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Beechcraft King Air C90B · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12
The smaller King Air's cockpit
The C90B guide identifies roll and yaw trim controls and the navigation and autopilot systems implemented in Laminar's aircraft. Its cockpit belongs to the 90-series King Air, with its own documentation rather than the equipment list of a larger King Air 350.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.6,29
Beechcraft King Air C90B · Laminar Research · X-Plane 11
The smaller King Air's cockpit
The C90B guide identifies roll and yaw trim controls and the navigation and autopilot systems implemented in Laminar's aircraft. Its cockpit belongs to the 90-series King Air, with its own documentation rather than the equipment list of a larger King Air 350.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.6,29
King Air 350 · Airfoillabs · 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 current branch is for X-Plane 12; older King Air releases need their own version context.
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 aircraft's appeal as a reference subject is that variety: the shared name opens the door, but the individual variant explains the details.
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What saves this King
AOPA Pilot, October 2023: a first-person account of flying a King Air 350.
Model 17 Staggerwing · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
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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 mix of polished cabin transport and fabric-covered lifting surfaces makes an interesting counterpart to the open-cockpit trainers and later all-metal touring aircraft in the catalogue.
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Model 18 Twin Beech · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
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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. The type sits between a light private twin and a larger airliner, offering a useful view of how small-scale passenger and cargo transport worked before the turboprop became commonplace.
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Starship · Black Square · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
A period electronic flight deck with supporting systems
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
An electronic cockpit from before routine GPS navigation
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 displays are part of the thermal simulation
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
