Virtualcol - Beechcraft Model 99 Series for MSFS Update v1.5

The Beech 99 is an evolution of the successful Queen Air and KingAir series, and shares the King Air's basic powerplant and layout, butotherwise is a new design, with a significantly lengthened cabin withgreater seating capacity. Design of the 99 began in the late 1960s, inpart to find a replacement for the venerable Beech 18. In December1965 a stretched fuselage Queen Air was flown for the first time,while the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 powered prototype model 99 madeits first flight in July 1966. The first customer aircraft wasdelivered in May 1968, the series then known as the Commuter 99.

At the time the 99 was Beech's largest aircraft yet and Beech wasoptimistically forecasting a production rate of 100 peryear. Subsequent models were the A99, A99A and B99, with differingpowerplants, sub models and weights. The B99 was available in twovariants, the B99 Airliner and the B99 Executive, a corporatetransport version with seating for between eight and 17passengers.

Production of early models was halted in 1975, and it was not until1979 that the improved C99 Commuter (plus the larger 1900) wasannounced as part of Beech's return to the commuter airliner market. Aconverted B99 fitted with P&WC PT6A34 engines served as the C99prototype and flew in this form for the first time on June 201980. Production aircraft featured PT6A36 engines, and deliveriesrecommenced following certification, both in July 1981. Shortlyafterwards it became known as the C99 Airliner. C99 production ceasedin 1986.

After the launch of our product, we received several suggestions tomodify things in our model. We thank all the customers and people whohelped us by indicating the problems and inconveniences that theyfound, and most importantly, your kind patience and understanding.

It is very important to understand that this is a new FlightSimulator, several things, especially operational development, havechanged compared to previous simulators and the SDK is not yetcomplete, so it has not been easy for any of us who develop to publisha product completely finished and working properly, especially thosethat are not type PROP airplanes, because only for these type ofairplanes exist enough written information, video and examples, butfor cases such as TUBROPROP or JET, there are still many doubts thatit has not been possible to be easily resolved, especially on thesubject of sounds.

The new version 1.5 includes:

• Sound issues and volume solved
• Flaps issues fixed
• Engines power solved
• VOR2 indicator set with NAV2
• Error in external model mapping of fin below v-tail
• Color of central levers, changed
• Flight dynamics fixed

At this time still continue a problem with ADF frequencies becausewe are using the code indicated by Asobo in its SDK, but at this timeit was not possible the needle of our gauge detecting it.

If you consider other issues to solve, please contact us to oure-mail support@virtualcol.com.

FlightSim.Com Store customers, as always, can get the updatesimply by logging into your store account, clicking on "My Account",and downloading and installing the product again.

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