The latest aircraft to roll out of Nick Cyganski’s Black Square hangar is the Rockwell Commander 114 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024.
Black Square’s technically advanced package brings you two aircraft: the 1977 Commander 114 and also a 114 with an aftermarket turbo-normalising package. Six distinctive interiors and ten paint schemes are included from five decades of service.
Features include an advanced reciprocating engine simulation, 75+ possible failures, the first working MSFS stormscope, 15 hot-swappable radio configurations and the most advanced turbocharger and cabin temperature simulations in MSFS. Radio navigation systems are available from several eras of the 114’s history.
A 150+ page manual provides instruction on all equipment, and 35 in-game checklists with control highlighting are included for normal and emergency procedures.
You can purchase Black Square’s Rockwell Commander 114 from Just Flight for £30.99.
Black Square Commander 114 Features
- 150+ page manual with your complete guide to flying Black Square’s Commander 114, including systems guide, tutorials, limitations, performance tables and electrical schematics.
- Two aircraft in one: Normally Aspirated Commander 114, and aftermarket Turbo-normalised 114 with air conditioning and passenger/crew oxygen.
- Tablet Interface for configuring options, payload settings, failure management, and real-time visualizers for engines, electrical schematics and environmental systems.
- Physics-based engine simulation with compression, magneto impulse couplings, blade angle, oil temperature and pressure, cylinder head temperatures, and preheating.
- Fuel-injected engine simulation with fouling, vapour lock, flooding and backfires. Even the magneto impulse couplings are simulated and have sound.
- 15 hot-swappable radios, configurable via tablet interface. Includes PMS & TDS & KLN-90B.
- 75+ random, scheduled or performance-triggered failures, settable via the tablet, including engine damage, compatible with third-party UIs and instructor stations.
- NEW full state saving, with 210+ parameters. Selectable from only the basics to nearly everything: switches, payload, consumables, avionics, aesthetics, damage, failures, etc.
- Fully simulated environmental control system for heating, air conditioning, ventilation, ram air cooling. Cool things off by opening a door, or watch the aircraft heat up in the sun. Monitor via the new tablet interface.
- The most advanced turbocharger simulation in MSFS. Turbocharger sounds reflect the turbine RPM, and engine performance is dependent on boost.
- NEW – rough running engine sounds and effects for excessively rich/lean mixture, detonation, fouling, cold idle and engine damage.
- NEW – airframe vibration, resonance and engine animations bring the airframe to life.
- NEW – nose gear shimmy encourages holding yoke back-pressure and careful braking.
- NEW – MSFS’s first working stormscope with plausible lightning depiction for stormcell avoidance works with default and third-party weather injection.
- NEW – Foster RNAV511 navigator supports autopilot with No-GPS configuration.
- Physics-based sound system. Sounds such as engine starting are not mere recordings, but instead are many layered sounds, constructed based on the underlying simulation.
- Engine preheating required for cold starts, with heater.
- Voltage-based light dimming, an immediately recognisable effect to night-time pilots.
- Gyroscope physics simulation for electric and pneumatic gyroscopes with precession and partial failures, based on a coupled quadrature oscillator, with manifold standby system.
- Magnetic compass effects, including fields from onboard circuits.
- Instrument needle stiction and friction. Analogue instruments can become sticky without engines running. Tap the glass to free the needles and get a more accurate reading!
- Strobe light system causes realistic distracting flashes in clouds.
- Functional exterior elements (interactive in MSFS 2024) and control locks: chocks, pitot covers, engine covers and preheater. Pitot flags blow in the wind.
- Mathematically accurate VOR and ADF signal attenuation and noise degradation.
- JPI EDM-800 Engine Monitor with engine-leaning optimisation ‘Lean Find’.
- Completely simulated electrical system, with 55 circuits, thermal breakers and failures.
- Carbon Monoxide leaks are possible, and can be detected with the CO detector.
- Crew/Passenger oxygen depletes according to pressure altitude and passenger occupancy.
- Ultra-custom dynamic registration number system for livery creators.
CHECKLISTS
Over 300 checklist items are provided for 35+ Normal, Abnormal, and Emergency procedures in textual form in the manual and in-game, using the MSFS native checklist system with control and instrument highlighting. If it’s in the checklist, it’s settable in the aircraft!
SOUNDS
Black Square’s Commander 114 features a custom sound set created by Boris Audio Works, recorded from the real aircraft. High-quality engine and cockpit sounds will immerse you in the simulation. Sounds such as engine starting are not mere recordings, but are instead many layered sounds, constructed based on the underlying simulation.
FLIGHT DYNAMICS
The Commander 114 features a flight model with performance to match the real-world aircraft based on real 114 owner feedback and in-flight data. Engine and aerodynamic performance should be within 2% of POH values, though no two engines are ever the same. The flight model uses the most up-to-date features available in MSFS 2020 and 2024, such as the new voxel CFD aerodynamics, CFD propeller, adverse yaw and stall parameters, and flexible tyre physics.
PAINT SCHEMES
Black Square’s Commander 114 comes with ten paint schemes and six interior upholstery packages that represent the aircraft through decades of service. This product implements Black Square’s highly customisable dynamic tail number system, which can be configured by livery makers.
