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Cessna CH-1 Skyhook · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Persistence restores the previous flight’s settings. Change passenger and object weights in the loaded flight’s Weight and Balance window.
CowanSim MSFS guide · PDF page 14
The CH-1 brought Cessna's familiar light-aircraft styling into a helicopter programme. It used a front-mounted piston engine and a two-blade main rotor; the Army evaluated the design as the YH-41 Seneca. Although the design achieved altitude milestones, it did not become a commercial or military success comparable with Cessna's fixed-wing range.
Historical report citing the October 1955 Army Aviation account and Steve Remington
Programme engineer’s memoir, preserved in the 21 June 2009 web archive
Pilot and operator’s quoted recollections, preserved in the 13 February 2010 web archive
208 B Grand Caravan EX · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Cessna 208 B Grand Caravan EX · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
Cessna Caravan family · Black Square · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The tablet saves avionics selections and allows several radio/GPS arrangements. The manual explains which selected GPS can drive the HSI and autopilot, including a limitation when the Working Title GNS 530 occupies NAV2. Confirming a changed arrangement reconfigures the avionics and disengages the autopilot.
Caravan Professional guide 2026 · PDF p.79
Cessna Caravan family · Black Square · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
A live tablet schematic shows powered connections, inactive equipment and circuit paths. This gives the simmer a visual way to follow the electrical model as aircraft switches and equipment change state. It complements the analogue cockpit with a diagram of what the simulation is doing.
Caravan Professional guide 2026 · PDF p.93
Cessna Caravan family · Black Square · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Black Square's Caravan Professional is a standalone aircraft, distinct from its earlier Analog Caravan expansion. The manual describes wheeled, cargo and amphibious configurations, a new exterior and cabin model, sounds and interactive aircraft features. Its analogue cockpit and systems form a different product from both the bundled glass-cockpit Grand Caravan and an instrument-panel replacement for it.
Black Square Caravan Professional · PDF p.8; introduction and configurations
C208 Grand Caravan DGS · Thranda · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
The DGS package includes the Caravan 675 and Grand Caravan, each with passenger and cargo arrangements. Its expansion adds plain and amphibious floats, landplane options and a G1000 choice in the configurable panel. Instrument presets and an in-sim livery editor let the cockpit and exterior be personalised. The gathered store page lists version 1.2.2, dated June 2023.
Designated X-Plane.org store · gathered 10 September 2026
C208 Grand Caravan DGS · Thranda · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
Thranda's Caravan development includes configurable avionics and changes to its X-Plane flight model. The published history records trim balance, propeller drag, G1000 pitch-button behaviour, landing-gear springiness and stall-warning calibration changes. The release number is useful context when comparing observations about this particular Caravan.
C208 DGS; XP12 added v1.2 February 2023 · Version history; v1.2 and later XP12 tuning
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