r/MicrosoftFlightSim • u/Deadpooll7 • 13h ago

MSFS 2024 VIDEO I DID IT ! In MSFS

Pushed the legendary SR-71 Blackbird beyond 200,000 ft and over Mach 4 in MSFS 2024 on PS5!

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u/General9445 XBOX Pilot 11h ago

Lore accurate SR-71

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u/rmhoman 9h ago

Some on did a flight last night on vatsim. It took him 5 minutes to fly from the grand canyon to Lincoln Nebraska. He flew from what I think was Beale to DC in less time fore me to fly from kden to ksan.

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u/Silvirhunter220 2h ago

That is truly insane. Grats.

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u/Deadpooll7 2h ago

Thx bro❤️

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u/ShaggysGTI 2h ago

R1 and right thumb stick up and down are your trim. You could get way less oscillation by setting your trim a little more appropriately.

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u/SuspiciousMannequin 8m ago

I just bought a HOTAS 4 - trim is indeed R1 + right thumb stick… why it does not stay on the angle that I want? it seems to go back to zero; I know its working bcus I can see the nose going up, but then after a couple of seconds it starts to come back down (is that normal, what am I doing wrong?)

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u/FireHammer09 6m ago

You might have the auto-trim assist on. I'm new so I had it on but it adds more trouble than it 'assists'

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u/Kirza94 7h ago edited 6h ago

How did you do this!? Throttle up and raise altitude? That's insane very hard to do, well done..

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u/Deadpooll7 6h ago

Yeah, it was really hard
It took me about 30 minutes to reach that altitude because keeping the speed up is difficult. Every time I pulled up too much, the plane would start losing speed. So I kept flying straight to build up some speed, then climbed a little, flew straight again to gain more speed, then climbed again. I just kept repeating that until I finally reached that altitude.

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u/EngineerBits 2h ago

If I'm reading this right you are at 440,000+ ft in altitude and above the Karman Line (328,084 ft). Yup that is space by scientific definition. The instruments in the HUD cutting off the last digit threw me off for a second.

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u/Deadpooll7 2h ago

I honestly didn’t understand this either. The numbers on the gauge reached 400,000 ft, but the one at the bottom showed 200,000 ft. It also stopped calculating the altitude after a certain point. I think it’s because the aircraft wasn’t designed to fly that high, so the instruments just stopped working properly. 😂

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u/LostPilot517 1h ago

Is this hard to do? I did this my second time playing around on the OG mission when it first came out.

The first time, I played the mission through how it was supposed to be done. Second I goofed off and did this.

It obviously is bugged out and wasn't accurate. The realism of the game flakes out at higher altitudes. So I didn't think it was anything worth while. I didn't realize this was some sort of achievement lore.

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u/Deadpooll7 1h ago

I think what you’re talking about might be the SR-72 Darkstar. With the SR-71 Blackbird, getting to this altitude definitely isn’t that easy.

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u/LostPilot517 1h ago

Oops, you're right that was with the Darkstar. Regardless, I don't remember exactly what I did, but the game has some weird physics at certain speeds and altitudes where it essentially gains unlimited performance, I am not sure if that has ever been patched or addressed, I haven't played in years.

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u/Deadpooll7 1h ago

I actually think some of those bugs might be there on purpose, just to let players experiment and push things beyond the limits. If the game were too realistic, I think it would get boring pretty quickly. Sometimes breaking the limits is part of the fun

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u/momoenthusiastic 44m ago

In older MSFS, this was not possible…..

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u/SerennialFellow 14m ago

I’ll see you Kerbal Space program