Making mistakes and having fun with SimWorks Studios PC-12 MSFS 2024 update
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The author flies the beta of SimWorks Studios' updated PC-12 for MSFS 2024, which includes a new CFD-based flight model, full walk-around mode with interactive covers and compartments, and refined systems. The piece focuses on practical lessons learned—particularly the importance of removing static port covers before flight and correctly configuring the cabin pressurization system to avoid alarms. The PC-12's interconnected yoke/rudder system and PT6A turboprop ITT management are highlighted as systems requiring careful attention.
Excerpt from Stormbirds
The folks at SimWorks Studios were nice enough to set me up with the beta version of their forthcoming PC-12 2024 update and I’ve had a bit of time to fly it around on a couple of different journeys now. I made some mistakes which I will help fill people in on so you don’t make the same but I was also having some fun with the updated module. Let’s check it out!
Mistakes to make
SWS have been busy porting their aircraft to MSFS 2024 and the next one to get the treatment, following the Kodiak 100, is their PC-12 Legacy.
This one has had a bit of a history with some challenges with its flight model and managing a slightly quirky airplane to model (it has an interconnected yoke/rudder system for one!) but they’ve been persevering through it all. Now its getting a 2024 upgrade which gives it some new tricks, an updated CFD based flight model, and more. But with new tricks comes some new knowledge that needs to be unlocked and so I jumped straight into the updated PC-12 which SWS have sent me to preview and then had to learn some lessons.
Like other 2024 aircraft, the PC-12 now has a full walk-around mode. That also comes with some fun new features like opening storage compartment at the back and engine cover at the front – you can get a good look at the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B engine fitted to the PC-12/47.
It also has various covers over the engine intakes, pitot tubes and static covers. The latter actually got me because I hadn’t though to remove the little covers (located on the rear fuselage area) on the ports. I aborted a couple of take-offs because I had no speed indication. I scratched my head about it for a while until Alex from SWS asked me the key question about the static ports. Then the light-bulb went off! So, don’t make the same mistake that I made. Unplug those static ports first!
Another mistake, which is less of a 2024 upgrade thing and more of a “rusty and flying too many different airplanes at once” excuse is the cabin pressure system.
You really need to be on top of that in SWS’ PC-12 making sure that the system is set to automatic (at the very least), the altitude setting is selected, and the dial is turned to the approximately 1 o’clock position to ensure that the pressurization rate is adequate. If you do it wrong, you’ll get a lot of alarms about incorrect pressurization.
The other thing I had forgotten about was the ITT (Interstage Turbine Temperature) limitations on the aircraft. Above some heights the PT-6 turboprop…
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