DA42 and PA44 Microsoft Flight sim x

[coodem]

I have started my IR and will be flying the DA42 and the PA44, does anyone know where I can get an add on for Microsoft Flight Sim x, to try get a bit more familiar with the aircraft.

[jb2_86_uk]

I have been trying to find a da-42 for FS9 - no luck so far! :{

JB

[richatom]

Not an answer to your question, but why are you flying two differnet aircraft in your IR training? IR/ME is hard enough on just one type. I suggest you do your rating just on DA42, then convert to PA44 if you must have steam-age experience to impress employers.

[coodem]

The reason for flying both is because the course I am doing is structured that way.
25 hours Sim
6 hours PA44 for MEP
8 hours PA44 towards IR
15 hours DA42 towards IR
7 hours in a PA28RT201

[poss]

Abacus have a DA42 Twinstar however as with all abacus products the virtual cockpit is shockingly awful. Just search abacus Da42 and make up you own mind.

[trainee99]

If you can't find a PA44, I think that the standard FS Beechcraft Baron is a very good substitute. Pitch/power settings are very similar and depending of course on how well equiped your PA44 is, the instrumentation is pretty much the same too. As for the DA44, it's a nice easy a/c to fly without complex power control i.e. you set a %age power and it works out optimum blade pitch setting leaving you to just worry about keeping it in trim and navigate using the efis type layout of the glass cockpit. So you can learn the instrument part in any of the efis a/c in FS or download a Garmin 1000 addon for any aircraft (search on flightsim.com) and assume that the actual flying will be a piece of cake.. Good luck!

[coodem]

I have been using the Baron, and find it OK. It be much better if I could actually get a proper throttle quadrant, but I guess it's better than nothing.

Thanks all for the advice

[sparks-flying]

If you search for a company called mindstar they have a download of the Garmin 1000 for fs9. It downloads to the C172 on flight sim but can then be moved onto the Abacus DA42 or anything else you have in flightsim. I found it very useful for my IR it has all the features that the actual G1000 has, which I too did on the Seneca/Twinstar.