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Owner’s 1976 B24R; Aviation Consumer, November 2016, printed/PDF pp. 31–32. Historical costs omitted.
Starship · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The Starship centres on the AMS-850 avionics suite, including display reversion, cooling and temperature-related instrument behaviour. Black Square also documents the pressurisation and environmental model and optional navigation integrations. These supporting systems explain more about the simulation than the unusual canard and pusher-propeller silhouette alone.
Black Square Starship · PDF p.9; introduction and avionics overview
Starship · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Black Square's AMS-850 implementation can estimate position from its initial location, VOR/DME reception and VLF/Omega sources. GNSS augmentation is selectable, so the simulation can also represent navigation using the original equipment. The moving map is therefore not simply evidence of a modern GPS installation: the source of its position estimate matters. The manual explains initialization and position updates separately from importing a route.
Black Square Starship User Guide (2025) · PDF p.122 · No GPS navigation and position estimation
Starship · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The simulated avionics occupy cooled equipment spaces, with airflow and blower operation affecting temperature. The manual describes overheating and equipment failures when cooling becomes inadequate, with an avionics-status view on the multifunction display. It also models the behaviour of the period CRT displays: cold displays can take time to brighten, while excessive heat can make the image fade. A blank or dim display can therefore have a simulated system explanation beyond its brightness control.
Black Square Starship User Guide (2025) · PDF pp.108,110 · Avionics cooling and CRT displays
Starship · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
State saving is selective. The guide identifies radio settings, stored routes and user waypoints, engine health and oxygen pressure among the items retained. Some primary operating switches are instead initialized from the flight's starting position. Fuel restoration also has a condition: it applies when the next flight loads with the default fuel levels. The guide records a payload-restoration limitation and notes that the simulator must shut down normally for its native saving mechanism to retain changes.
The tablet adds system visualizers and failure management. Failures can be scheduled or generated using configurable mean-time-between-failure settings, and existing failures persist between flights. These features make the tablet useful for understanding the simulated systems as well as configuring the aircraft.
Black Square Starship User Guide (2025) · PDF pp.87,128,151 · State saving, tablet and failures
Beechcraft's Starship departed sharply from the conventional King Air outline. The main wing sits aft, a small forward wing provides the canard arrangement, and two pusher propellers turn behind the cabin. Extensive carbon-fibre construction was another defining part of the programme.
Its avionics were equally ambitious for the period. Black Square's simulation centres on the AMS-850 flight deck, including display reversion and supporting systems such as avionics cooling. That combination of unusual airframe and period electronic cockpit gives the Starship considerable depth as a reference subject.
Aircraft / family
Owner account · NC-51 · undated
Mark Huber · September 2004 · Tom Carr interview
Cathy Hansen · 13 April 2019 · July 2003 recollection
T-34C Turbo Mentor · JRollon · X-Plane 11
JRollon chose the T-34C while work on the CRJ200 was paused. His product description lists both cockpits, custom sound and weather effects, and describes the older X-Plane 10 product as functional in X-Plane 11.
Official developer / designated-store reference · checked 2026-09-14
The T-34 began as a piston-powered military trainer derived from the Beechcraft Bonanza. The later T-34C Turbo Mentor replaced that piston installation with a turboprop, retaining the trainer’s tandem cockpit and low-wing layout.
JRollon chose the T-34C while work on the CRJ200 was paused. His product description lists both cockpits, custom sound and weather effects, and describes the older X-Plane 10 product as functional in X-Plane 11.
Bell 206 family · CowanSim · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The 206L3 guide maps searchlight power to TOGGLE TAXI LIGHTS. Directional landing-light bindings aim it, and the HOME binding restores the default position. The documented four-way cockpit switch supplies another way to move the light.
Gathered Cowan 206L3 manual · PDF p.12
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