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Gee Bee R3 Special
The Gee Bee R3 is a modern racing-aircraft concept that did not become a full-size real aircraft, although the design circulated in the RC community. Got Friends developed it as the team's first payware aircraft.
Its simulation uses a fictional Jimmy Doolittle Turbo NOS engine described as delivering 1,000 hp to a three-bladed propeller at 2,700 RPM. Elevator trim and pneumatic speed brakes accompany configurable smoke effects.
Gee Bee R3 Special
Got Friends Astro ONE · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Custom modes and input assignments
The manual documents terrain tracking, hover, sport and boost modes. Elevator-trim input supplies a forward-flight bias, while the propeller axis controls terrain tracking. Those simulator assignments operate the Astro's custom systems.
Astro ONE manual; PDF p.2 Chapter 1 Introduction; flight modes and keybinding tables
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
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
IRIS Simulations Grob Tutor T.1 · IRIS Simulations · MSFS 2020
Control balance and trim tabs
The AFM describes push-pull primary-control rods, mass and aerodynamic balancing, and a spring interconnect between rudder and ailerons. The geared elevator trim tab is distinct from the aileron and rudder tabs, which are ground-adjusted.
PDF1,16-18,50
Grob Tutor T.1
The Tutor's manual control runs use push-pull rods with mass and aerodynamic balance. A spring interconnect links rudder and aileron functions, while a geared elevator trim tab provides in-flight pitch trim. The aileron and rudder tabs are adjusted on the ground.
IRIS's aircraft has fixed tricycle gear and electric screw-jack flaps with achieved-position indication. Its stall warning is audible. The archived AFM V2.1 of January 2022 and the store's V2.3.7 product label identify different document versions.
Grob Tutor T.1
Albatross G111/HU16 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Runway equipment and water equipment in one aircraft
The Albatross guide covers hydraulic and landing-gear instruments, nosewheel steering choices, chocks and a sea anchor. It also identifies trim and autopilot controls. HU-16E and G-111 options differ, so the military and civilian configurations retain separate context even within the same package.
Albatross manual v2.3.6.1 · PDF pp.6,8-9,23
Grumman F-14 Tomcat · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12
Digital augmentation alongside the variable-sweep wing
The F-14 guide documents trim and spoiler indications, hydraulic systems and selectable digital augmentation in pitch, roll and yaw. The manual describes these systems separately from wing sweep.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.49,52,68
Got Friends F4F-4 Wildcat · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Gear and ground handling
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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