A twin-engine trainer with a primary flight display, a multi-function display and an autopilot, styled after the G1000 glass cockpit. Practise scans, autopilot modes, ILS approaches and engine failures in the browser.
Scroll on a knob, or drag up and down. Dual knobs: the outer ring and the inner knob are separate. Click the inner knob to push it. Keyboard: focus a knob, arrows turn the inner knob, Shift + arrows the outer, Enter pushes.
FPL opens the flight plan. Push FMS for the cursor, turn the outer FMS knob to move it, turn the inner knob to insert a waypoint, CLR removes one. MENU gives Activate Leg and Delete Flight Plan.
D→, type the ident with the FMS knob (or the keyboard), ENT, ENT. PROC → SELECT APPROACH → approach → transition → LOAD or ACTIVATE. For an ILS the localizer frequency is tuned for you, and the CDI switches from GPS to LOC1 on final.
NAV and COM: the outer ring tunes MHz, the inner knob kHz, push the inner knob to pick NAV1/NAV2, ⇄ swaps standby and active. The CDI softkey cycles GPS → NAV1 → NAV2.
Fail an engine at any time. Dead foot, dead engine: the foot you are not pressing is on the side of the failed engine.
Colour carries meaning. Learn the colours and most of the screen reads itself.
Heading bug, selected altitude, altimeter setting, the selected vertical speed. Things you set with a knob.
Speed and altitude trend vectors (where you will be in 6 seconds), the turn-rate arc, the flight director bars and the ground track.
The course needle and deviation bar for VOR or localizer, the glideslope diamond, and active autopilot modes. White modes are armed and waiting.
Your aircraft symbol is yellow. Yellow text is a caution, red is a warning. A red line on the speed tape marks Vmca, the blue line is Vyse.
White arc: flap range. Green: normal range. Yellow: caution, smooth air only. Red: never exceed and below stall.
HDG follows the heading bug. NAV and APR capture a VOR or localizer course. ALT holds altitude, VS holds a climb or descent rate, FLC holds a speed. ALTS means the selected altitude is armed for capture.
| ↑ ↓ ← → or WASD | Pitch and roll. Up is nose down, like a yoke. Hold Shift for full deflection. |
| Q E · X | Rudder left and right (stays where you leave it) · centre the rudder |
| + − | Power up and down, both levers |
| [ ] | Elevator trim nose down and up |
| F V · G · B | Flaps down and up · gear · brakes while held |
| Space · Z | Autopilot disconnect · engage autopilot |
| H J · K L | Heading bug left and right · selected altitude down and up |
| P | Pause |
A gamepad also works: left stick for pitch and roll, right stick sideways for rudder, triggers for power.
Teaching model, not a certified simulator, and not affiliated with Garmin or Diamond Aircraft. Speeds are DA42 NG values from published limitations (KIAS); engine gauge ranges are approximate. Always use the aircraft flight manual, the AIP and your instructor.