Daher TBM family

Black Square documents a gated fourth flap-lever position that becomes available with the flaps retracted. Selecting 850 mode changes the power available for climb and cruise, allowing torque above the instrument’s 100-percent reference. The guide distinguishes that mode from the torque limiter used outside it. This unusual shared control is one of the details separating the 850 cockpit from later TBM generations.

Black Square TBM 850 User Guide (2024) · PDF p.62 · torque limiter and 850 mode

The inertial separator redirects intake air to remove particles, with a corresponding performance cost. The developer also models foreign-object damage, residual engine heat after shutdown and bleed-air valve failures that can restrict available power. Those systems can change what the pilot sees during a turnaround or climb, while the tablet provides visualisations of the engine and its condition.

Black Square TBM 850 User Guide (2024) · PDF pp.61–63 · engine simulation

Black Square's TBM 850 pairs EFS40 electronic flight instruments with conventional panel equipment and selectable navigation installations. The manual describes persistent failures, generator and governor behaviour, fuel systems and environmental controls. Later TBM variants use integrated glass flight decks.

Black Square TBM 850 · PDF p.9; introduction and feature overview

Hot Start's TBM 900 retains switch, fuel and aircraft-condition state between flights. The published model includes component wear, a maintenance manager and separately tracked airframes. Its G1000-based cockpit adds synthetic vision, engine and system pages, while the PT6, electrical and environmental systems have custom models. The reviewed product page still specifies X-Plane 11; its advertised future X-Plane 12 update is a separate statement.

Hot Start TBM 900 · X-Plane 11 · Product description; persistence, maintenance and highlighted features; checked 2026-09-12

Horne flew the TBM 930 at Tarbes with chief test pilot Stéphane Jacques in March 2016. Their demonstration deliberately explored the aircraft's response to a depressurisation scenario: at 20,000 feet they put on oxygen masks and shut off the bleed-air supply. Horne watched the emergency-descent function turn the aircraft and bring it down to a selected safe level, with terrain affecting the altitude used for the exercise.

Thomas A. Horne

Boatman joined owner-pilot Malte Lorenz on flights between Hagerstown and Republic Airport in his 2024 TBM 960. The trip put the aircraft into the congested Northeast airspace in which Lorenz regularly used it. A complicated initial clearance and relatively low assigned altitudes reinforced his preference for a turboprop on shorter journeys. At Republic, they made an instrument approach beneath a coastal cloud layer.

Julie Boatman, flying with Malte Lorenz