Considering the releases are only six months apart it feels more like years. They are actually the same aircraft, but strangely feel quite different? I think it is down to the more matt flat feel of the analog livery than anything else, but they do still also feel different internally as well. You get two versions of the P2006T in the analog and glass cockpit G1000 version. Thus, for FAA certification, the company was required to add in a backup battery in addition to the standard battery. Electric starters are used to start the engines on the ground, but must also be used for an inflight restart, since the highly geared engines cannot be turned by airflow alone past the stopped propeller. Thus both cooling airflow through the nacelle, and so a cooling radiator is required in each cowl. It is unusual in that the Rotax 912S3 horizontally opposed four-cylinder geared piston engines, 73.5 kW (98.6 hp) as each of the cylinder heads are liquid-cooled and there are cooling vanes on the cylinder barrels (a la the Volkswagen Beetle). The P2006T is currently the lightest twin-engined certified aircraft available, and is a four-seat aircraft with fully retractable landing gear and has liquid-cooled Rotax engines that can run on 92 octane unleaded automotive gasoline as well as 100LL (Avgas). It is in the first activity of making parts is in why the Italian company's name doesn't really roll off any aviation's bluffs tongue, like say Piaggio or Augsta, but it is still a manufacturer and it is in this their latest aircraft the P2006 that was certified in 2010 that is the company's push for mainstream sales. The company has two primary activities in one is that it mainly makes aircraft parts for other manufacturers, and in two it makes its own range of light aircraft.
So this review is mostly focused on that factor in the two different versions in the standard original analog aircraft and the new G1000 glass panel version of which you get both in the same package.Ĭostruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam is an Italian aeronautics manufacturer that was founded in 1986.
This latest v1.4 version is significant as it is the first payware aircraft to use Laminar Research's new G1000 GPS system that was introduced with X-Plane v11.10, that noted is that to use this aircraft you have to use only X-Plane11 and the v11.10 (currently beta) update and upwards as well. Certainly the Vskylabs DC-3/C47 has took all the attention this year, and as it should because it is a great aircraft and a lot of fun, but the P2006T has been progressing forward as well. So you go on a journey with Vskylabs projects as they are if nothing else very interesting and progressive aircraft.
In the six months since the May 2017 release of Vskylabs Tecnam P2006T the aircraft has been under constant development, but then almost everything under the VskyLabs banner is under constant development, because all the aircraft are in reality only ongoing projects and not release aircraft.
You don't need classic shell as it operates almost identical to Windows 7.Įdit: I just looked at Classic Shell and it does have a Windows 10 version and looks really good.Aircraft Review : Tecnam P2006T v1.4 Analog/G1000 by Vskylabs You can shut down some of the monitoring, but does it really shut it down? This leads me to believe that they, like Apple, are going to continue to "give" the OS away (if you downloaded the "update" during the time offered) and already monitored more than you would have like anyway. They are going to remove support for all previous versions within a couple of years or so.
I have had no problems with this installation and think they have fixed most of the problems. I played with it for a while and finally took the plunge and "updated" all my computers.
They removed the "update" quickly, but not quickly enough.Ī couple of months ago, the wife wanted to upgrade and I did it for her and it went very smoothly with all drivers installed and worked perfectly. After installing it shortly after the release last year, it did great until the "fall update" which hit my flightsim computer and messed up everything on both drives.