Extra Features

• Persistent damage modeling
• Repair/cost management
• Asymmetric torque capability
• Advanced Load Manager utility

What is not normally part of Microsoft Flight Simulator is the Persistent Damage modeling that we have incorporated into the simulation.  If you push these engines too hard they are going to show signs of stress, and eventually break down, just as they would in the real world, thus enhancing realism.

Once an engine is damaged it can be replaced via the Load Manager. Reloading the aircraft in FS itself will not restore the engine. See the Load Manager section below for more details.

This feature can also be shut off if you are among the "fly the simulator like it's a car" crowd.  But if you take the title of Microsoft Flight Simulator literally, and approach it as a simulation, rather than a game, this is a feature you will really appreciate.

Nothing is free in this world, particularly where general aviation is involved. If you land a plane, you need to tie it down somewhere.  And if you park it in a hangar, the cost meter really starts running.  Add to that the cost of fuel, scheduled maintenance, insurance, and a myriad of other things to pick you pocket, and you start running into real money. 

The Cheyenne keeps track of these things and applies them to an accumulated cost figure, displayed on the Load Manager.  Naturally, repair or replacement of an engine will really make this figure balloon.  So watch how you push those throttles forward!

The typical Flight Simulator dual-prop flight model does not model asymmetrical torque/thrust. You notice this the most as you accelerate down the runway, for example, and the aircraft wants to head left.  This type of behavior will continue in other phases of flight, requiring continual application of trim to keep the nose of the aircraft headed in the intended direction, regardless of wind or other dynamic forces.  This is not how a twin engine prop aircraft behaves in real life.

The FSD Cheyenne 400 LS AFD (Advanced Flight Dynamics) system incorporates a much more realistic model, which provides asymmetrical torque in the same fashion as a real twin engine prop aircraft.

In addition, the Load Manager automatically finds and formats any add-on paint schemes you might add to the Cheyenne, eliminating the need for you to hassle with the various configuration files in the simulator in order for your new skin to show up.  Also, advanced panel display options, including automatic configuration for licensed owners of the advanced Reality XP avionics can be controlled here, again eliminating the need to ever open a configuration file.  The Load Manager does it for you!

Weight and balance of the aircraft can also be controlled here. The AFD system's precision will accurately model the weight and balance changes in the aircraft's flight dynamics that will occur when people and baggage are placed in their normal locations within the airframe.