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TBM 850 · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
An analogue-panel TBM with detailed supporting systems
Black Square's TBM 850 pairs EFS40 electronic flight instruments with conventional panel equipment and selectable navigation installations. The manual describes persistent failures, generator and governor behaviour, fuel systems and environmental controls. Later TBM variants use integrated glass flight decks.
Black Square TBM 850 · PDF p.9; introduction and feature overview
TBM 900 · Hot Start · X-Plane 11
Multiple persistent airframes and a maintenance manager
Hot Start's TBM 900 retains switch, fuel and aircraft-condition state between flights. The published model includes component wear, a maintenance manager and separately tracked airframes. Its G1000-based cockpit adds synthetic vision, engine and system pages, while the PT6, electrical and environmental systems have custom models. The reviewed product page still specifies X-Plane 11; its advertised future X-Plane 12 update is a separate statement.
Hot Start TBM 900 · X-Plane 11 · Product description; persistence, maintenance and highlighted features; checked 2026-09-12
Daher TBM family
The TBM programme began as a collaboration between SOCATA and Mooney and continued under Daher. The low-wing airframe carries one nose-mounted turboprop and a pressurised cabin. Successive versions developed the engines, aerodynamics, avionics and pilot interface.
The analogue-panel TBM 850, glass-cockpit TBM 900 and TBM 930 occupy different points in that progression. Simulator developers model these panel generations and different levels of persistent system behaviour, documented for each product.
Aircraft / family
Pilot Report: Daher’s New TBM 930
A 2016 real-aircraft pilot report. Publisher access restrictions may apply.
TBM’s 930 joins the flock
Thomas A. Horne · June 2016 · Tarbes demonstration
Moment of Zen
Julie Boatman · November 2024 · 2024 TBM 960
Power of one: TBM 940 flight test
Michael Gerzanics · 15–21 October 2019 · pages 26–29
Dassault Falcon 50
The Dassault Falcon 50 is a three-engine business jet that first flew in 1976.
Original Falcon 50
Dassault Falcon 8X
The Falcon 8X extends the 7X lineage through aerodynamic changes, engine optimization and additional fuel capacity. First deliveries took place in October 2016. The selected background reference covers the 7X and 8X, with figures labelled by model. The simulator listing records its product's development status.
Falcon 8X: manufacturer specifications
Left Seat on Flight 92: Falcon 8X
Fred George · November 2015 issue
Falcon 8X Completes First Flight
6 February 2015 · Eric Gérard and Hervé Laverne
Pilot Report: Falcon 8X
Matt Thurber · January 2017; seven-page publisher PDF preserved by the Internet Archive
