This FSX Seneca II comes in three paint schemes and includes aircraft with two- and three-bladed propellers. There's always a long list of impressive features to enjoy in Carenado's range of GA planes - superb external textures, accurately detailed animations, great lighting effects, custom panels and gauges, excellent flight characteristics and modelling of the very smallest details, to name. Repaint of the Carenado Piper Seneca PA-34 model for ZK-MSL as operated by Air Napier in New Zealand. Air Napier Ltd, an Air Charter company, has been operating since 1987. The company operates two twin-engine Piper Seneca II aircraft and a twin engine Navajo, as well as a single engine Piper Cherokee Six, a C172 and three C152.
Carenado have been designing incredibly high detailed General Aviation add-ons for various MFS platforms for years. Their first release was on July 17th July 2003, and still to the present day they continue to publish second-to-none prop Aircraft for FS2004 and FSX. The Piper PA-34 200T Seneca II was introduced in 1975, as a successor to its little brother, the Piper PA-34 200 Seneca. It featured improved and enlarged control surfaces, increased payload capacity, and a brand new Turbocharged Continental TSIO-360E Engine. The Seneca can travel for 990 Nautical Miles at a cruising speed of 162 Knots without having to re-fuel. Carenado's rendition of the Seneca, for FS2004 or FSX, can be purchased by download only – There is no boxed or packaged variant of the product.
Purchase can be made either through Carenado's Website or Just Flight's Website. The download shouldn't take too long, and installation from thereon is quick and easy. Starting up FSX, you may be asked the infamous “Accept This Gauge?” message, which once accepted shouldn't show up again.
Once FSX has loaded, the Seneca can be selected through the “Aircraft Selection” screen within FSX. Carenado have supplied four painted variants of the Seneca; “Sunset Strips”, “Green Forest”, “Old Beige”, and a blank white variant that is useful for repainting, or just for those who like the bare metal feel. Once you've chosen the Seneca and selected appropriate Weather/Airport, hit FLY! And get going! Once loaded, you'll find yourself in a beautiful high resolution Virtual Cockpit, full of 3-D Knobs and Switches. Let's have a more in-depth look at the VC.
Practically everything is modelled in 3-D, and almost everything is click-able. Below is a picture of Carenado's seamless modelling of the VC.
Carenado have supplied all the correct original Avionics for the Seneca, including a Century Autopilot System. Every gauge works and functions correctly.
The fluidity of each and every gauge is lovely, moving with incredible smoothness. Not a single gauge is a dummy, they all function and deliver the information they should, meaning that Carenado have designed the Seneca to feature everything.