Miracle of the Hudson Attempt in Microsoft Flight Simulator Beta Preview

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Recreation attempt based on the data on the NTSB report from the US Airways 1549 flight that after losing both engines due to a massive birdstrike, landed on the Hudson river in New York with Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles at the controls, saving all onboard lives.

The Microsoft Flight Simulator Beta Preview depicted in this video is a press release before launch, that might be different from the final product.

Notes about this video:
1. I’ve obtained data from NTSB report and placed into the simulator: date, hour, runway in use, destination, total weight, wind, pressure, temperature, cloud base and type, V1, Vr, V2, altitude and speed of impact, descending speeds, main callouts, flap deployment, tail number and callsign. Anyway, the plane is an A320 Neo and not the real A320-214, so there might be obvious differences.
2. The focus in this video are not the callouts, comms or QRH procedure. Another pilot and a dedicated ATC needed to do that.
3. The pitch rate on takeoff is high, I know. That may be a thing of finding the correct cadence myself, the a320 is not “my” plane. I tried to correct it in several attempts, if I pulled slowly, the plane fell off to the runway outside ground effect. Can also be an issue of the Honeycomb Alpha sensivity settings. These can’t be modified in this build, at least through the sim interface.
4. Real Sully did not have an aural stall warning. I did in this attempt, because of attention dedicated at that moment to starting the APU at the same time the speed was reducing. Remember that pilots are humans.
5. I could not achieve the same low speed on water contact that Sully achieved. With a flaps 2 setting, below 140 kt, this plane is quickly descending without much pitch control at a high AoA. Sully managed to fly even slower at that moment.
6. The final black screen and my frustration comment: yes, as a hard core simmer I want a realistic damage model as part of the reality can make damage to planes. I assume this was not the developer focus, but I see improvements in that aspect since the belly landing on ground are yet possible on this beta build. I rely on Asobo for the ditching possibility finally possible in the future, and much more realistic damage model since other realistic simulators has realistic damage models. Yes, we know it’s expensive and lots of programming is needed. This is why hardcore simmers pay for simulators and will keep paying where we find the better realism in all aspects, starting by the flight model realism and followed by all kinds of other realism aspects.

Thanks for watching and reading.