First flown in the 1960s, this rugged and versatile twin-engined aircraft has become one of Europe's best selling commercial aircraft - it's been in continuous service ever since as airliner, cargo transport and a light utility aircraft with police and armed forces around the world.
The BN-2 Islander was designed and originally manufactured by Britten-Norman of the United Kingdom. Its simple and rugged manufacture makes for daily operation in and out of rough strips - as short as 300m - in all-weathers, helped by its twin-engined reliability, 30kts cross-wind limit and IFR cockpit fitment.
Developed over two years with the help of real-world Islander pilots and operators, this exciting simulated version is a full-featured FSX release, including technologies such as cockpit self-shadowing, HDR bloom effects, bump mapping and DX10 compatible external and internal visuals.
Over the years the BN-2 has spawned many variants with an almost endless combination of engine and cockpit fitments. This BN-2 simulation is based on a real-world example with assistance from Great Barrier X-Press Airlines, Auckland, New Zealand - fitted with 2x Lycoming O-540 260hp engines. Two exterior model variants for both early and late nose profile (BN-2A and BN-2B) Islanders are included, with related lighting accessories, in a total of 13 paint schemes.
Paint schemes
Each paint scheme is rendered in stunning detail and a Paint Kit makes it easy for you to create your own extras.
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Air Hamburg
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Barrier Aviation
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British Airways Express
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British Airways Express (Tartan)
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FLN
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Great Barrier X-Press (Kotare)
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Great Barrier X-Press
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LFH
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Milford Sound Sightseeing
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OLT
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Nature Air
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Shetland Islands Council
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Winair
Virtual Cockpit
Fully functional VC with virtually every system and gauge functioning:
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3D RealGauge Technology for super smooth 3D gauges
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Preset VC views and pop-up Bendix King GPS unit give easy access to key switches and gauges
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Click-spots on the throttle quadrant toggle allow the selection of 'Tied' / 'Separated' engine controls
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All knobs and controls feature intuitive left-click or mouse scroll-wheel backwards to decrease value, or right-click or mouse scroll-wheel forwards to increase value
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Yokes can be toggled from view as desired to access instruments and switches
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Panel shake effect on engine start and take-off roll
Bendix King GPS
Included is a fully functioning Bendix King KLN 90A GPS unit created by SimAvionics featuring:
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Full Nav data pages, single-column Nav tracking or Dual Column Super-Nav
mode
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Flight Plan display mode
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Add and delete waypoints from plan
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User waypoint creation
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Flight Plans can be created and stored
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'Direct to' mode
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Flight plans can be imported from FSX Flight planner.
Additional avionics
The avionics fitment includes:
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Century 21 AutoPilot which can follow an FSX loaded flight plan OR a KLN GPS flight plan.
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Bendix King KN54 DME
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Bendix King KR87A ADF
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Bendix King KT67A Transponder
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Bendix King KX155 Com/Nav
Animations - over 400 interior and exterior custom animations on the DX10-compatible model - with interior self-shadowing. High detail specular and bump maps for every part of the exterior and Virtual Cockpit bring every rivet and surface to life.
Lighting - beautiful night lighting textures and effects inside and out, and the gauge and panel lighting can be independently switched.
Sounds - High Fidelity sound set from Turbine Sound Studios makes this feel like the real aircraft, even with your eyes shut!
Flight model - Flight dynamics have been tuned and refined with the help of real-world Islander pilots.
System Requirements:
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Flight Simulator X (SP2 required)
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2.5GHz or any Dual Core
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Windows 8 / 7 / XP / Vista
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1.0Gb RAM
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128Mb 3D graphics card
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679MB hard drive space
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