Cessna C310R is Released!

[Fr. Bill]

The Military Visualizations Cessna 310R is now available for purchase at the official point-of-sale site at Flight1. Here you go:

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=c310r

A number of real-world 310 pilots have already purchased and reported they are very impressed by how real she looks, sounds, and flies!

[olderndirt]

While this is definitely 'eye candy' based on the wealth of exterior and interior detail, flight characteristics are as close to 'real' as I've seen in an FS model thus far.

[snippyfsxer]

Two questions about this airplane:

1)Does the real Cessna 310R have cowl flaps?  (this model doesn't appear to, or else, I can't find them, despite being referenced in the checklists)  Edit:  Apparently these aren't modelled.

2)As I mentioned in another post on the flight school section, is the "wobble" effect when changing RPMs accurate?

Overall, I'm extremely pleased with this plane so far!

[Fr. Bill]

Two questions about this airplane:
2)As I mentioned in another post on the flight school section, is the "wobble" effect when changing RPMs accurate?

Overall, I'm extremely pleased with this plane so far!

It most certainly is! Something that many (most) folks aren't aware of is that the "tip tanks" are the "main tanks!" The aux tanks are located in the wing lockers.

As a resut of this unique situation, as the fuel sloshes around in the main tanks, the a/c exhibits a sometime pronounced "dutch roll" even during level flight... 

[snippyfsxer]

Two questions about this airplane:
2)As I mentioned in another post on the flight school section, is the "wobble" effect when changing RPMs accurate?

Overall, I'm extremely pleased with this plane so far!

It most certainly is! Something that many (most) folks aren't aware of is that the "tip tanks" are the "main tanks!" The aux tanks are located in the wing lockers.

As a resut of this unique situation, as the fuel sloshes around in the main tanks, the a/c exhibits a sometime pronounced "dutch roll" even during level flight...

[Fr. Bill]

Part of that would be because the main tanks are never completely empty. They always have at least a few pounds of unusable fuel. Same applies to the wing locker aux tanks.

[snippyfsxer]

I think that the strength of this plane is in its modelling of asymetric thrust, but it may just be a tiny bit much overdone;

[Fr. Bill]

[quote]I have noticed with the newest patch that the tendency to do this is not quite as bad as before.

[snippyfsxer]

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As for the assymetry, all I can say about that is that Ken Stallings (owner of N5077J) and several other C310R pilots held up the release for nearly three months until they were satisfied. I've never had such a through and nit-picky bunch of alpha/beta testers in the twelve+ years I've been doing this professionally!