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Got Friends Experimental MXA wheels · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Trim and water configuration
The developer's release notes identify elevator trim and stick-mounted trim controls, together with a GMC307 autopilot. Changes to the float contact points, water rudder and flap drag affect different parts of the simulated aircraft: contact with the water, steering, and aerodynamic configuration.
Developer release/change notes
Got Friends Experimental MXA water contact · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Trim and water configuration
The developer's release notes identify elevator trim and stick-mounted trim controls, together with a GMC307 autopilot. Changes to the float contact points, water rudder and flap drag affect different parts of the simulated aircraft: contact with the water, steering, and aerodynamic configuration.
Developer release/change notes
Got Friends Experimental MXA
The Experimental MXA is a fictional light sport amphibian with geometry inspired by the Akoya. Got Friends presents its wheel and water configurations as parts of the same simulator design.
The cockpit includes a GMC307 autopilot, an electrical system and elevator-trim controls. Developer updates revised float contact points, water-rudder behaviour and flap drag, connecting the aircraft's water configuration to its simulated systems.
Got Friends Experimental MXA
Got Friends Vertigo · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
From light aircraft to turboprop racer
The developer's Vertigo release replaces the VL3-inspired aircraft's propulsion with an 850 hp PT6A-42A and a six-bladed constant-speed propeller. Its published 270 KIAS and 357 KTAS at FL200 example describes different speed measures. The release also lists 140-knot gear and 180-knot flap limits, whose applicability belongs to that software version.
Original developer first post and changelog
Got Friends Vertigo · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Later simulator support
Got Friends' Vertigo v1.0.5 notes establish MSFS 2024 compatibility and changes to trim and flap indicators. The earlier release's Working Title G3X and autopilot dependencies have their own version context.
Vertigo v1.0.5 paragraph
Got Friends Vertigo
Vertigo develops the VL3's outline into a simulator turboprop racer. Its developer describes a PT6A-42A producing 850 hp, a six-bladed constant-speed propeller and retractable landing gear. The aircraft is a modified simulator design with performance figures published for that rendition.
The original release material distinguishes indicated speed from true airspeed: its example pairs 270 KIAS with 357 KTAS at FL200. Later Got Friends notes record MSFS 2024 compatibility and revised trim and flap indications.
Got Friends Vertigo
Gee Bee R2 / Z · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Microsoft Flight Simulator aircraft manuals
Gee Bee Model Z / R-2 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
A museum replica helped shape the simulator’s Model Z
Microsoft says its team studied and scanned the Model Z replica at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. This identifies a development reference for the Carenado recreation.
April 2022 announcement; source model does not establish physical fidelity
Gee Bee Model Z / R-2 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
The announced Z uses a fixed-pitch propeller
The release describes the Z with a Wasp Junior radial and a fixed-pitch two-blade propeller. The larger engine used in later historical record attempts is a different configuration.
April 2022 description; no undocumented propeller control inferred
Gee Bee Model Z / R-2 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
The original MSFS 2020 release
The April 2022 Famous Flyer II release combines the Model Z and R-2, with historic cockpit layouts and three liveries. The announcement offers both for PC and Xbox.
2022-04-26 · release and package scope
Granville Gee Bee R2 / Z
Granville Brothers built the Gee Bee racers for speed competition. The Model R placed a large radial engine ahead of small wings and a cockpit set far aft in a short fuselage. Gee Bee takes its name from the initials of Granville Brothers.
The Model Z, R-1 and R-2 were separate racing designs. Modern replicas also differ from original racers; the photographs and simulator model labels identify the aircraft represented.
Aircraft / family
Doolittle and the Gee Bee
Author’s reprint of his November 1994 article; includes Lee Gehlbach’s recollections
