Shadowing Practice: GTA 5 is my Favorite Flight Simulator - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Is GTA a good flight simulator?
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Well, one thing's for sure.
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It's most definitely hectic, but I hopped into a 5M server to find out for myself.
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Okay, so we have now loaded in.
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We're gonna press M.
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We gotta go to spawn a plane, vehicle spawner.
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Let's find planes right there.
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Oh!
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It's so loud.
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How do I spawn on the ground?
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Look at me!
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I'm a real pilot, guys.
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Okay, I don't wanna spam it.
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I'm just kidding.
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Oh, there we go.
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An American 757.
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Look at the bottom left.
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We have a vertical speed, our altitude, our speed and knots in our length.
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That's so cool.
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Okay.
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Right trigger is power.
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Right bumper is right.
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So the bumpers are rudder.
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We're going to go to, we're going to taxi down here.
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Oh, there we go.
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This is crazy.
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This must be like a flight SimX conversion that's put into this.
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It has to be, right guys?
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I don't think I can press anything.
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There's no way to just have my mouse appear, but the fact that this looks like this is insane for GTA.
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Okay, let's get out of the plane.
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I do want to look at it up close.
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Definitely very low fidelity here, but for a game that's not even supposed to have...
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The fan blades actually don't look that bad.
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Look at the fan blades.
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That center cone thing looks terrible.
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For a game that's not even supposed to have planes, This doesn't look bad, but this is is this not insane to you guys how good this plane actually looks?
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Whoa, what did he just do?
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He just like did the little Fist pump thing.
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Okay, let's get extra view here Okay, that's that leftanza one that we uh already crashed.
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It's very um Responsive.
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It's like there I tap rudder.
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It's like immediate.
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I'm gonna turn right here You know, this taxiway is much too small for this plane turn turn turn
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It's definitely interesting trying to do the throttle and rudder on my one hand.
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It feels very strange.
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Do we have reverse thrust?
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I guess I should check that before we actually fly.
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So I know how this landing is going to be.
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There's the frame in this again.
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Come on, little plane.
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Turn.
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I'm not very little plane.
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This already is better than PTFS.
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Let's get inside the cockpit for takeoff.
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Here we go.
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Our flaps are set.
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I have no clue how to get rid of flaps.
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Absolutely zero idea.
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180 knots.
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This should be plenty.
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Come on.
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There we go bye San Andreas.
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XG again.
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Looking good.
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Gear.
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Ooh.
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I mean, that gear looked pretty good.
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It came up immediately though.
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Now we are talking 205 knots.
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Look, I mean, you do, when you bank really hard, you do bleed off airspeed.
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I mean, it's not as bad as it could be.
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Los Santos.
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Sorry guys.
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I know there's a, I don't play GTA for the, for the record.
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How'd you not play GTA?
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Okay.
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So that's our goal right there.
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You see that helipad up there?
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We're going there at some point.
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Look guys, Obviously, it's gta graphics.
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So a lot of you familiar but like this is not Like as far as
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if you own gta already and you're on pc.
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It's really not that bad Oh, it's starting to rain.
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Okay, this should be cool.
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I'm gonna loop the city I don't know how to see my map bigger or anything.
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I don't know directions.
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I know nothing and we're gonna Looks like we also can't really get above 210 knots at low altitude, I guess which makes some sense.
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I'm gonna try landing we have to try at least another airliner, but I, I mainly, I want to shoot someone down.
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I want to get in a fighter and I want to wreak, wreak, wreck havoc on this city.
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Okay.
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Landing in, um, landing.
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Here we go.
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In bad visibility coming in.
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Come on.
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I just got shot out of the sky, did I not?
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Did I hit something?
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I feel like I got shot out of the sky.
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Attempt numero dos.
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We're doing it again.
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Our goal is to stay high.
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Oh, we are framey.
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Stay high because...
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Oh, we're getting fast, too.
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Because of these light poles.
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Here we go.
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Nighttime landing.
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Only three zero left.
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What was with that camera?
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I know my landing was bad, but it wasn't that bad.
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Look at that.
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Okay.
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The stopping distance, that was really bad.
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I stopped in 30 feet or something like that.
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Okay.
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Crash physics test.
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It's time.
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Because there's a plane right in front of us on the runway.
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I can't resist.
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It's happening.
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Are we ready, everyone?
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Crash physics, plane versus plane action.
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Here we go.
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I mean, that's cool.
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Oh, I wish you could see the whole thing.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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Yes.
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There's a Millennium Falcon.
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Why are you here?
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Get out of here.
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I want to see what these afterburners look like.
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Also, here is our SR-71 cockpit.
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Actually, well, my hands look terrible, but the cockpit itself could definitely be worse.
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There's planes crashing around me everywhere.
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Also, how...
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Oh.
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I picked a bad runway to take off on.
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Please don't hit me.
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Oh my gosh, okay, this is incredibly hectic.
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I think we need to just take off
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and get the heck out I think we go to the other runway avoid my a380
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and get that guy out of here.
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Don't hit me.
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I swear Okay, someone's trying to shoot me go Hey My engine is hurt.
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We're off the ground in the uh sr-71 gear up.
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This thing can turn like no other Oh my gosh, okay, let's get above the clouds.
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Let's try.
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Oh r is like cinematic I mean, that's pretty cool.
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It's so dark.
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I need the sun to come out again Okay, so we are kind I mean look at it doesn't look bad up here guys I'm i'm honestly impressed by graphics.
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I know this is 5m So maybe the graphics are better than regular gta Well, definitely better than when gta first came out.
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Like I don't even know where we are anymore I think everything despawned below us.
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Oh, there's lights down there, but like it looks i'm not gonna lie It does look half decent.
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Oh my other engine uh had an issue right there We may be losing both engine guys.
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Oh, there's everything spawning in.
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I mean, there's the airport from above.
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Really?
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Not too bad.
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Okay, sun's coming out.
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It's time to go fly again.
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I want to try maybe landing on water.
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Is that a good idea or no?
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Icon A5, here we go.
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Heck yeah, let's do it.
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Let's land a plane on the water.
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So, water landing physics.
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Here we are.
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All the fighting.
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Fly, you stupid plane.
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Come on, we're taking off.
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Get out of my...
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Don't shoot me.
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Okay, so we have been, oh, I have guns.
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What a shoot.
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Anyway, okay.
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We keep getting shot down and stuff.
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But there is apparently water, like, landing on water physics.
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So we're in the Icon A5.
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We're going over 200 knots, which I don't think this thing can even do in real life.
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We're going to try to slow down here as much as possible and just see what a water landing is like.
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So, okay, maybe I can't slow down enough because my gear isn't out, but we obviously want the gear up.
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This is also way too aggressive of water to land.
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And our icon is flying wave.
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Oh, there's a freaking animal in the water.
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Okay, here we go.
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We're just trying to get this thing down.
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Let's see what happens.
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A little bit aggressive here.
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We're just gonna see.
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Oh, a little bit of a bounce.
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Oh, actually not that bad.
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Oh, someone just got out.
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Okay, power up again.
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Look, I mean, the wave physics are better than Microsoft Flight Sim.
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I mean, you can get off the ground way too fast.
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But the wave physics actually are better than Microsoft Flight Sim.
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Like, no exaggeration.
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I hear missiles everywhere.
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I'm about to die.
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Oh my gosh, an Icon A5 with machine guns on it.
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You'd love to see it.
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We are going to actually get in a fighter and we're gonna shoot everyone down that we possibly can.
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And then I'm gonna, oh, there's somebody.
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It's a freaking Harrier.
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Get out of here, Harrier.
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And then I'm gonna try to land on the helipad.
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But like overall, like look at this.
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Like cockpit is, oh, we have like a HUD.
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Maybe just because I have the gun.
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Is that why we have it?
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I don't know.
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But really not, like, impressively good cockpits for what this is.
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Please don't shoot me down before I land.
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It definitely gets framey right before you touch down as well.
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Oh, yeah, it's very sensitive.
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There we go.
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That was a survivable landing.
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That was a survival one.
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What do you think?
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The Deltawing F-16?
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Oh my gosh.
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Okay, I actually like this, dude.
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What?
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People really put in work to this stuff, don't they?
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Oh, there's our afterburner.
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Okay afterburner we're going we got to get out of here quick
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because we have too many people being menaces over here Here we go f16xl, which is incredibly cool.
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Obviously our our whatever it's called.
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There's oh don't die framiness So there's no vapor.
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It's a little disappointing on our wings or anything, but we do need to f16xl in uh in microsoft flight sim So a is like machine guns.
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There's like a cinematic mode.
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It's actually pretty cool.
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Like, look at that.
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Oh, so I hold X.
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And it changes my gun?
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I don't know.
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Maybe...
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Oh, this is...
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It gets so framey sometimes.
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I think if you press X, it maybe changes my weapon, and then I can use other things.
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Okay, we do need to turn around here, though.
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I'm trying to...
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I'm trying to shoot some...
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We haven't looked at the cockpit, either.
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Oh, look at that.
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It says missiles homing off, which I don't want that on.
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How do I do this?
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Don't hit that.
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Oh.
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Okay, we hit the bridge and we're still okay.
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Here we go.
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I'm gonna hit this guy to this guy.
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The homing is off, so they don't track it.
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Oh, I just tap.
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Oh, here we go.
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Okay, so missiles.
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This is with homing on.
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Oh, he missed me.
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Oh, that was terrible.
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Is he gonna hit him?
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Yes!
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This is so cool.
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The framing is bothering me.
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Everything else is so...
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Oh!
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Oh! That was cool, guys.
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Oh.
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There's someone crashed.
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It is cool seeing the crashed planes next to you because of how big they are.
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Oh my gosh.
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That guy just fell from the sky.
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Su-33.
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No, Su-34 is actually a cool plane.
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I'm not going to lie.
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SU-34 is a cool plane.
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Here we go.
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Trying the SU-34, which is like a...
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It's like a fighter-bomber thing.
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We're gonna take off on the apron here just because I'm trying not to...
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No, I almost hit him.
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So we have missiles, cannon...
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I wish we could do them at the same time.
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I wish there were different buttons, you know what I mean?
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We gotta get a missile kill, and we have to get a gun kill.
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And then we can, uh...
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Oh, the frames.
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Someone's locked onto me.
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For the love of everything, please.
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Oh, ah!
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Just give me something small.
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A Robin.
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What is this thing?
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Robin?
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Isn't it Robin?
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Don't they make helicopters?
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Oh, yeah.
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This is what we need.
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This is exactly what we need.
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Get out of here, A380.
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Get out of here, pilot.
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What am I hitting?
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Please don't shoot me.
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Oh, I barely got off the ground in front of that guy.
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Okay.
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We're going for the helipad, everyone.
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There it is.
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It's time.
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Okay, so when I press gear...
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Oh, please don't hit me.
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It, like, vibrates my controller, but nothing happens, if that makes sense.
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Okay.
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Here we go.
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Helipad time, everyone.
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Slow down the plane.
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Slow down the plane.
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Need to be going well under 100 knots.
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Oh, there's someone up there.
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Oh, no. I apologize if I kill you, sir.
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Oh, yeah.
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Nice.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Go!
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Oh, my gosh. That was cool.
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Okay, it's actually I could do this.
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This is actually a lot of fun.
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This could be something I could do more I'm not gonna lie because yeah, it's dumb and like not realistic But it's fun.
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Slow down slow down.
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Oh, we're not gonna slow down enough I kind of have to redo the whole approach.
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I'm not trying to land here because i'm not gonna make it Okay attempt number whatever this is Please don't be framing.
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I can do it.
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If you just if you just calm the frames down.
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Come on It actually would have been perfect if that thing wasn't there.
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Our plane is getting close to destruction, but this might be our best attempt?
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Yeah, here we go.
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Oh my goodness.
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Here we go.
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Oh my gosh.
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Yes!
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Suck it.
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Well, we did it and then we died.
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So is GTA a good flight sim?
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No. Is it fun?
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It's very fun and you have to dodge getting absolutely murdered in an F-16
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trying to get and getting hit by the body of an A380 crash
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and someone with a minigun or whatever that is and a helicopter, a Russian helicopter that's trying to kill you.
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So yes, it's fun.
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Is it good?
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No, it's not.
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Why This GTA 5 Flight Sim Clip Is Perfect for English Speaking Practice
If you’re looking to improve English pronunciation and sound more natural, this video is a goldmine! The casual, enthusiastic tone mirrors real-life conversation, making it ideal for shadow speak—a technique where you repeat phrases immediately after hearing them. The speaker uses everyday words, short sentences, and natural pauses, so you won’t feel overwhelmed. Plus, the mix of questions (“Is GTA a good flight simulator?”) and exclamations (“Oh! It's so loud.”) helps you practice intonation, a key part of sounding fluent.
Breaking Down Natural English: 4 Phrases to Master
Let’s look at why the dialogue sounds so authentic:
- “Well, one thing's for sure. It's most definitely hectic…” The filler word “Well” and the phrase “one thing's for sure” make this sound like a real person thinking aloud, not a script. “Most definitely” adds emphasis without being formal—perfect for casual chats.
- “I don't think I can press anything. There's no way to just have my mouse appear…” The contraction “I don't” and the conversational “There's no way to” keep the flow natural. Native speakers rarely use full forms like “I do not” in quick speech, so mimicking this helps you sound more relaxed.
- “It's definitely interesting trying to do the throttle and rudder on my one hand.” “Definitely interesting” is a common collocation (words that often go together). Using “on my one hand” instead of “with one hand” adds a conversational twist—native speakers often use such slight variations for emphasis.
- “Do we have reverse thrust? I guess I should check that before we actually fly.” The question followed by a self-reply (“I guess I should check that”) is how people talk when problem-solving. This structure helps you practice thinking and speaking at the same time.
A Simple Practice Routine: Repeat, Record, Improve
Here’s how to use this clip with a shadowing app or even just your phone:
- Watch and listen: Play the video once, focusing on the speaker’s tone and rhythm. Notice how they stress words like “hectic,” “crazy,” and “insane” to show excitement.
- Shadow and repeat: Pause after each 5-10 second clip and repeat it out loud. Try to match the speed, intonation, and pauses. If you stumble, replay the clip and try again—this is how muscle memory builds!
- Record yourself: Use your phone to record your shadowing. Compare it to the original. Do your “Well”s and “I guess”es sound natural? Is your stress on the right words? This helps you spot areas to improve.
- Focus on 3 phrases: Pick 3-4 lines (like the ones we broke down) and repeat them 5 times each. By the end, you’ll notice they roll off your tongue more easily.
This routine takes just 10-15 minutes a day, but it’s a powerful way to learn English with YouTube and build confidence in your speaking. Remember: the goal isn’t perfection—it’s sounding like a real person, not a textbook. So grab your phone, hit record, and let the GTA 5 flight sim guide your English journey!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have now loaded · have been · haven't looked |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are set · is hurt |
| Comparatives -er than / more … than — comparing two things | better than |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should check · should be |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.