Just Flight, in partnership with Thranda Design, has released its updated Cessna 152 for X-Plane 12.
The new version benefits from 8K textures, enhanced PBR materials, and improved lighting, giving the small GA aircraft a noticeable visual boost both inside and out. Thranda Design’s Dynamic Livery System also returns, allowing users to customise liveries directly within the sim.
The Just Flight C152 includes a deep systems package, featuring custom electrical modelling, working circuit breakers, realistic engine behaviour, and failure simulations such as spark plug fouling. A built-in tablet EFB includes checklists and aircraft configuration options.
Sound design has also been upgraded, with immersive positional audio that dynamically reacts to cockpit interactions.
You can purchase Just Flight’s Cessna 152 for X-Plane 12 from the Just Flight website for £30.49.
Just Flight Cessna 152 Features
Model
- Accurately modelled C152, built using real-world aircraft plans and comprehensive photography of the real aircraft
- Numerous animations, including windows, doors, air vents, sun visors, a map compartment and a realistically animated ignition keychain that responds to G-forces
- Ground equipment, including chocks and tie-downs
- Brand new 8K textures to produce the highest possible texture clarity
- Authentic labelling and placards based on those found in the real aircraft
- HD textures are used to produce the highest possible texture clarity and immersion
- PBR (Physically Based Rendering) materials with real-time environment reflections for superb quality and realism
- HDR lighting (real-time illumination of interior and exterior surfaces)
- Detailed normal mapping for down-to-the-rivet precision of aircraft features
- X-Plane 12 native rain effects included
Cockpit
- A truly 3D virtual cockpit, right down to accurately modelled seat belts and screw heads – every instrument is constructed fully in 3D with smooth animations
- Cockpit textures feature wear and tear based on reference photos taken in the real aircraft to produce an authentic environment
- Full VR support (VR manipulators, camera snap points, tweaked for comfortable usage)
- Interactive checklists for every stage of flight
- Aircraft configuration system that will allow you to choose between ‘cold & dark’ or ‘ready for take-off’ (if the aircraft is stationary on the ground)
- Fully functional and comprehensive IFR-capable avionics fit, including:
– KMA 20 audio selector unit
– KX 175B COM 1 / NAV 1 radio
– RT-359A transponder unit
– ADF 300 unit with ADF/REC/BFO modes - Swappable GTN750 unit compatible with RealityXP GTN750 and TDS GTNXi (sold separately, Windows only)
- Ability to change barometric units from InHg to MB in altimeter adjustment
- Option to remove window and instrument reflection effects
- Animated toe brakes
- Radio knob animations routed through plugin logic, for optimum movement fidelity and sound synchronisation
- Tablet EFB with a selection of apps full of useful tools and customisation options:
– Aircraft Options: Open/close the aircraft’s doors, enable/disable glass reflection, enable/disable ground equipment, and more!
– Weight & Balance: Adjust the aircraft’s weight and balance using the built in configuration app and centre of gravity table.
– Instrument Options: Choose to have the cockpit avionics visible in the 3D cockpit, or have them pop out on 2D panels.
– Static Liveries: Change aircraft liveries without exiting to the main menu.
– Dynamic Liveries: Customise the aircraft’s paint scheme without leaving the aircraft. Features different templates whose colours can be fully customised in the aircraft, without the need for any complicated paint kits.
Engine Configuration: View the condition of the engines and enable enhanced simulation options such as spark plug fouling and vapour lock.
– DynaFeel: Adjust the force required to move each of the control surfaces.
– Checklists: Interactable checklists for every stage of flight.
– AviTab support
– And much more!
Aircraft Systems
- Custom-coded electrical system with functional circuit breakers. Circuit breaker logic is linked to X-Plane’s internal failure logic, so if the plane is set to fail a certain electrical component after a certain number of hours, the circuit breaker for that element will pop out.
- Realistic landing gear with slow/fast tyre rotation animation (blurry when rotating fast), and wheel chocks and tie-downs
- Functioning carburettor heat and primer controls
- Dedicated EFB app displaying values such as fuel tank weights and imbalance, fuel pressure, oil pressure, oil temperature, battery charge (with quick charge option), and information about spark plug fouling and vapour lock condition
- Simulated vapour lock condition, with EFB warning pop-up and suggested actions
- Simulated spark plug fouling condition, with EFB indication of percentage of fouling
- The lighting system includes separate lighting control for gauges (via rheostat) and a realistic implementation of the radio light rheostat
- Custom external light logic with custom strobe light pattern and custom light halos for added realism
Liveries
The C152 is supplied in the following six paint schemes:
- D-EIYF (Germany)
- G-BHZH (UK)
- HB-CHA (Switzerland)
- I-SCDX (Italy)
- N530CA (United States)
- OK-POH (Czechia)
Plus the Dynamic Livery app, which allows you to create your own paint schemes based on three different authentic styles: Factory, Flow Lines and Classic.
Other Features
- Realistic and accurate flight dynamics based on real-world performance and handling data, and input from C152 pilots, upgraded to take full advantage of X-Plane 12 enhancements.
- Stunning audio effects – atmospheric distance, multi-layered engine, individual click spots, aerodynamic effects and electrical system sounds, made possible by X-Plane’s state-of-the-art FMOD sound system
- Custom sounds for switches, doors, warnings and more, featuring accurate location placement of sounds in the stereo spectrum, 3D audio effects, atmospheric effects, adaptive Doppler, exterior sounds spill in when window or door(s) are opened, different sound characteristics depending on viewing angle, etc.
- Comprehensive manual with panel guide and performance data
- Custom Weight & Balance Manager EFB app.
- End-user configurability (via Manifest.json file)
