Airports & Sceneries
– New Features:
– Overhauled behavior of the KAS 297B to implement vertical speed arming. See the “Bendix/King KAS 297B Altitude Selector” section of this manual for more information.
– 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 GTNxi 750 & 650 bezels and improved model switching technique.
– Added Ear Discomfort Index to the cabin visualizer page of the tablet interface.
– 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.
– Added engine driven fuel pump failure and corresponding engine visualizer behaviors.
– Changed torque calculation source variable for faster torque indication changes.
– Bug Fixes:
– 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.
– The air conditioning system would fail to operate on ground power alone, and cooling ability would not be affected by the speed of the cooling turbine.
– The cooling turbine depiction on the cabin visualizer did not respect the bleed air valve positions, and would spin up/down with the gas generator.
– The fuel pressure annunciator would extinguish when the fuel pump was running, even if there was no pressure indicated by the fuel pressure needle. The fuel pump would also still cycle when there was no fuel pressure due to the tanks being empty, or the fuel selector being in the off position.
Black Square’s failure system allows for persistent wear, MTBF and scheduled failures for nearly every component in the aircraft, many with multiple different failure modes. Experience real-world failures from popular YouTube videos, including generator failure, propeller governor failure, fuel control failure and compressor surging.
The 3D gauges are modelled and coded to meticulously match their real-world counterparts, with reference to real-world manuals. 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 aircraft’s history, so users can fly without GPS via a Bendix KNS-80 RNAV system or with the convenience of a Garmin GTN 750 (PMS50 or TDS). Other radio equipment includes EFS 40 EADI & EHSI, KX-155 NAV/COM radios, dual GNS 530, KR 87 ADF, KDI 572 DME, GTX 327 Transponder, and a Bendix RDR1150XL Weather Radar.
A 100+ page manual provides instruction on all equipment and 55 in-game checklists with control/instrument highlighting are included for normal and emergency procedures.
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 also may 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.
