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4AT Trimotor · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Period instruments with an optional modern navigation installation
The Ford Trimotor package offers modern navigation and autopilot equipment alongside its period instruments. Braking uses the documented lever arrangement rather than conventional toe brakes.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.3-4,6
Got Friends Experimental MXA wheels · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Trim and water configuration
The developer's release notes identify elevator trim and stick-mounted trim controls, together with a GMC307 autopilot. Changes to the float contact points, water rudder and flap drag affect different parts of the simulated aircraft: contact with the water, steering, and aerodynamic configuration.
Developer release/change notes
Got Friends Experimental MXA water contact · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Trim and water configuration
The developer's release notes identify elevator trim and stick-mounted trim controls, together with a GMC307 autopilot. Changes to the float contact points, water rudder and flap drag affect different parts of the simulated aircraft: contact with the water, steering, and aerodynamic configuration.
Developer release/change notes
Got Friends Experimental MXA
The Experimental MXA is a fictional light sport amphibian with geometry inspired by the Akoya. Got Friends presents its wheel and water configurations as parts of the same simulator design.
The cockpit includes a GMC307 autopilot, an electrical system and elevator-trim controls. Developer updates revised float contact points, water-rudder behaviour and flap drag, connecting the aircraft's water configuration to its simulated systems.
Got Friends Experimental MXA
Got Friends Vertigo · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Later simulator support
Got Friends' Vertigo v1.0.5 notes establish MSFS 2024 compatibility and changes to trim and flap indicators. The earlier release's Working Title G3X and autopilot dependencies have their own version context.
Vertigo v1.0.5 paragraph
Albatross G111/HU16 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Runway equipment and water equipment in one aircraft
The Albatross guide covers hydraulic and landing-gear instruments, nosewheel steering choices, chocks and a sea anchor. It also identifies trim and autopilot controls. HU-16E and G-111 options differ, so the military and civilian configurations retain separate context even within the same package.
Albatross manual v2.3.6.1 · PDF pp.6,8-9,23
Grumman F-14 Tomcat · Laminar Research · X-Plane 12
Stabilisation is a prerequisite for the autopilot
The manual requires the pitch, roll and yaw stability-augmentation channels before autopilot engagement. Heading hold uses the attitude at stick release rather than a conventional selected-heading turn command.
X-Plane F-14 manual · PDF p.73
Got Friends F4F-4 Wildcat · Got Friends · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Navigation and compatibility updates
The F4F-4 v1.0.3 notes describe WTT support for GTN650 and autopilot, navigation and MSFS 2024 changes. The software's optional navigator is an add-on feature; the source's gun-camera removal also belongs to that release history.
F4F4 v1.0.3
FlightFX Hawker 800XP · FlightFX · MSFS 2024
Primary controls and the pitch servomotor
The v1.1 manual describes cable-operated primary controls, balancing and elevator spring/G-weight arrangements. Electric trim, autopilot trim and Mach trim use the pitch servomotor. Hydraulics operate accessories and the pusher; the primary controls remain manually linked.
v1.1 PDF pp206-211; PDF pp213-218; PDF p66 and274-277; PDF p36 table visually inspected; pp93-94
FlightFX Hawker 800XP · FlightFX · MSFS 2024
Flight-guidance controls
The manual states there is no control-wheel-steering mode. With the autopilot off, yoke SYNC synchronises the flight director. Electric pitch trim disconnects the autopilot while leaving the yaw damper, and the pitch wheel changes flight-guidance references rather than trim position.
v1.1 PDF pp206-211; PDF pp213-218; PDF p66 and274-277; PDF p36 table visually inspected; pp93-94
Hawker 800XP
The Hawker 800XP's primary controls use cables with geared, horn and mass balancing. An elevator spring and G-weight accompany its trim tabs. Hydraulic power operates accessories and the stick pusher, while electric, autopilot and Mach trim share the pitch servomotor.
FlightFX's documentation separates the normal flap settings from the ground-only lift-dump position. It also gives the flight-guidance controls and stall-protection interlocks their own descriptions.
Hawker 800XP
ES-30 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
A later update addressed flight-director indication
Sim Update 5 reports a correction to the discrepancy between the flight director and pitch indication with the autopilot engaged.
MSFS 2024 1.7.27.0 · 30 April 2026; does not establish resolution of every reported autopilot issue
