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KwikFlight Spirit · KwikFlight · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The simulated stealth configuration
The product's Stealth mode changes both lights and rudder deflection. The developer also lists animated engine secondary intake vents, a crew-access ladder and an air-to-air refuelling point. These are described features of the Spirit package.
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KwikFlight Spirit · KwikFlight · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Navigation and flight management
The FMS tunes communication and navigation radios and can select GPS, NAV or TACAN autopilot following. Its performance page calculates speeds from weight and weather, while a World Map plan loads into the flight-plan page. The autopilot includes Heading, NAV/GPS, Altitude and Approach modes.
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KwikFlight Spirit
KwikFlight's Spirit portrays a four-jet flying wing with retractable landing gear. Its simulator stealth mode retracts navigation and strobe lights and reduces rudder deflection. Animated secondary engine intakes, crew access and refuelling equipment accompany the flying-wing airframe.
Six independent multifunction displays provide navigation, system and flight information. The flight-management pages include radio tuning, calculated performance data and flight plans imported from the World Map.
KwikFlight Spirit
KwikFlight Striker · KwikFlight · MSFS 2024
Native rotorcraft functions
The developer lists MSFS 2024 native vortex-ring-state simulation and stability augmentation with hands-off hover. Both crew positions have cross-functional cockpit interactions. The simulated main and tail rotor swashplates and blades have custom animations.
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KwikFlight Striker · KwikFlight · MSFS 2024
Displays and electrical supply
Four MFDs manage systems, flight, weapons and navigation information. A dual-function display provides standby flight information and backup data entry, with a keyboard unit for display interactions. Generators, APU, GCU and external power supply the documented electrical system.
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KwikFlight Striker
The Striker is a two-seat attack and reconnaissance helicopter rendition with interactive front and rear cockpits. KwikFlight builds its stability augmentation and automatic hover around MSFS 2024's native systems, alongside native vortex-ring-state modelling.
The cockpit has four multifunction displays, a dual-function standby display and keyboard data entry. Its electrical model includes generators, an APU, a generator control unit, external power and manually managed non-essential buses.
KwikFlight Striker
Got Friends Lake Skipper · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
A vehicle for the water surface
The Lake Skipper is built around intended water operation. The developer describes it as an experimental ground-effect design.
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Lake Skipper
Got Friends' Lake Skipper explores flight close to the water as a ground-effect vehicle. Its operating environment is the lake surface, and the developer presents it as an experimental design.
It is distributed in the Legacy Collection alongside six other products. The collection contains seven separate products.
Lake Skipper
Lancair Evolution · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12
The manual maps out the Evolution’s systems panels
Laminar’s manual describes separate battery, generator and backup-alternator controls, plus a ground-power selection. The systems panel includes inflatable door-seal and bleed-air controls for cabin pressurisation, while a separate display presents cabin altitude and differential pressure. These details describe the installation represented by the simulator manual.
Gathered Laminar simulator manual · PDF pp.20,24
Lancair Evolution · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12
Lighting and protection controls are part of the cockpit
The overhead lights can change colour and direction. A separate panel groups the particle separator, pitot heat, propeller heat and inlet heat. The manual shows their locations alongside the landing-gear indication and cockpit-light dimmers.
Gathered simulator manual · PDF pp.19,21,23
Lancair Evolution · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12
One real aircraft's equipment choices
Laminar models the Evolution after N844X, with that aircraft's particular cockpit and autopilot. There is no trim wheel in the represented panel: mapped commands operate pitch trim and the multifunction display shows its position. That is a specific installation within a kit-built aircraft family.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.6,51
Lancair Evolution
Lancair developed the Evolution as a pressurised, four-seat amateur-built aircraft; the programme continued through Evolution Aircraft. Its composite low-wing airframe and retractable landing gear were designed for high-performance personal travel. Both turbine and piston versions appeared.
Individual builders choose their equipment. Laminar's X-Plane model is based on N844X, including the cockpit and trim arrangement described in its manual.
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