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Beechcraft Duke · Black Square · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The turbine conversion changes the engine story
Black Square's Turbine Duke models the Royal Turbine conversion with PT6A-35 engines, a different propulsion system from the piston Duke's turbocharged Lycomings. The manual describes persistent wear and failures, pressurisation and environmental systems, and a broad choice of navigation equipment. Period radios, the Century IV autopilot and optional modern GPS installations form distinct cockpit configurations.
Black Square Turbine Duke · PDF p.9; introduction and feature overview
Beechcraft Duke
The Beechcraft Duke combined turbocharged piston engines with a pressurised cabin and retractable landing gear. Its swept-looking tail and compact low-wing airframe give it a distinctive outline. It entered the market between smaller touring twins and turbine-powered business aircraft.
Royal Turbine conversions replace the piston engines with PT6 turboprops, creating a materially different aircraft. Black Square models both branches with different engine behaviour while sharing a broad selection of period and modern navigation equipment. Its systems and performance differ between the piston and turbine versions.
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King Air 350 · Airfoillabs · Airfoillabs · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
Avionics choices and custom automatic flight
Airfoillabs's King Air 350 v2 combines avionics options with custom autopilot logic, including VNAV and approach behaviour. The product description also covers engine simulation, pressurisation and ice-protection systems. The reviewed branch is for X-Plane 12.
King Air350 v2.0.3 December 2025; XP12 · Avionics & Autopilot; version and requirements
Beechcraft King Air family
Beechcraft's King Air range grew from the 90-series aircraft into a broad family of pressurised utility and business transports. The later 200 and 300 series were originally marketed as Super King Airs. Their T-tails provide a quick visual distinction from the smaller 90-series lineage.
The C90 and 350 aircraft gathered here differ in airframe, engines and systems. They also span conventional instrumentation and modern avionics. The named variants identify the airframe and equipment described in each source.
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Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing
The Model 17's negative wing stagger gives it its name and its distinctive profile. First flown in 1932, it combined a radial engine with an enclosed cabin and retractable landing gear. It served business transport and racing as well as wartime military duties.
The Staggerwing belongs to the era when a fast executive aircraft could still be a biplane. Its enclosed passenger cabin and fabric-covered lifting surfaces combined business transport with biplane construction.
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Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech
The Twin Beech is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft recognisable by its twin fins and, in its familiar configuration, tailwheel landing gear. Production began in the 1930s and continued for decades. Operators adapted it to a wide range of commercial and military jobs.
Different Model 18 derivatives can carry different undercarriages, cabin layouts and equipment. It carried passengers and freight on smaller-scale transport routes before turboprops became commonplace.
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Starship · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
What persists between flights
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.
Black Square Starship User Guide (2025) · PDF pp.87,128,151 · State saving, tablet and failures
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II
The Texan II is a turboprop training aircraft with tandem seating and retractable landing gear. The U.S. Air Force describes the T-6A as the aircraft used to establish the basic skills for later training tracks. Its contemporary cockpit and turbine engine belong to a separate aircraft lineage from the piston-powered North American T-6 that shares the Texan name.
AOA T-6A configuration · Blackbird T-6A manual · T-6A manual configuration
Bell 206 family · CowanSim · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Two different meanings of trim
On Cowan's 206B3, engine trim adjusts the governed rotor-speed setting, while rotor trim changes the cyclic trim state. The latter has its own reset binding. The guide also records the hydraulic-switch binding limitation for this version.
Archived document; installed package version not observed · PDF pp.4-5,9
Bell 206 family · CowanSim · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
LongRanger controls have their own guide
The 206L3 manual separately documents engine-RPM trim, longitudinal and lateral cyclic trim, and cyclic trim reset. It also identifies a hydraulic-switch hardware-binding limitation. These assignments cover the LongRanger package.
Archived document; installed package version not observed · PDF pp.4-5,9
B-206 · FlyInside · MSFS 2020
Choose the flight model through FlyInside Heli Manager
FlyInside’s guide represents a 1982 206B-3 with a 250-C20B engine. The Heli Manager offers Easy, Medium and Realistic modes, with further controls for cyclic sensitivity, stability and engine failures. Those settings change the package's control response and assistance.
Gathered FlyInside guide · PDF pp.3,12–13
Bell 206 family
Bell reworked an unsuccessful military observation-helicopter proposal into the commercial JetRanger. The resulting 206 family became widely used for passenger transport, observation and utility work. The familiar single-engine versions use a two-bladed main rotor.
The 206B JetRanger and stretched 206L LongRanger are separate branches of that story. Their cabins, engines and equipment are not identical. Cowan documents each model's trim, autopilot and stability-assistance features separately.
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