that we haven't got any from the engine anymore I'm reported. I think they're talking about us. They're talking about us, but they're not talking to us. Okay So, where are they? right, so Hang on a minute. Just maneuvering in a valley now. So they're um Behind you Yeah behind us at the moment So as I turn around and start flying up the river again, they're gonna be on they will come up on our right hand side Okay, I have to bleed off a little bit more speed. Let's see how we get on Am I giraffe hunting now? Well giraffe spotting. You are you are giraffe spotting So they'll be on the right hand side of the plane on the bank Don't worry too much if we don't get I can see giraffe I said I too can see giraffe Oh, they're in the water are they? I feel like we should be playing the crackly part music We have found giraffe. We have a definite giraffe sighting We do look at the giraffe Oh my god, I can't believe we've finally found some wildlife I think I might be locked to the plane so I'm just gonna unlock myself Yeah I have left you for some giraffe You have what now? I have left you for some giraffe. Excellent. Okay Yeah, I feel like we should be playing Hello giraffe I can see them quite clearly Oh, they're very cute That's brilliant. Wow If I was gonna go looking for giraffe in the real world, I would not have looked here No, I would have said, I mean I would have said it was two mountainous I would have thought they were like, you know, different on the planes But you know, I'm not a giraffe expert by any stretch of the imagination Or you know giraffe Skibirth as we call them in the business giraffe skibirth What's a giraffe skibirth on giraffe? Oh, I see That's how it works science. Where do they go? Where are you going giraffe? I'm going over here, aren't I? Where am I going? I'm going over here Idiot I think I'm gonna walk up the valley Everybody follow Dave. Dave knows where he's going Oh look, there you are. I can see the plane in the distance That's me That's you It is Are you coming this way? I don't know where you are Here you are Are you coming towards me? I assumed you were with the giraffe I'm with the giraffe. You're coming back towards the giraffe No, they're behind me at the moment So if you turn around you could do like a Oh yeah, look how I can see you turning Stall, stall Are you stalling? It's close. It's because I'm doing a really tight turn at a very low speed. It's okay Hello Bye bye So cold The giraffe are turning They're going back to the river I'm going back to the river with the giraffe And there you are It's so weird to think you're outside of it. It kind of works, doesn't it? That's really cute That's very cute. I can see it You're like a sort of action photographer Here we are Like a special ops photographer, you jump out of the plate and take a picture of the giraffe I'm trying to keep you and the giraffe Coming back around again Hang on, let me just, I can shut down my mic Can't hang on, I'm in a place Wow, that's awkward 500 There you go Are they in the river? They're heading back to the river Jeff decided he didn't like upcountry very much, so he's gone back It was Jeff, wasn't it? Dave, I believe, I can't remember now I think Dave's following There you are up in the sky 500 Very cool It's fun flying Is it? It's really, really good, yeah Shall I come back in the cockpit now? Whenever it works for you Bye, Jeff Bye, Dave, bye, Jeff There we are, back in the cockpit Hey, back in Hello I've now got to get us out of the somewhat limited speed position that we're in So your next job, when we get close, is going to be to spot the airport for me Okay, I shall try and do that No concept of how spotable it is So it could well be a dirt strip in the middle of nowhere That should be hilariously fun though Oh, we're going to Haddock I reckon we're going to Haddock Has it got a name other than Haddock or? Haddock You just see, all right H-D-H-A-D-C Okay, that does sound familiar Yes, heading straight for it We're heading for Haddock Okay, that's where we're going then Cool Yes Okay No concept of how far it is, but I don't think it's far It's about 15 plane lengths on the map 15 plane lengths Which is probably about, I don't know, 50 giraffes? About 50 giraffes About 50 giraffes I was thinking of this earlier on, but I didn't know whether to localize it not And when you're going to put a video out on the internet, that's definitely the best type to vocalize something that might make you look stupid What's the plural of giraffe? Giraffes Is it though? Or is it giraffe? I saw some giraffe You don't go, I saw some giraffes There are 15 giraffes There are 15 giraffes So the plural is giraffes Is it though? Stop saying is it though Is it though? Is it though? It is 15 giraffes There's a couple of lakes coming up, so it must There's going to be a lake to the left There must be some inherent flatness around the lakes Well, do you know what, I was just going to say that and I thought Lakes don't have to be somewhere flat, that's just ridiculous I don't know where I started They do otherwise, they become a waterfall That's literally how lakes work Yeah, but like, you know, it could be like a big puddle All right, does that know what a lake is? Well, yeah What's the size, do you think? What point does a puddle become a lake? It doesn't have to be flat It's not like an authority, you have to call the sort of company You say, no, I think I've got a puddle, but I'm not sure if it's a lake or not Just think you can come round and check They sort of pull up in a van and a bloke with a notepad It's a sharp intake of breath Now, you've got a lake there, mate, that's a lake What you've got there Ah, now, I've got a fault in your system though Because you bypassed ponds Ponds, oh Oh Say, say ponds You pointed at that one, by many floors They're much smaller than You met Bert, he's all right, but you can't tell the difference between a lake and a puddle Ocean, there you go Ocean Now you're lost, yeah That riverbed is very dry, that's probably quite accurate, isn't it? Yeah, I think it's horrendously accurate This could be cool, but for the moment, obviously Yeah, I think you need to be following the riverbed a little bit more Okay Trust, um, who's the co-pilot here, please? Okay, all right, if you're saying before Okay, so you want me to follow the riverbed a bit? Yep Trust me, I'm a co-pilot, I would not get you lost Okay, so carry on in that direction, please As far as you're concerned, is this kind of heading about right? Yes Okay Just mind that big hillock in front of you I am very mindful of the hillock, yeah Eight planes to go Don't tell me how many We need about eight planes What's that, a giraffe? About 25 And we shall be shortly getting near Haddock You know that's right Yeah, captain speaking Yeah We are cruising an altitude of, let me just check Because I haven't really been paying attention We're cruising an altitude of 10 to 1 10,800 feet, but descending rapidly apparently Runway 35 Right, downwind Runway 35, yeah Yeah Do I acknowledge pattern entry instructions? Yes Flight right traffic runway, 3, 5, sesame in We're about 11 miles, 10, 11 miles Yeah, a little bit off to your left now You can't see it yet, can you? I'm just going for a little look-y It's over there to the left about, where is that? There's like a lot of buildings, there's a lot of buildings Oh yeah, there's buildings down there Hell of a lot of buildings down there There's a very long straight thing over there There is a long straight thing, isn't there? Directly in front of us to the right of the river Oh, it might be, out there to our left Oh, the left of the river Oh, it just went down Right left, very slightly I'm sitting on your lap right now It's slightly off your left, left of your nose Okay, all right And I can see the T-junction Sort of T-junction, yeah, yeah, yeah, got it Okay, can you remember what runway it was? 35 Thank you Clear to land, do you acknowledge? To you landing on the long bit So when you, if you get that instruction come up You need to hit clear to land Otherwise they'll keep barking at you Oh, I might have left you Oh, okay I might be out They might be leading off at your simulation then But they'll be quite happy with mine That's okay Oh, yeah, you're saying not only the last transmission You'll be all right, won't you? Be fine, right? Where are you? Are you landing on the long strip of the runway Or the short strip? Wow, there's only one runway The short bit The short bit that you're looking at is the parking No, but one, are you coming in from the side Of the longer side or the shorter side? I'm trying to find you in the sky Don't know how to I can't understand what you're saying Oh, I see the longer side Okay, I'm coming in for the longer side Wow Understanding your wife actually means 101 Yeah, I see what you mean Okay, a bit off-center, but not too bad And we're down Well, there we go Oh, we landed, well done Good landing I was all right, weren't I? Yeah I wasn't too shabby I'll be quite happy for someone to see that Not every landing I'll do is like that, if I'm being brutally honest Okay No, I went all right, I felt We saw some giraffe We saw some giraffe We saw Jeff and Dave You just find me parking brake Put your handbrake on Here it is Handbrake's on There we go Is there any landing checklist? Oh, that's the map Wrong one I don't think there is I thought there should be Well, I figured there'd be more checklist But there clearly aren't So There we go So we got up in the air, that's good enough We got up in the air, we saw giraffe And we got here We did And that was okay We did okay Can I press some buttons? Uh, I'd rather you didn't If that's all right Because I'll get upset That was good stuff All right then, thanks very much We'll see you next time Bye bye Bye