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!

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 wrote on Sep 8^th, 2010 at 12:39pm:



That makes sense, and if fuel sloshing is being intentionally simulated, then that is real cool modelling by you guys.  However, if this is intentional, can you explain why that "wobbling" would be every bit as much pronounced even when the tip tanks are empty??   Also, it only occurs when changing RPMs, not under other circumstances that one would expect to cause fuel sloshing.
This is a clearly a fabulous flight model,  but I'm still a bit skeptical about this particular behavior, that again, does not seem to have any actual relationship to the amount of fuel in the tanks.  Maybe we are talking about two different sets of behavior.  In any case, no big deal.

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;  Thus when you change the RPMs, if your two levers are out of sync by even the tinyest fraction, you get massive yaw moments.  I understand what you are saying about fuel sloshing, but I don't think that is the issue here.
I have noticed with the newest patch that the tendency to do this is not quite as bad as before.  The new patch, among other things, reduced the Prop Moment of Inertia;  If I understand this correctly (and I very well may not), I think that this causes the props to settle down quicker into their new RPM setting, thereby lessening the wobbling to some extent.

This minor issue aside, which is not a big deal, I think this is the light twin I've been waiting for.  I wish you guys at Eaglesoft would update some of the hand flying characteristics of your Twin Comanche to be as accurate as this one.  Because I think in terms of matching the published numbers, the Twin Comanche is right up there with the very best, and might even be more accurate than the 310;  The turning behavior isn't right though, and there is way too much landing gear drag.  If those things were addressed, I think the Twin Comanche would be my light twin of choice, instead of the 310.

Fr. Bill wrote on Sep 11^th, 2010 at 1:56pm:


You can definitely see that this is a "pilot's" aircraft.  When I saw all the real world performance tables in the manual, I knew I had to get it, because clearly this was a "simulation" of an airplane, not just a peice of eye candy.  There are a lot of developers these days that don't seem to be accurate with flying characteristics, so it is really nice to see this.  For instance, I've heard bad things about the accuracy of several of the Carenado releases, so I have been avoiding many of those aircraft.