Features:
Four different aircraft configurations: Each showing a different pilot / passenger configuration. You will have a choice of pilot-only, pilot and front seat passenger. Pilot, front seat passenger and one rear seat passenger, or pilot and front seat passenger, plus two rear seat passengers. Weights for all,plus baggage can be set using "Config-O-matic".Virtual Cockpit & Cabin:
A nicely detailed cockpit with working gauges, and moving throttles, control wheels, etc. You can fly from the virtual cockpit, or from our complete 2D cockpitand interior (see below).
Complete Moving Parts:
Ailerons, rudder, stabilator, rudder, and flaps all move. Gear struts compress upon landing, andboth cabin door and baggage door open and close.Removable Engine Cowling:
That's right, with just a press on a key, you can remove the engine cowling and see the 180hp Lycoming 0-360 engine that lives inside.Visible Interior and Passengers:
This, of course, should be expected, and the interior visible from the outside of the aircraft is highly detailed, and includes passengersin the seats (see below for more information about our passengers).Fuselage and Lighting Reflections: The same as found on the default FS2002 aircraft, there's even reflection on the aircraftwindows.
Even More Details!:
From tie down eyelets, to door hinges, to even some of the screws are 3D. You'll even see the moving control arm that actuates the stabilator, the "petcock" valves used to drain fuel, and an authentic Piper pitot tube underthe left wing.Main Instrument Panel:
So realistic that you could almost swear you were in the real thing. Every gauge is there, just as it is in the real Archer, and operate as accurately as is possible within FS2004. Many gauges features a user selectable "digital readout", which tells you what the gauge is reading; great for those with small monitors, or to obtain high accuracy in setting. In addition, you can also select to place a "cover" over a gauge, so you can practice partial panel IFR. Of course the instrument panels feature near 100% accurate pilot's perspective. As with every DreamFleet panel yo are seated in the pilot's seat, not in between the seats!Lowered View Panel:
Essentially a reduced height version of the Main Instrument Panel, with a larger outside view for making landings easier, or for enjoying the scenery. The landing view panel features all of the primary flight and navigation instruments, and is suitable for IFR work.Radio Stack:
An authentic Bendix-King radio stack is featured, and its operation is highly accurate in respect to how the real avionics operate. It features and Audio Panel, (2) NAV/COMs, ADF, DME, and a choice of two autopilots; either the real Archer's single-axis Century 21 unit, or the default MSFS two-axis Bendix-King unit, which will add altitude hold and Glide Slope tracking abilities.Interior Views:
They are all here, and you can use these in place of, or to supplement the Virtual Cockpit views. Featured are Forward Left, Left (with visible wing), Rear Left, Rear, Rear Right, Right (with visible wing), Forward Right, and Up views. As with the instrument panel all views are high quality, digital photo realistic graphics. No rendered or hand drawn artwork here! Authentic Lycoming O-360 engine sounds are featured. You will also get all of the usual switch "clicks", gyro sounds, fuel pump sound, and the unmistakable "click" of the "Johnson Bar" flap lever, as the Archer has manually operated flaps! An audible environment that along with the visual surroundings truly give you the feeling of "being there".Congfig-o-Matic:
Joining "T-o-M" is "C-o-M". With Config-o-Matic you will be able to select certain features for your Archer, such as type of autopilot, or whether or not you wish to load the 2D interior views to supplement the Virtual Cockpit. You will also be able to set the various weights for your passengers and baggage, change the color of the cockpit's dome light, adjust the airframe hours on the tachometer, and assign certain custom keyboard commands, in order to access features not provided for via default keys in MSFS.Extensive documentation is included in PDF format on the CD ROM. Acrobat Reader is required and is also included on the CD. This package works with both MSFS 2004, and with 2002.