![]() ![]() The algorithm is going to either favor you or not until you produce a viral video, and Youtube can be one heck of a roller coaster for flight sim content creators. ![]() If your flight sim content is grabbing attention from all age groups, I’d say you are doing something special as a content creator on that much of a broader scale. It’s common for some study level content creators to be confined to a much more narrow age range. With a percentage from all viewer age groups, I’d say you are gonna be more successful when it comes to making Youtube an actual living, if money is that much of a goal. If you can grow a big enough subscriber base of folks who actively and consistently comment and click the like button. Serious simmers are only a small percentage of Youtube viewership, getting the most viewership from non subscribers is pretty much the nature of Youtube. So depending on what you see as “Youtube Success” certain content creators don’t need to know how to fly these aircraft in detail depending on what other attributes you bring to the content table. ![]() Having such a strong genuine fanbase their subs are gonna eat up anything they drop. Their subscriber bases are much broader in age range also. They are simply likable content creators who add a dash of bright energy and humor to their commentaries.These top content creators don’t necessarily need to be doing anything important nor study level in a flight sim. While saying all that, the biggest flight sim Youtubers aren’t even techy/study level simmers. In my experience you have Youtube, Hustletube and Griftertube. That being said, I plan on making my own videos in the future. None of our controllers and no professional pilots ever said “tree” for three during my 25-year career. We encountered this in ATC back when the FAA published that ridiculous guide. If an American says it, it sounds stupid. The “tree” pronunciation aid listed in FAA documents is meant as a guide for non-English speakers. The English word for the number three is “three”. The ICAO standard for aviation is English. It’s what I did for a living.Īnother thing that will make me click out is a pilot saying “tree” for “three”. I cannot stand to listen to even one clearance from it. One of the things that will make me click out of a video right away is that stupid automated ATC. Some reviewers cannot even takeoff or land the plane they are reviewing. ![]() Being a pilot and retired air traffic controller, there are some videos I just cannot watch without a major cringe factor. So they put out as many as possible with little regard to quality. If you notice most of these “reviewers” are trying to make a living doing videos. We should be encouraging peoples growth, not berating them for not being at the same standards as the criticizer. But we want interest in aviation simming to grow as a community. Its ok to be particular in the level of detail aircraft you aaccept. I worry that those who have a high proficiency already and are quite particular in their level of study aircraft, if they berate others who are still learning, may actually be stunting their learning curve, or perhaps encouraging people to leave the simulation totally. If they like a simpler aircraft, as they get more proficient with their flying skills, they will progress. Some of these folks really love flight simming, but they are learning. I know in DCS (I’ve bought it but I haven’t really got into flying in it yet, but I have read up) it sometimes for some of the planes a month before you become really proficient with some of the planes. You start in a GA or trainer, and work your way up. If you want to be a military jet pilot in real life, they don’t start you in one of the multi-million dollar jets. And that comes from the fact that some of the core simmers, they get very vocal about planes that don’t meet their criteria, and berate others if they say they like one of the more simple planes.Įveryone has to start from somewhere. What makes a presenter on YouTube rave about a plane that they can’t even fly yet?Īnd I think a clue to that comes that some of the presenters, if they said they like one of the more simple planes, they felt like they had to on video apologize and explain it. BUT… then in many of these videos, the presenter would say something like “I still have to learn how to fly it yet”. And then I got lists of more top plane videos, or buy/dont buy videos for plane addons in MSFS.Īnd the weird thing is, in many of these videos, the planes in the video that people tended to rave about were the more complex planes. You know how if you watch one video on YouTube, it will then bring up a recommendation on similar videos? Well I watched a video of someone ranking the top planes in MSFS. ![]()
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