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McDonnell Douglas MD-11 ↗Simulator documentation

McDonnell Douglas MD-11 · Rotate · Rotate · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12

The freighter has independent cockpit equipment

Rotate lists separate pilot and copilot displays, instrument-source selection and two independent flight-management computers. The freighter’s component-based systems also support custom failures and warnings.

Rotate MD-11F developer listing · captured September 2026

SourceMD-11 Freighter ↗Rotate
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McDonnell Douglas MD-11 ↗Simulator documentation

McDonnell Douglas MD-11 · Rotate · Rotate · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12

Fuel management includes the tail tank

The listed simulation includes automatic fuel scheduling, transfer, crossfeed, dumping, tail-fuel management and ballast-fuel control. These are features of Rotate’s MD-11F package, with their indications available through the simulated system display.

MD-11F developer feature list; not a claim about every MD-11 product

SourceMD-11 Freighter ↗Rotate
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McDonnell Douglas MD-11 ↗Simulator documentation

McDonnell Douglas MD-11 · Rotate · Rotate · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12

Passenger and freight variants with a substantial systems update

Rotate's MD-11 v1.20 release covers both passenger and freighter versions. It adds SimBrief requests through ACARS/AOC pages, forecast winds, flight-plan import options and an alternative tape-style engine display. The release also revises manual handling, LSAS and control-wheel-steering behaviour. Some changes are explicitly X-Plane 12-only, so the simulator version remains part of the feature's scope.

Rotate MD-11 v1.20 · Developer release announcement and change list

SourceMD11 v1.20 release ↗Rotate
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McDonnell Douglas MD-11 ↗Simulator documentation

MD-11 Version 3 Passenger and Freighter · Sky Simulations · MSFS 2020

Documented product features

Sky Simulations lists GE and PW passenger and freighter models in its Version 3 MD-11 package for MSFS 2020. The listing describes autoflight and three hydraulic systems whose behaviour depends on pressure. This does not describe Rotate's X-Plane MD-11 implementation.

Developer listing · Aircraft, Autoflight, Hydraulic System and requirements

SourceSky Simulations MD-11 Version 3 ↗Sky Simulations
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McDonnell Douglas MD-11 ↗Research-based aircraft background

McDonnell Douglas MD-11

The MD-11 developed the DC-10 with a longer fuselage, winglets and a two-pilot electronic flight deck. It retained the trijet arrangement, including the centre engine at the base of the fin. Passenger and freighter versions served different markets.

Automated systems and fuel management formed part of the new design. Each simulator developer documents the systems, failures and variants included in its implementation.

Aircraft / family

SourceMcDonnell Douglas MD-11 ↗Wikipedia contributors
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McDonnell Douglas MD-82 · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12

The flight-management system has its own manual

Laminar’s MD-82 guide directs the reader to the separate X-Plane FMS manual for the installed control-display units. The separate FMS manual covers the installed control-display units.

MD-82 simulator guide · PDF p.47; archived revision

SourceMcDonnell Douglas MD-82 POH ↗Laminar Research
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