Four or six place business, utility & advanced pilot training twin
With the wonderful control harmony that is the hallmark of the Bonanza line, the Beech Baron 58 is considered a classic light twin. The Baron 58 is the spiffed-up version of a time-tested favorite, made more modern by its new Continental Special engines. The Baron combines the attractiveness of Beechcraft design with the reliability of twin engines, resulting in a gorgeous workhorse of an aircraft.
Product Features
Detailed 3d textures
Full moving parts including: Flaps, Rudder, Ailerons, Spoilers, Gear, Passenger Door,
Full night lighting inside and out
Fully-featured 2d panel
3D Virtual Cockpit
Stereo Sounds
Reflective texture mapping
Checklist
20 Liveries: Alitalia; British Midland; Heli Muster; Jaguar; KLM; Mesa; Us Check; Sky Way; Private N58YD; Service Aviation; Private N711MO; Flight Training Australia; Escola de Aviacao Aerocondor; Air Charter Bremen; Air Toulouse; American Jet International; Air Phoenix International; Singapore Flying College; Scope Leasing; US Forest Service;
ABL Adventure Manager - This exclusive feature allows you to design all Adventures you want.
20 complete Round Robin adventures "ready to use".
The Pilot HandBook. Learn to fly with an estensive flight manual that will teachs you any aspect of the flying (more than 350 pag.)
ABL Adventure Manager
Unlimited Adventures! Design yourself all the adventures you want using the new and exclusive Adventure Mamager, the AI/ATC Adventure Creator that allows complete interaction with the FS ATC and Traffic generated by the Artificial Intelligence. You can create an adventure for any departure/arrival air port pair you like using FS2004 or any other Flight Plan capable to export the plan in FS2004 format (like FSNavigator, Ultimate Airlines etc.). Also you can set-up many options before compile the adventure. For example, if you want to change the fuel on board the Compiler computes automatically the V1,Vr and V2 speeds but you can always modify all parameters.
To develop and sell an aircraft model for FS2004 that already comes with the sim as standard it
has to be something special...right ? That's what I thought when I decided to buy the Perfect Flight
Baron 58.
Purchase and download went smoothly, so far so good. The model comes with a PDF "Pilot
Handbook", a very comprehensive 312 page document covering general aviation in great detail,
and a skimpy three page PDF Baron 58 User guide covering mainly the installation. There is also a
Adventure Manager program to make and modify flight adventures.
The external model itself is good, but no better than the default FS2004 Baron 58, however it does
come with 20 liveries, a nice plus point.
There is a checklist for each stage of flight which can be displayed as a window, and is also spoken, but it seems not to be tailored exactly for this aircraft as it included items in the check list which were not fitted.
The big disappointment was the interior. The 2D panel
is nothing special and in my copy it had
several flaws. Some bleed through and texture "flashing" is apparent and the compass housing is
missing. The 2D panel does not have a NAV/GPS switch, but the VC panel does. The VC panel,
and the VC cockpit in general, is nothing special and no attempt has been made to match the 2D
panel and VC panel in appearance.
Flight performance is on a par with the default Baron. The flight adventures however, seem not to
be tailored to a particular aircraft as you might expect. On my first adventure flight, Jersey to East
Midlands, ATC sent me up to cruising altitude 13,000 feet. Too high for an unpressurised aircraft
and too high for this Baron also, it ran out of steam at 11,000 feet and I had to request a lower
altitude to continue my flight.
In summary, this model is OK and it has a few nice extras, but overall a disappointment.