Catching up on another flight sim news post with SimWorks Studios talking a bit on their Facebook this past Friday about what they are doing to implement some failure modeling into their products. Let’s have a look at that and a bit of news on their PC-12 and Kodiak projects.

Failure models coming to SWS products

SWS are reporting that their efforts to create a new systems failures system for their products is looking good. They list a series of design goals for the system that includes being easy for them to maintain, scalable so that people can turn it on and off and or practice failures as desired, dynamic based on the environment that the aircraft is in, and be realistically cascading where appropriate.

The Kodiak 100 was among one of the earlier types in MSFS 2020 to get some level of reliability and failure modeling but it sounds like the new system is much more expansive and capable.

They report that the Airvan, their next project in the pipeline, will be first to ship with it and that they intend to add it to the PC-12 and Kodiak 100 shortly after that. Speaking of…

Turboprops update

SWS have two turboprops currently out, the PC-12 and Kodiak 100, and both are due for a few updates in the near future. Coming this week, the Kodiak 100 (wheeled) and PC-12 will both see updates with a series of updates aimed at improving both products.

Another update is planned for both products after with G1000 related enhancements for the Kodiak 100 and EFIS, weather and plan mode updates coming later in Q1.

The developers also mention that their tablet is coming along and that a video update will come out next month. SWS products could benefit greatly from some sort of EFB/tablet interface to manage some of the more complex parts of their products and they are well underway with that process. Look forward to seeing what they have to show off.

Meanwhile, both the Kodiak 900 and PC-12NG are well underway as well. The first one appears to be getting some additional engine details in the first released screenshot while the PC-12NG and its Honeywell based avionics suite is shown off in the second. SWS confirm that the PC-12NG will be making use of the Honeywell system that WorkingTitle developed for MSFS.

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