Research aircraft and systems

BAe 146 / Avro RJ ↗Pilot account

BAE / AVRO 146

pilotmike · post 3, 2 December 2019

BAe Hawk ↗Simulator documentation

BAe Hawk · Just Flight · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024

The tablet configures the cockpit for different activities

The EFB can select weapon or display-smoke panels and alternative gunsight/GPS arrangements. It also controls the rear pilot, ordnance, ground equipment and simple autopilot assistance. These are package options available around the Hawk T1/T1A cockpit.

Just Flight MSFS 2020/2024 listing · captured September 2026

BAe Hawk ↗Simulator documentation

BAe Hawk · Just Flight · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024

Return to the aircraft state you left

Just Flight lists persistent aircraft states alongside cold-and-dark, ready-for-start and ready-for-takeoff presets. The tablet also provides checklists, maps, notes, a descent calculator and SimBrief and Navigraph chart integration.

MSFS product description · captured September 2026

BAe Hawk ↗Simulator documentation

BAe Hawk · Just Flight · X-Plane 11

Checklists and starting states support learning the cockpit

The X-Plane 11 Hawk includes interactive checklists and a choice of cold-and-dark or ready-for-takeoff states while stationary. Both cockpit positions are modelled, with radio navigation and separately controlled cockpit systems.

Just Flight / Thranda X-Plane 11 listing · captured September 2026

BAe Hawk ↗Simulator documentation

BAe Hawk · Just Flight · X-Plane 11

Some visual features require another plugin

The developer lists rain support through the free Librain plugin. Its separate sound-mixing window adjusts exterior, cockpit and effects volumes, while opening the canopy changes the sound reaching the cockpit.

X-Plane 11 product description; not an X-Plane 12 compatibility claim

BAe Hawk ↗Research-based aircraft background

BAe Hawk

First developed under the Hawker Siddeley name, the Hawk continued through British Aerospace and BAE Systems. Its single-engine, subsonic design serves advanced training and, in some versions, combat roles. The T1 and later Hawks differ in equipment, identified by the model captions on photographs and specifications.

BAe Hawk ↗Pilot account

The last Hawker: interview with a Hawk pilot

Paul Heasman · 27 September 2017

BAe Hawk ↗Pilot account

Training begins for two new Red Arrows pilots

Andrew McEwen · preparations for the 2025 season

BAe Hawk ↗Pilot account

New voice of the Red Arrows among pilots joining for 2026

Stu Roberts · preparations for the 2026 season

BETA ALIA 250

BETA's ALIA family uses electric propulsion and is presented in vertical- and conventional-takeoff configurations. The VTOL arrangement combines one H500A propulsion motor with four V600A lift motors; the conventional aircraft uses the propulsion motor without those lift units.

Laminar's ALIA 250 is a simulator rendition of the VTOL aircraft. X-Plane 12.1.2 added gauges for all four batteries to its display.

BETA ALIA 250

Bede BD-5J Microjet

The BD-5J is the jet-powered member of Bede’s small single-seat aircraft line. AzurPoly’s manual records the original BD-5’s 1971 first flight and the introduction of the jet variant in 1973. Its appearance in the 1983 film Octopussy helped carry the tiny jet’s outline beyond the experimental-aircraft community.

A mechanical side stick commands the aircraft. The manual describes an anti-servo pitch tab and electric pitch trim acting through that tab. Retractable landing gear uses a mechanical cable system, and the flap lever selects 0, 15 or 30 degrees. The BD-5J’s jet engine therefore sits in an airframe whose primary controls and retractable gear retain comparatively direct mechanical arrangements.

Manual history · AzurPoly BD-5J · AzurPoly manual

Beech Twin Bonanza

The Beech Twin Bonanza was a twin-engine executive aircraft.

X-Hangar D50B simulator edition; performance figures are developer stated.