The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor is a propeller-driven, single-engined, military trainer aircraft derived from the Beechcraft Model 35 Bonanza. The earlier versions of the T-34, dating from around the late 1940s to the 1950s, were piston-engined. These were eventually succeeded by the upgraded T-34C Turbo Mentor, powered by a turboprop engine. The T-34 remains in service almost six decades after it was first designed. The T-34C Turbine Mentor is powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25 turboprop engine and was developed in 1973, with the final example rolling off the production line in 1990.
*** For FSX STEAM EDITION only ***
Features -
6 variations :
TAW-5, NAS Whiting Field, Florida
VF-101 'Grim Reapers' NAS Oceana, VA
US Marines, VMFAT-101, MCAS Miramar
Moroccan AF, Ecole de Pilotage, Marrakech
NASA, Dryden Flight Research Center
Peru Navy
- both front and rear cockpits fully modelled and flyable
- VLE (Visual Load Editor) interface used to toggle wheel chocks, pilots, canopy and exhaust covers and blind-flying hood
- authentic virtual cockpit with animations and mousable controls
- audible switch clicks
- systems modelling in accordance with NATOPS manual, high level of user interaction in VC
- realistic VC night lighting, separate illumination for cockpit flood and instrument faces
- several new and innovative special features which will inhibit normal operation if procedures are not followed
- visual and audible tire damage when braking procedures not followed
- canopy fogging effect if procedures not followed
- quality soundset, approved by US Navy student pilot
- detailed and illustrated 79-page PDF manual
- realistic pilot figure with user-input anims
- authentic flight dynamics
- includes 'REALGAUGE' technology :
all v-c gauges are 3D models with compete 3D working parts such as needles, flags etc
all gauges are fully mousable with switch parts all working correctly
I got this recently on sale elsewhere but really wanted people here to know just how good this plane is!
Virtavia is mostly known for low quality to mid quality at best. That is not the case with the T34C Turbo Mentor. It is as good as anything else by other high end developers. The cockpit is extremely well done and has a living quality to it.the gauges are truly as good as they are hyped to be. The flight characteristics are excellent as well and won’t disappoint. I love the extra added realism with hypoxia and canopy fog effects. Plus if you land and or brake too hard your tires will blow and your brakes might fail. You don’t see those things all that much. The liveries are all excellent. Nothing can be complained about. I own quite a few of their airplanes all varying from barely worthy of freeware download to decent. I’d say this is Virtavia’s very best offering to FSX ever! I wish they’d put this much into all things.
If you have or are considering Carenados T34B Mentor ( I own both) just skip it, this is infinitely better! It’s also not a frame killer at all.
Highly recommended!
Based on use with FSX Steam Win 10 i7 3.3ghz 16GB Ram Intel UHD630 integrated GPU 128mb dedicated. No problems at all.