Accu-Sim V35B BonanzaPublisher: A2A Simulations |
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Intro
The Bonanza 35 is a single engine, piston driven, four seat, low wing, civil utility aircraft built by Beechcraft since the late 1940's. The model 35 is part of the famous series of Bonanza aircraft covering also the Model 33 and 36.
The production of the Model 35 featuring the very distinctive V-tail stopped back in 1982, but still today the Model 36 is on the production line. The Model 33 is basically the Model 35 featuring a conventional tail instead of the V-tail and the Model 36 is a stretched version of the Model 33 adding up to six seats.
Over the years the Bonanza 35 got quite a reputation and people found that to fly the aircraft required a high skill level. There were several accidents as well as fatal accidents and the aircraft became known as the "forked-tail doctor killer".
The version tested in this review is the V35B as stated in the manual from A2A Simulations, meaning the V-tail version, so I really hope that I have a high enough skill level to meet the requirements for this legendary bird.
General Information & Aircraft Specs for Bonanza 35
- Produced by: Beechcraft
- National Origin: United States
- First Flight: December 22nd, 1945
- Introduction: 1947
- Role: Civil Utility Aircraft
- Produced: 1947 - 1982 (V-tail)
- Built: >17,000 (873 V35B)
- Status: Out of production
- Crew: One
- Capacity: Four including the pilot
- Length: 26 ft 5 in
- Height: 7 ft 7 in
- Wingspan: 33 ft 6 in
- Empty Weight: 2,088 lbs
- Gross Weight: 3,412 lbs
- Power Plant: Teledyne Continental IO-520-BA/BB 285 hp / IO-550 300 hp
- Propeller: 3-bladed McCauley constant speed
- Max Cruise VNO/VC: 165 KCAS / 167 KIAS
- Max VNE: 195 KCAS / 196 KIAS
- Max Flap VFE: 15° KCAS 152 / KIAS 154
- Max Flap VFE: 30° KCAS 122 / KIAS 123
- MTOW: 3,400 lbs
- Fuel Capacity: 80 gal (usable 74 gal)
- Range: 800 nm incl. taxi and 45 min. reserve fuel
Purchase, Download and Installation
I purchased this aircraft at the new FlightSim.Com Store at Store.FlightSim.Com. This was my first time using this store so first I had to be registered before being able to make the purchase and download of the aircraft. This was super easy and I was up and running on the web site within half a minute or so.
Making the purchase and thereafter the download of the aircraft was also easy - the store functions are very similar to the shop that I normally use, so I found the user interface to be very familiar and very user friendly.
The download was completed with about 1.9 MB/sec which is a fair download speed - this meant that the entire download took about 3 minutes since the zip-file for download was of 363 MB. This is actually not that huge a file for such a comprehensive, feature full and detailed aircraft.
The filename is 'ATS-295-Bonanza_P3Dv4_Professional.zip' and this is the professional version for the Prepar3D v4 platform; the test platform used is the Prepar3D v4.3. The downloaded version was the v18.9.15.1 however, during the installation I got a notice about an update that was ready and if I wanted to download and install that update as well - of course I did; this was just about 25 MB more so that took no time to also download and the aircraft now became the v18.9.29.0 which is the version used for this test and review.
Before starting the installation process I read the 'Read before Installation' file found next to the installer.exe in the download folder. Basically the file gives you a heads up for what could be a good idea as e.g. it's recommended to not install the aircraft within the default P3Dv4 directory structure as also stated from LM - You can of course select whichever location or folder you wish but by default the path to the installation folder is on your C:\Users etc.
The installation itself only took about 15-20 seconds and was very easy - the installer was very user friendly and quickly guided me through the very simple process.
This installation also features a huge and very comprehensive aircraft manual created as a 112 pages PDF file and featuring an abundance of specific data, information, procedures, requirements, etc. This manual I would recommend going through or at least skimming the most important parts before taking on the first flight.
Included in this aircraft add-on is one model with four high quality liveries that are perfectly placed within the virtual hangar and to be found under A2A Simulations.
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