Flight Replicas, a popular flight sim development company specializing in the creation of add-on aircraft have released their Messerschmitt Me-262 Rare Types add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. This package contains a selection of the rarer and more exotic variants of the famous Me-262 jet fighter of WWII.
- Me-262B-1a/U1 Two-seat Nightfighter
- Me-262A-1a/U4 "Pulkzerstorer" with 50 mm Cannon
- Me-262A-4a/U3 Reconnaissance
Cockpit of the Messershmitt Me-262.
Features
- Highly accurate VCs, each different, individually modeled after photos of those in existing period aircraft
- 2 different types of artificial horizon, each modeled in 3D (including turnable locking rings)
- 2 different types of Vertical Speed Indicator modeled in 3D
- Luminescent gauge dials for night flying, just like the original
- Cabin Ventilation lever that opens visible air scoop
- Revi16B gunsight that folds accurately out of the way
- Revi16B can be turned on and off
- Revi16B tinted glass can be realistically folded out of the way
- Nightfighter has red gunsight reticule, like the original
- Working trigger guard and trigger on control stick
- Accurate and working systems buttons on panel
- Fully clickable and workable cockpits overall (except Nightfighter rear cockpit, which is limited)
- Five different models
- Four different textures
- Bump mapping in selected areas
- Carefully researched textures, including help from a major museum
- Accurately landing gear sequence (e.g. on approach: main wheels first, them front gear)
- Accurate Luftwaffe pilot flight suit, flight helmet and oxygen mask
- Turn on the oxygen system and the pilot puts on his mask
- Animated pilots
- Exhaust cones that move with throttle setting, just like the original Jumo 004's
- Full flight operations manual, accurate and derived from the original
- Written history of all the aircraft depicted
The Flight Replicas Messerschmitt Me-262 on runway.
