Airports & Sceneries
– New Features:
– Headphone simulation has been added to the audio package, which can be triggered by clicking on the pilot’s headphone connectors on the side panel. Headphone cables appear when the headphone simulation is active. The amount of headphone attenuation can be adjusted by scrolling the mouse wheel over the headphone clickspot.
– NEW Magnetic Compass Effects including physics filtering and erratic behavior from onboard magnetic fields. See the “Magnetic Compass Effects” section of this manual for more information.
– Added NEW oil pump failure & engine seizing physics.
– Added GTNxi 750 & 650 bezels and improved model switching technique.
– Added support for TDS GTNxi Advanced Crossfill.
– Extended tablet show/hide clickspot forward along cockpit wall to be more easily accessible, and consistent with other Black Square aircraft.
– Added persistence to tablet payload unit switch between sessions.
– Implemented custom toe brake animations and sounds to prevent jittery or looping animations when hardware brakes are used in conjunction with the parking brake.
– Upgraded KNS-81 RNAV, KR87 ADF, and KLN90B push button interactions to conform to latest Black Square standards.
– Added headphone jack highlight to better alert users to the headphone isolation feature.
– Improved fan speed visualization on the cabin visualizer, and increased cooldown time for the combustion air heater visualization.
– Bug Fixes:
– Restored missing cockpit precipitation sounds.
– Dynamic oxygen consumption was erroneously using the outside air pressure, rather than the interior cabin pressure to calculate the biological oxygen requirement. Oxygen consumption in a partially pressurized cabin will now be substantially reduced.
– KNS-81 output L:Var values for hardware interfaces only updated when there was a valid VOR signal being received.
– The heater blower now operates when ambient temperatures are greater than 90°F to provide cooling to the radar and any avionics located in the nose baggage compartment.
– The left engine’s oil viscosity calculation was mistakenly using the right engine’s combustion flag. This should result in faster oil propagation through the galleries on the left engine after startup.
– The propeller heat circuit breaker would not affect the left propeller heat, although a propeller heat failure triggered from the tablet would work correctly.
– The tablet payload screen will now update all data immediately when switching to the tab instead of waiting a second or two.
– Copilot’s RNAV localizer glideslope needle sensing was reversed.
– The rudder trim pushrod animation may have been reversed before v1.2.
– Fixed sound variables for mixture levers that would not produce sound at the top extent of motion due to Black Square turbocharger logic.
– During a complete electrical failure, some essential variables would fail to update. This included fundamental variables used to drive Black Square’s advanced engine simulation, sounds, avionics displays, and external hardware or displays.
Black Square’s new tablet interface lets you configure all options, manage payload, control failures, and monitor engines, electrical schematics, and environmental control systems, all from within the simulator. The failure system allows for persistent wear, MTBF and scheduled failures for nearly every component in the aircraft. The Piston Duke’s electrical system is highly accurate, featuring a battery temperature monitor, over-voltage protection and AC inverters. The 3D gauges are modelled and coded to meticulously match their real-world counterparts. No piece of equipment appears in a Black Square aircraft without a real-world unit as reference.
Radio navigation systems are available from several eras of the Duke’s history, so users can fly without GPS via a Bendix KNS-81 RNAV system or with the convenience of a Garmin GTN 750 (PMS50 or TDS). Other radio equipment includes KX-155 NAV/COM radios, KLN-90B, GTN 650, KR 87 ADF, KDI 572 DME, GTX 327 Transponder, Century IV Autopilot and a Bendix RDR1150XL Weather Radar.
A 160+ page manual provides instruction on all equipment and 50 in-game checklists with control/instrument highlighting are included for normal and emergency procedures. This product includes two versions of the 1974 B60 Duke: with and without the ‘Grand Duke’ performance package (winglets, vortex generators, strakes, extra fuel, increased speeds and increased MGTOW).
Four distinctive interiors and seven paint schemes are included from four decades of flying.
Primarily analogue instrumentation augmented with modern radio navigation equipment is still the most common aircraft panel configuration in the world. Challenge your piloting skills by flying IFR to minimums with a fully analogue panel and no GPS. You’ll be amazed at the level of skill and proficiency you can achieve to conquer such adversity and how it will translate to all your other flying. You may also find the analogue instrumentation much easier to read with the limited number of pixels available on a computer monitor, and even more so in VR.
