Famous Flyer III: Beechcraft Bonanza V35

Maybe the Bonanza comes with a particularly good ANR headset?

I have headset mode turned off. :wink:

Must lay off the Twinkies! :slight_smile:

The G36 is a G1000 IO-550 modern airplane. The V35 is a IO-520 and this model appears to be retrofitted with an early 2000’s setup. The list of differences between the V35 and the G36 is long. V35 has a sportier, less forgiving, wing, ruddervators, shorter fusulage, lighter. Some people have put the io550b motor found on the g36 on 35 airframes and those airplanes are super fun to fly.

You’re right. This has to be an oversight(bug), because the same audio panel is in the Twin Beech (same developer) and its selector knob is functional.

I suppose in the interim, you would need to use the COM2 tab in the ATC window to switch output from COM1 to COM2 and vice versa.

On a PC it can be removed in Profile>Content Manager, then search “XBox” and “Aviators Club” and delete.

If these aircraft could be modified by the community I would buy them all. INOP switches and non-working systems really just kill it for me. The community is generally much more responsive, and dare I say, often more accurate and detailed than most aircraft studios.
Saying that, the screens that I’ve seen of this model do look stunning!

As mentioned above, please do vote in this topic if you would love to see 3rd party aircraft be able to be upgraded by the community with more detail and systems!

Thanks. That works for other default aircraft but I wasn’t sure it would work for the Famous Flyers.

Lots of liveries for this already getting added to flightsim.to

Just checked and the billing is for my present card, but all is ok now as I managed to buy the aircraft.

I especially love how well done the exterior lighting is. Really, really nice.

Wish the radios were fully functional though. Hopefully that’s just an oversight like was mentioned earlier.

Totally agree - lovely aircraft for the price and handles nicely - will be one of my front of hangar planes too

Is the flight model correct with this plane? It almost seems too easy to fly? I’ve been fighting with the Kodiak, Arrow III, and other GA aircraft and I’m constantly having to trim and manage the plane pulling to the left or right. THIS plane just flies. I’m not fighting it at all. For that reason I’m skeptical if the flight model is accurate.

Just bought this and did a quick flight from EGAA to EGAE. Beautiful aircraft and very VR friendly fps-wise!

I find the sound is nice but way too low

I haven’t found a button. Just like you I found it my moving my camera to the back of the plane. I’m using SPAD.neXt and mapped it to my hardware.

I’m really tempted by this.

I have a Carenado plane - the skymaster which is decent although strange tippy fast ground handling on rudder or braking or worse with both.

Visual quality great.

What “concerns” me is that if ruddervators aren’t simulated, how realistic are the dynamics (not that I’d know not being a pilot).

My next question to which I think the answer is a likely “no” is, when MSFS implement ruddervator physics, will Carenado go back and adjust the physics?

It depends on which model they based their implementation on. A 170 KIAS cruise would be correct for the faster models which cruised in the 194-198 mph range. The slower models cruised in the 180-184 mph range, so 160 knots would be a reasonable cruise. Normally, you would expect an aircraft of that vintage to have an airspeed indicator in MPH with knots on an inner ring. I don’t recall where the yellow band started on my Dad’s V35S.

The other thing suspect is the designation. There is no V35; Beechcraft started using the V designation with the introduction of the S model, but there was always an alpha to go along with it (which wrapped around as they started reusing letters). For example, there is both a 35B (early model) and a V35B (late model).

Finally, while the V-tailed Bonanzas fly very nicely, the ruddervators produce a tendency to dutch roll. In theory, there was an STC to reduce that tendency, but my understanding is that it didn’t work. Most V-tail owners opted to solve the problem by installing an autopilot with a yaw damper system which is the approach my Dad took with his. Without the yaw damper engaged, IIRC you had to keep your feet on the rudders to block the dutch roll and sometimes light input to counter was required. It doesn’t sound like they got any of this accurately modelled.

Personal Comments

Definitely nice to look at!

Nice aircraft. Reasonable fuel flow, weights, and speeds. However, why only 45 gallons of fuel? I realize “standard” fuel capacity was 50 gallons but all of the ones I seen have around 80 without tip tanks. Can’t do any really long hauls.

I bought this last night and did a quick 1 hour flight messing with the navigation equipment and AP, then did a couple touch and goes and then went for some airwork to get an idea.

Quick version: I love it.
Long version: I don’t have any real world Bonanza time, but the flight model seems to be pretty reasonable for what I would expect. During my flight I did stalls and steep turns, power off emergency decent, pattern work, it handled all of it great. I do have my sounds separated between speakers and headphones for environmental and communications and a couple of the switch clicks come through the headphones. The fuses don’t work, and the avionics are what they are, but all seem to work as they should and I like the stack that is there. It is a good representation of a state of the art 90’s panel :wink: The model is typical Carenado, and hard to fault. It’s beautiful.

In conclusion, if the performance matches real world numbers (which again I have not looked at) it is approaching the level of affinity I have for the JF warrior and arrow III. I’ll have to do some research and find a POH to compare in the next few days to see if it’s as good as I think it is. For right now though, 100% worth the $15, IMO.

also, others have stated they had CTD problems also, I did not at all.