Far Beyond my Expectations! | De Havilland DHC-4 Caribou | Full Flight Review | WU12 | MSFS

foreign [Music] everyone and welcome back to the channel in today's video we've got a pretty cracking schedule lined up we're going to be taking a look of course at World update 12 the New Zealand World update as well as the newly released de Havilland dhc4 caribou the video itself is primarily going to be a review of the Caribou but of course it offers up a great opportunity as well to check out the most recent World update I was really happy to see New Zealand get some caring attention from a Sobo I'm sure I've probably said this a few times previously but new zealanders without a doubt one of my favorite places to go flying in the SIM a few hours ago I couldn't have said quite the same about the Caribou it's never been an aircraft that I've been particularly fond of de Havilland have of course been responsible for some of the most beautiful aircraft designs in existence but to me it's always seemed as though perhaps when they were making the dhc4 the usual designers had the day off the Caribbean is not a pretty aircraft by anybody's standards I was somewhat tentative when it came to checking out the dhc4 but spoiler alert the aircraft is actually great fun I had a really enjoyable outing there was a lot more Fidelity there than I was expecting and it made for a pretty special trip in terms of that trip we are currently on the ground at tekapo airport which is one of the new handcrafted airports within the Sim we're going to be taking the Caribou on a fairly short hop over towards Queenstown so crossing over New Zealand South Island obviously we can discuss more about the flight and the routing as we go but long story short this was one of those experiences in the Sim where everything came together really nicely and made for rather a special experience as ever as we carry out our flight I'll try my best to give you a detailed breakdown of what the de Havilland DHC 4 Caribou has to offer I do hope you enjoyed the video we'll start with a brief walk around and then we'll make our way up to the cockpit as always if you do enjoy things then please consider giving the video a like if you want to see more content from the channel then please consider subscribing as well so just making our way over towards the dhc4 the caribou overall as I mentioned during the introduction I was actually really pleasantly surprised by the aircraft I had an absolutely cracking flight but first off we'll start by taking a look of course at the external model in a little bit more detail starting with the nose wheel then you can see overall nice detailing you can see the linkages there a couple of wires as well texturing is a little bit low resolution than one might hope for in certain areas but overall I think the aircraft looks really nice and again the texture detail is good you can see there for example on the prop everything quite legible nice detail as well there with the radial engine overall I think the caribbe is a really nice 3D model externally I have to say just taking a look here down the wing as well we'll make our way around towards the main landing gear nice riveting detail as well again the texturing just slightly lower quality textures slightly strange texturing there on the tar as well but it's one of those add-ons it might not be the most high resolution textures that are being used they certainly look the part the aircraft looks very nicely weathered very nicely rendered up at the tail there again that Canadian flag sits perfectly within the New Zealand scenery and coming around to the rear of the aircraft which I suppose currently within the Sim is the GHC Force party piece those engines as well look pretty beastly there with those two exhausts coming off the back just jump up onto the cargo ramp I'm making my way through the rear hole pretty cool that we don't have an aircraft in the Sim with a set of rear doors and an operable cargo ramp you can see we're configured currently it looks like for a parachute drop and just working our way through the river cabin again very nice detailing in terms of modeling and texturing and making our way up into the flight deck so here we are now then in the cockpit of the dhc4 Caribou here on the ground into Capo just coming up on about 5 PM local time overall I have to say a very nice job with the cockpit rather Antiquated of course in terms of design but that makes a very interesting to operate and there's lots of nice details included as well which of course we'll take a look at as we go first things first though we'll get that rear cargo door closed up so the Battery Master can go on and the controls for the cargo doors located here at the after the cockpit so ramp down can go off we can cage that up we can close up the cargo drills themselves and we can start retracting the ramp you can hear really nice sounds there associated with the operation off the doors and the ramp but no problem say the sunset of the aircraft is very good indeed the level of detail throughout the aircraft is very good especially given the price so of course we're just waiting here for everything to close up there go the doors cage up the switch before we do that we can put that back to the off position and the wrap there taking a little bit longer but you can see it just coming in now there goes the ramp once again we'll switch that to the off position cage it up and we can turn off the master power switch also backer as well not really necessary for the flight today but we might just get the no smoking and the faster seat belt signs on so the ramp is closed up running through the before start checks the landing gear ground safety locks have been removed peterhead covers we checked there on the walk around they've been removed wheel trucks have been removed the Fire Guard is posted props obviously again already checked during the walk around there but they should be clear and they look to be visually clear the battery master switch is on our caution warning lights we're looking for hydraulic low pressure warning lights which we have and the gear down indications we have three greens your low pressure lights all low pressure lights generate failure and invert failure so all of our lights working correctly according to the checklist we carry out a landing gear horn test the switch does work doesn't seem to do anything though in the cockpit throttles we can open up to the gas lock position you can see there the gas lock holding the throttles at a set position again nice details overall I would say we're not going to be using external power for the start so we'll be starting off the batteries starting the left hand engine first they left fuel boost pump switch can go on and you might just about as well be able to hit the wine there the fuel pump you can see we do have an increase there in fuel pressure inverter switch can go to main and then we're just checking that the manifold pressures register which they do and same there as well for the fuel quantities so switch off once again we're going to run through a slightly adjusted start process here versus the checklist really for the sake of Simplicity in the video so anti Collision light can go on now flights can go on coming down to the start panel the start master is selected on fuel boost pump once again selected to normal and the low fuel pressure warning light is out Max on the left engine can go on to both we'll set the mixture through to Auto rich and we'll Prime on the left and we'll engage the left starter so there goes the engine it does fire up rather easily it has to be said we'll bring the throttle back we're looking for around 800 RPM initially the style sounds aren't too bad it would be nice of course to have a little bit more coughing and spluttering and the engine taking a little bit longer to catch but that generally tends to be the case in the Sim that there's not too much Nuance to uh radial engine starts anyway low oil pressure warning lights out the oil pressure indication looks good and the RPMs are set again just coming back down to the start panel we'll get the primer off starters disengaged and we did a good start there on the left so we'll bring the mixture lever back to the auto lean position doing the same then for the right hand engine once again the master is on your Boost pump on the left can go to the off position and on the right can go through to normal Max are set through to both mixture is three quarter rich and now priming on the right and we'll start the right engine again good start there on the right all pressure has come up all pressure warning light is out so ticket starts once again the Boost pump can go off and the primer can come off dart's disconnected Master start switch can go off and for the after starts once again we do have good old pressures inverter switch can go back to main the Boost pump switches are off and now we have a good start we can get both generators on there as well they left gen on and same thing on the right just come up slightly now on the RPM and select the image to start warming up looking for around 1200 RPM at an oil temperature of 40 degrees and already there showing up around 50 degrees bang on in the green bands we'll just leave the engine idling around a thousand RPM the before taxi checks and inverter and generators are set now looking for the low oil pressure warning lights out windshield heat unfortunately an octave in the aircraft troop jump lights [Music] are out of fuel level warning lights are out your quantity indicating system is checked we've got about 1700 pounds there in each main tank Communications equipment and navigation radio is set so for nav one today we want initially the mount Mary viewer according to Sky Vector it's a VOR according to navigraph it's a DME only but anyway it's one one two five and you can see there we are picking up the DME well initially track on a heading out for that and the course is going to be two zero one we'll set that but again if it is just a DME or if it's not going to pick anything up there and it doesn't look as though we're picking up any information from the station anyway just take our time here to select 201 on the obs there's two zero one altimeters set those qhs one zero two six by looks of things zeroom elevation they're showing two thousand six hundred feet and it's about 2 500 in reality elevation here at Capo so slight discrepancy there probably an issue with the Sims live weather we'll set 2500 now and we'll do the same there on the right heading back we can set once we're out at the runway so nav radio's and communication radios are set slightly interesting if you set up here it's more of a military style avionics setup so we've got for example the iff UHF radio takan most of that functionality isn't operable including the takan but we do have adfs and nav radios and again we'll be making use the nav radio today similarly Liberty of GPS which is nice so just cycling through we'll wait for that to initialize and we do have the option as well to select between both nav and GPS for the navigation as you can see as far as I can tell no autopilot in the aircraft so a lot of manual flying for today's flight and indeed if you do purchase the caribou there's going to be a lot of manual flying for you as well we'll keep things simple for now we might change the plan later on but now we'll just go direct to Queenstown so November Zulu Quebec okay November and Queenstown that we can activate that and you can see we're showing direct to the destination currently we'll again refine our selections later on there it's come out as well on the Range you can see Mount Mary letting this video are there as well on the GPS quite interesting anyway Communications and navigation equipment is set an engine instruments are checked everything reading nicely there now in terms of all pressure fuel pressure all of our readings are green the Hydraulics we're supposed to be showing 3000 psi interestingly only showing around 2 000 currently I have noticed that does tend to come up once we come up on the engine path we'll check that again later on with a slight discrepancy there the wheel trucks have been removed the cargo and passenger doors once again just visually verifying those are closed and getting our signal there from the ground chief though we are now ready for the taxi that being said we're just going to carry out the run up here today in our present position just for the sake of the video really it keeps things a little bit more simple not quite into wind as you can see we have a nice headwind there down the easterly runway but again for the sake of the video today we'll carry out the run up here and then we'll make our way out towards the runway so if the engine run up once again we'll say we are clear coming up to 1200 RPM that's 1200 sets and again temperatures and pressure is looking good check the wing flaps they're selecting full flaps the flap indicator just down by the airspeed indicator and indicating flaps 40 will come all the way back on the flaps again okay for the gust lock handle we can unlock that I think there's potentially a bit of a bug here we have the lock position the controls lock position and the unlocked position we only seem to be able to select through the controls lock position and the flight controls do work at that point I'm not entirely sure though that could be a misunderstanding on my part anyway with the gustock removed we can now come up to 1900 RPM and there we have 1900s we'll check the props according to the checklist we should see the props come back towards 1300 RPM really there we only come back to around 1700 so again a little bit of discrepancy and we'll cycle that three times nevertheless we do see a decrease there and properly interesting to see how the problems behave later on the carpets they don't seem to work off my default keybind just try those individually you can see we do show a drop there on the left that the carpets functioning correctly and same there on the right they copies are checked now three to twenty two hundred RPM and check the mags we should do as well that the manifold pressure roughly reading aerodynamic elevation barometric pressure which we pretty much have there would just below 30 inches slight drop there on the left back to both and again same drop there within limits and on the right engine will do the same slight drop back to both that switch looks perhaps a little bit misaligned in terms of Animation same again and back to both the thrust indications they're checking that they both read broadly the same value which they do interestingly you can see we do have take off fireman Cruise parameters we'll see how closely our power settings align with those later on that makes a check we're looking for no less than 100 RPM drop and Max differential of 40. so we work within limits and now coming back on the throttles we're looking to at around 550 RPM plus minus 25. just coming slowly back on those throttles with those big radial engines probably still a little bit too faster in reality but we'll try and keep things somewhat expeditious for the video and you can see there I'd like around 650 each though ever so slightly high but again still well with the limits for what I would expect to see at this sort of price point we should also see the generator warning lights there come on as the generators drop out but that's really the sort of icing on the cake type of stuff and again at this sort of price I'm not expecting that necessarily so back up to 1000 RPM carb air induction switches are unfortunately an operative but we'll leave those in alternate anyway and once I remember whilst we're down here as well just turn on are bearing a waypoint indicator so carbon induction switches will leave come into reverse on the props and we have good indications prop reverse lights are illuminated and once again coming out of reverse and bring ourselves back towards 1200 RPM so that's a run-up complete the auto feather switch selected on the light is illuminated gas lock once again we'll move into the locked position for the taxi out uh mixed control levers a little bit of a mission there on my part we'll just bring the right hand lever there back towards the auto lean position as well we should have had those up in the auto Richter position the run-up anyway we are now ready for the taxi again we've got a pretty decent headwind here Off The easterly Runway so we're going to actually Straight Ahead here otherwise it's a little bit tight in terms of getting around the terminal building there's a stable taxi Straight Ahead we'll backtrack out towards the north we'll get ourselves turned around at the Turning node and then we'll be ready to go okay so we are nicely lined up here now on Runway one one just running throughout before takeoff checks for the trims elevator trim is set in the takeoff band later on and Rudder trim both set neutral the Cabo induction switches both set to alternate but the flaps will come through to flaps 20. the Caribou is a pretty capable aircraft but we're fairly limited here in terms of Runway out of decapo so we'll go with the flaps 20 for the takeoff and we'll hold the aircraft on the brakes as well as we initially come up on the power so flaps are set mixture control levers are set through each fully Rich props are set fully forwards Auto feather is selected on your Boost pumps are set to normal fuel tanks lecture is set to normal showing about 1650 there now in each main tank windshield heat again unfortunately currently adoptive hydraulic pressure showing 2000 PSI still again expecting to see 3000 anti Collision light is on engine instruments are checked or warning lights are out lights instruments still showing 2500 there on both altimeters which checks with the outro motivation and showing what ones are there on the directional gyro versus 110 on the whiskey Compass we've also set the heading bug there as well 201 for the initial course and as I say we are picking up that DME so flight instruments are checked flat position indicating flaps 20. we're supposed to carry out still warning system test again the switch does operate but I can't see any Associated effect with that Peter heat can go on windows are closed and locked unfortunately the windows don't seem to be operable which is a bit of a shame given the level of detail on the aircraft it would have been a nice feature to have the emergency overhead escape hatch is also close and locked and again I really love the level of detail throughout the Caribbean I think it's a really nice job overall so parking brake can come off again we'll just hold the aircraft on the brakes they're releasing the gust lock once again we are full and free on the flight controls which we are shoulder harnesses locked and we are good for the takeoff that was to say We'll initially come up on the power just holding the aircraft on the brakes Trying to minimize I'll take off ground roll it's like the aircraft holding on the brakes there right through to take off power that's full power off the brakes and a full pressure looks good RPMs are checked wind just wanting to push us out to the left there so correcting for that so far the aircraft pretty easy to control on the takeoff seems to be pretty stable sounds like we're getting a bit light on the wheel so just starting to come back on the yoke and you can see the car will be pretty capable getting off in a fairly short distance there take a phone felt pretty good overall take the gear up we do have positive climb and we'll just continue to climb away here up through 500 feet then we can start thinking about retracting the flaps [Music] [Music] [Music] and just come out through 500 feet so we'll start retracting the flaps back through each flaps 15. so far the airport feeling pretty good just pitching those down slightly build up a little bit more speed here in the climb slightly bumpy conditions here off the Hills the aircraft is getting knocked around a little come through retract the flaps fully Cadbury doesn't seem to be in a hurry to accelerate here we're only doing around 500 feet per minute rate of climb just starting to build up some AirSpeed now that we've got those flaps retracted get our speed up to around 150 knots there and then we'll make our turn come back to climb power we'll make a right hand turn most of the hydrating off on our left slightly uh clear ground off on the right okay speed is looking good now start reducing come back to 40 inches manifold pressure we'll go over 2500 RPMs now that's still within the Red Band not sure whether or not that would be a typical climb power setting showing a decent indication there on the thrust gauges in terms of a client power setting you'll notice we're a little bit low on the thrust gauge just during the takeoff we're obviously at a reasonable air drone motivation here so I suspect that would account for some of the Lost in thrust anyway speed looking good now we're getting about uh 800 feet per minute range of climb out of the aircraft a little bit less than the information provided with the Caribou on the sales page suggested but again we are some altitude here anyway for the office take off checklist gear is that lights are out flaps are up plan power is set Auto feather can come off and radar not required not entirely sure that it's actually modeled in the aircraft so just coming through a southerly heading we're looking for 201 on the course but obviously we're out to the right of course Connie so we'll come on to heading around two cheese erects against back on course didn't mean they're showing about 11 miles to run which is reasonable it's about 12 miles to the station from decapo yeah so far quite enjoying home flying the aircraft maybe just a touch sensitive on the controls but overall it does have some inertia to it does feel somewhat like a lumbering Beast to fly it's only needing quite a bit of trim here been progressively putting in trim input since we departed still doing so at the moment for pitch maybe some of the gauges as well just a little bit hard to read yeah let's give them a heading for now we'll just wait then until we come over the station we can get a good idea of that with the DME then we'll be tracking towards Queenstown again lots of manual flying in the Caribou as best I can tell there's no autopilot as we discussed If someone knows any better please do let me know in the comments and I'll in the comments so that everyone else can see let's come out through six thousand we're looking to level off ten thousand today that'll keep us above the terrain and just coming up again on those throttles to maintain 40 inches manifold pressure again a little bit tricky to read the panels here so we might just uh take some lighting those rear stats are pretty painfully slow we've got pilot and engine lighting switch and emergency rooms not required radio console will take on as well just come all the way up on that rear step for the pilot lighting doesn't seem to make a huge difference maybe slightly better there on the attitude indicator that's coming through your six Demi now not Mary I believe the VOR is located just off the uh edge of the water there so at the moment we seem to be getting around 500 600 feet per minute range of climb which is a little bit less than I was expecting I seem to recall the sales information said the aircraft could get up to around uh 1300 feet per minute rate of climb I've got a reasonable load on board though if I recall correctly we've got some weight down the back and we were a tunnel so I believe below Max takeoff White Runway two one [Music] let's see he's getting a little bit about the trim here as well the aircraft feeling a little bit left wing heavy currently so correcting for that and again we'll keep adjusting our power levers that's Full Throttle now and just start includes manifold pressure coming up through seven thousand feet check 155 knots over the grounds and showing about three miles an hour to run towards Mount Mary of course inbound towards queenstown's going to be 207 initially although we'll be adjusting that later on we'll talk about that during the arrival brief there's 207 so I think perhaps the aircraft is slightly underperforming at the moment but again that's based on very limited information as best I can tell there's no manual available with the product so apparently making deal with a real world checklist there is a lot of real world documentation out there for the Caribou from what I could see so certainly it would be possible to go away and look up the performance figures but I haven't had the time to do that yet anyway that covers Us for the departure we'll just continue to climb here about an hour I think it is here in the cruise we've also only been making our way on route over towards Queenstown with some absolutely beautiful scenery to see and we'll check out again the external model of the character a little bit more and as usual I'll come back to you once we're ready to make the approach we can brief that up and fly the arrival foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign deck as promised some pretty stunning scenery on the route we're now just approaching Queenstown as you can see currently tracking in on the 223 radial showing about 18 miles to run and as we discussed we're going to be flying the Queenstown VR dmeb approach again visual conditions more or less but we'll just use that as a reference to make a way in towards the airport so we'll just run through that briefly we've got the Queenstown VR tuned up on a frequency of 113 decimal six one approach course will be two six zero we'll set that later on going down to an MDA of four call it 4 300 feet again going to be visual there before we reach that fairly High Aerodrome elevation we're looking at around [Music] 1200 feet just give me an eye there on that DME for the DME Arc in just a moment of time need to make a best approach it's tracking 260 to Queenstown VR then left turn outbound climbing up to 6500 feet initially and then 8 500 feet Max 160 knots definitely not going to be an issue for us in the caribou we're just tracking on the 223 radial currently we'll be turning left momentarily onto a 12 dma Arc it's coming up from 14 Demi and if anyone remembers from my last video in the system 414 we'll anticipate the turn here so we use one percent of our ground speed currently 164 knots so we'll turn about 1.5 miles early so the turn just coming up now so making a left turn putting ourselves 90 degrees to the station you can also start to send now down to 8 500 feet so we'll just come slightly back on the power here I do wonder if the aircraft isn't a little bit underpowered we were using client power settings essentially throughout the cruise and only getting around 140 knots that seems to be a little bit off to me anyway we can set two sticks around anticipation tracking a band towards Queenstown and when you have to Station 90 degrees off showing around 13 dimmies so just slightly outside of the arc so we'll just come around 20 degrees in towards the station here and that'll bring us slightly closer in in terms of our DME and again we'll get the aircraft coming down since we're descending we'll come back to Auto rich on the mixtures okay 12 and a half DME now and the aircraft is only nice you know around a thousand feet per minute we'll just reduce that slightly we'll set the having bug as well two six zero yeah so we've discussed the Mr French will be 160 knots if we need to go around again not anticipating that we'll need to today since we're clearly visual obviously significant High terrain around Queenstown the MSA High sector I'm say 11 400 feet in terms of the weather obviously just a little bit like cloud coverage around but still a very pleasant day overall I'm good now showing 12 DME so we'll plan to land we've got a slight wind slight tail wind coming out towards the west but it's a straight approach there and it's only around four knots tail wind and again the Caribbean is pretty still capable overall they'll plan to land out towards the West vacating off to the left it's coming down through 10 000 feet we'll get the landing lights on and in terms of our fuel States down to around 1400 pounds now on each main tank looking good in terms of that DME Arc and about uh two four five there on the radio currently so not too much longer we'll be turning inbound 260. we'll just continue around in the DME Arc just coming down through ten thousand once we come through the 061 radio we can send down 7 100 feet and we're just through that now so we can descend down to 7100 so you can see here we're just making bites at the turn every time we turn in slightly that's going to decrease our distance towards the station if we were slightly too close we just stay on our heading and here comes the uh ball there on the OBS so we're getting ready to turn now on to uh course of two six zero anticipate that slightly so we'll commence the Turning bounds water Queenstown and we should see the fields somewhere outside two o'clock you can see the approach basically brings us in down the valley Charlie is and as you can see we've got a bit of a basin down here in the mountains so we can use that to maneuver still touch High here currently around uh 9500 so we've got another seven and a half thousand feet to lose in terms of distance to the field we've got about 10 miles and since we do have quite a bit of altitude here to lose there's no real benefit of coming in on straight approach will be flying around burning up some track miles for the sake of it so we might as well come in Landing with our headwinds so we'll just track overhead the field will turn back towards the runway out over the water obviously in reality all of this would be dictated by our air traffic control clearance but again for the sake of four knots we're not too worried about which direction we land but we might as well nothing to win since we've got to increase our track miles anyway I believe the Caribou is pressurized hence why we're keeping The Descent rate reasonably low here otherwise we could have done a bit of a dirty dive and got ourselves nicely onto a profile but we couldn't come into the Descent any earlier there with the terrain you can see the airflow now just coming up over the ridge line off on our left Runway just coming into view lift control area control and identification services [Music] we can disregard the rest of the approach chart you can just run through the before landing checks so no smoking fast and seat belt signs they are still on we didn't turn those off throughout the flights obviously not really relevant today carb air induction switches once again are set to alternate ordinarily we'd have the car beats on as well this fairly low power setting but we're not going to cheat out today since I don't have a Hardware Key bound I'm not an actual that you can mixture control levers are set to Auto rich fuel boost pumps are set to normal fuel tank selector is set to normal hydraulics we are now up at 3 000 PSI so now reading correctly there must be a little bit of an issue there just with the engines providing enough run there at low power settings I check this course for the nose while steering switch to be all nice assume that would be this switch it's currently an octave but the noticeable steering Works regardless so we'll just hug the side of the Hills as I say we'll continue our descent out of the water and bring ourselves back in towards the east Ern we'll turn in a little bit early here and see if we can't demonstrate the Caribou short field capabilities in terms of approach probably end up a bit high but we'll try and get the aircraft down as best we can um it's a little bit tricky to describe the carbury's handling characteristics it feels fairly lumbering equally though we are getting a little bit bashed around here buy some turbulence and the controls still have that slightly Microsoft flight simulator field to them overall certainly enjoying flying the aircraft I don't know how accurate it is but it is good fun I tried the Zed key bind on the way of it see whether or not there was any sort of autopilot didn't seem to be it was all manual flying which again is great fun but it might not be everyone's cup of tea so if you plan to do some longer trips it's going to keep you fairly busy they'll get the speed back to 120 we'll take the gear down it's quite amazing how slowly you can actually operate the caribou and on that note actually we'll just keep the speed up for now we're looking good on profile we don't want to drag the aircraft all the way in they once again coming back up on those power levers as I say I was playing to take the gear there but since it's going to take us quite a while now to get back towards the runway we might as well hold off we'll keep 130 knots for now as I say no manual with the aircraft which is a shame but you do have in Sim checklist and you can see as well would you have basic checklist provided on the aircraft itself which is a nice touch and as I say I'm using a paper checklist for the sake of our flight today they're just coming down through 3 300 feet still doing that 140 knots we'll slowly start reducing that speed now back to 120 so we can take the gear looks like we're still showing four whites there on the puppy images [Music] okay so speed is check gear can come down and we do have three greens definitely a little bit higher here now so we'll just come straight through full flap and get on the speed there's flaps 40. I should give us plenty of drag help get us back down towards the runway let's judge that slightly as I say we're quite high now we'll keep an eye there on that approach speed indicator still showing fast at the moment which is pretty amazing we're down at 80 knots if nothing else I suppose this is a decent demonstration the caribou's shorefield approach capabilities getting around 1500 feet per minute rate sent out to the aircraft not actually picking up any speed that's pretty impressive and we're running through our finals checks pitch is full fine undercarriages down flaps are sets and clear it's not required the runway it's clear we'll see how we go here we'll try and vacate first right again just to check the performance of the caribou otherwise they will just have to roll through having to take off some of that Rudder trim now as well with the power levers right back I'm actually wondering just how slow we have to get before that indicator comes in okay so just coming off the stops of the needle there quite a crosswind actually it wasn't in the uh real world meta only around four knots as I say okay the windsock there it's reasonably Gusty so just getting away with that one just coming back onto profile don't think we're gonna make that first exit without slamming it down but we'll try let's touch down straight into the reverse range on the props fully onto the brakes oh there you go Caribou absolutely knows she's there probably slow down a little bit unrealistically but that was Max breaking Max reverse they're pretty impressive stopping distance so hopefully at least there we've demonstrated during the flight that the Caribou has some pretty amazing stall characteristics I don't know how through the art of real life I know the Caribou is pretty capable but I think that might be just a little bit overdone anyway for the offline checks we'll close up the gust lock once again I think lights can go off just make our way straight towards the terminal car bear induction switches will leave as is flaps can come up mixtures can come back to Auto lean and we'll just hold the checks there till we come onto the bay and we can stop just short a pot break on continuing with the checks field Beast pumps are off windshield heat again inoptive anti-collision light will leave on until we've got the engine shut down the icing switches Peter heat can come off radio switches I believe the radios as is so he knows we're all centered parking brake on for the shutdown again we'll set the throttles 1200 RPM not entirely sure what the purpose of this gauge is supposed to be it doesn't seem to pick up any data from the GPS so it's a little bit Limited in terms of its functionality we've got 1200 set we should let the engines call back towards 200 degrees or below on the cylinder heads we're down at 150. so radio switches are set inverter switch is off Boston seat belt no smoking signs are both off mixture control levers can come back to idle cut off shut down the right first pretty nice shutdown sounds there and same on the left belly drop shut down so Mission Control leave is Ronaldo cut off ignition switches are both off your tank selector switch leave as is and Battery Master switch is off so there you go guys I do hope you enjoyed our New Zealand outing in the local legend that is the dhc4 caribou I have to say both the world update and the aircraft are to my mind a bit of a Triumph by Sobo I really enjoy both on an individual basis but as I say put together I thought they made an absolutely cracking combination and made for a brilliant flight we'll touch pre film World update 12 we'll then move on to the aircraft and my overall thoughts on the product once again as someone that really enjoys flying NZ in the Sim it was really nice to see New Zealand get its own Wild update and generally speaking I think as they both have done a really nice job obviously we only saw a small part of the scenery today we didn't check out any of the custom points of interest but certainly the train mesh looks excellent there does seem to be a slightly different aesthetic to some of the terrain mesh which I particularly noticed on the way towards Queenstown I'm not sure whether or not that's by Design personally I thought it looked really good from a distance but perhaps a little bit unusual up close really my only other gripe with World update 12. the selection of airports that were chosen as the handcrafted airports are somewhat limited and perhaps slightly strange choices there as well for example pretty much all of the major airports in New Zealand are still stock no Auckland update no Christchurch update I was quite surprised to see that and whilst there are some great payware options out there for most of those airports in terms of freeware it seemed to be pretty limited Choice currently otherwise though again very happy with World update 12 and I'm sure it's an area I'll be spending a lot more time in within the SIM moving on to the Caribbean as I said it's an aircraft that I really ended up enjoying despite my initial reservations is the dhc4 perfect no it's not but it is a very unique very interesting and actually very well modeled aircraft it does have some flaws and we'll discuss those in a minute but given the price I think the aircraft is an absolute bargain overall I would highly recommend it if this is of course your sort of flying as usual we'll get the negatives out of the way move through to the positives for me the Caribou is missing just one or two features which we generally expect now in the Sim but again do bear in mind the price point there's no onboard tablet no external fixtures or fittings as best I can tell and similarly I didn't seem to be able to remove the pilot models none of those are big issues for me personally but again they are features that you generally see even on the cheaper add-ons these days and certainly it would have been nice to be able to fit shocks veto covers things of that nature it would have been brilliant as well to have visible cargo down the back but again those sorts of things are as I said earlier icing on the cake and at this sort of price I can happily let those sorts of things slide another Omission with the product at least as best I could tell I couldn't find a manual I did dig around in the aircraft folders I also looked online as the sober have published certain local Legends manuals available on the website but again I couldn't find anything there I suspect we may get a manual at a later date but it is somewhat disappointing to have a relatively complex aircraft release and very little guidance on how to fly it as I mentioned you do get the in Sim checklists and it is possible as well to find real world documentation but of course ideally you don't want to be relying on that when purchasing an add-on in terms of the aircraft sounds overall I thought those were pretty good but there were a couple of areas which fell slightly short certain cockpit controls were missing sounds noticeably for example the gust lock would be nice to have a big mechanical clunk there when moving that generally speaking the engine sounds pretty decent but it did rather depend on the power range certainly at low power the engine sound a bit Meek you'll notice as well during the landing there with the throttles almost back idle again the sounds rather lackluster even going to full reverse I don't expect that we'll see an improvement to the sound pack so you'll probably have to live with what's already there but again overall I think the sounds do hold up pretty well and lastly we touched on it a couple of times particularly during the climb it feels to me as though the aircraft is perhaps slightly underpowered versus the performance data that at least I saw there on the sales page we did of course take off with a little bit of elevation there around two and a half thousand feet and we were reasonably loaded but I was still quite surprised to see the Caribou struggling to accelerate initially and then really only getting around five six hundred feet per minute rate of climb that may or may not be true to life I'll leave that down to you but at least we've demonstrated the numbers here in some sense and on a similar note as I mentioned during the cruise we had to use a fairly high power setting at least based on the thrust percentage gauge in order to keep up a reasonable speed otherwise though not really a whole lot that I can say that's negative about the aircraft again I am keeping in mind here the cost of the product overall of course there are some systems missing Fidelity but I would certainly expect that here and overall I was very pleasantly surprised with the level of complexity of the caribou textures as well we touched on during the walk around there are some textures that could look slightly better but I think the aircraft looks great overall very nicely weathered looks very authentic decent PBR as well under the right lighting conditions the aircraft does look very photo realistic in terms of FPS the Caribou pretty decent performance there overall I was getting about 57 FPS in the caribou versus around 70 in the default Cessna 152 just before we move on to the positives we'll touch on a couple of other areas of the aircraft that we've yet to look at so firstly looking at the night lighting the unite lighting is perhaps a slightly weaker area of the aircraft we have instrument backlighting as you'd expect and again it looks okay overall we also have a dome light located at the rear of the cockpit and again it looks decent but nothing special of course the Caribou is a big old radial twin so we'll just carry out a very quick demonstration here as well of an engine failure I'll demonstrate as well Feathering of the prop so here we are nicely established in the cruise once again maintaining around 10 700 feet currently we'll shut down the number one engine for the demonstration here as obviously we can visually identify that quite easily you'll see the animation to reduce the failure we'll just cut the fuel to the number one and you can see they're losing the thrust we've got the low fuel pressure warning light the RPM is just rolling off slightly as well not a whole lot of Swing there with the engine failed just putting in a small amount of right router there to Center up the ball the aircraft's still very controllable the RPM's still rolling off we'll feather up the prop you can see now the RPM really rolling back now I'm just officially watch the prop there as it runs down so as you can see we can feather the prop I'm not entirely sure about the prop animation there it doesn't look to be quite the right angle to be feathered to me a little bit tricky to see from there but nevertheless reasonable animation there and you can see the prop just windmilling slightly in the Wind we'll come fully up again on the RPMs and the power lever on the number two and even with that still not much issue in terms of controllability again just a little bit of right Rudder keeping everything nicely centered down at around 10 and a half thousand feet now maintaining about 120 knots it seems here on a single engine although to be fair we do still have around 200 feet per minute range of descent so as you can see the emergency fuel shutoff valve works there same there for the Feathering of the prop and once again overall I was very pleasantly surprised by the level of systems depth included with the caribou certainly I would say it's well above and beyond what we've seen from any of the other local Legends or famous Flyers to date of course it's not a study level aircraft and there are systems that aren't Optive but I was actually pretty surprised to see how closely I could follow the checklist and even some slightly more complex system procedures seem to work out quite nicely as well so systems again especially taking into account the price certainly get a thumbs up from me in terms of the aircraft flight modeling a little bit trickier to nail down there as the dhc4 is unlike anything I've ever flown in the real world once again the aircraft does certainly feel like a big Burly airframe perhaps lacking a bit as well in aerodynamic finesse perhaps just a little bit overly susceptible to turbulence but that seems to be an issue in the Sim currently with most aircraft I found myself needing only very minor control inputs initially to enact a change in Direction but actually to get the aircraft through return needing some fairly significant inputs there I think the best aircraft I could compare the dhc42 is the big radials Grom and goose in terms of how the aircraft flies the takeoff was interesting as usual I would say the rider was slightly overly sensitive but it was pretty easy to keep the aircraft on the center line the dhc4 as well started to feel quite light on the wheels at relatively low air speeds but going off that airspeed indicator gauge it seems that around 80 knots is a pretty typical speed to be flying the caribou and certainly that takes some getting used to I think I was flying the aircraft a little bit fast in general the aircraft took quite a bit of trimming but I found once I had it trimmed out it was fairly stable as we've discussed no autopilot as best I can tell so again lots of hand flying if you do want to pick up the Caribou that can be a plus point for some negative point for others sounds we've already touched on overall I think the sounds are good it really just depends on which range of the sounds you're listening to generally in the cruise the aircraft sounds pretty nice the sounds are perhaps a bit muted though I had them cranked all the way up here in the video whereas typically during the editing process I have to tone them back quite a bit to match up with my speaking volume so it would be nice to see some improvements to the engine sound certainly as well I hope we do see the addition of a few more cockpit control sounds there are just only one or two that are missing right though that the developer has even gone to the level of detail of including sounds for the ramp and again the ramp is a nice touch it's great to have that sort of functionality in the Sim even if you're not going to have much use for it graphically overall I do like the aircraft I think the modeling is very good both internally and externally texturing externally very good as well and internally I really like the feel that's been created with the caribou again it's an unusual aircraft in general certainly within the cockpit quite a vintage layout in terms of systems architecture but for me that certainly makes it all the more enjoyable to operate as I mentioned during the introduction I wasn't necessarily expecting to enjoy the Caribou all that much but the aircraft has completely thrown away my expectations I really like what's been done with the DHC for overall especially given the price and for me this is exactly what a local legend or a famous flyer should be an unusual aircraft one that we probably wouldn't see from another developer but done to a very high standard and made at a very affordable price that's off to a sober on this one I really enjoyed the aircraft and I'm sure we'll be taking it out again at a later date once again I do hope you all enjoyed the video if you did then please consider giving it a like if you want to see more content from the channel then please consider subscribing as well to those who support the channel either via patreon or becoming a channel member as always my sincere thanks it is hugely appreciated and to all of you I do hope you're having a great day wherever you are take really good care and I will see you all again soon

Channel: Into the Blue Simulations

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Keywords: Carenado, Microsoft Flight Simulator, MSFS, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Review, Full Flight, Realism, Realistic, Real Pilot, Flight Simulation, Addon, Add on, Flight Simulator, Tutorial, How to, Start up, Local Legend, World Update 12, World Update XII, De Havilland, DeHavilland, DHC4, DHC-4, DHC 4, Caribou

Id: cNv2i2qHJcc

Length: 61min 34sec (3694 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 24 2023