Flight Simulation developers shared news today, including aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020.
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Without further ado, I leave you with the flight simulation news.
Cessna Citation Sovereign+ for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and MSFS 2024 Gets New Screenshots
Skyward Simulations released on Discord a new gallery of screenshots of the upcoming Cessna Citation 680 Sovereign+, which has been in development for a while.
The aircraft is currently being tested, but it doesn’t have a release date just yet.
Casa C-212-200 Aviocar for MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 Gets New Screenshots
Developer Mohamad Haykal revealed on the FSDeveloper forums new screenshots of the Casa C-212-200 Aviocar for MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024.
According to Haykal, the basic development is being completed. At the moment, 10% of the circuit breakers work, while panel development is at around 25% progress. At the moment, the flight model is in an experimental phase.
Free Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk for MSFS Gets New Screenshots
Delta Simulations released new screenshots on Discord of its freeware UH-60 Black Hawk for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
While we don’t have a release date, we already know that the following variants will be included:
- UH-60M
- HH-60M “Dustoff”
- HH-60U “Ghost Hawk”
- HH-60W Jolly Green II
- UH-60M HRT
- MH-60M
- MH-60M DAP
de Havilland Mosquito Mk IV for MSFS Gets New Screenshots
Aeroplane Heaven released new screenshots of its de Havilland Mosquito Mk IV for MSFS.
We get to see the “Grim Reaper” livery and the engine exhaust flames in action.
Airbus A380 Announced; Airbus A220 and Lockheed L-1011TriStar for MSFS 2024 Get Development Update
iniBuilds officially announced the Airbus A380 as its next big airliner project. Work on it has been ongoing for some time.
While a release date has not been announced, the developer mentioned that development is much further ahead compared to the screenshots shown above.
Moving on to the Airbus A220 by Synaptic Simulations, which will still be published by iniBuilds, the aircraft is “steadily progressing towards release-candidate readiness.”
It’s scheduled to enter the final stage of testing at the end of March. Compared to what we’ve seen before, now the aircraft includes “a completely reworked fly-by-wire system, a custom engine model, lateral and vertical flight guidance, autopilot, autoland, and fully featured electrical, bleed air, hydraulics, and radio systems.” The flight management system has also been completely rewritten.
The aircraft simulates 985 modeled components, 1026 electrical connections, 427 data buses such as ARINC 429, AFDX, analog, and discrete.
Lastly, we move on to the TriStar, which will launch exclusively via the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 in-game Marketplace later this month, with a release for iniBuilds’ own client coming at a later, unspecified time.
Plenty of liveries will be included, like British Airways, Saudia, TWA, Delta, Pan Am, United, LTU, Cathay Pacific, Royal Jordanian, Air Transat, Novair, and many more.
Interestingly, the POD variant carrying an additional engine will also be included. It’ll have its own flight model and procedures.
We get to take a look at the cabin, and a couple of videos provide a preview of the sound.
Lastly, the developers showcased the “PFB” (paper flight bag), including navigation avionics options as follows:
- RADNAV
- INS
- GPS
- INS + GPS.
Of course, it’ll come with everything you would expect from a modern EFB, like performance calculation, weight and balances, and more, but it’ll be in a more period-appropriate paper version with handwritten notes.
There will also be a moving map display in the engineer station, which will display up to nine of the current INS waypoints, with the ability to import batches from Simbrief.
For more information, you can read the whole forum post about the three airliners.
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