Cessna 310

THE AIRCRAFT

Meet Cessna 310

The Cessna 310 is a piston twin with a low wing, retractable landing gear and a side-by-side cabin cockpit. Blackbird’s 310R documentation places it in Cessna’s 1950s light-twin lineage and notes that the last 310R left the factory in 1981. Its twin engines, propeller controls and fuel management add another layer of cockpit work to the familiar yoke-and-pedal arrangement.

The 310R guide identifies dual yokes, electric pitch trim and separate pitch, roll and yaw trim wheels. The KAP140 automatic-flight system is part of that rendition.

Research-based aircraft backgroundBlackbird / Milviz · 310R User Guide — Blackbird / Milviz ↗

HOW IT CAME TO BE

History & design

A long-lived light-twin family

Blackbird’s guide discusses the 310’s 1950s origin and the 1981 end of 310R production. The product adds configurable avionics, persistent wear and failure options around its IO-520-M-powered 310R. Those are the implementation’s documented capabilities, separate from Digital Replica’s C310L product.

Blackbird / Milviz · 310R User Guide — Blackbird / Milviz ↗

Blackbird 310R guide and aircraft background.

Three trim axes and a dual-yoke cockpit

Pitch, roll and yaw trim wheels appear alongside electric pitch trim and AP disconnect controls. The guide describes the KAP140 installation. These details support a three-axis trim and automatic-flight cockpit account for the 310R rendition, without assigning that same equipment to every 310L or modified real-aircraft cockpit.

Blackbird / Milviz · 310R User Guide — Blackbird / Milviz ↗

310R user guide pp. 34, 39, 43.

UNDER THE SKIN

Systems & details

A cockpit that carries its condition between flights

Blackbird’s 310R combines swappable avionics with persistent wear and failure options. The product also depicts luggage and passengers according to station loading, icing and frost, inflatable de-ice boots and accumulating dirt inside and outside the aircraft. These details make the selected aircraft state part of the simulation rather than a cosmetic livery choice alone. Its twin 285 hp IO-520-M installation belongs to the 310R product and should remain separate from the 310L’s configuration.

Blackbird 310R product features

Blackbird Simulations · MV310 for MSFS2020 ↗

VIRTUAL VERSIONS

In your simulator

No released simulator product is listed for this aircraft in the developers reviewed. Announced products are excluded.

GO TO THE SOURCE

Manuals & resources

Read the original documentation from the people who created it. Manuals open on their publisher’s website.

AIRCRAFT AND FEEL

Built-in force-feedback profiles

Read the documentary basis, editable starting settings and remaining questions for the aircraft you fly. Each explanation refers to the exact profile revision shown.

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