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Epic Victory ↗Simulator documentation

Epic Victory · Aerobask · X-Plane 12

Aerobask’s Victory has a specific engine and cockpit

The XP12 package uses a PW617F engine, rather than the Williams engine in the 2007 first-flight report. Aerobask combines Laminar G1000 displays with optional custom engine monitoring, synthetic vision and touch input. Its GFC700 includes a custom CSC mode described as a FADEC-based autothrottle.

Gathered Aerobask page; developer’s represented configuration

SourceEpic Victory G1000 ↗Aerobask
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Epic Victory ↗Simulator documentation

Epic Victory · Aerobask · X-Plane 12

Explore the systems through the cockpit and tablet

The published feature list includes pressurisation, oxygen, configurable circuit-breaker reliability and custom engine failure. A GCU477 keypad offers optional physical-keyboard capture, with separate popups for several instruments. The AviTab tablet supplies another interface, and both 4K and lower-resolution liveries are offered.

Aerobask’s documented XP12 features

SourceEpic Victory G1000 ↗Aerobask
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Epic Victory ↗Research-based aircraft background

Epic Victory

The Victory was Epic Aircraft's second experimental jet design. The company's 2009 bankruptcy interrupted its development, after which new owners acquired the assets. Aerobask's simulator interpretation has its own features and performance descriptions.

SourceEpic Victory ↗Wikipedia contributors
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Erickson S-64F Aircrane ↗Research-based aircraft background

Erickson S-64F Aircrane

The S-64 is the civilian relative of the military CH-54 Tarhe. Its narrow fuselage and tall undercarriage leave space below for a suspended load, making the lifting role visible in the airframe itself. Two turbine engines power the large main rotor.

Erickson's Air-Crane developments have become associated with construction, logging and firefighting. A tank-equipped firefighting aircraft and a crane carrying an external load use the same basic idea in different ways. The simulator includes mission equipment for its represented roles.

Aircraft / family

SourceSikorsky S-64 Skycrane ↗Wikipedia contributors
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Eurocopter EC135 ↗Simulator documentation

Eurocopter EC135 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024

A later addition offered to MSFS 2024 owners

Microsoft’s Local Legend 21 announcement describes its EC135 as the final aircraft in the launch-related make-good programme, offered free to MSFS 2024 owners with ten liveries. It is separate from HPG’s earlier community H135.

Official Local Legend 21 release announcement

SourceEC135 free for MSFS 2024 owners ↗Microsoft
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