Reviews (by William)

Purchased this Beechcraft 99 tonight, took it out for a spin, and had a very good time. As mentioned in an earlier review below, there is no more catastrophic stall with full flaps. I flew her in with full flaps on final for a mile or so, and she held 80 to 85 knots at about 10% power, and I had full control of her for a nice soft landing. She retains a lot of energy like a Mooney Bravo, so bring her in slow. Still needs brighter instruments and cockpit lights at night (it is very hard to see the RPM levers and instrument knobs). Still has reverse logic mouse wheel on cockpit instruments - up means down, and down means up. Has a good collection of nice liveries, but the cockpit glass looks like it's been through WWII. They need to clean the glass up quite a bit to match the newness of the liveries. The outside world looks darker from inside the cockpit than when in outside view. Maybe this means tinted glass, and if that is the case, this is ok. But if a Beech 99 doesn't have tinted glass, they need to brighten up the view of the world from inside the cockpit to match the outside view brightness. Due to the fact that Virtualcol has a good reputation, and they are already on v1.8.2 in just two weeks, I think this Beech 99 is going to turn into a very good aircraft sim. Not sorry I bought it, and looking forward to future updates! Overall, she flew just fine.