Another Exceptional Addon! | Part 1: Black Square Turbine Duke | Full Flight Preview / Review | MSFS 

An update on what the dev has said about release: the Dukes have been tied to the SU15 update because of 1) an issue with the WT Garmin 530 that requires a manual work-around at the moment that SU15 would have fixed, and 2) making use of the new ground handling in SU15. However, with the recent delay, the developer said yesterday on the JustFlight forums that they are considering a pre-SU15 release and have mitigated these remaining issues. So , hopefully it will be out sooner rather than later!

This is the kind of add-on I'd love to make an around the globe flight with!

My favorite plane in the sim so far. I only have a few payware planes but this became my favorite the second I spawned in it. Super easy to just follow the checklist and get right to flying.

Hurray ! Glad you are covering the turbine, it’s my favourite of the two.

Sold. Simple as that really. And I’ll be taking both variants.

Your videos have just gotten better and better. I am always happy to see a new one released. Thank you for the work

Excellent video! Well Done! Black Square should be proud to have you demonstrating their product!

Pizza, Coca Cola and a new into the blue video. perfect.😊

The Beechcraft 60 Duke is a twin-engine, six-seater fixed-wing aircraft developed and manufactured by Beechcraft. The aircraft has retractable tricycle landing gear and a pressurized cabin. The two piston engines are turbocharged, and the turbochargers also pressurize the cabin with bleed air. Some Dukes have been modified by Rocket Engineering of Spokane, Washington, replacing the Lycoming reciprocating engines with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-21 or -35 turbine engines. The modification does have some disadvantages as it increases fuel burn from 210 to 250 L/h and lowers the certified ceiling from 30,000 to 28,000 ft (9,100 to 8,500 m). The last variant, the B60, was introduced in 1974. Production was discontinued in 1983. Despite its excellent performance, the Beechcraft 60 was only a moderate bestseller, mainly because the complicated technology required a high level of maintenance. Built to the quality standards of a King Air, the Duke sported 380-hp, Lycoming TIO-541 engines - rare beasts, those - which means when both come due for overhaul, the choice is the overhaul or buying a small house in the Midwest. In a few days, anyone can buy this MSFS 2020 add-on for a fistful of dollars. Without risking a fortune. And without blowing at least 170 liters of aviation fuel into the atmosphere in a single hour. When planning cross-country flights, piston engine pilots typically assume a fuel burn of 170 liters per hour, plus another 150 liters for each takeoff and climb. Owners compare the Beechcraft B60 to classic sports cars and emphasize that they don't fly the Duke to save money. Oh, the Beechcraft Duke. What a beautiful airplane. It has always been one of my favorites. I've seen them flying in real life from time to time. But they are rare. Another exceptional preview by Into the Blue Simulations. Black Square’s Piston Duke brings you one of the most technically advanced aircraft simulations for Microsoft Flight Simulator, with an advanced reciprocating engine simulation, over 120 possible failures and the most advanced turbocharger, pressurisation and cabin temperature simulations in MSFS.

Excellent work Captain ! Haven't tried mine yet, only a few months late :)

this is a real gem

Praise the Duke the most sophisticated luxurious GA cruiser that ever was and ever will be.

this twitching on the prop lever reminds me of my old saitek throttle quadrant :D

Marvelous presentation.... Great aircraft... Thank you for sharing your time and views.... Looking forward to part 2 now... Roger... Pembrokeshire

"*Sometimes* a little light on the controls" has generally in my experience of constantly fiddling with aircraft been down to MSFS "stability" settings - one set of which are only stability if you consider that to be "pointing into relative wind" which in the ever prevalent MSFS turbulence is anything but stability, and the other set are basically a giant gyroscope & make it feel like there's a big hand holding the aircraft ( I kinda like to think of a giant toddler making brbrbrbrbrr sounds ). Some a/c respond well to just zeroing them - the BS king air took really little work and only a small chat with a B200 pilot - and some need everything else adjusted, unfortunately, and I'm fed up with doing it :p that has put this on a wait & see I think, given your usual gift of understatement. I'm really waiting to see if the turbine & avionics from this make it into the King Air.

I got the bundle yesterday. If I would have known how inferior the the flight model is to the Cessna 414, I would have definitely not have purchased it.

Most comprehensive review I've heard so far. Thank you.

To have one of the coolest aircraft in existence, made to such a high standard, makes me a happy camper. Also, nearly 50k - well done sir!

Welcome back to your channel! :) Good to see you again.

Merci pour ce vol avec vos explications très détaillées. Un nouvel abonné 😉

Excellent presentation as usual always look forward to your reviews .

Thanks for the pre-release review.

helpful thank you! Got to say the cautions for the closed oil doors were distracting (to me) - I interpret yellow as something worth checking but it seems they stay on. Blue might have been "better" 🙂

Nice flight in what appears to be a fantastic looking aircraft on the way. The only thing I noticed was that you didn't turn on your landing lights when you lowered the landing gear for the approach. I do not know the particulars about the turbine Duke but after 1000' AGL you usually should turn off the fuel pumps.

Great video. 👍 Would love to hear the engine shutdown sounds too. Just to round it off.

Thanks for another professional and insightful video. Much appreciated! 👍

beautiful plane. Thank you so much for your great video!

Quite an unusual subject for an add-on, even the piston Dukes are rare (and getting rarer with the cost of overhauling the engines exceeding the value of the airframe!). The turbine even rarer than that, but nothing wrong there, I'd rather see this kind of GA aircraft in MSFS that you wouldn't get to fly in real life, rather than the common singles that you can rent at your local airfield easily.

Thanks Boris!

My favorite GA Twin in FSX was my King Air. I don't recall at the moment who the publisher was but it's still on a disk somewhere . The system depth of that dude was amazing. Hot starts, circuit failures, etc. I have to build a system but I want this.

Thabks for sharing this great experience! Witch do you prefer turbine duke or piston duke

Taking off below redline speed is interesting. ;)

Thank you. I was waiting for your review. I especially enjoy how you always to complete start ups. Thank you especially for the IFR portion.

I need help... I can't get mine started. While going through start up procedures.. while trying to start Right engine... Hit start switch toggle.... bus volts to 15v... Gas Gen to 15%... When I push Conditioner lever up to full... The ITT doesn't move. Therefore engine will not start !!! ! The ITT on videos people have made clearly starts up. I have tried to start going through exact procedures numerous times to no avail. WHAT am I doing wrong? Help me understand... Thank you... David

good review video

Again I'm always stunned by your graphics. Aka colors and high def. I also have the 13900k with a 4090 and mine don't look like yours. Looks almost as if you don't have HDR on.

Looks and sounds fantastic overall, but the looping engine drone in the cockpit at 6:50 with the bass frequencies fading in and out in a short regular interval got on my nerves fast! 😄 I'd hate to hear that come to the TBM 850 as well.😟

Great video for a great add-on 🎉🎉

Just the tablet on this thing make the PMDG tablet offering look ridiculous by comparison.

Great video. Any tips on using the head tracking and being able to select things easily. Do you constantly activate and deactivate head tracking or is it just practice?

Good evening, the video is very interesting and very well explained, a question: what do you use to listen to the radio frequency? it sounds very real

Curious if anyone has thought son which variant is more comfortable to use in VR? I feel like it would be the turbine due to the easier to read gauges?

Are you using VR? Or what type of head tracking? Your camera moves so smoothly around the cockpit...

One thing that bugs me a lot is the Ground Handling in the FS2020. It really need a special care... looks like the plane is floating...

We all love doing these various start up checks, but I often wonder CAN any of these planes have failures BETWEEN flights? I know things can fail DURING flight but can you park a plane with everything working one night and then the next time you load it and go through the startup have something broken?

I want it

Turbine Duke uses flat-rated PT6A engines. And if even an addon that claims to be such high fidelity cannot get the ITT behavior right as altitude increases, then there can be no hope for MSFS. Alternatively, Black Square didn't bother implementing a proper turbine simulation despite all the promotional videos. Note for the video creator: Climbing to higher altitudes in a turboprop with flat-rated engines would allow the viewer to better determine the behaviour of the engines.

When I got this aircraft, it did not do good! First I increased throttle and then when I increased the throttle, it just stated the same throttle! I don’t know why? Can you please help me?

I want to get the aircraft but it keeps saying "coming soon" on their website, even though it's been out for like 6 months or so and many people have it already. I bought the tbm 850, and i really love it. I normally do the commercial and private jets, but their products are really nice.

Instant package purchase. - But unfortunately it is U15 depended. Hope U15 will be final for msfs 2020, so publishers can have more predictable platform to work with.

So the real question here is, with the multitude of GA aircraft in the sim (including the brilliant Comanche) is this worth picking up, in your opinion?

Has this aircraft been good compatibility wise? It’s not fighting with other mod aircraft or being affected by other mod aircraft. I finally fixed the Carenado sound overlap issue I’ve been having.

Is there an option to turn on gauge reflections .. or does the real Duke have anti reflection glass over its gauges?

Please stop teasing us... as we have to wait for SU15 to go out (delayed again) before we will have some news on a release date from BlackSquare... :p

hopefully it's something about the video, but the drone of the turbine engine in this plane feels like an icepick in my brain. The turbine in the FSR500 is much more pleasant in comparison. Maybe its the two engines interacting which makes it sound painful to me.

Great video once again!. Shame the developer hasn't done an xbox version!.

Hi i have seem to messed up the prop Govenor Test, When i lower my RPM, the TRQ Needles raise, Do you know what the setting is on the Tablet for the plane not to remember aircraft state so i can just restart and go again, I have watched your video and trying to copy you but clearly i have messed something up

How do you manage to move inside the cabin like that ? Are you using VR ??

Fantastic review as always! I know the aircraft are different fundamentally, and it might not be fair, but thoughts on the comparison between the quality of these new Black Square addons vs the A2A Comanche? Systems depth, flight model, persistence, etc?

My plane just dies after 10s, all light go off and engines turn off

Can we have your trackir5 profile pretty please??? 🙂

When’s part 2 coming out ?

Where can i buy it???

I have their King Air, is it that much better?

My go to reviewer for addons, I actually think this has a ugly front end so I”ll be passing of this one, but I am looking forward to the rollover of EFB etc to the TBM850. 👍

Going to pass! I place a lot of importance on flight model. Already own the TBM850 and that is enough systems management for me.

LOL, dude goes through meticulous pre-flight checklists, then doesn't even monitor the gauges at engine start, instead opting to go outside and watch the propeller spin up. Oh, Flight Simulator noobs, someone must love you.

Still no business jets

Another excellent review! I know that you didn't need the reversers for that landing but it would've been interesting to see them at work anyway. I typically like to see any aircraft that have reverse thrust/props incorporated into the design to be demonstrated, but that's just me. I did notice that the "Left & Right Oil Doors Closed" annunciator lights were illuminated throughout the entire flight. Is that the typical state these 2 doors should be in? I'm asking because the "yellow" lit labels are usually indicating that the pilot should consider the function at some point and either activate or deactivate the option. However, I have absolutely no idea if this is always the case. I know the BS Piston and Turbine Duke have been released recently and I believe you've done the review on the Piston version in Part 2, which I do plan to watch. I did consider buying the "Bundled" Piston & Turbine Duke versions, which would save about $20 USD. But I decided to go with the Turbine version only because I simply don't have very many multi-engine turboprop aircraft in my personal collection. I'm burning daylight and I need to get on with that purchase so, thanks again for a great review! Rich