Carenado CT210M for FSX Review

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Finally welcome to another Flight Simulator Review.

I have been working hard moving all my flight simulator files onto my new computer but finally I have finished and I am able to bring you this review.  Another big thank you goes to the team at Carenado for letting me use this aircraft for the review.

And WOW! what an amazing aircraft it is - every single last detail has been modelled even including shiny liveries!

First Impression's

So after a uneventful download and install I decide to just load her up at Coventry to have a quick look around her. As part of the HD series that Carenado have released the external model is extremly detailed and is just miles better than any other in this class of add-on. Furthermore the cockpit is presitge and everything is there and working with like for like placement in the cockpit over the real aircraft - Apologies about the lack of photos in this review I have had computer problems.

     I kept the engine on the sounds are amazing - that is all I can say you can tell that not one rock has been left unturned for this model and I hope that this carries on into future models that Carenado make for FSX.

   The basic flight characteristics are very well modeled and beleiveable against the real thing - As i havent had the chance to fly this aircraft in real life I cannot justify this.

So into the Virtual Cokpit...

As mentioned earlier having looked a few cockpits on the internet of this aircraft I can safely say it does match up to that of its real life counter part. I am actually amazed at the amount of detail that Carenado have put into this model from the Reality XP Intergration Garmin GPS's to your bog standard HSI and Attititude indicator nothing gets blurry when really zoomed in and everything is clear looking around from a zoomed out persprective. Panning around the cabin area you get a feel for what this aircraft was actually desgined to do. It has 6 seat modelled - including both Pilots seats. All the seats are leather and the modeling is extremly high for example you may fiind small bits of fluff in the creases of the leather for example. Looking out side of the aircraft from the pilots seat you get an amazing underneath wing view - now you might be thinking well whats the point in saying that, you get shine of this underwing into the cockpit that is how highly modeled this aircraft is.

As a virtaul cockpit/cabin and overall impression is that I am very impressed about the release of this aircraft and I continue to fly it every day on my Air Hauler carerr.

External Model AND Flight Test

For this review I have decided to combine these both together for ease of reading.

     To start of I am going to describe what I am going to do on my flight test today - I am going to start off in France's Le Touquet Airport (LFAT) and fly to the well known Barcelona El Prat Airport in Spain - for a roughl 3-4 hour touring aircraft this should be a delight.

     As a IFR rated aircraft this I decided it would be a good idea to fly it IFR like anyone would when they would be flying at 11000 ft and overcast cloud. So I planned a basic route which ended up just being pretty much direct.

So now we are ready to do the engine start sequence is music to any GA's enthusiast's ear's. The 3 blade prop soon gets spinning and we are ready to taxi - Luckily I had found a gate close to the active runway to the taxi was short.

    Unleashing all 6 cyclinders and watching the man. pressure increase another amazing sound repoduced by Carenado - I swap to the external model to see how she looks with her RG ( Retractable Gear), so after about 80knots she steadily floats into the air - so gear up is very odd sequence. It seems like Carenado have simulated the fact that when the pin is released gravity still acts and the gear drops a bit before finally being slowly retracted - back into the cockpit you get the whine of the motor working to pull up a very thin fragile looking undercarriage.

As for the cruise and decent is just your bog standard straight line navigation with about 140 knots indicted on the IAS.

Hope you have enjoyed this review for the Carenado T210M sorry it was a bit late - Has computer problems but thats another story.