Wilco TBM850 Elite

Exterior model

• Built over the real aircraft plans and with direct access to the real aircraft
• Standard variant with no door and Elite variant with a door and rear passenger/freight door 
• Correct operation of the ailerspoilers – narrow airbrake-like assisters that improve aileron authority
• Accurate flap operating gear, fully detailed landing gear and even individually modelled ventilation louvres in the airframe
• All doors and hatches open to reveal battery packs and a fully detailed engine bay
• Additional items include an authentic GPU on its own trolley, intake and exhaust muffs, pre-flight flags, prop-tie-downs and wheel chocks (all switchable from the VC)
• Amazing detailed HD textures bring the aircraft to realistic life and include specially developed techniques for rain spotting and streaking, stains and dirt and uniquely rendered bump-mapping reproduces panel ripple and pillowing!
• Correct prop/engine thrust off-set
• High resolution reflective and chrome textures
• Fully animated, realistic pilot movements
• A choice of female or male left seat pilots is provided and also a lifelike passenger who switches from inside to outside the aircraft when unloading luggage. Models can be selected with and without this passenger
• High quality digital stereo sounds recorded directly from the real aircraft
• Models available include options for pilot door or no pilot door in a more basic style, cargo version

Interior model

• Using the very latest in modelling and texturing techniques, the interior is practically real!
• The panels have leather grain finishes which hold their detail even in extreme close-up
• All placards are reproduced in pin-sharp clarity and can be read at any distance
• Every switch, knob and lever works just like the real thing – many with unique programming code
• Interior animations: yoke hiding in the Virtual Cockpit, pull-out coffee cup holders, sun visors that can be dragged to any position and pull-out tables in the cabin
• Leather finishes in the cabin are incredibly realistic and add to the feeling of quality comfort in the interior. You can almost smell the leather!

Panel features

• All-glass integrated flight deck with a Garmin G1000 avionics suite
• Two fully-featured 10.4” TFT LCD Primary Flight Display (PFD)
• Both PFD (Primary Flight Display) operate independently as in the real TBM850, to display more information at one time across the panel
• Multiple 2D pop-up windows with glideslope, ILS, Autopilot NAV/COM, ADF and TRANSPONDER integration
• 15’’ TFT LCD Multi-Function Display (MFD) which has:
   - Fully automated LNAV and VNAV capability down to 250 decision height for LPV approaches (localiser guidance)
   - WAAS/LPV approach capable
   - Two moving map displays (orientation)
   - Terrain avoidance system TAS
   - Traffic Avoidance TCAS
   - Flight Plan input
   - EICAS  Engine and systems display (TRQ, Prop RPM, NG%, ITT, Oil Pressure and Temperature)
   - Fuel management display
• All soft-touch buttons are 3D modelled and coded for complete realism
• 3D modelled exact replica of the Garmin display control unit (DCU), fully integrated and interactive with the central Garmin display
• Cabin Pressurisation display
• Battery, Generator and Bus displays
• ETM (Engine Trend Monitoring)
• Flaps, Elevator, Rudder and Ailerons trims indicators
• NAV/COM radios, ADF, Transponder and autopilot functions
• Normal and Emergency Checklists on screen
• Chart view

Manual

• Easy-to-use operating manual
• A complete G1000 operator’s manual is included, written in a style to make mastering the systems simple and enjoyable
• Checklists and performances tables supplied

General features

• Compatible with Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Prepar3D
• ‘Blank livery’ Paint Kit to create your own paint schemes (Photoshop required)
• DX9 / DX10 compatible
• Frame rate friendly

What makes the TBM850 unique?

1. Both PFDs, pilot and copilot, are independent (like the real thing)
2. The TBM850 has a realistic boot sequence with power switches on both 2D and 3D PFD and MFDs
3. Highly readable instruments units
4. Using C++ code, switching controls are reliable and allows functionality and sophisticated/realistic alarms, messages and functions 
5. The TBM850 has VNAV capability
6. The TBM850 features a fuel management capability
7. The TBM850 GPS page is easy to access, using a simple PAGE access key.
8. The TBM850 uses a multi-colour display for the terrain/TOPO map
9. The TBM850 MFD has both an HSI-style and arc-style compass display
10. The TBM850 MFD map offers a NORTH UP/PLANE HDG orientation option, easy to select via the main menu
11. The TBM850 checklists are implemented the way they are in the real-world
12. The TBM850 features an off-course/waypoint track monitor.
13. The TBM850 PFD utilises a comprehensive pilot message/alert system (different from the FS default one)
14. Wind data display on the TBM850 PFD
15. The TBM850 has default settings/preferences capability and remembers user’s default preferences on map displays, compass displays, 
sounds, etc.
16. The TBM850 has access to the entire procedures menu, selecting approach, etc., directly from the PFD
17. The TBM850 provides a detailed and comprehensive 84-page manual
18. Based on real aircraft pictures and videos, The TBM850 shows realistic spoilerons that operates as they are in real life
19. Wilco TBM landing gear and bay are highly detailed (based on hundreds of close-up pictures of the real aircraft)
20. With The TBM850 the main door has five individual animated security indicators modelled into the holes (green and red indicators which show when the door is locked/unlocked)
21. The TBM850 shows dust and discolouration on the panels and around knobs and switches
22. The TBM850 uses real Socata sounds, not the default FS ones.