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DoubleEnder
The DoubleEnder configuration in Got Friends' manual places two Rotax engines on the same longitudinal line. It uses 35-inch tyres and a free-castering tailwheel. Pitch trim moves the horizontal stabiliser.
Its flap handle has an area-extension position that does not change flap angle and locks the spoilerons. The other positions are 0, 20, 40 and 60 degrees. Optional Type 400A flight-director equipment accompanies the cockpit.
DoubleEnder
C-47D Skytrain · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
A period Gyropilot and hydraulic system
The C-47 has separate trim controls and a Sperry Gyropilot for maintaining a selected attitude and direction. Its hydraulic system also serves landing gear, flaps and other auxiliaries. The manual explains the pump and selector arrangement, providing context for a cockpit that predates modern route-following autopilots.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.5,10,28
DC-3 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Choose a period or modernised cockpit
The DC-3 guide describes trim tabs and hydraulically operated auxiliary systems. It also offers a vintage Sperry installation or a modern GNS/autopilot configuration. Those choices represent different cockpit equipment, making the selected version important when looking up navigation or automation controls.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.5-6,10
DC-3 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
Choose a period or modernised cockpit
The DC-3 guide describes trim tabs and hydraulically operated auxiliary systems. It also offers a vintage Sperry installation or a modern GNS/autopilot configuration. Those choices represent different cockpit equipment, making the selected version important when looking up navigation or automation controls.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.5-6,10
DC-6 · PMDG · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
A short first trip with modern navigation
PMDG's first tutorial uses a Portland-to-Seattle flight to introduce the propliner with GPS navigation. The route is explicitly a modern approximation, and the exercise uses clear weather so the pilot can concentrate on the aircraft. Its setup highlights elevator and aileron trim, flaps, and the separate gyropilot and mechanical-disconnect assignments. The guide then takes the flight through climb, cruise, approach and shutdown.
PMDG DC-6 Tutorial 1, June 2021; tutorial scenario, not a historical airline flight · PDF pp.3–6
DC-6 · PMDG · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Control tabs, trim tabs and the Sperry autopilot
The DC-6 manual distinguishes spring control tabs from trim tabs. They are different mechanisms, even though both involve small surfaces attached to larger controls. The Sperry A-12 autopilot also has a trim servo that responds to sustained pitch imbalance. That period system helps explain why the DC-6 cockpit is organised differently from a modern jet's flight-guidance panel.
Archived document; installed package version not observed · PDF pp.15,57,87
Draco X · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
DRACO X's simulator-specific equipment
The manual identifies three-axis trim, separate pilot and copilot autopilot disconnects, G3X displays and custom landing-gear squat behaviour. These belong to the simulation.
Got Friends DRACO X manual · PDF pp.5,7
SourceDraco X ↗Microsoft / aircraft developers
Druine D.5 Turbi
Restauravia's D.5 Turbi recreates an aircraft co-owned by its developer. The package has a 60 hp engine, fixed tailwheel landing gear and no modelled flap detents. Pitch trim is available in the simulation; autopilot and autothrottle are not included.
Druine D.5 Turbi
EagleLabs Eagle 315 HP Twin Prototype · EagleLabs · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
The v2.1 flying-control revision
The June 6, 2024 v2.1 notes describe differential ailerons to reduce adverse yaw and wingtip vortex generators intended to delay aileron stall. Elevator effectiveness, trim precision, centre of gravity and low-speed stability were also revised.
Features and v2.1 requirements
Optica · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Observation-aircraft layout with modern navigation options
Got Friends documents a KAP140 autopilot used with the Working Title G530, along with pilot and copilot autopilot/trim-disconnect controls. Crew-dependent ballast options are also described. The loading options account for occupants in the forward cabin.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF pp.5-7
Embraer E-Jets · X-Crafts · X-Crafts · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
Flight-guidance behaviour and documented limits
X-Crafts documents autopilot disconnection from manual pitch trim or stick-shaker activation, and uses X-Plane's control-wheel-steering facility for Touch Control Steering. The reviewed release does not implement several trim cutouts and column-disconnect functions. The corresponding cockpit hardware is visible but inactive in the documented version.
E-Jets Family 2.0 manual copyright 2025 · PDF pp.25,160,162,164
NextGen Simulations EMB-110P original generation · NextGen Simulations · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Control runs and trim tabs
The manual describes cable-operated primary controls and three trim tabs. Its KMC321/KAS297C autopilot has a separately documented cockpit installation. The speed reference distinguishes a 230 KIAS VMO from 229 KTAS cruise.
DeveloperV2manual as underlying aircraft-control reference only; July2026manualPDF8,63,68-69,125-128,169-172;PDF169visuallyreviewed
