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KwikFlight Spirit
KwikFlight's Spirit portrays a four-jet flying wing with retractable landing gear. Its simulator stealth mode retracts navigation and strobe lights and reduces rudder deflection. Animated secondary engine intakes, crew access and refuelling equipment accompany the flying-wing airframe.
Six independent multifunction displays provide navigation, system and flight information. The flight-management pages include radio tuning, calculated performance data and flight plans imported from the World Map.
KwikFlight Spirit
Lancair Legacy / StarHawk · Flysimware · MSFS 2024
Condition, failures and maintenance
The product’s TrueSim features cover engine, fuel, failure and maintenance behavior. Its EFB includes condition management, servicing and fuel pages, with adjustable realism options. The manual separately indexes glass and analog cockpit equipment, including maintenance pages and the hydraulic dump control.
Official product description; manual v1.6 cockpit indexes
Latécoère 631 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
Check fuel and oil levels on the Engine page
This clipboard page displays tank levels because the documented cockpit lacks fuel-level indicators. It also provides a refill control.
MSFS 2020 guide · PDF page 9
Learjet 35A — original MSFS release · Flysimware · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Choose the correct manual and navigator
The original release has its own v1.4 manual, distinct from the native-2024 product. Its opening pages warn that some controls require the supplied binding documentation and that the TDS GTN750Xi option is not available on Xbox. The cockpit index covers the autopilot, fuel controls, engine start, anti-ice equipment and EFB.
Original MSFS manual v1.4, PDF pp. 1–5
Learjet 35A — native MSFS 2024 · Flysimware · MSFS 2024
Native systems and aircraft condition
Flysimware describes a rebuild using MSFS 2024 electrical, hydraulic and fuel systems, plus custom pneumatics and 179 functional circuit breakers. Its Free Flight failure options are separate from Career-mode condition tracking. The tablet exposes aircraft configuration, performance tools and live fuel/pneumatic pages.
Native-2024 product description; no runtime qualification claimed
Learjet 35 / 36
The Learjet 35 and longer-range 36 developed the earlier Learjet around Garrett TFE731 turbofans. Rear-mounted engines, a swept wing and prominent tip tanks formed the family outline. The 35A improved the Model 35; the 36 exchanged some passenger accommodation for additional fuel.
Flysimware represents the Learjet 35A in separate original MSFS and native MSFS 2024 releases.
TriStar Airliner · iniBuilds · MSFS 2024
The loadsheet separates people, cargo and fuel
The PFB loadsheet accepts SimBrief weights and provides passenger, cargo-compartment and individual fuel-tank loading controls.
Manual v1.0, PDF p.21
McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender
The KC-10 adapted the DC-10 wide-body trijet for military tanker work. It retained the broad fuselage and tail-mounted centre engine while adding refuelling equipment and military systems. US Air Force service ran from 1981 to 2024.
The Extender combined fuel transfer with passenger and cargo transport. The simulator documentation describes which tanker and cargo functions are modelled.
Aircraft / family
McDonnell Douglas MD-11 · Rotate · Rotate · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
Fuel management includes the tail tank
The listed simulation includes automatic fuel scheduling, transfer, crossfeed, dumping, tail-fuel management and ballast-fuel control. These are features of Rotate’s MD-11F package, with their indications available through the simulated system display.
MD-11F developer feature list; not a claim about every MD-11 product
McDonnell Douglas MD-11
The MD-11 developed the DC-10 with a longer fuselage, winglets and a two-pilot electronic flight deck. It retained the trijet arrangement, including the centre engine at the base of the fin. Passenger and freighter versions served different markets.
Automated systems and fuel management formed part of the new design. Each simulator developer documents the systems, failures and variants included in its implementation.
Aircraft / family
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12
Loading uses X-Plane’s aircraft customisation screen
The guide’s load-sheet examples lead into the Weight, Balance & Fuel screen. It calls for centre of gravity, payload and the quantities in all three fuel tanks to be entered there.
MD-82 simulator guide · PDF pp.65–66; documented interface
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 · Laminar Research · X-Plane 11
Loading uses X-Plane’s aircraft customisation screen
The guide’s load-sheet examples lead into the Weight, Balance & Fuel screen. It calls for centre of gravity, payload and the quantities in all three fuel tanks to be entered there.
MD-82 simulator guide · PDF pp.65–66; documented interface
