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Got Friends F4F-4 Wildcat · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The developer manual provides 29 manual cranks for landing-gear operation and an alternative automatic handle animation. Tailwheel handling has authentic and simplified modes. Separate elevator and aileron trim dials are identified in the cockpit.
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Got Friends F4F-4 Wildcat · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The F4F-4 v1.0.3 notes describe WTT support for GTN650 and autopilot, navigation and MSFS 2024 changes. The software's optional navigator is an add-on feature; the source's gun-camera removal also belongs to that release history.
F4F4 v1.0.3
Got Friends represents the F4F-4 Wildcat with pilot-operated elevator and aileron trim dials and hand-cranked landing gear. Gear retraction can use the manual's 29-crank sequence or an automatic handle animation. A free-castering tailwheel has authentic and simplified settings.
The simulator also offers optional navigation equipment. Its later WTT support names the GTN650; the earlier feature-list reference to a GTN750 conflicts with the FAQ and is retained as a documentation discrepancy.
Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat
FlyingIron F6F-5 Hellcat · FlyingIron · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The manual describes manual primary controls with aileron spring tabs and three-axis trim. Flaps can reach about 50 degrees below 93 knots, reducing to 15 degrees at 150 knots; deployment is prohibited above 170 knots. The landing gear fully retracts, with a 135-knot gear reference.
PDF pp21-22, 36
FlyingIron F6F-5 Hellcat · FlyingIron · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
FlyingIron's v1.1.0 notes improve aileron and rudder trim and control response in the MSFS 2020 product, with Marketplace updates for the 2020 and 2024 simulators.
Flight Model Improvements; Update Availability
The Hellcat began as a proposed improvement to Grumman's Wildcat before developing into a larger fighter. Its first prototype flew in June 1942, and the Navy accepted the first production F6F-3 in January 1943. The F6F-5 followed in mid-1944.
FlyingIron's F6F-5 manual describes manual primary controls, aileron spring tabs and trim on all three axes. Hydraulic blowback changes flap position with airspeed.
Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat
Virtavia's MSFS Tigercat includes military, interdiction and racer configurations. The racer omits military stores; the interdiction aircraft carries wing tanks and rockets.
Grumman F7F Tigercat
G-21A Goose · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The captain’s EFB phone controls radio interaction. Its display switch is separate from the Radio On/Off switch, so hiding the phone can leave the radios operating.
MSFS 2024 Goose manual, PDF page 7
G-21A Goose · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The simulator EFB contains the interactive checklists. Select its aircraft icon, then Checklists, as shown in the 2024 guide.
MSFS 2024 guide, checklist section; edition-specific interface
G-21A Goose · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The guide identifies old-style navigation and other omitted functions as inoperative. Unanimated controls should be treated as INOP, rather than assumed to have an undocumented function.
MSFS 2024 Goose guide, Important Notes and Substitutions
G-21A Goose · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
The captain’s EFB phone controls radio interaction. Its display switch is separate from the Radio On/Off switch, so hiding the phone can leave the radios operating.
MSFS 2020 Goose manual, PDF page 5
G-21A Goose · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
The top-screen Checklist menu provides the procedures. Its blue-eye icon moves the view to the relevant cockpit control, and items can be marked complete.
MSFS 2020 guide, checklist section; edition-specific interface
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