This is the Q-200 high performance sport aircraft by Quickie Aircraft Corporation. This sleek two-seater was a home-built 'kit plane' that you assembled. This version was the high-performance 100HP model powered by the Continental O-200. The futuristic design featured a Canard 'Twin Wing' layout with elevators on the front wing and ailerons on the wing. Some interesting features are the Flexor reverse spoiler system, the twin centre fuel tanks that used a fuel transfer system similar to Concorde. The main landing gear was mounted in aerodynamic skirts in the wingtips for the front wing. Incredibly, the Q only weighed 550lb dry, 1100 max. at take-off, and featured a very small wingspan of 16 feet total. Mind you, you had two sets of wings.
This package features 13 different exterior high-detail paint schemes that range from baseline kit style, to supercar colour selections, to air racer variants with wild paint schemes and stripes. Interiors vary from nearly each aircraft with panels in grey, light blue, striped paint and colour paint, carbon fibre, and also wood. Some features include 3D instrumentation, the Asobo GNS530 GPS system, a simple baseline autopilot to help on long flights, an elaborate warning light system, Flexor controls, fuel read-outs for both tanks and a fuel transfer system that requires constant attention on long flights. Other features include Osh Kosh parking mode (parking mode) that deploys two small camping tents at the tail, and a plexi selector that changes the 'outside only' plexiglass bubble between tints of 'dark, medium, and nearly clear' plexi choices. The plexi also features the now famous Asobo rain effects with streaming rain, and also fine detail plexi scratches.
The aircraft will max out at 180 knots, full throttle. This is a HOT little plane with very moderate power to weight ratio. It is recommended that you do not use full throttle on take-offs. Just like other high performance sport planes, such as the Pitts biplane and Extra 330, you must be careful on your roll-out on take-offs, lest you spin her out accidentally.
I have created a nice
manual for it that you can download and read before purchase to make sure you would be happy with her. This cool manual features a lot of screenshots and notes with arrows pointing to the various systems and lights and knobs and bits, explaining how everything works, the hidden features you do not always find, and even the basics of how to fly it.
If you love futuristic things, X-Wings, sport aircraft, high performance planes, homebuilts, radical aircraft, things that are NOT NORMAL, this baby is definitely for you!
See the Detailed Description below for more details of the aircraft features!
THIRTEEN DIFFERENT EXTERIOR PAINT SCHEMES
The Quickie Q-200 is mapped with high resolution 4K textures that give it crisp line graphics. Some of the paint schemes are in wild neon colours, some are in white, and several look like air racers with rich graphics and stripe work.
OVER FIVE VERSIONS OF INTERIOR THEMES
There are quite a few interiors with panels in various materials and colours, from auto paint, regular grey fibreglass, carbon fibre, to very nice racing stripes. The seats range from cloth to nice leather. The interior shell is painted with a spatter paint which quite a few Q-2 and Q-200 builders used when finishing these kit aircraft.
MANY PANEL COLOUR VARIATIONS
The instrument panels are what really set the Q-200 apart from other planes. They had a very 'automotive'-like appearance with the instruments in cool, rounded pods, similar to the Lotus Esprit, and the avionics were housed in a cool tower structure between the two instruments pods. The centre console added to the car-like experience. So sporty, including arm rests.
4K HIGH RESOLUTION TEXTURES
This aircraft was originally built in regular FS graphics tech, but for MSFS it was completely reconverted to PBR Material Technology including bump mapping. Much attention to detail was carried out to make her as precise and realistic as possible.
PLEXI RAIN AND SCRATCH EFFECTS
Team Asobo present a brilliant rain effect on plexiglass that shows movement and wind effects on drops on the windscreen and with radical realisation. Once more, they also feature 'Albedo Detail Maps' that show very nice, detailed scuffing and scratches in the plexiglass.
TWO CENTRE TANKS WITH FUEL TRANSFER SYSTEM
The Q-200 features the realistic actual 'two fuel tank' system, where the front 5 US gallon header tank gravity feeds (through engine pump) to the engine, while a second 15 US gallon tank resides under the front of the seats. The fuel from the seat tank must be transferred up to the header tank by electrical pump. You must remain aware of this and keep the header tank from going dry during your flights.
OSHKOSH CAMPING MODE
In honour of the famous yearly Oshkosh home-built EAA airshow event, I wanted to have a neat little camping tent theme that can be deployed when you park your plane and shut it down. Behold OshKosh mode! A small button on the far right of the instrument panel launches the tents. Happy camping!
AUTOMOTIVE SUPERCAR COLOUR INSPIRATIONS
You will find that some of the colours of the Qs look similar to Lamborghini and Tesla colours. They are inspiringly bright and beautiful and so I used nearly identical colours. Midnight Blue is from Tesla; the Neon Green and Electric Orange are similar to the Lamborghini Huracan colours.
AVIONICS
The avionics stack of the Q-200 is all by Team Asobo, makers of Microsoft Flight Simulator. This suite is state of the art technology, using HTML and Java code. It features things like boot-up screens and in-depth page layers. This suite includes the AS530, AS430 and a nice transponder.
I have also created and included a very 'bare bones' autopilot that features the basics LVL mode, HDG, NAV and VS, and you can adjust your VS rate as well as adjust your altitude via an input knob. It is not capable, however, of radical automated flight management. It is only there to help out on busy climb-outs and holding altitude.
SOUND SYSTEM
The Quickie Q-200 uses a 4-cylinder Continental O-200 100HP 'high performance' engine. I used the Asobo 4-cylinder engine option that I thought sounded best for this sleek little X-Wing beast. I think you will be amazed at the sounds.
COOL FEATURES OF THIS RADICAL, FUTURISTIC 'X-WING' BEAST
Q-200 flaps 'Flexor' system - the Q-200 uses a radical flight control called a 'flexor' system. This rotates the rear wing-mounted ailerons upwards, creating drag and aiming the aircraft upwards. These act like flaps and spoilers.
Plexiglass tint adjustment - I have included a way to change out the darkness setting of the exterior plexi bubble with three settings: dark, medium and nearly transparent. A small button on the right of the panel manages this feature. The interior is not tinted.
Fuel range - the Q-200 with continental O-200 engine should yield 400 NM range at about 5,000 feet, weather permitting; that puts it at about 5 gallons per 100 NM. that is how much is in the header tank. Remember to keep an eye on fuel levels.
Q-200 fuel transfer system - the Q-200 uses a unique fuel system similar to Concorde and older Learjets, where fuel must be manually brought to the main tank. In this case, the Q has a top/front-mounted header tank that is quite small, and fuel from the main lower tank under the seats must be brought up via electric pump. You must keep an eye on this and make sure the header doesnt run dry during your flight.
Warning lights - I installed a mesmerising amount of warning lights in this bird - almost as much as a Christmas tree. You can read up on them in the Owner's Manual.
Custom registration numbers system - a lot of people are into doing custom registries for their own countries, so I went to a great effort to adapt this feature of MSFS custom registries into the Q. The manual shows the basics for those who know little of how to do their own customisation to the registry settings.
System Requirements:
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020/2024 (PC/Steam)
Note: You MUST know where your MSFS Community folder is and manually direct this plane into that folder to install it. This installer cannot 'see' MSFS on computers.
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