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Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat
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
Spring tabs and blowback flaps
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
The v1.1.0 control update
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
Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat
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
Hampden B Mk1 early slats
Virtavia includes early and late B Mk I and TB Mk I Hampdens. The early version has automatic leading-edge slats. Manuals describe pitch, roll and rudder trim, with different autoflight functions between simulator editions.
Hampden B Mk1 early slats
FlightFX Hawker 800XP · FlightFX · MSFS 2024
Primary controls and the pitch servomotor
The v1.1 manual describes cable-operated primary controls, balancing and elevator spring/G-weight arrangements. Electric trim, autopilot trim and Mach trim use the pitch servomotor. Hydraulics operate accessories and the pusher; the primary controls remain manually linked.
v1.1 PDF pp206-211; PDF pp213-218; PDF p66 and274-277; PDF p36 table visually inspected; pp93-94
FlightFX Hawker 800XP · FlightFX · MSFS 2024
Flight-guidance controls
The manual states there is no control-wheel-steering mode. With the autopilot off, yoke SYNC synchronises the flight director. Electric pitch trim disconnects the autopilot while leaving the yaw damper, and the pitch wheel changes flight-guidance references rather than trim position.
v1.1 PDF pp206-211; PDF pp213-218; PDF p66 and274-277; PDF p36 table visually inspected; pp93-94
Hawker 800XP
The Hawker 800XP's primary controls use cables with geared, horn and mass balancing. An elevator spring and G-weight accompany its trim tabs. Hydraulic power operates accessories and the stick pusher, while electric, autopilot and Mach trim share the pitch servomotor.
FlightFX's documentation separates the normal flap settings from the ground-only lift-dump position. It also gives the flight-guidance controls and stall-protection interlocks their own descriptions.
Hawker 800XP
Hawker Fury Mk I
The Fury Mk I is a single-engine biplane fighter with an open cockpit and fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Aeroplane Heaven presents it alongside the naval Nimrod, retaining separate aircraft identities while explaining their related cockpit and control arrangements. The two-plane wing structure, conventional tail and absence of a flap system put the Fury’s configuration firmly within its biplane fighter generation.
The manual documents an elevator trim wheel. Pitch trim lets the pilot reduce a continuous stick load as power and speed change, while the main stick continues to command the flight surfaces. The land-based Fury should be read in its own scope; the Nimrod’s naval fittings belong to the other member of the package.
Fury rendition described in the combined developer manual; Nimrod dimensions are not used.
Hawker Nimrod Mk II
The Nimrod Mk II is the naval biplane fighter in Aeroplane Heaven’s Fury/Nimrod package. Its documented configuration combines a single piston engine, open cockpit, fixed tailwheel gear and elevator trim wheel. The related land-based Fury is listed separately in the package.
Nimrod II configuration described by the developer; not the Fury airframe.
Nemeth Designs Hiller UH-12B Civil Utility · Nemeth Designs · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The Nemeth rendition
Nemeth's product title names the UH-12B and support for MSFS 2020 and 2024. The public product description does not detail the RotorMatic servo-paddle or trim mechanisms.
Product description, configuration and simulator editions
OH-6A / H500C · Taog's Hangar · MSFS 2024
Light controls and working configurations
The OH-6A and H500C are separately selectable aircraft in Taog's package, with different skid and float choices. The manual describes electric actuators for cyclic trim and controls without hydraulic boost. Mission attachments add their documented weights at specified loading stations.
MSFS2024; flight manual 1.1 · PDF pp.9-10,22
