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M-24 Orion · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The MSFS 2024 guide identifies a Rotax 915 iS engine. The older Rotax 914 aircraft in the pilot accounts are different configurations.
Official M24 manual · PDF page 6
M-24 Orion · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The cockpit guide identifies separate pre-rotator, rotor-brake and trim controls. Its checklist also calls out the cyclic-retaining cable.
Manual PDF pages 5 and 7; documented cockpit
M-24 Orion · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The illustrated panel includes an engine-information system, radio, transponder and conventional flight instruments, with a yaw string ahead of the cockpit.
Manual PDF page 5
M-24 Orion · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The M24 manual identifies dual centre sticks, a trim button, a mechanical pre-rotator and a rotor brake. The pre-rotator is used to spin up the rotor; it is not the same as a helicopter's continuously engine-driven rotor system. The cockpit diagram shows how these distinct controls are arranged.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.3,5
Magni Gyro developed the M-24 Orion in Italy with an enclosed side-by-side two-seat cabin and a pusher propeller. Its freely turning rotor produces lift through autorotation in flight; a separate engine-driven propeller provides forward thrust. The enclosed cabin differs from the open-frame layout of many recreational gyroplanes.
Aircraft / family
Axel Schröder · 4 December 2014
Steve Boxall · December 2010, pages 34–42
Rachel Ramsay · 25 August 2023
The M16 is an open-cockpit tandem gyroplane with a pusher engine and a rotor above its two occupants. Its principal rotor is not continuously driven by the engine in flight: it turns by autorotation as air passes through the disc. Engine power acts through the propeller to provide forward thrust, and ground prerotation is a separate part of preparing the rotor for takeoff.
The control stick tilts the rotor head and changes the direction in which the rotor disc carries the aircraft. The manual’s trim system acts through a cable and spring assembly, changing the force the pilot holds at the stick. That combination of rotor-head control and spring trim is central to the M16’s cockpit character.
M16C handbook configuration; national approvals and individual equipment may differ.
The M22 combines tandem seating with a pusher powerplant and an autorotating rotor. Its rear seat is slightly elevated, a detail identified in the M22C manual’s cockpit description. The rotor produces lift while engine power supplies thrust through the propeller. Prerotation on the ground prepares the rotor for takeoff; the rotor’s sustained flight rotation comes from airflow through the disc.
The M22C manual describes direct stick control of the rotor head and an actuator working on the trim cable/spring assembly. Trim therefore changes the force held by the pilot without replacing the pilot’s rotor-head command.
M22C Voyager handbook configuration; national approvals and individual equipment may differ.
Martin's P6M-2 SeaMaster was a flying boat powered by Pratt & Whitney J75 turbojets. The Smithsonian preserves a J75-P-2 engine that powered this version.
Virtavia P6M-2 manual; J75-powered production configuration, distinct from J71 prototypes.
M-7-235B · VSKYLABS · X-Plane 12
Three aircraft are included: analog landplane, G1000 landplane and analog amphibian. The landplanes offer conventional wheels or 35-inch bush tyres.
Official developer / designated-store reference · checked 2026-09-14
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