Carenado S550 Citation II + GTN 750 (Review) | X-Plane 11 

Great video! Just purchased this one and needed some help understanding the A/P. Thanks for posting!

Great job.. yes! you are right, many real pilots say that to fly a Citation has the same feeling like flight with C172 easy and smooth and sure with XPlane is possible to feel it. I will buy this add on form Carenado very soon. I was waiting for it for long time !!!

At 2:50 turn on both generator switches. Do not leave them off. This is the normal start procedure and its called a cross-generator start. If you want to start with ground power, then you can leave these switches off, otherwise, turn them on here. At 3:03 the interior panel lights: those rotary knobs don't do anything with their respective lights until you flip up that toggle switch (second switch from the left on that same lighting panel) which is the Master Lighting switch. I couldn't see but if those rotary knob lights actually illuminated then this lighting panel was not modeled correctly. As part of our pre-flight, we rotate all those lighting knobs full on and then flip up the master lighting switch and verify all those lights come on. At 4:34 engine start: you do not need to turn on the fuel boost pumps or the ignition. These come on automatically during the engine start. If by chance you do leave these switches off and try to start an engine, if the engine won't start, then they modeled these switches incorrectly if you've determine these switches must be on to start an engine. I won't go into these switches here but they are more complicated than just being on/off switches. They have an Auto feature as well. Here is the correct Citation II engine start sequence: Push the engine start button. See Note 1. At 8/10% N2, bring the throttle out of cutoff (as you did, nice job, most RU-vidrs miss that) Ignition “on” (check green light). See Note 2. First Officer calls: "FUEL BOOST ON" First Officer calls: "FUEL PRESS LO" light extinguished First Officer calls: "Oil pressure rising" Light off within 10 seconds or abort the start ITT max 700C for 2 seconds. If higher abort the start N1 rotation by 20-25% N2 or abort the start 38% N2 starter cut out. See Note 3. Boost pump goes off automatically Ignition goes off automatically Note 1: At this time, you want to look at the top of the N1 engine gauge. Right above it is the engine instruments flood light. It should change intensity and you should be able to observe this intensity change. This happens when the engine flood lights switch over to their own battery power. This is part of the emergency lighting system. If the intensity doesn't change, most likely this flood light will extinguish. This indicates an emergency lighting system battery pack failure. You might as well abort the start...you're not going to fly today. You cannot fly without a good emergency lighting battery pack. Note 2: When you bring the throttle out of cutoff, you need to look at the ignition panel and a green light should illuminate. This indicates the ignition is on (the ignitor plug is sparking). If you don't see this green light, the engine will not start, so you might as well abort the start as soon as you observe no green light. The engine isn't going to light off. Note 3: At 38% N2 you need to verify starter cutout. If you don't get starter cutout, indicated by the big white round start button light remaining illuminated, just push the Starter Disengage button. You don't have to shutdown the engine as long as the starter disengages, manually in this case. In the training world, on an engine start, the First Officer only calls three items and nothing else. If anything else abnormal happens, the instructor will expect the PIC to notice it, call it out and take corrective action. After the first engine starts, you have to push up the throttle to 49%-50% before starting the second engine to get enough output from the generator for the start. If you don't, the second engine start may 'hang' on you and force you to abort the start. This is for a cross-generator start which is the normal procedure done. As an FYI, the two things almost all Citation II pilots fail to observe during initial pilot training in the simulator is (1) the green ignition light coming on during the engine start and (2) observing the emergency flood lights are still working during the engine start sequence. At 6:29 don't turn on Pitot heat until you've been cleared for take off. Why? Because there is a 2 min limitation for Pitot heat being on while on the ground. At 17:50 the flaps come up at V2 + 10 knots. The call is "V2 + 10 flaps up". You were ok to bring the flaps up where and when you did -- but -- when pilots come to school to get their Type Rating on the Citation II, they are taught when to call for flaps up after TO and it's V2 + 10 flaps up. If they are late on that call, the instructor will comment on that in the debrief. At 20:30 you were fine to press IAS mode. When pressed, the aircraft (with the autopilot on) will pitch to maintain the airspeed at the time you pressed IAS. After you did that, you moved the airspeed bug around and said you were changing the airspeed. The airspeed bug does NOTHING. It is for your visual reference only. It will not change the IAS airspeed. If it does, the system is modeled wrong. At 20:40 you have the autopilot off and you are hand flying the airplane. You made some changes to the FD Mode Control panel (selecting IAS mode, selecting altitude select). You said the aircraft will maintain etc. etc. Now this is important: The aircraft will NOT do any of that because the autopilot is off and YOU are hand flying the airplane. You have your Flight Director command bars displayed. Any changes you make on the FD Mode Control panel will be reflected in the FD command bars and it's YOU that must fly those command bars to get the results you have programmed in. This is an important point because you don't seem to realize who is flying the airplane when you said "...the aircraft will maintain airspeed, etc. etc." because at that point the autopilot was off. The reason this is important is because if you don't understand how the autopilot works with the FD Mode Control panel vs the Flight Director...you can kill yourself if you're flying hard IFR (flying in the clouds). The pilots who come to Type Rating school and fly the Citation II, if they said what you said at 20:40 on their check ride, the ride would be immediately over with a fail. An immediate bust. Game over. You'll need more avionics training before you can try again.

Great visibility on this model👍💥🛬

I just wish the GTN 750 was able to use updated AIRAC data from Navigraph. If you fly online, you may have some issues with old data. At least the XP FMS can be updated. To update the 750, you need a Garmin subscription which is hundreds of dollars.

Thanks for making this video. BTW Gyro is pronounced Jii-Row😄

Great Video, nice job on your first flight. I bought this but just downloded, havent flown yet. I think Ill pick up the GTN 750 as an accessory! Thank you! I subbed!

Very nice video and very good professionally explained I planed to buy it this week well done

Really good stuff, I used to fly a Citation Bravo in the real world since 4 years ago, but in the past I flew all Citation 500 series including the S550. I have to try this definitely, but it looks and feel real.

Nice job on a first flight.

Love this plan and have been flying it alot in X-Plane 11. Do you know if it will be available in x-Plane 12. I was told that X 11 will work in xplane 12- . some features will not work - such as landing gear toggle. Enjoy your post, Thanks

Good review of aircraft. Love that bird. But it really need the GTN750 which unfortunately still doesn't work with navigraph data.

Youre the first guy to explain releasing the throttle locks and positioning the levers for start. I spent a week trying to start this thing,nothing in the manual.Also.where can I purchase the garmin 750?

Very nice landing! Cool video

Really enjoyed this. Purchased both s555 and GTN750 a few days ago. However having major problems installing GTN750. Would you mind sharing your RealityXP.GTN.ini file. I think you would do many viewers a great favour.

The three numbers on the altitude is in the fl format like FL080 like in airliners

Thanks for this video. Great job. Carenado did not include much detail on the Engine Start checklist (nothing about the throttle locks, fuel boost, igniters, etc.) so it helped watching this so I could complete my own checklist. BTW, as you were landing, three smaller windows appeared at the bottom of your video. Is that something in X-Plane 11 or some other thing you did? That is one of the things I liked in P3D (additional windows) but I have not seen any way to do that in X-Plane. Thanks again!

Very well done and explained. Decided to buy!

I like your attitude. Nice video!

Very nice video, clearly understood all you said. Thx!

Does this flight simulator package come with all the flight training manuals including normal and emergency operating procedures with all checklist

Hi, how did you get the GNT750 into the 3D-panel?

Hi i need help to install GTN 750 in my S550 as possible. Thanks !

First of all....a Like from me.Secondly, I have a question.Did you loose FPS or performance by using the GTN 750....I have a Ge Force GTX 1660 Ti some hot goodies but since I bought the GTN my game fps goes from 22 to 45 all the time.I am c sick allready..You don`t have to but I would like your opinion.Thanx Blu...

Great video! Is there any chance to see the entire route on the Navigation Display as you can do on the 737 using Step switch?

You might want to turn the reflections down they effect the immersion

That was great, I like your style.

What camera controller did you use to "look around"? ie X-camera, EZdok?

Is there a reason my autopilot nav hold light says 'ARM' in yellow?

Wooohoo 6K

Does the GTN-750 pop out of the panel for close up viewing? Thanks!

After seeing the 550 and the new Premier One, its gonna be hard to go back to props! Luxury, prestige, and fast....not exactly the mark of a Cessna Skyhawk lol...the Cessna/Pipers will be for local flights only...are there no airport marker lights on approach? Or is that in the payware airports?

@BluGames I have just downloaded this airplane and it say’s I need to enter the serial number. Where would I go to find that number?

New to x plane 11.......how do u move back in the cabin???

If it’s VR native I’ll be picking it up ASAP.

the click/click must be done each time ?

Strobes/anticollision lights don't seem to work for my S550 any thoughts?

Just bought this plane recently and its been a lot of fun! But haven’t been able to get the autopilot to follow the flight plan even when I have the nav button on but it just says arm, any ideas about why I’m having this problem?

How can i put a GPS on my citation?

what xvision preset did you use?

Yaaaaaay

Nice video

i followed your flight but on my 750 it did not display TD or height levels ?

Also what tree pack is that? Those don’t look default.

why not VNAV down?

Are you using world traffic 3 for lake Tahoe?

It looks like a little boys tonka toy jet. So many gauges, switches compared to other jets...I like the Premier or Phenom 100 layout💥🤘🛬✈️🚁

FYI, according to The Google gyro is pronounced jyro, not guyro.

Hi blu