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M-24 Orion · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Gyroplane controls rather than helicopter controls
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 M16
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.
Magni M22
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.
Max Holste MH.1521 Broussard
Restauravia's MH.1521 Broussard has a 450 hp radial engine, fixed tailwheel landing gear and electrically commanded flaps. Cockpit diagrams identify pitch and rudder trim, with no aileron-trim control.
Max Holste MH.1521 Broussard
Maxair Drifter
The Drifter is an open-air pusher ultralight with its occupants below the wing and the engine behind them. Ant’s handbook traces the design to the 1980s and describes approximately 500 built. The small airframe’s view and arrangement come from that low-speed recreational role, with little cockpit structure between the occupants and the surrounding air.
The handbook describes a Rotax 582 driving a four-blade Brolga propeller through a reduction gearbox. Pitch trim uses a wire-operated tab controlled from a lever on the front stick. Wheel and float versions give the same broad aircraft a different surface-contact arrangement, while the propulsion and trim mechanism retain their own identity.
Ant’s handbook configuration · Drifter handbook
IndiaFoxtEcho T-45C Goshawk · IndiaFoxtEcho · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Powered surfaces and artificial feel
The manual describes powered stabilator and aileron controls and an unpowered rudder. Spring cartridges, inertia and viscous damping supply feel. A speedbrake interconnect can move the stabilator without moving the stick, so that surface motion has a different mechanism from pilot trim.
PDF pages 63-71,147-148,153 image
AV-8B Harrier II, Plus and GR9 · DC Designs · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Controls and systems in the developer manual
The DC Designs manual describes automatic flap and trim behaviour and a nozzle-controlled transition between hover and wing-borne flight. Equipment differs among the listed variants.
Manual captured 28 September 2026; flap, trim and nozzle operation
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12
A separate reference for the bundled MD-82
Laminar's guide identifies the MD-82's pitch-trim wheel and autopilot systems and provides illustrated cockpit locations. This guide covers the bundled aircraft. Rotate's MD-80 has separate systems documentation.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.8,18,50
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 · Laminar Research · X-Plane 11
A separate reference for the bundled MD-82
Laminar's guide identifies the MD-82's pitch-trim wheel and autopilot systems and provides illustrated cockpit locations. This guide covers the bundled aircraft. Rotate's MD-80 has separate systems documentation.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.8,18,50
Emerald Scenery Design 1500R Sport · Emerald Scenery Design · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Simple controls and simulator assignments
The manual identifies pitch trim and no wing flaps. Its choke uses the simulator's Spoiler axis, so that assignment operates an engine control. The listed 55–65 mph cruise, 28–31 mph stall and 100 mph Vne retain their original mph units.
1500R Sport v1.2.0 manual; PDF pp.3–4, 9 and custom-variable tables
Emerald Scenery Design 1500R Sport · Emerald Scenery Design · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The v1.2.0 update
Emerald's v1.2.0 notes record trim-interaction and rod-length corrections for its MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 packages.
Product description and feature list
Mini-Max 1500R Sport
The 1500R Sport develops Wayne Ison's Mini-Max line, using wood truss construction and fabric covering. A streamlined cowling and spinner accompany its 40 hp two-stroke Rotax 447. The fixed 17-inch tyres have no suspension in the documented configuration.
Emerald offers separate MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 packages. Its manual identifies pitch trim and no wing flaps; the Spoiler axis operates the choke instead.
Mini-Max 1500R Sport
