Vertical Stream ✈️ | Rome to Milan | ITA A320neo | X-Plane 12 LIVE

Added: 2026-05-20

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[00:03:09]and we're live. Hello friends. We are in another stream. I realized I rushed into the stream so much I didn't even update uh where we're going correctly. So, let me just update the um settings on the stream itself.

[00:03:28]Uh we are flying from Rome again. I couldn't help it because I flew EA last time and it's such a stunning livery. I wanted to do it again. So, we're flying from Rome to Milan this time. Uh, I think the rest is correct.

[00:03:49]Rome to Milan. Let's save that.

[00:03:54]Uh, all is looking good so far, I think.

[00:03:57]If there's anything else, you guys can let me know.

[00:04:02]Um, hopefully that's changed now, but here we are.

[00:04:08]Uh what else am I missing? There we are.

[00:04:11]Okay, I think everything else is is okay. We we'll figure it out as we go along. Uh nice short short flight again and it's got the sun is setting. So if we can if we can hurry up, we can get a stunning nice evening flight. Just a nice little you know some nice views on a Tuesday evening. Um so I'm going to crack on and try and set everything up.

[00:04:33]This is a very last minute stream, but uh I had a little bit of time today and I wanted to uh to do something to do a little stream. So, here we are. I can't get over how beautiful this livery is.

[00:04:47]Look at that. It's just stunning.

[00:04:50]Okay.

[00:04:52]Um so, just going to start inputting our data here and then hopefully we can we can get out of here and be on our way.

[00:05:02]uh the init page. Let's request our flight plan. So the brief for today uh as we said we're flying from Rome Fumino again and we're flying to Milan.

[00:05:14]Um we've got an air time of 55 minutes, altitude of 34,000 ft.

[00:05:20]We have 141 passengers on board and about 4 and a half,000 kg of fuel.

[00:05:28]So hopefully uh hopefully everything will be straightforward.

[00:05:34]I feel like because it's the last minute stream, I feel it's a bit rushed, so I'll probably forget a bunch of things.

[00:05:41]Uh hopefully not, but we'll see how it goes. If you are enjoying uh the content so far, if you like aviation content, please uh double tap that screen. It helps very much. And u if you like Flight Sim content, uh definitely consider subscribing to the channel. Uh, lots of awesome content coming in the future as well.

[00:06:03]So, it's a pretty straightforward flight. I am kind of in a rush to get out because I want to enjoy the sunset as we fly. I think it will look incredible. Uh, for those of you who don't know, I am currently running XPlane 12 on a Mac Mini. Uh, you can't really see it. It's it's it's here. It's a tiny computer. It's about this small.

[00:06:23]Obviously, it's a Mac. Um, so my settings are not maxed out. It does kind of struggle with frame rate. So we're not using ATC like VATSim because my frame rate drops below 20 quite a bit.

[00:06:38]Um, so but I am upgrading my setup soon.

[00:06:41]So I I'll be I'll be using Vatsim, Microsoft Flight Simulator, all the good stuff will be there. Don't forget to double tap that screen and let's try and get everything sorted so we can get out of here. Our loading performance, just want to double check everything's correct. Uh, as we said, 141 passengers on board. Our cost index is 15. Block fuel 4557.

[00:07:07]4560.

[00:07:08]That's That should That should do nicely. So, I'm going to go ahead and turn on the APU.

[00:07:18]And we can turn on our signs as well because we've uh fueled up. That sunset is looking beautiful.

[00:07:29]There we go. Look at that. You'll often hear the comparison between XPlane and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Obviously, Microsoft Flight Simulator is next level when it comes to graphics and ground details. But as you'll go on to see, especially when we're airborne, uh XPlane can look pretty beautiful. And again, this is not an extremely, you know, powerful computer. And still it looks like that's just, you know, it's awesome. I'm happy with it.

[00:08:01]Hey, what's up? Welcome. Welcome to the chat.

[00:08:04]Welcome to the chat. Welcome to the stream.

[00:08:07]Great to have you on board with us today.

[00:08:11]We've got two minutes until the IRS is aligned.

[00:08:17]High graphics. Well, that's what I'm saying. Like it looks I'm really happy with these graphics, but it's not even maxed out. It's not on ultra or anything crazy, but somehow my uh my little Mac Mini is surviving. Oh, we're losing the sun. We need to get out of here, guys.

[00:08:33]We need to get out of here.

[00:08:37]How's the APU looking? Oh, come on. I thought I pressed that.

[00:08:44]Any minute we'll probably hear the doors close. Um, so that will help. Let's make some announcements while we're here to the to the cabin, right? Uh, let's make some announcements.

[00:09:06]You haven't played this game yet? XPlane 12. Highly recommend it. You can even get it on iPad, funny enough, and iPhone.

[00:09:27]can hear the APU running.

[00:09:43]>> We will be on the way very shortly.

[00:09:45]We're in a rush. We're racing against the sun. Come on. Come on.

[00:09:52]recommendations. Uh, in terms of what I mean, the XPlane 12 is is is a great sim. Um, more realistic in terms of flight dynamics than Microsoft Flight Simulator, actually. Fun fact.

[00:10:11]>> Excellent. External power off.

[00:10:15]>> Boom. Ground services off. Off.

[00:10:19]Let's go ahead and remove the jetway and we're looking for sun. We're losing the sun. So, let's let's try and get out of here.

[00:10:40]Better than Microsoft Flight Simulator?

[00:10:41]Uh, it it depends. It depends what you're after. Microsoft Flight Simulator is the absolute best for graphics, immersion, just mind-blowing. I can't wait to actually start using Microsoft Flight Simulator when I upgrade my PC.

[00:10:56]XPlane is more realistic in terms of flight dynamics the way the aircraft handles. Like if you uh if you fly through a storm and lightning in Microsoft Flight Simulator, it won't really do much. uh if you fly through the same situation in XPlane, you'll you you know, you'll fall out of the sky. So, it's it's a lot more realistic in terms of how the aircraft handles um I'm always going to have a special place in my heart for XPlane. I love XPlane 12 so much. Um but I am really looking forward to transitioning to Microsoft Flight Simulator. I really am.

[00:11:33]Especially for streams because our our streams will be a lot more immersive, I think. Take off data. Let's see. Can we input it? Not allowed yet. Okay, that's fine.

[00:11:46]No worries. Okay. Um, let's request push back.

[00:11:49]>> Great news, Captain. Your toes coming.

[00:11:52]>> And let's uh turn on our beacon light.

[00:11:58]We want to get out of here. We're in a We're in a rush.

[00:12:03]Nice setup. Oh, thank you. Thanks, dude.

[00:12:05]This is uh this is my little This is my little my little baby right here. My little setup. I love it. So, so far. Um but I've got big plans to to make it bigger and get a lot more stuff. So, it's only going to get bigger and better, right? There's a lot of things that I haven't done yet. So, we're going to do that now. So, cockpit preparation checklist. First of all, gear pins and covers have been removed. Fuel quantity is set. Seat belts are on. ADS are on nav barrerow ref. So, where we are now, we're in Rome.

[00:12:40]>> All right. Looks like the doors and hatches are closed and we're ready to connect.

[00:12:43]>> 108 is our Q&H here.

[00:12:50]That's done. Cockpit preparation checklist complete. Uh, we'll go ahead and do the before start checklist in a second. Is it going to let me now or not? Is it still going to be still not going to let me do it? Are you okay?

[00:13:09]What am I missing? The APU is on.

[00:13:12]Let's go. Yeah, that's the kind of excitement we want to see. We're racing against the sun.

[00:13:19]Why?

[00:13:22]Oh, of course. That's why the guys I'm all over the place because I'm I'm in a rush to beat the this the sun sunset. Um we haven't even set up our departure and arrival. Oh boy. Okay, let's do that now. So, we are departed.

[00:13:44]Are you from England? I am from England.

[00:13:46]Uh yes, that's uh that's where I live.

[00:13:49]That's where I'm based. That's where I was born.

[00:13:52]Okay. So we are departing from runway 25.

[00:13:58]Our departure is Nenny 5 alpha. Yes.

[00:14:03]Transition Jill 9 golf.

[00:14:08]Boom. That's that done. Let's go ahead and put our arrival in. And if we need to change something later, we will. But for now, we're arriving at runway 35.

[00:14:18]35 Zulu via the Comm One Yankee Star.

[00:14:28]Come one Yankee.

[00:14:36]Come one Yankee. Oh, it's the one transition calmo. That's fine. It's included. Okay, that's that done. So now let's go ahead and put in our takeoff data. Uh let's start push back >> to cockpit. Please show me where you want to go.

[00:14:54]>> Uh yeah, that's >> inserted. Release parking brake.

[00:15:01]>> Parking brake is released.

[00:15:06]>> Engines.

[00:15:08]>> Thank you very much, guys. Don't forget to double tap that screen. It helps the stream and the channel so much. Uh and uh if you do like aviation content, please consider subscribing to the channel.

[00:15:23]Okay, that's there. We want flex takeoff insert.

[00:15:27]Okay, there we go. Our rotate speed is 140. That's good. So, the next item on the checklist is the before start.

[00:15:35]Parking brake is uh off. Takeoff speeds and thrust are now set. Windsors are closed. Beacon is on. before start checklist is complete. Let's go ahead and start our engines.

[00:15:47]Start with engine number two.

[00:15:49]Here we go. We're being pushed back.

[00:15:55]Oh, yeah. Hopefully, we're going to get some beautiful sunset sunset views.

[00:16:03]We're going to fly. We are going to fly.

[00:16:05]We are. That's what we're looking forward to.

[00:16:11]Nice short flight today. I love this livery so much. I just wanted to do another flight with this livery. Is everything correct in terms of uh let's see terms of descriptions and stuff for the stream? I think so. Right.

[00:16:33]Today we're flying from Rome to Milan.

[00:16:35]That is correct.

[00:16:38]All right. Back to Airways Air New York 12. Mhm.

[00:16:46]Roman to Milan. Yeah, I think we're good. You like the graphics? Oh, I appreciate that. Really appreciate that.

[00:16:52]>> Yeah, for ahead.

[00:16:54]>> For my setup, I am I am happy with the graphics.

[00:17:00]>> For my setup, I'm very very happy with the graphics.

[00:17:04]Okay, engine number one. Let's Let's hear that famous PTU sound. That that barking dog sound. Let's listen to it.

[00:17:10]Listen closely for it.

[00:17:23]Such an iconic sound.

[00:17:28]Disconnect.

[00:17:35]There are worse ways to enjoy a Tuesday evening.

[00:17:41]This is my favorite way to just relax, enjoy some views, pretend I'm traveling in real life. I love this stuff.

[00:17:51]>> Toe is disconnected and bypassed.

[00:17:54]Hand signal on the left. We'll see you next time. And have fun up there.

[00:17:58]>> Have fun up there. Oh, we will. Thank you. Sometimes I forget a bunch of things, but it doesn't matter cuz I love to fly. So, you know, we try not to make it up as we go along, but sometimes we have to uh let's wait for this hand signal. Look at this. Look at this guy. Look at his hand signal. He's always so happy.

[00:18:21]Look at him living his best life. Okay, we go back to there. We can turn off the APU. We can turn on our taxi light.

[00:18:36]Right. The first thing we're going to need to do now, um, after start checklist, anti ice not needed. EAM status is checked. Pitch trim is the next thing we're going to do.

[00:18:48]Look at my rudder pedals. I have a lovehate relationship with my rudder pedals. I'm barely resting on them.

[00:18:55]Barely. And they're like all over the place.

[00:18:59]This is why my landings are not as like central as they should be. You know, look, like what is that? I'm barely touching the pedals. Like, I've calibrated them so many times. I don't know what else to do. I I really don't know what else to do. Uh take off data. So, 29.6.

[00:19:23]29.6.

[00:19:25]That should be That should be about right.

[00:19:33]Did anything change here? Not that. Not that I can see. That looks fine. Top of climb.

[00:19:40]Uhhuh.

[00:19:41]That looks fine. This is all These are all our way points.

[00:19:46]Um until we get to our destination. Uh we can just check the actual flight path here.

[00:19:54]So this is this is where we are currently. And if we go through the waypoints, we can see um how uh what it looks like. So this is our flight path and then a that that's a bit weird. Why do we have that? We're turning right and then turning left.

[00:20:20]Why?

[00:20:27]That seems Doesn't that seem a bit pointless?

[00:20:31]That seems really pointless. Why are we doing that?

[00:20:39]That seems really pointless. I don't know why we're doing that. Let me just check my charts.

[00:20:44]Uh, what phone do you use? I have the um latest iPhone um 17 Pro Max and that's actually what I'm using for this camera right here.

[00:21:00]So, why are we avoiding Oh, it's even got it here. Uh is that maybe we're avoiding terrain?

[00:21:15]There's probably a really important reason behind it. So, I'm gonna I'm gonna leave it. I'm going to leave it. I don't want to argue with that.

[00:21:24]Okay. After start rudder trim is neutral. So, after start checklist is complete. So, taxi. Let's start with our flight controls.

[00:21:33]So, full left, center, full right, center, full forward, neutral, and full aft.

[00:21:44]Okay.

[00:21:45]Rudder pedals full left, center, full right, center is.

[00:21:58]Okay. Uh, got flaps one departure. So, let's lower the flaps.

[00:22:09]iPhone 6 Pro Max. 6 Pro Max. Do you mean 16?

[00:22:15]iPhone 6. I don't even remember what the iPhone 6 is. Is that But Pro Max, you're probably talking about You probably mean 16, right? Uh, taxi flight controls, flap settings, done. Radar, PWS.

[00:22:30]PWS. Let's set that and that on. Engine mode. Select normal. ECAM memo.

[00:22:38]Uh, we'll get that checked in a second.

[00:22:40]Okay.

[00:22:43]So, we will complete the taxi checklist as we go.

[00:22:50]Auto brakes max spoilers armed.

[00:22:57]Let's go.

[00:22:59]Let's go. We're going. We're going.

[00:23:01]We're going. We're leaving. We're leaving. We need to catch that sun. We can actually see the outline of the sun.

[00:23:07]Let's go. We're moving.

[00:23:13]Fasten your seat belts, guys. Make sure you're ready. Let's go.

[00:23:18]Uh, this is glitching again. So, I'm going to change it to there.

[00:23:28]Right. Seat belt signs are on.

[00:23:35]Taxi light is on. Whoa. Let's stay central.

[00:23:42]Okay, let's make our way to runway 25.

[00:23:57]You have your seat belt off. So do I actually. But yeah, don't tell anyone.

[00:24:14]Uh, let's go back to arc and uh bring that to 20. Zoom it in a little bit.

[00:24:35]Here we go. We're leaving Rome and on our way to Milan.

[00:24:40]Where you Where's you going?

[00:24:46]I have a mug. I do have a mug. Yeah, it's a Las Vegas mug with tea inside.

[00:25:06]Milan is in Italy. Yeah, both Rome and uh and Milan are in Italy. So, we're we're literally just doing an Italian hop.

[00:25:21]Uh, let's tap on the brakes here a little bit.

[00:25:37]Okay, we're going to try and do a rolling takeoff. So, we want to get everything prepared.

[00:25:46]Oh yeah, we'll let the cabin know.

[00:25:50]Cabin crew, please take your seats for departure. Thank you.

[00:25:54]Takeoff config.

[00:25:57]No blue. Excellent. That means our taxi checklist is complete.

[00:26:02]It is a short flight. Yeah, we'll be flying for about 50 minutes, 55 minutes.

[00:26:07]I think we'll only be uh we'll only reach our top of cruise for maybe like 10 minutes or something.

[00:26:25]Right, we're going to we're going to be cheeking. We're going to go ahead and turn on our lights from now.

[00:26:41]Guys, don't forget to double tap that screen if you enjoy what you see.

[00:26:45]Subscribe to the channel and uh let's have a good takeoff, good flight into the sunset. Hopefully, it's going to be stunning. That's what we're hoping for, right?

[00:27:00]We're just going to go for it.

[00:27:14]Our rotate speed is 1 14 if I remember correctly.

[00:27:21]Here we are. Okay, let's stabilize our engines and man flex.

[00:27:52]and rotate positive rate. Gear up.

[00:28:04]Let's go ahead and put the autopilot on so we can enjoy some of these early views.

[00:28:17]Clement, how's it going, bro? Welcome to the chat. Welcome to the stream. Very last minute stream, but we're uh we're taking off from Rome again cuz I love this livery. And we are on our way to Milan.

[00:28:32]Flying into the sunset. Look at that.

[00:28:37]Look at that.

[00:28:47]Right, let's just make sure. Leave a climb.

[00:28:52]TAS is on standby. Let's get that fixed.

[00:29:01]You can finish your car to be killed.

[00:29:34]Let's go. Flaps up.

[00:29:57]>> The sun sets beautiful.

[00:30:07]your phone will burn. Um, well, I mean, the the one for iPad and iPhone is is optimized, so it's not like crazy, but yeah, your phone will probably get a bit hot.

[00:30:45]So far so good. We're at 8,000 ft.

[00:30:51]We didn't even set our cruising altitude. Can you believe that? That's how much of a rush we were in. I was in because I wanted to take off into the into the sunset. Let's go standard.

[00:31:36]Can't wait to land in Milan. Yeah, me too. I'm I'm quite excited. I don't I don't think I don't think I've landed in Milan before in the uh in the sim.

[00:31:46]I have in real life, but I don't think I have in the sim.

[00:32:04]So, it's not a crazy long flight. We're at 11,000 ft. So, let's go ahead and turn these lights off.

[00:32:28]Look at those views.

[00:32:57]off we go to Milan.

[00:33:14]So, I want to try and figure out what this weird approach is because as we basically get closer to Milan, it look like we're we're basically on the perfect heading toward the runway and then we come off that. We're doing a right turn and then doing this kind of weird U shape and coming back onto that approach path, which is really weird to me. There's probably a a reason for it. That light is way too bright.

[00:33:51]There's probably a reason for it, but I just don't know what that reason is.

[00:34:11]I'm guessing it's maybe it's terrain or or or something like that.

[00:34:17]Doesn't matter though. We will obey the flight plan.

[00:34:22]How to get a webcam on mobile. uh webcam on mobile. I'm not sure what you mean.

[00:34:32]If you mean that I don't even know how that works it because because my um my Mac is obviously Apple and my phone is Apple. It just somehow works. It just connects wirelessly and uh it's uh it's pretty awesome how how it works. It just it just works. I didn't have to do anything special for it.

[00:35:37]Oh, cool. I'm not I'm not sure what that is to be fair.

[00:35:48]Let's enjoy some engine views.

[00:35:57]We're flying right into the uh into the sunset, which is awesome. Look at that.

[00:36:05]I'm in love with EA's livery. Honestly, just epic.

[00:36:25]Okay, so let's go ahead and release the cabin crew. We should have done that ages ago.

[00:36:32]They can go and start their service. And we'll turn off the fast and seat belt signs as well.

[00:36:38]It's looking pretty clear. I think our approach into Milan will be nice. It will be like in the in the dusk.

[00:36:46]We have a 60 knot bit of a cross slash headwind. More of a crosswind. 61 knots. 62 knots. Wow.

[00:36:56]That's pushing us a little bit, isn't it?

[00:37:09]You can see we're crabbing. We're crabbing a little bit at an angle.

[00:37:18]Yeah, we're we're surrounded by by water.

[00:37:30]These views never get old for me. I I I I love the views. In love with the li.

[00:37:35]Yeah, me too. Me too, man. It's It just looks so good. It's such a stunning livery. They did a really good job with that.

[00:38:05]So, we're enjoying it's quite a coastal flight. Pretty much the whole flight is along the coast. So that's cool.

[00:38:37]Guys, remember to uh double tap that screen. Hopefully, it's going to help us with our landing a little bit.

[00:38:44]Have I ever taken a flight with Gold airplane? I have not.

[00:38:49]Um, not that I remember. No. And I think they operate 737s, right? I think they've got a fleet of Boeing 737s. I'm not sure.

[00:39:00]if they have any Airbus aircraft in their fleet. I'm not sure.

[00:39:10]84 knot crosswind. You can see on here you can see that we are like we are Oh, is it what? How do I zoom in?

[00:39:24]I can't zoom in. Uh you can see that we're like at a crab angle. So the line is going like this way, but we're facing this way. Like that our nose is toward the wind. Probably be able to see it here.

[00:39:37]Can you see that is a proper crab angle that is? Look.

[00:39:41]And that happens in real life. That happens all the time in real life depending on wind. So like when you um when you're a passenger on the plane, it just feels everything feels normal. You feel fine. But you don't actually know that you're not necessarily flying straight. You're flying like sideways, which is crazy.

[00:39:58]You know, aviation is just so fascinating. I love it.

[00:40:17]Okay, we're at 31,000 ft. Let's uh go through here. Our top of descent is at 6:30 local time, sim time, which is basically in 15 minutes.

[00:40:33]So, as we get closer to that, we'll start inputting our destination data and uh hopefully everything will be good. So, let's let's see where we are on the map.

[00:40:54]This is our flight for today. This uh this purple line you can probably see from there. And this is us. So we departed from Rome and uh we're currently on the coast and then we're going to come in land here and go straight into Milan which is there.

[00:41:18]So that's the flight progress so far.

[00:41:31]And this is our flight information for you guys to see how Volanta works. I love I love this software so much. I love Volanta. Where's it gone?

[00:41:44]Just disappeared on me. Here we are. So, this is us.

[00:41:51]Oh, we're scheduled to arrive early.

[00:41:54]Wow. Almost 20 minutes early. Can't argue with that.

[00:41:59]See the flight director?

[00:42:02]He takes you where you want to be early.

[00:42:06]Uh, let's try not to slam the landing.

[00:42:09]This is all our information about the flight. Ground speed 394 knots, a heading, altitude, everything.

[00:42:19]Uh yeah, this is an awesome awesome uh software.

[00:42:28]So, let's enjoy the flight. Let's chill while uh while we're cruising.

[00:43:14]I think this is my first Tuesday stream.

[00:43:17]I don't I don't normally stream during the week.

[00:43:21]I want to um I want to do do more of it as as my like following grows and you guys are you know sticking around and we can enjoy the flights together. Uh so hopefully yeah I'll be doing more of that.

[00:43:37]This weekend I won't be able to stream because I I'll be traveling basically Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

[00:43:56]I might be able to stream Sunday night, but I don't know. Um, but if not, I'll probably stream on on Monday evening. So that's why I wanted to do, you know, a stream or two during during the week to try and make up for that.

[00:44:12]Please try Boeing next.

[00:44:15]I used to fly Boeing 737 all the time before flying this, but it's been so long, man. I don't remember how to fly it at all. I'm telling you, I'll get into the flight deck and I'll be like, "What do all these buttons do? Help, help.

[00:44:37]And also, I don't have a yoke. I mean, even before when I used to fly the 737, I was still using an Airbus setup, which is fine. You know, instead of a yoke, I'm using a side stick. Whatever. It's It's fine.

[00:44:48]Um, yeah, I should do more Boeing flights again. And the Boeing 737 aircraft that I have, it's called the Zebo 737. It's freeear and it's incredible. It's got so many amazing details. It's got like I've got Ryionaire livery and I've got all the Ryionaire sounds and it's so immersive.

[00:45:10]It's It's brilliant.

[00:45:12]I just haven't flown it in so long and I love this A320 so much. But you're right. I need to do uh I need to do more more Boeing flights. We will do it. We will do it.

[00:45:27]We will.

[00:45:29]Is everything good in the flight deck?

[00:45:34]Everything looks good so far. Top of descent 629 in a few minutes. Uh guys, let's go ahead and put in our destination data just so it's there and we can be prepared. So we go to performance, we'll go approach phase. So let's get our data.

[00:45:57]Milan The Q&H in Milan is one 07 1 0 07.

[00:46:11]Temperature in Milan is currently 19° C.

[00:46:17]Wind, we've got 10 kn uh 10° at 9 knots.

[00:46:22]10° at 9 knots.

[00:46:26]Uh our that's what I need to do. Yep. So ILS 35 Zulu is our approach.

[00:46:41]Let's add that to the map.

[00:46:53]Our decision altitude is 537 ft. So that's what we're going to put in here.

[00:46:57]537 ft.

[00:47:02]A320 is the best. It is. You know, I used to be a Boeing guy 100% all the time. I used to love flying Boeing. And like, you know, you still do. When you fly Boeing, you feel like you're actually flying a plane. This is flying a big computer with wings. That's what the Airbus is. Uh but after flying this I'm like uh everything is so smooth and beautiful and yeah you kind of get spoiled flying Airbus.

[00:47:35]Right, that's um that's that done. So top of descent 629.

[00:47:42]Yeah, we've got like four or five minutes.

[00:47:47]Let's enjoy some of the views for a few minutes before we start our descent.

[00:47:51]Nice short and sweet flight. I like these short and sweet hops.

[00:47:56]I love long haul flights as well, but uh when you don't have lots and lots of time, it's nice to just do a short and sweet flight. And we've got plenty of sun still. Look, beautiful.

[00:48:56]We're still crabbing pretty hard. 59 knots. Wow, that is a crosswind and a half.

[00:49:07]So, I'm estimating uh yeah, I reckon this right here is our top of descent.

[00:49:47]Not only do I love flying, but I'm really starting to love the whole streaming process as well. And uh now that I actually have a few people that, you know, come and join on the chat and uh and enjoy the videos, it's great.

[00:50:01]It's more motivation for me to keep streaming. So, the more people we have, the more we'll stream.

[00:50:08]Works for everyone.

[00:50:34]Right, we're going to try very hard. I always want to try and like outperform my previous landing. Even if I did a good landing before, I want every landing to be better than the one before. So, what we're going to try and do is like there's a couple of things I want to focus on. maintaining the center line and keeping the landing relatively smooth. I'm not too fussed if the landing is not crazy smooth because a firm landing is a safe landing, right?

[00:51:05]But for sim purposes, we always want it to be smooth. So, that's uh that's what we're going to try and do, but maintaining the center line.

[00:51:14]And I think I figured out what I've been doing wrong um in previous videos is that I'm always um like switching my my my visuals and my focus from the runway to the instruments.

[00:51:34]Runway instruments. And that's what you should do as you get closer to the runway. But I think I let go of the instruments and focus on the runway too late.

[00:51:43]So, I'm going to do that a little bit earlier and then maintain the center line visually after I've stayed, you know, followed the flight director in. So, we're going to try that today and see if it's any better.

[00:51:57]I also enjoy our videos. Ah, Clement, thank you. Thank you, man. Really appreciate that.

[00:52:05]Really appreciate that. We'll try and uh try and do many many more.

[00:52:13]629 top of descent.

[00:52:18]Now, we're not using ATC, so we will clear this down to 3,000.

[00:52:23]And just so we know what our missed approach altitude is, 3,000.

[00:52:29]That works very well.

[00:52:34]So the the brief basically for missed approach climb to 3,00 continue on course 353 degrees to ML704 to be reached at or above 1,000 ft. Then turn right directed to cause and hold.

[00:52:55]So basically turn right and hold there.

[00:53:01]Max 210 knots.

[00:53:05]Okay.

[00:53:10]Right. Top of descent reached. Let's go.

[00:53:13]Why always do that?

[00:53:17]We have officially begun our descent.

[00:53:21]Let's go. Descending into Milan from a beautiful short hop from Rome.

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[00:54:16]right? I can actually move this now.

[00:54:31]Just plugging in my phone.

[00:54:38]There we go.

[00:54:41]Okay, that should work.

[00:54:52]Henry, welcome to the stream. Welcome to the chat. What flight are we doing? We are uh doing another Eater flight because I absolutely love this livery.

[00:55:03]Uh, and we're flying from Rome to Milan.

[00:55:05]And actually, we've already begun our descent. So, we're descending into Milan. Short and sweet.

[00:55:31]Just taking a screenshot of that cuz that is screenshot worthy.

[00:55:43]Try and get a bit closer to my desk so I can reach my rudder pedals.

[00:55:53]It's a a very scenic little flight like along the the whole coast of Italy.

[00:55:57]Beautiful. Oh, look at that. We are taking a left turn.

[00:56:05]Let's enjoy some of these views.

[00:56:28]We're 115 miles out.

[00:56:39]Sure.

[00:56:54]See, I don't trust these speeds. When you look at these speed like like this, this way point here, Sorrop, right, is literally right before the runway. It's on final. There's no way we can hit this way point here at 200 knots. That's why I don't trust it.

[00:57:13]Maybe I don't know, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I I always go to like manual speeds and I I I take over cuz I want to I just want to approach at a much more manageable speed. I want to be like at 150 maximum by then, you know?

[00:57:27]Obviously, we don't have ATC. If we had ATC and they vetoed us in, they would probably tell us the speed as well. So, you know, to keep traffic flowing.

[00:58:32]I actually move my iPad now because it's not charging anymore.

[00:58:36]Why do I always do that? Sorry if I just deafened you guys.

[00:58:41]What's our current speed? I'll tell you right now, 280 knots, which is actually to be expected, I guess.

[00:58:56]Uh, right. What we're going to do is we are going to start setting ourselves up here.

[00:59:02]Uh, 658 is when we'll be landing.

[00:59:08]Oh, that's still like 20 minutes out.

[00:59:10]Okay.

[00:59:15]Um, let's go ahead and turn on the fasten seat belt signs.

[00:59:25]Let's make a few announcements, shall we?

[00:59:46]Make sure that your above your head. When I take you Toilets are no longer in service.

[01:00:29]Oops.

[01:00:32]You guys should have gone before.

[01:00:39]And we've still got some sun. And now is like when it's going to start going like pinkish. It's going to look awesome.

[01:01:17]What the pilots?

[01:01:28]This guy just looks happy to be here. I guess that's me. This guy, what's this guy doing? He looks like He looks like he's squinting. He looks like he forgot his glasses at home.

[01:01:39]And he's squinting. He's like, "Well, wait. I I think I can see from here."

[01:01:46]That's why this guy's like, "Don't worry. I got it.

[01:01:51]I got you. I'll do the landing since you can't see anything."

[01:01:56]It's definitely what's going on.

[01:02:17]Right, let's try and uh have a smooth landing here.

[01:02:25]So according to the information at the moment, the wind information when we are landing we'll have a head wind of 8 knots. So that's pretty pretty ideal.

[01:02:37]So hopefully we'll be good.

[01:02:43]Let's ask the I think technically they did that. Okay, checklist time.

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[01:03:18]Carabo, hey, welcome. Welcome, buddy. We uh we are flying from Rome to Milan and we've started our descent. We'll be landing in about 10 15 minutes in Milan and uh it's all real time, real weather and there's a beautiful sunset that we're uh we're enjoying. So hopefully it's going to be a nice scenic landing.

[01:03:41]Okay, our approach checklist.

[01:03:50]Let's start doing that. We're at 12,000 ft. Okay. So, Barrow ref, we've we've set it.

[01:03:59]I'm going to see if I can get away with putting it here early. Uh, Milan, let's just get our information, our updated information. 107.

[01:04:13]We might be too high, but I'm just putting it in anyway. Um, barre set.

[01:04:19]Seat belts are on.

[01:04:22]Minimums set. Auto brake. Let's go. Auto brake low.

[01:04:31]Engine mode select as normal. Approach checklist is complete.

[01:04:41]So, this is where we're going to do this really weird Can you Can you see here? like we're basically doing a right turn and then a left turn and then back on track. So there there must be something we're trying to avoid, but I just I don't know what what it is. It doesn't look like there's anything in front of us. So it seems like a really pointless thing, but there's probably a reason for it. So we will uh we will be obedient.

[01:05:36]Here comes the right turn. The first pointless turn.

[01:06:01]Let's actually see how far we are. We can 56 miles 230 210 210 210 that's okay until 6 to7.

[01:06:21]So basically at this roughly this point here um my LMA 627 probably probably slow down a lot maybe a little bit before that.

[01:06:35]Um so we're okay for now.

[01:07:10]from here. It doesn't look like we're actually avoiding anything. But uh yeah, see it's like it's relatively flat terrain. like a few hills, but who knows? Who knows?

[01:08:06]Here's the other turn.

[01:09:04]Right. This is where I'm going to start slowing down a little bit. We'll slow down to about 210.

[01:09:09]What am I doing? 210.

[01:09:19]Oh, we are at 210.

[01:09:24]I'm happy with that.

[01:09:39]This is the part as a as a as a passenger where you start anticipating the landing and you get excited and you're like, "Whoa, we're almost there.

[01:09:47]We're almost there.

[01:09:52]Okay, so far so good.

[01:10:02]210. Okay, I'm actually kind of happy with that. We can come down to 200 Okay, we're only 35 miles out, so we'll start prepping ourselves. Didn't even lock the cockpit door. Well done. We'll start prepping ourselves.

[01:10:41]Our approach checklist is done. So, our next checklist will be our landing checklist.

[01:10:50]which is partially done. 9,000 ft. We're starting to descend further. Great.

[01:10:55]Let's let the cabin crew know they can take their seats. Cabin crew, please take your seats for landing. Thank you.

[01:11:07]Go around altitude set. Cabin crew has been advised. ECAM memo landing no blue. That's the last thing we need to do. and the aircraft will guide us through that process. So, landing lights on, nose light on, runway turnoff light on.

[01:11:28]That's all looking good. Seat belt signs are already on.

[01:11:34]Spoilers are armed.

[01:11:37]Okay, let's uh let's slow down to about 180.

[01:11:42]We'll check our speed and actually we can go flaps one Okay, flaps two. Great.

[01:12:39]Uh, 26 milesi out. That's good. Okay, now we're on final. So, now we are getting somewhere.

[01:12:53]25. I'm going to go ahead and arm the approach. Hopefully that will go smoothly and it will come alive as we get closer.

[01:13:02]Terms of localizer and glide slope.

[01:13:06]6,000 ft.

[01:13:13]Slow down to 160.

[01:13:19]I like to prepare myself. So, you know, we start slowing down before it gives the aircraft time to just start slowing itself down without us having to deploy the speed brakes and all that kind of stuff last minute. We'll go for a nice stable approach. And obviously, we're not using ATC yet, so I'm making the most of that and we're easing the the approach. You know, we don't have traffic to worry about and stuff like that. We want to be stable as early as possible.

[01:13:52]That's my approach anyway.

[01:14:02]So, we can actually see the runway from here. Don't know if you guys can see it from there, but if I zoom in, should be able to see the approach lights. You can see it.

[01:14:17]That's our runway. Beautiful.

[01:14:28]Clean straight approach.

[01:14:31]Beautiful.

[01:14:52]Okay, where are we at?

[01:14:56]19 miles. All good. We're at 160.

[01:14:58]Everything's stable. Beautiful. Speed is checked. Let's go. Flaps three.

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[01:15:23]Look at that view. Look at that sunset.

[01:15:32]Oh, that's stunning.

[01:15:35]Stunning.

[01:15:49]Okay, so far so Good.

[01:16:13]Nice and stable.

[01:16:22]Nice and stable.

[01:16:39]Right, let's do this, guys.

[01:16:42]Let's do this.

[01:16:44]So down to 150.

[01:16:53]Let's go. Flaps full.

[01:17:09]Beautiful stuff.

[01:17:25]Looks like we've intercepted the localizer.

[01:17:36]Okay, 10 miles out. Let's go ahead and go gear down.

[01:18:23]Okay, we're getting very close to capturing the glide slope.

[01:18:33]Spoilers armed. Seat belts on. Yes, look at that. Captured it. Perfect.

[01:18:48]It's going to be a smooth landing. I love your your optimism. I am. I'm also equally optimistic. I'm going to do my best. Let's uh let's do a good job with this.

[01:19:04]You watch me say that and I'll just destroy this landing. Uh, right. We want this landing to be good.

[01:19:18]We've got a 9 knot headwind at the moment. A little bit of a crosswind, but it's not not not crazy.

[01:19:26]So, we should be okay. Let's cabin check.

[01:19:32]I think I said it really early, like letting the cabin know. Now is when you'd normally say take your seats for landing.

[01:19:44]Okay, let's do it.

[01:19:55]It looks like a tiny airport, by the way.

[01:19:59]Looks like a tiny airport. Wow.

[01:20:06]Okay, let's go. Let's do this.

[01:20:20]Oh, Milan looks beautiful even in XPlane.

[01:20:29]>> That's a stunning approach.

[01:20:49]Everything looking good. Autopilot disconnect. The aircraft is mine.

[01:21:06]500 >> 400 >> 100 above >> 300.

[01:21:25]>> Oh, we're way too fast. I forgot. I forgot to >> forgot to slow down.

[01:21:37]>> 50.

[01:21:42]>> That was terrible.

[01:21:44]>> 10.

[01:21:51]>> Yeah, that should have been that should have been a goound. That should have been a goound.

[01:21:57]That should have been a go around. It was smooth, but it should have been a go around. That was not stable. I was way too fast.

[01:22:04]Way too fast.

[01:22:11]Yeah. Should have been a go around.

[01:22:15]All right, we're going to come off here.

[01:22:19]Well, that sucked.

[01:22:31]Let's make sure let's go this way.

[01:22:44]>> Guys, that sucked.

[01:22:51]>> What even was that?

[01:22:54]Let me >> turn off these lights. That can go there. Strobe to auto.

[01:23:05]Turn on the APU.

[01:23:14]Basically, we're going to take one of these remote stands.

[01:23:23]We'll take the one all the way at the end.

[01:23:30]I think it was uh it was it was in terms of a touchdown, it was it was smooth, but that was not stable.

[01:23:38]That was that was not stable. I realized last minute that um we were coming in at 150 knots. 150 knots is not crazy fast. Like I know real pilots that would land between 160 and 170, but um but ideally like it would be good to to to come in at like 135 140. Uh it was way way too fast. That was my bad.

[01:24:15]But it seemed smooth as a landing. It seemed smooth way too fast. That was That should have been a go around.

[01:24:29]Let's listen to this gentleman right here. Follow his guidance.

[01:24:40]Slow. Slow down. Slow. Whoa. Slow down.

[01:24:45]Bit more. Bit more.

[01:24:49]Okay.

[01:24:51]Right.

[01:24:53]What even was that?

[01:24:56]Not that bad, mate. You came in fast. It was smooth. Yeah, I think it was I think it was pretty smooth. I mean, it seemed it seemed smooth. Uh, APU is available.

[01:25:06]So, we'll go ahead and turn off the engines. We can turn that off. We can turn that off. And the beacon can come off.

[01:25:21]Um, yeah. So, we'll go ahead and replay that in a second. Um, let's get our data here. So, Volanta will tell me what our touchdown rate was. Review your flight landing rate minus 282. That's decent. That's decent.

[01:25:43]Um, not considered like really rough.

[01:25:47]Let's go back and see how uh embarrassing this one was.

[01:25:54]So, let's go back.

[01:25:59]Okay.

[01:26:04]I don't even remember if I stayed on the center line. I think I did.

[01:26:16]It even feels fast.

[01:26:22]Flared too early.

[01:26:27]Center looks okay. I think we were pretty we were okay for that. Floating.

[01:26:32]Floating. Floating. And fast. Touchdown was okay. It's fine.

[01:26:45]And then basically we had to slam on the brakes.

[01:26:52]We have to slam on the brakes here to come off.

[01:27:07]That was actually more in line with a lot of the funny rhy landings you hear about. Let's see. Let's see from here.

[01:27:19]Floating. Floating.

[01:27:29]Touchdown was all right. I don't have a problem with a touchdown. That was okay.

[01:27:37]See from here.

[01:27:42]And at some point we slam on the brakes.

[01:27:52]Slam on the brakes.

[01:27:57]That actually felt like a Ryan Air landing. I've taken so many Ryan Air flights and that's how they feel.

[01:28:04]Touchdown and then slam on the brakes and then out.

[01:28:08]So yeah, if Rion Air does it, we're okay.

[01:28:15]Um, check this angle as well.

[01:28:55]When you think about it, it's it's within it's within boundaries that are generally acceptable. So, it's it's fine. You know, I'm being a bit picky, but it was not the most stable approach.

[01:29:09]Well, it wasn't until it wasn't.

[01:29:14]Let's check this angle as well and then we'll call it a day.

[01:29:30]Huge floater there.

[01:29:33]Decent touchdown.

[01:29:36]Should have been a go around. Let's I still think cuz we were running out of runway fast and then slam on the brakes and then out.

[01:30:00]There you go. They can't all be perfect, but that one was uh at least it was entertaining.

[01:30:05]That one was good. Um, all right. So, let's go back to our current state.

[01:30:15]There we go. We'll open the doors.

[01:30:19]Open. And we need stairs.

[01:30:23]Now, we don't have um unlike Microsoft Flight Simulator, we don't have like people coming in and out. Can't really see people, but uh it's uh you know, it's not bad for what it is.

[01:30:44]There we go. Well, we made it safely.

[01:30:46]Made it safely. Relatively smooth landing. Very late. Ran out of runway.

[01:30:50]Bit crazy, but uh we made it.

[01:30:54]To everyone who joined, thank you so much. Great to see a few of you in the chat as well. It's awesome. Uh, if you haven't already, please double tap that that screen um and like the video and subscribe to the channel. And uh I will see you in the next one. Until then, fly safe, have fun, and take care. See you guys later.

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