NEWS! - Expansion Package REP for DHC-2 Beaver

[Stephen]

NEWS! - Expansion Package REP for DHC-2 Beaver

 

 

I was a little surprised to see a Reality Expansion Package for the Thranda Design DHC-2 Beaver? Reasons being is that the Thranda design is already a very highly developed aircraft, a high quality Simulation in the first place.

One that comes with a very long list of features, so why did it need a REP pack? REP packages are for me, to bring default and sparsely developed aircraft a host of better performance and features up to a higher standard. But here we have them (with Thranda's blessing) and it comes with an extremely long list of performance enhancements and mostly crash and damage effects.

 

Ultra Realistic Flight & Ground Dynamics

• Realistic stall speeds & behavior
• Correct climb speeds
• Realistic cruise speeds
• Real World Weight & Balance
• Realistic taxi behavior with realistic spring-loaded/free-castoring tailwheel
• Complex Damages System
  • Triggered by the pilot actions
  • Based on real world data
  • Target every system in the aircraft
  • Meant to teach you how to correctly manage an airplane

Economic System

• Can be enabled/disabled on the fly
• Earn virtual money when you fly
• Use virtual money to buy fuel and do maintenance/repairs
• Realistic fuel prices around the World
• Fully compatible with FSEconomy and X-CPL-Pilot
• More info at https://www.simcoders.com/reality-expansion-pack/economy

Custom Towing System

• Driven by the joystick/steering wheel
• Realistic point of view (POV)
• Interacts with tie-down and brakes

Interactive Walkaround

• Cockpit checks
• Lights checks
• Engine soft cover removal
• Aileron, rudder, elevator and flaps check
• Tire check and choks removal
• Tie-down removal
• Pitot tube check
• Engine cowl check
• Floats and water rudder check

Realistic Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior Engine Logic

• 100% Custom engine model
• Realistic power output for given manifold pressure/RPM settings
• Realistic propeller animations as never seen before on X-Plane
• Realistic booster coil
• Switch between conventional and Bendix-Stromberg pressure carburetor (with automatic mixture)
• Correct fuel consumption
• Oil System:
  • 1. Realistic oil viscosity
  • 2. Interchangeable oil type
  • 3. Oil pump failures
  • 4. Realistic oil filter
• Fuel System:
  • 1. Realistic wobble pump
  • 2. Realistic fuel pressure behavior
  • 3. Realistic fuel filter
  • 4. Realistic primer
• Starter
• Realistic startup procedure
• Automatic startup procedure for newbies
• Realistic engine temperatures
• Fuel Flooding simulation
• The engine parts wear down when not managed correctly

Engine Preheater

• The engine may be warmed up upon start with the provided electrical heater
• Once activated, the electrical heater runs even when you close the simulator

Realistic Landing Gear

• The landing gear is damaged by hard landings
• The brakes and tires are damaged if not managed correctly
• The steering wheel acts like the real one. Spring loaded under 35° of turn, then free castoring.

Electrical & Avionics System

• Realistic Battery

• The avionics are damaged if on when the engine starts/shuts down

Native Virtual Reality Support

• Complete support of new X-Plane SDK 3.0
• Menu visible in VR
• Windows visible in VR

Learn with the in-flight tips

• A non invasive tip with a suggestion about the conduct of the flight is shown when you are not flying the airplane properly
• A non invasive tip with a suggestion on how to recover the problem is shown when you damage the airplane

Custom simulation of Hypoxia

• Tunnel vision
• Hard breathing

Popup Kneeboard

• Normal operations checklist
• Emergency operations checklist
• Reference tables (speed, fuel consumption etc.)
• May be shown/hidden with mouse gestures

Simulation state saving

• Every single switch and lever position restores its position when you reload the aircraft
• The battery may discharge if you leave it on and then close X-Plane
• The engine restores its cylinders and oil temperature basing on the elapsed time between restarts

Maintenance Hangar

• Engine maintenance tab
• Electrical systems maintenance tab
• Landing gear, brakes & tires tab
• Instruments tab
• Economic System tab

HeadShake Integration

• REP drives HeadShake to simulate the correct vibrations of the Wasp Junior engine

Developed with love

• Coded by real pilots
• Very easy on FPS
• Written in C++ with no compromises

 

It is an extremely long list of enhancements, and an interesting experiment on how to make the Beaver a much more realistic Simulation.

 

 

Most of the changes and access to features are done via the "Clipboard menu...

 

 

 

 

This is an add-on to the DHC-2 Beaver - DGS Series XP12. It will not work on the Thranda DHC-2 Beaver XP11 or any other aircraft.

X-Plane 12 (not for XP11)

 

Developed by Simcoders

support forums for the REP DHC-2 Beaver

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The Reality Expansion Pack for DHC-2 Beaver XP12 by SimCoders is NOW available! from the X-Plane.Org Store here :

Reality Expansion Pack for DHC-2 Beaver XP12

Priced at US$29.95

 

Customers who own the  Reality Expansion Pack for DHC-2 Beaver XP11, can get the new XP12 version for 30% off. Coupon code can be found in the original invoice.

 

Requirements:

This is an add-on to the DHC-2 Beaver - DGS Series XP12. It will not work on the Thranda DHC-2 Beaver XP11 or any other aircraft.

X-Plane 12 (not for XP11)

Current version: XP 12 - 4.8.2 (February 10th 2024)

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NEWS! by Stephen Dutton

13th February 2024

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