Aircraft developer Carenado has spent most of the last five years developing aircraft products for Microsoft Flight Simulator with aircraft types that have typically been piston driven general aviation options ranging from the Mooney 20R Ovation to the most recent Cessna 172 Classic. Their next project release, is something different with their take on a Beechcraft Premier IA business jet. Let’s have a look.
Higher, further, faster
Carenado have released quite a few images, including the ones you see above, over the last several days. We don’t have a good handle on the featureset yet though it holds the “RealXperience” brand mark that the company has been using to suggest a higher degree of realism than previous projects.
The jet itself has a 454 kn max cruise speed, 830 nm range, and a service ceiling of 41,000 feet so expect to be able to get in some reasonably impressive performance.
Collins Pro Line avionics are part of the MSFS family of supported avionics (most or all of them having been updated by WorkingTitle) so it’s likely to be decent in that respect. The FMS is also likely a “default” FMS though typically quite good by traditional standards and isn’t the disparaging comment that may have been made years ago.
There have been some really great business jets released over the last few years, however, they are few and far between compared to other types of aircraft so getting a Premier IA is likely to be welcome. Carenado have typically not done many aircraft in this area for MSFS, though their back catalogue has included types like these and the PC-24 and Saab 340B included in MSFS 2024 are probably similar in complexity. Both of those have had their issues so we’ll have to see how this measures up.
The company has confirmed that it will be available for MSFS 2024 first and then released for MSFS 2020 after. If past performance is an indication, it will only be a week or two after.
See more announcements from Carenado here!
Updated: Nov 10 at 5:32 pm EST
Carenado has released the aircraft in the MSFS Marketplace for $24.99 USD.
We also now have the feature list:
- 8 liveries + 1 white.
- Collins Pro Line 21 Integrated Avionics System.
- Collins Flight Guidance Panel (FGP) Autopilot.
- Collins Display Control Panel (DCP).
- Collins Flight Management System (CDU-3000).
- Realistic HQ digital sounds.
- Realistic flight dynamics.
- MSFS2024 Career ready: Charter Service VIP.
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