Flight Simulation developers shared news today, including the release of the highly anticipated Beechcraft Starship for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020.
Before we move on to the news, you can take a look at a couple of stories that received their own individual coverage.
- Airbus A321neo Released for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020 by FlightSimLabs
- DCS World Gets F4U-1D Corsair and Update With Free Mariana Islands World War II Map and More
You can find all the flight simulation news below.
Microsoft Asks For Help to Improve Localized Radio Transmissions in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Microsoft has asked in the latest Development Update for experts in the following languages to submit an application, in order to help out with the translation of radio transmission in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Dutch
- Finnish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Norwegian (Bokmål)
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Russian
- Spanish (Mexico)
- Spanish (Spain)
- Swedish
- Turkish
Beechcraft Starship Released for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020
Black Square released its Beechcraft Starship twin-turboprop business aircraft. It’s currently available on Just Flight, albeit we do know that it’ll come to the official marketplace and other stores at a later date.
It’s available at £39.99/€44.95/$54.99, depending on where you live, and it includes the following features.
- 190-page manual with your complete guide to flying the Black Square Starship, including systems guide, tutorials, operating limitations, performance tables and electrical schematics.
- Tablet Interface for configuring options, payload settings, failure management and real time visualisers for engines, electrical schematics and environmental systems.
- One-of-a-kind Collins AMS-850 ’14-tube’ (CRT) avionics suite and associated line-replaceable-unit failure logic, quirks, eccentricities and never-seen-again features of the first all-glass panel cockpit and flight management system in a business aircraft.
- Very Low Frequency (VLF) and Omega radio navigation systems from the pre-GPS era. Configure the aircraft to tune stations on the other side of the globe, and manage six DME receivers to maintain accurate position information in a time before GPS.
- Avionics and instrument panel temperature simulation require you to properly manage the equipment cooling systems on the aircraft, or else be faced with electronics and display failures that will necessitate reversionary modes and hardware redundancy.
- 230+ random, scheduled or performance-triggered failures, settable via the tablet interface, including engine damage, compatible with third party UIs and instructor stations.
- Fully simulated environmental control and pressurisation system for heating, air conditioning, ventilation and ram air cooling. Cool things off by opening a door or watch the aircraft heat up in the sun. Monitor via the new tablet interface.
- NEW terrain and weather radar technology creates a functioning terrain radar without the use of WASM modules or external desktop software applications. Aircraft pitch, antenna position, transceiver gain, precipitation rate and altitude all influence the radar depiction.
- Completely simulated electrical system, with 170+ circuit breakers and failures.
- NEW functional windshield wipers clear rain with improved realistic visuals.
- Improved turboprop dynamics, including (ITT, TRQ, Ng, FF, FP), hot starts, residual heat, and exhaust back pressure, P2.5 HP and LP valve simulation and fuel-oil heat exchanger.
- Turbine engine failures, such as compressor stall and surging, fuel control failure, fuel filter clogs, propeller governors and fire suppression systems.
- FOD damage based on surface type. Use the inertial separators to avoid engine damage. Tablet interface displays the type and intensity of FOD.
- NEW physics-driven propeller governor and feathering simulation and beta range from the Black Square Duke
- Floppy disk reader for updating navigation databases and reading other data files.
- Gyroscope physics simulation for electric and pneumatic gyroscopes with precession and partial failures, based on a coupled quadrature oscillator.
- Voltage-based light dimming, an immediately recognisable effect to night-time pilots.
- Strobe light system causes realistic distracting flashes in clouds.
- St. Elmo’s Fire and static discharge on static wicks and windshields in severe weather.
- Mathematically accurate VOR and ADF signal attenuation and noise degradation.
- Physics-based instrument needles bounce and respond to aerodynamic forces.
- Functional exterior elements: chocks, pitot covers, engine covers, gear downlock pins and ground power generator. Pitot cover flags blow in the wind.
- Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) simulation and warm-up based on instrument panel temperature.
- Improper engine management will slowly damage engines to failure.
- Carbon Monoxide leaks are possible and can be detected with the CO detector.
- State saving for fuel, radio selection, radio frequency memory, cabin aesthetics etc.
- Crew/Passenger oxygen depletes according to pressure altitude and passenger occupancy.
- Ultra-custom dynamic registration number system for livery creators.
Twin County Airport Revealed for Microsoft Flight Simulator
The Airport Guys revealed another smaller airport in the United States, and specifically, Twin County Airport (KHLX) serving Hillsville in Virginia.
You can see the first two screenshots above.
Prairie Creek Airport Released for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020
Pilot’s released Prairie Creek Airport (It doesn’t have an ICAO code but the Transport Canada Location Identifier is CBH4) in Canada. It’s available on the developer’s own store for $11.51.
If you’re curious about what it looks like, you can check out the screenshots above.
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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