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Cessna 172 SP · Laminar Research · X-Plane 11
The bundled X-Plane Skyhawk has its own cockpit reference
Laminar's manual documents the C172's primary controls, trim console, instruments and autopilot. Its illustrated cockpit guide and configuration checks describe the bundled aircraft. Independent C172 developers document their own maintenance systems and avionics.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.7-8,45; center console and preflight
Cessna 177 Cardinal
The Cardinal’s pitch surface is a stabilator: the horizontal tail moves as a unit, with a separate trim tab. Cessna’s 177RG handbook depicts the stabilator control and trim linkages separately from the aileron and rudder systems. It gives this high-wing light aircraft a pitch-control arrangement distinct from a fixed tailplane with an elevator.
1977 Cessna 177RG handbook; not the fixed-gear 177B.
Cessna 310
The Cessna 310 is a piston twin with a low wing, retractable landing gear and a side-by-side cabin cockpit. Blackbird’s 310R documentation places it in Cessna’s 1950s light-twin lineage and notes that the last 310R left the factory in 1981. Its twin engines, propeller controls and fuel management add another layer of cockpit work to the familiar yoke-and-pedal arrangement.
The 310R guide identifies dual yokes, electric pitch trim and separate pitch, roll and yaw trim wheels. The KAP140 automatic-flight system is part of that rendition.
Blackbird 310R · Separate Digital Replica and Blackbird products
Cessna CH-1 Skyhook · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Reset accumulated rotor trim
ROTOR TRIM RESET returns all trims to zero.
CowanSim MSFS guide · PDF page 5
C208 Grand Caravan DGS · Thranda · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
Configuration and flight-model development
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 changes are identified by release number.
C208 DGS; XP12 added v1.2 February 2023 · Version history; v1.2 and later XP12 tuning
Citation CJ4 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Flight guidance and yaw damping are separate controls
The CJ4 guide documents a flight-guidance panel with flight-level-change, heading and navigation functions. It treats yaw-damper engagement separately from autopilot use and includes pilot-managed pitch trim.
CJ4 user guide v1; exact release applicability unresolved · PDF pp.8,10; climb and AP operation
Cessna Citation CJ4 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
Flight guidance and yaw damping are separate controls
The CJ4 guide documents a flight-guidance panel with flight-level-change, heading and navigation functions. It treats yaw-damper engagement separately from autopilot use and includes pilot-managed pitch trim.
CJ4 user guide v1; exact release applicability unresolved · PDF pp.8,10; climb and AP operation
Citation Longitude · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Three axes, different control paths
The Longitude guide describes mechanical pitch and roll controls, hydraulically operated roll spoilers and an electronically controlled rudder. Its simulated hydraulic failures can affect rudder, yaw-damper and spoiler authority. The guide also marks locks, disconnects and secondary trim as unmodelled in the documented version. Engine FADEC, the APU and fuel transfer have their own detailed sections.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.39,104,117; simulation notes
Cessna Citation Longitude · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
Three axes, different control paths
The Longitude guide describes mechanical pitch and roll controls, hydraulically operated roll spoilers and an electronically controlled rudder. Its simulated hydraulic failures can affect rudder, yaw-damper and spoiler authority. The guide also marks locks, disconnects and secondary trim as unmodelled in the documented version. Engine FADEC, the APU and fuel transfer have their own detailed sections.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.39,104,117; simulation notes
Cessna Citation Mustang
The Citation Mustang is the Model 510 light business jet. Its flight manual documents elevator, aileron and rudder trim as separate systems. Roll trim is an in-flight cockpit function, alongside the pitch and yaw arrangements, rather than only an adjustment made during ground rigging.
Model 510 AFM reference; individual aircraft and amendments determine applicability.
Cessna Citation Sovereign 680
The Model 680 Sovereign specification describes manually operated rod-and-cable primary controls with hydraulic roll spoilers. An aileron ratio changer reduces yoke effort at high speed. Electric stabiliser and roll-tab trim are supplemented by Mach trim.
Cessna Citation Sovereign 680
Cessna Citation X · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12
Powered controls and spoiler roll assistance
Laminar's Citation X overview describes powered flight controls and the spoilers' contribution to roll control. The simulator setup section supplies electric stabiliser-trim commands.
Laminar CitationX guide · PDF pp.5,17,19
