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Without further ado, I leave you with today’s flight simulation news.
Lancair Legacy Released in Beta for MSFS 2024
Flysimware released its Lancair Legacy for MSFS 2024. It’s available on the developer’s own store as a paid beta for $46.99.
For instance, the analog dashboard is not yet available, and it’ll come in an update in “likely in about four weeks.”
For now, you get the following features.
- Real-world inspired operation
- Realistic flight dynamics
- 4K full PBR textures
- Interactive environment sounds
- All sounds produced using the game industry standard Wwise software
- SimAcoustics engine sounds
- Working Title G3X avionics
- Selectable GTN integration options: PMS50 GTN 750 or TDS GTN 750Xi when installed
- Windshield rain effects
- Exterior icing effects
- Dirt, dust, and mud effects depending on surface conditions
- Maintenance system includes aircraft cleaning and service options
- Rain can help clean the aircraft depending on weather intensity and aircraft movement
- Tablet app integrated into the default MSFS 2024 tablet environment
- Tablet app includes failure and wear system, maintenance options, aircraft setup, and other aircraft management features
- TrueSim technology for deeper engine behavior, fuel system logic, failures, maintenance, and wear-and-tear simulation
- Optional realism settings for users who prefer a simpler flying experience
- Free Flight failure system controlled through the tablet
- Failure modes include MTBF, speed-based, and scheduled failures
- Save state for many switches, aircraft options, and supported systems
- New flight model physics that allow precise aircraft shaping using the new design activation option, along with Computational Fluid Dynamics for improved aerodynamic handling
- Preflight features include chocks, engine plugs, pitot cover, removable nacelles, and control surface checks
- Control surface inspections include aileron, rudder, and elevator checks
- Ground equipment can be removed before flight and restored after landing
- Surface rain effects and windshield bloom effects
- Modern fuel, hydraulic, and electrical systems
- Real-world working circuits, fuses, and circuit breakers depending on the selected variant
- Realistic castering nosewheel steering variants for users with toe brakes
- Steering-enabled variants included for users without toe brakes or for simpler ground handling
- Turbocharged and naturally aspirated configurations
- Starhawk configuration with propeller feathering
- Standard Lancair Legacy glass and analog configurations
MODEL VARIATION
- Legacy Glass G3X750
- Legacy Glass G3X750Xi
- Legacy Starhawk G3X750
- Legacy Starhawk G3X750Xi
- Legacy Glass G3X750_Turbo
- Legacy Glass G3X750Xi_Turbo
- Legacy Starhawk G3X750_Turbo
- Legacy Starhawk G3X750Xi_Turbo
- Legacy Glass G3X750_Steering
- Legacy Glass G3X750Xi_Steering
- Legacy Starhawk G3X750_Steering
- Legacy Starhawk G3X750Xi_Steering
- Legacy Glass G3X750_Turbo_Steering
- Legacy Glass G3X750Xi_Turbo_Steering
- Legacy Starhawk G3X750_Turbo_Steering
- Legacy Starhawk G3X750Xi_Turbo_Steering
AVIONIC VARIATION
- Working Title G3X Touch PFD/MFD GPS with PMS50 GTN 750 integration
- Working Title G3X Touch PFD/MFD GPS with TDS GTN 750Xi integration
PAINT THEMES
- StarHawk livery N321TF
- Legacy livery C-GPHL
- Legacy livery N2AA
- Legacy livery N26XY
- Legacy livery N122LL
- Legacy livery N299L
- Legacy livery N315WP
- Legacy livery N345LA
- Legacy livery N550AW
- Legacy livery N707MM
- Legacy livery ZU-LEG
NZMC & NZGT Mount Cook Region 2024 V2 Gets New Trailer, Screenshots, and Details
NZA Simulations released a new trailer, screenshots, and details of its upcoming NZMC & NZGT Mount Cook Region 2024 V2 for MSFS 2024, via a listing on Orbx Direct.
While it’s still not purchasable, we do get plenty of details.
- NZMC – Mt Cook Airport
- NZGT – Glentanner Aerodrome
- NZTW – Twizel Medical Center (NZTW) for Heli Rescue Operations
- NZMD – Mount Cook Village Emergency / DOC Operations Site
- Fully 3D modelled interior of the Mt Cook Terminal building and hangars.
- Fully 3D modelled interior of Glentanner Park Centre and Cafe.
- 8 Detailed Landmark Mountain Huts, including Plateau Hut, Sefton Bivouac, and Ball Hut, with Landmark POI markers for each and landing areas for Ski Planes.
- Other locations of interest to the north-west are The Hermitage Hotel and other surrounding lodges.
- Static local helicopters, including Southern Lakes Helicopters and The Helicopter Line AS350 Squirrel.
- Lake Pukaki was fully rebuilt with updated aerial imagery and the Reworked Tasman River system
- Tasman Lake recreated with rafts, docks, and shoreline detail
- Improved snow blending for Mount Cook & Glentanner
- New custom bio-vegetation system across the region
- New lighting for hangars and key buildings
- Enhanced textures with wear, dirt, and aging decals
- Rebuilt runways, taxiways, and aprons with displacement materials
- Improved Tasman Lake icebergs
Embraer Phenom 300E for MSFS 2024 Gets New Trailer Showing Customizable FBO
FSReborn released another trailer of the Embraer Phenom 300E business jet, which is going to be released “very soon” for MSFS 2024.
Interestingly, it shows a rather innovative feature, a customizable FBO that you can place anywhere you want.
If you’d like to read more flight simulation news, you can find plenty in our previous roundup article from yesterday.
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