As noted frequently now, I find this old fashioned Carenado menu very restricting, it is still an all or nothing approach, and when parking I need the chocks, but not the engine or pitot covers, and a more separate selection with a "Weight and Balance" feature are now the normal rather than these old fashioned basic element sets. The now familiar twin highly realistic pilots do also disappear when you activate the static elements. I usually fly clean, or without the extra drag (which is well modeled) of the bulky cargo pod, but many will like it. The original Caravan had the lower "Cargo Pod" and it featured "Opening Doors", but the EX version also has the extra feature of a Liquid Ice (storage) Protection Tank. Doors opening include rear passenger door and separate front nose baggage door, and there is also the choice of changing the liveries with out going to the mai n X-Plane menu. The Static elements provided here are still quite basic with only two cones, wheel chocks and front flag pitots, engine inlet covers and tail support. Options inc lude the usual Window and Instrument reflections. C ) Is the standard Carenado ten preselected Views, Field of View and Volume panel. A ) is for the pop-up window of a Garmin G3X Hybrid Autopilot which can be scaled for size. The excellent hi-res textures, incredible glass (shape, reflections) metal detailing (note that amazing exhaust and nose spinner) and every quality detail is still all here and they are excellent.Ĭarenado provides you with their usual three tabbed menus on the left lower screen that can be scrollable hidden. Outwardly you would be very hard pressed to find any difference between the latest updated Caravan HD XP11 series, certainly externally. But when Laminar Research released their own X-Plane default G1000 package for X-Plane11 then the chances of releasing the "Executive" variant was always going to be resurrected, and finally here it is. A project to create a G1000 avionics system system resulted in a poorly written and framerate crushing package that was neither very good or even usable. Part of the long deferral could be put down to Carenado not having a decent G1000 avionics package of which FSX had, but X-Plane at the time didn't. The results of course speak for themselves as the Caravan was a sales success and not only cemented Carenado as an X-Plane developer per excellence, but also provided the way in sales for Carenado to see the results of creating aircraft for the X-Plane platform was actually a profitable exercise, the rest as they say has been one of the greatest success on both the developer and user sides in the simulator's history with a current number of around 53 aircraft in being released for the platform.Ĭarenado followed the initial release of the Caravan with an add-on to create a "Super Cargomaster" version, but in the FSX catalogue there was also an "Executive" version, but that layout was never over the years released for X-Plane, why is one of the biggest mysteries, because if you already had one of the most successful aircraft releases, then why not follow them on with more (profitable) versions?
Not only was the C208B a sensational aircraft, multi-usable but also it was a more modern version of currently released aircraft. It was however in Mid-2012 that things really changed with Carenado releasing the C208B Caravan. Those first few releases however were from Carenado's back catalogue, and although good (compared to what we had at the time) they were still a little dated with their heavy (older) graphic textures. Because for the first time X-Plane had access to not only one of the very top tier of FSX developers, but also their experience, quality and features of which where at the time a huge step forward for the simulator. When Carenado first appeared in releasing aircraft for the X-Plane simulator, we were obviously very excited. Aircraft Review : Cessna 208 Grand Caravan EX XP11 by Carenado
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