Golden Eagles
421C Golden Eagle
The Cessna 421C Golden Eagle
The Greatest Airplanes Cessna 421C Golden Eagle
for Flight Simulator 2004 and 2002. Is a pressurized "cabin class" aircraft
that offers comfort, speed, reliability and predictable handling in an airplane
that can climb to a ceiling of 30,000 ft and a cruise speed of up to 258 knots.
At time of release, no other aircraft could fly further, faster, higher and
carry as much load in any comparable piston twin class. The Golden Eagle's
performance equals many turboprops, yet costs hundreds of thousands less to own
and operate. Highly competitive and built for the business aviation market, the
421C Golden Eagle still offers small to medium business's an economical and
reliable way to close critical deals and expand opportunities.
The Engines
Two turbo-charged, fuel injected 6 cylinder
GTSIO-520-L 375 hp Continental engines effortlessly whisk the Golden Eagle to a
speed of nearly 260 knots (faster than some turboprops) and do it with
outstanding fuel efficiency. The Golden Eagles engines and airframe provide a
huge maximum useful load of 2,928 pounds with a maximum cruise of 243 knots.
This equates to excellent mission capability and a wide variety of passenger /
cargo / fuel trip flexibility.
The Wing
Bonded to eliminate rivets and minimize drag. The "wet wing" design
also allows for huge fuel capability yet simplifies fuel management at the same
time. The Golden Eagles wing provides great efficiency for better performance at
high speeds and high altitude, plus more stable handling at low speeds during
takeoff and landing. The Golden Eagle can operate from a shorter field and climb
to altitude faster than many competitive aircraft. This allows you access to
more airfields and lets you clear high-density traffic areas faster and get to
altitude quicker, where you can fly with greater speed and better fuel
efficiency.
Features
Reflective
Texture Mapping
Flight One's Golden Eagle is designed with g-max. The 421C fuselage and window
textures provide reflective mapping like the default FS2002 aircraft. As you
move, the textures reflect lighting, terrain and objects in the paint and window
areas. The 421C is one of the most highly detailed aircraft available for Flight
Simulator 2002 and is designed in muti-resolution format. The Golden Eagle steps
up to the plate and defines what detail is all about. We dare say that you will
be hard pressed to find another FS model with this level of detail and accuracy.
That's a high claim, but we deliver.
Flight
Dynamics
The 421's flight dynamics have been carefully modeled with great accuracy.
Validated by 421 pilots, you can be assured of a realistic experience.
Fully Animated
The 421C hosts many animated parts - rolling wheels - working suspension. Even
the gear actuating arms slide in and out of the cylinders. All control surfaces
are animated and the cabin door opens and folds down the stairs! Even the
landing lights and light beam move as you turn the aircraft whether inside or
outside of the cockpit.
Virtual Cockpit
You wont find a more detailed virtual cockpit / cabin period. Whether you decide
to sit in the cockpit or pan around and move to the back you can get a true
perspective of what its like to fly or sit back in the cabin and enjoy the
flight as you look out the side windows! The 421 Virtual Cabin also contains
fully operating gauges, animated yoke and throttle quadrant.
Panel
The 421 Photo Real Panel contains all custom gauges. Many unique gauges are
included such as a Fuel Totalizer, S -Tec 55 "style" Auto-Pilot, etc.
The 421C also includes a unique cruise / landing view that can be toggled by
clicking on the panel eyebrow allowing cruise and landing segments of the flight
to appear more natural and provide a more realistic perspective.
Sound
The Sounds have been carefully blended and mixed to provide a very realistic 421
twin sound set. This sound set provides a very "unique" experience
when departing at full throttle in a way that truly captures what a twin sounds
like coming out of the gate.
Added Features
Custom
GPS
The Golden Eagle comes with a "custom" GPS navigation system that
rivals the "Garmin 530 Style" appearance and functions. The included
custom database extraction utilty allows you to quickly find and fly to your
chosen destination.
Sky Watch
Not only does the Golden Eagle come with a custom GPS, but you also get
"Sky Watch". Sky Watch is a TCAS style feature that displays other
aircraft in your proximity and warns you when they are in or near your flight
path. These style features really do make the Golden Eagle "your personal
airliner"
Configuration Manager
The Configuration Manager allows you to custom load different weight
configurations that effect the performance and handling characteristics of the
Golden Eagle. "Config Manager" also allows you to modify the cockpit
night lighting color, choose either the pilot or copilot position in the virtual
cockpit, select the GPS display refresh rate for better frame rates, select the
default country so that the GPS waypoint input screen defaults to your
appropriate prefix code on start up and more!
Text O Matic
Flight One's proprietary Text O Matic takes user created texture templates or
"skins" and allows you to quickly assign them to the 421C Golden
Eagle. You can use the included "Base Template" to create new paint
schemes in programs like JASC's Paint Shop Pro or any other capable painting
program. Once created, you can upload the template to popular simulator sites
and expand the amount of custom paint jobs available for the 421C Golden Eagle.
Text O Matic uses these templates to quickly assign a new model that will appear
in the FS2002 with just 4 simple clicks. What's all this mean? With user created
templates and Text O Matic, you can have countless different versions of the
421C Golden Eagle on your system and creating them is as easy as downloading the
templates. The template is included on the CD.
Documentation
Full documentation is
installed from the CD in Adobe Acrobat format. The free Adobe Acrobat Reader is
included on the CD if you do not have it.
