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MU-2 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
An illustrated guide to the MU-2 cockpit
The MU-2's centre console carries an autopilot panel below the trim lever. The guide describes separate heading, localiser-capture, glideslope and altitude-hold modes. Selecting ALT holds the current altitude; a separate turn control commands bank, while the vertical-speed selector provides climb or descent control.
iniBuilds MU-2 manual v1.0.1, 9 September 2023; documented simulator behaviour · PDF p.24
MU-2 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
An illustrated guide to the MU-2 cockpit
The MU-2's centre console carries an autopilot panel below the trim lever. The guide describes separate heading, localiser-capture, glideslope and altitude-hold modes. Selecting ALT holds the current altitude; a separate turn control commands bank, while the vertical-speed selector provides climb or descent control.
iniBuilds MU-2 manual v1.0.1, 9 September 2023; documented simulator behaviour · PDF p.24
Morane D-3801
SwissMilSim's Morane D-3801 has a pitch-stabiliser trim control on the left console. The original roll and yaw adjustments were ground-only. The simulation includes a flap interlock: with the landing gear retracted, the flaps are locked unless the override is used.
Morane D-3801
Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris Marbore II
Restauravia's MS.760 Paris package includes Marboré II and Marboré VI engine versions for MSFS. The aircraft has retractable landing gear, flap settings of 15, 30 and 55 degrees, and an airbrake. The pitch and aileron trim indicator serves the documented trim controls.
Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris Marbore II
Nieuport 17
The Nieuport 17 developed from the Nieuport 11 into a First World War fighter with a smaller lower wing beneath its main upper wing. Big Radials’ history section records its introduction in March 1916 and its early presence on the French-German front. That unequal-wing, or sesquiplane, arrangement is a central part of its recognizable outline.
The documented simulator cockpit has mechanical stick control, a rotary piston engine, fixed wheels and a tailskid. Its blip switch interrupts combustion rather than behaving like a modern throttle. The complete cockpit layout in the manual contains no in-flight trim control, flap installation or wheel brakes, leaving the pilot with the basic stick, pedals and engine controls.
Manual history · Nieuport 17 · Big Radials configuration
Nord 3202
The Nord 3202 manual describes a 260 hp Potez 4D34B engine, three-blade propeller and fixed tailwheel landing gear. Slotted flaps and metric cockpit instruments are part of the configuration. Diagrams identify elevator and rudder trim.
Nord 3202
Nord 3400
The Nord 3400 documentation describes a manual control stick, two elevator trim tabs and hydraulically operated flaps powered by a hand pump. The Potez-powered aircraft has fixed tailwheel landing gear. Restauravia supplies separate MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 packages.
Nord 3400 · Espace Air Passion Nord 3400 restoration and configuration account
F-5E Tiger II · SC Designs · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Controls and systems in the developer manual
The SC Designs manual says its F-5E has neither fly-by-wire nor autopilot. It calls for manual trim and explains that approach speed varies with aircraft weight.
Manual captured 28 September 2026; PDF pp. 6, 12, 14
Nemeth Designs Partenavia P68B Victor · Nemeth Designs · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Stabilator and cockpit controls
The manual describes two conventional control wheels, pedals and an all-moving stabilator. It identifies stabilator and rudder trim, while cockpit labels use elevator and aileron wording. That difference in terminology is retained in the document context. Electric flaps and fixed tricycle gear have separate functions.
P68B manual; aircraft description, flight controls and cockpit illustrations
Nemeth Designs Partenavia P68B Victor · Nemeth Designs · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The Autocontrol installation
The documented Autocontrol panel provides roll, heading, altitude and pitch controls. Those cockpit functions are described separately from the stabilator and trim mechanisms.
P68B manual; aircraft description, flight controls and cockpit illustrations
Piaggio / Focke-Wulf P.149
The P.149 developed from Piaggio’s two-seat P.148 into a four-seat training and utility aircraft. ATSimulations’ historical section records its first flight on 19 June 1953 and its selection by the German armed forces. The Focke-Wulf P.149D name in the simulator reflects that German production and service chapter.
The aircraft combines a piston engine and constant-speed propeller with retractable tricycle gear and slotted flaps. The developer manual documents pitch and rudder trim tabs, with no aileron-trim control in its configuration. Four seats and a trainer’s controls give it a role that spans instruction and light transport rather than simply adding power to a two-seat trainer.
Manual history section · ATSimulations P.149D · ATSimulations P.149D guide; production-aircraft reference
FlightFX P.180 Avanti II · FlightFX · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Coordinated surfaces and trim
The manual identifies aileron cables and bellcranks and elevator rods and cables. Pitch trim changes stabiliser position, while roll trim acts through the right-aileron servo tab. Forward-wing and main-wing flaps operate in coordination. Autopilot autotrim and yaw damping have separate functions.
FlightFX P180 manualv1.6.1 Rev2025-02-06, PDF pp.35-36 and87
