Gabriel BK160-TR
We (Flying Fries) just released our latest add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020 and 2024). The amazing, sleek and very light modern GA trainer: The Gabriel.
It looks like a powerful and fast turboprop trainer, but that’s the trick! It’s a more modest piston aircraft with a 160HP, 4 cylinder Lycoming io-320 engine (yes, injected, because it’s modern). All carbon fiber body, excellent aerodynamics, Garmin glass cockpit (G3X Touch + G5) incredible canopy and tandem seating to give the student situational awareness on both sides.
And you can fly it from any seat and weight configuration (you’d have to be much more careful with two people on board, as the weight CG will be closer to the trailing edge of the wing).
Fully compatible with FS2020 and FS2024.
Available right now on flightsim.to: https://flightsim.to/product/gabriel-bk160-tr and MSFS 2020 Marketplace. It will also arrive on the FS2024 Marketplace in a few days.
There are already some reviews online, by well known streamers and YouTubers, and you can find all the links, details and resources (including the very detailed user manual, right here: Gabriél BK160-TR )
Lastly, group flights with our Discord community are being prepared and we will share them on this forum as well!
See you soon in the skies.
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The Gabriel received it’s first update (v1.1), available:
- today on the Marketplace (FS2020 only for now).
- and since last Thursday on flightsim.to and SimMarket (FS2020 & 2024 for these platforms).
- coming really soon to Orbx as well.
It’s a major update with several important fixes, mostly related to the G3X integration. Here is the complete changelog:
- Systems: G3X internal compass no longer drifts
- Systems: GPS now works all the time
- Systems: GMC 307 AP module enriched with GFC 500 functions
- Systems: Transponder automatically set itself to "ALT" and "GND" modes
- Systems: Reduced fuel lines length/volume
- G3X: Can send a Direct To instruction to AP
- G3X: Displays Flight Director and AP status on PFD
- G3X: Manifold pressure and oil temperature gauges/zones rescaled
- G3X: Fuel quantity and fuel flow displayed in GPH instead of LPH
- G3X: PFD displaying cabin temperatures next to OAT
- G5: Fixed HSI aspect ratio
- Flight model: Engine/prop adjustments (reduced p-factor, smoother taxi)
- 3D model: New flight sticks for pilot and copilot (smaller and more true to life)
- 3D model: Some rivets were floating above the fuselage
- 3D model: Glareshield mesh improved, sharp edges removed
- 3D model: improved structural quality of last LOD (no more holes on cabin floor when viewed from really far)
- Textures: Removed stickers from the back side of the propeller blades
- Logic: Fixed broken prop which was forced visible on all Gabriels instead of only yours
- Logic: You can now break your prop even if it's not turning
- Logic: It's no longer possible to have characters conflicts between front and rear seat
- Logic: Cabin temperature simulated (OAT + canopy state + AC state) -- Phase 1
- EFB: Fixed typo in "info" menu
- Misc: Marketplace thumbnail changed for a more appealing livery
- User manual updated
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The second update for the Gabriel has been launched today (v1.2):
- Available on flightsim.to
- And SimMarket
- In a day or two on Orbx
- And hopefully next week on the Marketplace (2020 and 2024)
It’s another large update with many new interesting features, including new failures/damages that will make your flights (and especially your landings) more challenging!
Oh, and it also comes with a brand new livery 
changelog below:
- Failures: Landing gears individually collapse if touchdown too strong & damages enabled
- Failures: Engine stress failure
- Systems: AP default vertical mode is now PITCH HOLD instead of ALT HOLD
- Systems: Simulated Alternate Static Port
- Systems: Simulated Alternate Engine Air (Cowl Flaps)
- Systems: GNC 255 instrument turned into a template (code optimization: no change for users)
- Textures: Jenny's and Thomas' hair, skin and clothes texture improved
- Textures: Normal map fix for some specific decals across all liveries
- 3D model: Fixed visibility of blurred propeller on high RPM
- EFB/Features: New pushback page on the EFB
- EFB: Fixed font (one font had artefacts on characters "V" and "4")
- G3X: "Fuel L" tag fixed on Fuel calc page
- G3X: Minor adjustment to RPM gauge green/yellow/red zones
- Features: Better cabin temperature management: zones, heater intensity, greenhouse effect enhanced, etc.
- Features: Breath sounds (man and woman) when temperature in cockpit is below 8°C
- New livery: racing red
- User manual updated
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