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Aircraft and configuration
Virtavia's Yak-52 trainer has retractable landing gear and flaps. The MSFS manual describes pitch trim and a preset roll bias for runway flight.
Yakovlev Yak52
Virtavia · Read more ↗Meet Yakovlev Yak52
Virtavia's Yak-52 trainer has retractable landing gear and flaps. The MSFS manual describes pitch trim and a preset roll bias for runway flight.
History & design
An aerobatic aircraft built for training
Virtavia's manual describes the Yak-52's service as a basic and advanced trainer in Eastern Europe, with Romanian production by Aerostar under Yakovlev licence beginning in 1979. Its nine-cylinder radial and tandem training role put aerobatic capability at the centre of the aircraft's purpose.
The simulator edition has its own separate lineage: Virtavia identifies the MSFS release as a conversion of its 2009 FSX aircraft, with new modelled gauges, cockpit effects and sounds. That development history does not establish identical flight behaviour between the MSFS and X-Plane editions.
Virtavia · Yakovlev Yak52 — simulator documentation ↗MSFS user manual version 1, introduction and exterior-model sections.
Systems & details
Engine and flight model
The product describes a 360 hp M14P radial engine and an aircraft-specific flight model.
X-Plane cockpit and speed wording
The X-Plane manual states that there is no autopilot. It gives conflicting takeoff wording of 100 km/h and 100 knots, which is retained as a documentation conflict.
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Engine and flight modelYakovlev Yak52
The product describes a 360 hp M14P radial engine and an aircraft-specific flight model.
Yak-52 product model and powerplant
Virtavia · Read the source ↗X-Plane cockpit and speed wordingYakovlev Yak52
The X-Plane manual states that there is no autopilot. It gives conflicting takeoff wording of 100 km/h and 100 knots, which is retained as a documentation conflict.
X-Plane manual · pages 4, 10 and 13
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Simulator documentation
Yakovlev Yak52 — simulator documentationVirtavia · Yak-52 MSFS manual · pages 5 and 11 Yakovlev Yak52 — simulator documentationVirtavia · Yak-52 product model and powerplant Yakovlev Yak52 — simulator documentationVirtavia · X-Plane manual · pages 4, 10 and 13Built-in force-feedback profiles
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Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 1 profile choice
Virtavia Yakovlev Yak52
Virtavia · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020 · X-Plane 12
A radial-engine trainer with retractable gear and flaps.
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