Taming the Beast | Touch N' Go's in the Mighty Corsair | Full Flight | Microsoft Flight Simulator

Just wanted to share some knowledge I have learned in 20 years of sim-flying warbirds. The Corsair is famous for "dropping a wing" on takeoff or landing, that is how it earned the nickname "Ensign Eliminator" from its pilots. Later on they changed the shape of the right wing by adding a small wedge to the leading edge to make both wings stall at close to the same time. at 6:53 you can see this wedge near the gun ports. The rudder is also not straight, its pointing 6 degrees to the left which is why your supposed to set the rudder trim 6 degrees to the right on takeoff, slow speeds don't need a crooked rudder. IRL if you see one in a museum, the crooked tail is very apparent. Now days we are all used to lifting the nose up and waiting for the aircraft to start flying on its own, if you do that in a warbird, with a massive engine, and a huge prop, you WILL stall one wing due to a much larger P-factor. On these tail dragger warbirds, you need to hold it on the ground until both wings are generating lift, then pull the nose up, which is the opposite of what we are taught in our easy to fly modern aircraft. You have to fly it off and on the runway, not stall it into the air, or onto the runway like a modern tri-cycle gear, baby engine aircraft of today. You did a good job, I always watch your reviews as part of my research before buying a product.

Just watched the movie "Devotion" last night so this is appropriately timed. They did talk about being careful with the throttle in the film.

I envy you for the straight take-off, and the smooth landings. I do have a love-hate relationship with this bird. One of the most beautifully crafted, yet freaking nasty to handle beasts in MSFS, imho. Great video, as always!

So much history at that airfield. Back in the day, any landing was a good landing. Thank you for all who flew these planes and who were able to come back home! !! !!!

Love those kinds of Videos! Would be amazing to see more of you doing some touch an goes on some other popular GA Aircraft, so we can maybe learn something about it!

soon two years without updates:)

As a big fan of ww2 warbirds I really appreciate and enjoy your presentations. Thanks lots!

You are the greatest Corsair sim pilot in history! Bravo. Nobody I know can get a decent landing in this plane. Though I am getting better since you showed me it IS possible. Thank you!

Another Spot on Video Thank You

Great job as always! The last landing was great, especially considering you hadn't flown it in a while. The Corsair is my absolute favorite in MSFS, and certainly quite a handful on landing. I thought I finally was consistent with it after about 10 landings, did a video with it and messed up the landing completely...oh well. I hope Milviz/Blackbird will still bring the Skyraider to MSFS, their quality is top notch.

I would have been perfectly happy with each of your landings. You are very skilled, so a good watch and learn for me.

I was a late purchaser for this aircraft so its current state is all I have known. Takeoffs are no problem if I add power slowly to wait for some rudder effectiveness before bringing in all that torque. Landings are a mess. Much of any crosswind causes it to head for the weeds and no corrective action seems to pull it back, I just get the wings to rise and scrape the ground. The engine temperatures have been a major disappointment, I have found that once airborne I can close the cowl flaps and no matter what I am doing, the cylinder head temps are going to drop to very low. Oil temps seem fixed so I never touch the oil cooler. I have seen the water injection light flicker once. The constant speed propeller seems to wallow around with power changes rather than being strictly constant. Since I have not had this since the beginning I can only speculate that all this is a result of MV not keeping up with the updates to MSFS. It is fun to fly but it is well short of what I had understood it to be before purchase.

Happy New Year sir! What a fun revisit, I really like the Mil-Viz FG1-D and the challenges it presents. When I first loaded the bird two years ago I could barely get it off the ground. Now it is quite enjoyable after the update although, there a few things I would love to see addressed in a possible future update. Nice job with your landings on T&G's. For this A/C I always do a wheel landing which I use after reviewing real world pilot procedures when they fly these old-time beasts and flying the A2A P-51D. On roll-out I almost always get a wing drop and drag as soon as the airplane settles back on the tail wheel. I will work on flap settings and more of a three-point attitude for flare and landing as this seems to be a good solution. My biggest gripe with the FG1-D is the sounds of the R-2800 are lovely in flight but the start-up sounds are pretty subdued and don't seem accurate. I also notice the CHT always drops way down when I start to close the cowl flaps up. This is at climb MP and seems off too. There also does not seem to be a real model for a constant speed prop. Of course, I have never flow a real Corsair and maybe these things are modeled accurately. Great review as always and thanks for taking the old "Ensign Eliminator" out for a spin. Wishing you the best for 2023!

My favorite badass warbird!🤩

I will admit I am playing this module in MSFS because I can’t wait any longer for the F4U in DCS

Great video, as usual. Thanks. Unique plane with the gull wings - an unmistakable profile. It's a bit of a handful, but as with everything, practise makes perfect. Pity we can't try landing it on a carrier with a pitching deck! Still amazed that Midway is so small yet holds such a strategic place. Is that default MSFS? It looks like a period version, with WW2 planes, jeeps etc.

Well done and an entertaining, well considered video as always! I fly the Corsair in the sim and must say she seems much of her ground/takeoff/landing behavior I can only imagine has it’s origin in the extremely unrealistic responsiveness all aircraft display on the ground in the sim. I would think the first thing to get right if your creating a flight sim is the way a plane handles on the way to/from being airborne. Here’s hoping MS/Asobo get their hands around ground-handling in the near future.

This aircraft has always exhibited weird traits even before newer sim updates. It would be great if publishers went back and re modeled the flight models to take advantage of MSFS's newer prop/physics features etc. This one would be well worth an update.

Awesome 😎 Captain Ted

I think the Milviz Corsair is currently my favourite aircraft in MSFS.