Black Square Turbine Duke - First Look Review! - MSFS

[@captaincasualmusic]

I instantly bought the bundle. Can confirm, they're both absolutely lovely. Piston version has cool supercharger sounds, too! Probably the last plane i'll buy for a good, long while, partially because i wanna give this baby the time she deserves, but also because i actually pivoted a lot more toward helicopters, lately. Turns out shorter flights with more stops and variety suit me much better than going A-B is a straight-ish line all the time. :P So now, i have the Piston and Turbine Dukes, as well as the HPG 145 and 160. All of which pretty comprehensive aircraft modules to really study and sink my teeth into. It's a golden age of flight sim!

[@nicknicholson1268]

Like always, thank you so much Rachel. Since you mentioned it, I remember flying a lot the RealAir Duke in FSX, and even now, a few years down the runway, I really enjoy watching this beautiful bird featured in the excellent FSMANIA's channel, a great real world pilot and enthusiast simmer. This might be for the nostalgics :)

[@ironmann16]

This is the version I picked up, since sadly I couldn't afford the bundle, but I still don't regret any of it. This is by far the best GA addon I've seen for msfs to date

[@theangryveteran]

I put a lot of hours on the RealAir Turbine Duke. Thanks for posting a video showing that this aircraft is now available for MSFS. I'm definitely getting it.

[@rustyshackleford1687]

I absolutely love this add-on. It’s surprisingly quick compared to the Chancellor 414. This will likely supplant that as my cross-country tourer. I got both the piston and turbine version and I’m preferring the piston so far. I even got better performance out of it but that could have just been wind conditions on those flights. More testing is needed. I also had the same autopilot struggles until I found the pitch trim power switch just above the engine controls. I’m a big fan of these older GA aircraft with their unique primitive autopilots. They’re always a lot of fun to figure out and use.

[@gorillachinchilla1668]

Top-notch video as always! Thank you! This plane looks so good. Another winner from BlackSquare it would seem.

[@AvAngel]

It is!

[@baomao7243]

Over the weekend, I will for sure pick up both piston and turbine versions - perfect complements to their King Air and TBM, both of which i really like.

[@rogerrees9845]

Another interesting presentation.... Quite a sophisticated aircraft.... definitely one for the future... Thank you for your time... Roger.. Pembrokeshire.

[@Antverva1]

I bought the FS Duke ! It's one of the most enjoyable GA aircraft I have ever flown on Microsoft FS, it's a very well conceived and realistic flight model, congrats to the design Team. In real life I'm a very high time GA Pilot owning over a dozen aircraft, one of them being a Piper PA-46-T JETPROP!

[@rayjennings3637]

I had both the piston and turbine versions in FSX and P3D and accumulated getting on for 1200 hours overall with about 800 on the B60. The turbine version was super fun but I could never get to grips with the power levers to ensure a decent taxy speed and as a result I completed a round the world trip in the piston one. So much friendlier.

[@geebee2262]

The Piston is just as good. I landed it as smooth as your landing first time. It does what you want it to do. I can see why they are still popular in the real world. They are popular in the sim too, someone said Just Flight's page went down earlier. I'm going to do a lot of touring in these.

[@gflo2781]

Was hard even getting the page up yesterday, and when I did, I saw this was released. Not sure if it's all just Duke related traffic but odd for the page!

[@danceswithsheep3058]

I have the 414A Chancellor from Flysimware so the piston variant seems more of the same but I shall consider the turbine Duke.

[@mosheflute]

A comparison between the new DUKE piston and the Chancellor 414 will be very much appreciated. Does the newly published DUKE piston justify its price when one already possesses and enjoys Flysimware's 414? Thanks for all opinions!

[@baomao7243]

I am beginning to weight my purchases toward aircraft that make it easier to bind to all my flight sim hardware - CH yoke, Virpil control panel, Thrustmaster TCA, CH throttle quadrnt, Puma pro-flight, … I want immersion, so when a developer makes an awesome aircraft … only to make it take hours to discover which signals are used and then create bindings, it is frustrating.😡

[@gflo2781]

Ended up getting both as I'm really indecisive, but what I've seen so far in VR (in my limited flight due to heat last night), its seems amazing. Only criticism so far is not being able to move the tablet like the A2A Commanche. Would love to be able to move the tablet back and to the right a bit!

[@geolpilot7036]

You can move the tablet. Left click on the bezel, hold and drag it where you want ot

[@gflo2781]

@@geolpilot7036 Awesome, thank you!

[@andrewvinson7369]

best looking GA twin IMO. Piston as well.

[@wololo10]

Thanks I finally learned how to turn generators on lol

[@QuantumGamingUploads]

Very intersting plane. Super nicely detailed.

[@HyphenDude]

I hope they release it on Marketplace for Xbox soon.

[@sfgiants49er67]

Nice Video! The lake name is Lake Constance or we we German say Der Bodensee.

[@Alexander-hk5ke]

Im the duke, when going fully forward, do the engines usually just overtorque or have I missed turning on a governor that limits overtorquing?

[@KAPAFlyer]

Surprised you didn't show off the K Series avionics. First of it's kind in the Sim. You can apparently have 12 different combinations for avionics, too.

[@AvAngel]

I was going to... I did forget. I gues I never found them that exciting. Especially in a modern world they're quite limiting. Remember using them in the old Twotter in FSX.

[@KAPAFlyer]

@@AvAngel Ah, that makes sense.

[@LucasdeJong-rs1sg]

Hi AvAngel, great video once more! Can I ask though, I noticed your last couple of videos how good your scenery looks, especially the trees. Are they default, Bijan orrrr? I've been on Rex a while but they sure dont look like yours.

[@AvAngel]

I use default with a free mod to do more realistic tree heightm that's it. Otherwise it's all stock.

[@LucasdeJong-rs1sg]

@@AvAngel Thanks a lot! Recently purchased the short-tree height from marketplace to experiment. Good to know default has come this way.

[@Burstix]

Great video! Live this plane, I have both of them!

[@QuantumGamingUploads]

Which one you prefer the most? I am leaning towards the piston one

[@Burstix]

@@QuantumGamingUploads The Piston one sounds great and I am a fan of older engine tech anyway so I would say out of the two of them I would get the piston if you like the sounds and things like older engines. Although I will say I had some credit on just flight and ended up getting both of them for like $64, one of them would have cost me $47.99, So for 20 more bucks I got both of them I think it's worth it to spend the extra 20 bucks if you have it available because then you'll never have to go back and spend $47.99 on the other if you want it eventually

[@QuantumGamingUploads]

@@Burstix thanks for the info. Yeah I like the older engines myself. I may get the bundle though just to see the differences. Appreciate your reply.

[@Burstix]

@@QuantumGamingUploads anytime, love your content bro! Keep up the great work

[@einherz]

you can click any stuff on the map in this thing, and then you can watch property of that and activate in the plan. i love this gps, when see nothing in the weather mess it's always will said you wire ahed obstacle ahead terrain ahead, and when weather clear, you can stop it by one click:) btw in my case autopilot won't start, i will try again after reading manual there something said about two pitch trim switchers and possible addons conflicts. hope first is my case....

[@AvAngel]

:D yah i think its the slider probably :D

[@goblin2bis707]

It works in my case. The button has two click choice for the AP, and you need to put on the pitch trim system, at the bottom front. It is in the manual.

[@einherz]

@@goblin2bis707 yes, i found it, and ap working, however i didn't found second one, i mean second pitch trim around copilot. first one i notice first flight but didn't touch that:) it's fun to be such an idiot:)

[@einherz]

@@AvAngel what the slider?

[@einherz]

@@goblin2bis707 i get it, second one is circuit braker/// that's why i didn't found it:) just reread manual and copy done

[@Jigsaw407]

If you want them both you should have gone for the bundle. It's 60 Euros for both, while you have to pay a whoppin' 86 Euros buying them individually. That's 26 Euros more, which is a whole 3rd addon plane that you could buy.

[@AvAngel]

I know, I reference the bundle and link it . buying every addon to review only in many cases isnt cheap . In this case I had to compromise

[@payt01]

Seems like an awesome plane. The only thing that's making me reconsider is the price.. If it was 42 euros for both versions, I'd get it right away, but it's 62 euros for the bundle. I think that's a lot for a GA airplane.. Then again.. it does seem like it may be worth it. What to do eh?

[@AvAngel]

Tis quite expensive, but it is good... one of those conundrums

[@geebee2262]

Will you get your money's worth out of flying it? How many hours of fantastic flying equals €64?

[@payt01]

@@geebee2262 That's one of those things I can only tell after having flown it.. I'll probably go for it eventually, because curiousity is a thing. And Rachael recommends it, despite the price., so what can I do eh? :)

[@manic1173]

Can I gift u the piston version?

[@einherz]

are you sure your cat weight 170lb? it's your piece of gold, that's why?

[@AvAngel]

Yes, Captain Whiskers is a chonky boi.

[@joeynuggetz]

Almost bought the wrong plane. You actually linked to the DA-50RG.

[@KAPAFlyer]

I don't have the ability to make the move to PC, but this is making it hard not to!

[@b320max8]

At one point it almost sounded like "Hodensee". I leave it to you to do the research about what kind of "see" that would have been! 😂😂

[@AvAngel]

oher :D My German is getting better slowly, they're very very very very particular about pronunciation :D

[@VoyagerSimProject]

✅ ☑ 🏁

[@einherz]

hahaha... just after i wrote my comment you try to start autopilot with same result:)

[@baomao7243]

Say it with me… TER-BYE-N 🤔😉👍

[@AvAngel]

TÜrbein? :D

[@tripodcatz5532]

Ground physics are absolutely horrible. Most, if not all of the default MSFS aircraft have much better flight dynamics. I invite anyone watching this to pull up any other video of the B60 duke for MSFS (turbine or piston version) and watch how no one can track runway centerline on takeoff.

[@AvAngel]

It didn't seem THAT bad on roll... torque is a thing. I have noticed a lot of developers are currently building for SU15 that makes major ground handling changes... so its a bit weird TILL then with a few recent releases. It wasn't terrible though.

[@bagels377]

Idk bro might be a skill issue. I can control it easily and maintain center line

[@hotshot4512]

I've seen you post this on multiple videos already, wind and turning tendencies are definitely a thing. With a bit lower rudder sensitivity you can track it very well. And I assure you this has much better flight dynamics than default aircraft, I have no idea where you got any of that from

[@tripodcatz5532]

@@hotshot4512 Yah? I must have it in for Black Square then for some unknown reason. By the way, here's a quote from 'PathlessSpore60' posted today on the official MSFS2020 forum, "I’m on SU-15 beta, and weather-vaning into a crosswind is very strong in this mod. I haven’t done any quantitative analysis, and also don’t know what max cross wind component this aircraft is rated for, but it weathervanes much, much more strongly compared to other add-ons…"

[@tripodcatz5532]

@@hotshot4512 Here's another quote from 'SteveKane' on the official MSFS2020 forum today: "’ll post more detailed observations after my day job today, but is the Duke more difficult to keep on the centerline on takeoffs/landings with modest crosswinds than others? I have entry-level Logitech rudders and I am noticing some sensor “jittering”, just wondering if that’s making it worse. Or is this dependent on the SU15 Ground Handling Physics update? I’m not in the beta, but thinking about it…"