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Flying Fries Quasar · Flying Fries · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
AFCS shaping and direct mode
The manual describes AFCS shaping and stabilisation that automatically operate pitch and roll trim. Direct mode disables control shaping. The aircraft has no wing flaps; its flap bindings arm F.A.C.T. instead.
Quasar manual v1.3.0; PDF p.2 creator account; pp.8, 20 and 24 AFCS, trim and F.A.C.T.; update 20 September 2026
Flying Fries Quasar
The Quasar is Flying Fries' futuristic simulator design. Its creator describes developing the idea from 2023, with the aircraft's design and features changing during the project. K.A.R.A. voice assistance, interactive checklists and cockpit cautions support its simulated systems.
The aircraft has no flaps. Flap bindings instead arm F.A.C.T., while the AFCS shapes and stabilises the pitch and roll controls and operates their trims. Direct mode disables that shaping.
Flying Fries Quasar
Flying Fries Scrapyard Monster bush · Flying Fries · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Controls for air and water
The steering-wheel control operates pitch and roll, with a tab supplying pitch trim. Hydraulic wing flaps have mechanical automatic ground retraction. Sea water rudders are assigned to the parking-brake binding and work with the landing gear up.
Scrapyard Monster manual v2.4, 2 June 2026; PDF p.5 Presentation and Power; pp.11–12 Flight Controls; p.20 ground flap retraction
Flying Fries Scrapyard Sea Monster · Flying Fries · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Controls for air and water
The steering-wheel control operates pitch and roll, with a tab supplying pitch trim. Hydraulic wing flaps have mechanical automatic ground retraction. Sea water rudders are assigned to the parking-brake binding and work with the landing gear up.
Scrapyard Monster manual v2.4, 2 June 2026; PDF p.5 Presentation and Power; pp.11–12 Flight Controls; p.20 ground flap retraction
Flying Fries Scrapyard Monster
The Scrapyard Monster is Flying Fries' fictional aircraft, offered in bush and sea forms. Its manual describes an adapted Cosworth-derived V12 concept and deliberately exaggerated performance, alongside a steering-wheel-like pitch and roll control.
Pitch trim acts through a tab. Hydraulic wing flaps have mechanical automatic ground retraction; in the Sea version, water rudders use the parking-brake binding and require the gear to be raised.
Flying Fries Scrapyard Monster
FlyingIron Fw 190 A-8 · FlyingIron · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Primary controls and stabiliser trim
The manual identifies manual pushrod controls and electric stabiliser trim. Its dedicated flap page gives 0, 13 and 58 degrees and a 250 km/h deployment procedure. Elsewhere it uses 15 degrees and a 300 km/h Vfe, with inconsistent Vd/Vne entries. These remain separate source passages.
PDF pp21-22, 40; flap page rendered and inspected
FlyingIron Fw 190 A-8 · FlyingIron · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Ground-adjusted rudder tab
Version 1.0.2 adds a persistent rudder trim-tab setting through the tablet while the aircraft is on the ground. The update does not add in-flight roll trim.
Introduction; Flight Model and Systems Updates
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8
FlyingIron's Fw 190 A-8 manual describes manual pushrod primary controls and electric stabiliser trim. Its dedicated flap section lists 0, 13 and 58 degrees, with a 250 km/h deployment procedure.
Other passages give different flap and speed values. Later product updates revise the flight model and add a persistent rudder trim-tab setting adjusted on the ground.
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8
FW 200 Condor · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Period trim and course instruments
The earlier MSFS 2020 guide labels trim and course instruments; it does not establish unchanged MSFS 2024 operation.
August 2024 guide · PDF pages 10,19; later simulator implementation not tested
Fokker 50
The Fokker 50 flight-controls document describes mechanical rods and cables, spring and balance tabs for the ailerons, electrical roll trim and a manually operated elevator trim tab. The elevator flight-control and longitudinal stability augmentation systems modify pitch feel. The wing flaps are hydraulically operated.
Fokker 50
F.VII · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The package includes different engine configurations
The linked MSFS 2020 guide distinguishes single-engine and trimotor configurations. It provides family background; this older document does not establish unchanged MSFS 2024 controls.
Legacy manual · MSFS 2024 interface remains unverified
F.VII · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
Select the configuration before the livery
The guide lists a single-engine transport, original Southern Cross trimotor, Friendship floatplane, modern retrofits and ski-equipped Josephine Ford. Aircraft selection comes before the separate livery tab.
MSFS 2020 manual · PDF pages 10–11
