The PW127B turboprop engine installation is very good and highly authentic to the aircraft, highlights are the excellent if perfect exhaust outlets. The 1960's F27 Friendship feel is still in here as well with the upright cockpit and high-wing low slung fuselage. and all this comes without the framerate penalty either, it is so really impressive. My texture quality settings are only set at "high" and yet I get this excellent quality and it all comes as well with ultra-realistic materials renditions of dynamic reflections, realistic metal and dielectric materials. You see all the construction detail with rivets and paneling as per perfection and the slight aerodynamic aides that run along the fuselage that give the aircraft that hull feel.Ĭarenado use pro-gaming soft ware to create high-end 4k PBR (Physically-based Rendering) graphics on the aircraft and it shows. Modeling and design are hallmarks of what you get with Carenado aircraft, and you will certainly not be disappointed with this Fokker. We always hoped that atgcab would have done a complete redesign of the aircraft but it never sadly happened and considering his excellent MD88 you could only imagine of what that aircraft could have been like, so is this Carenado F50 a consolation prize, well certainly that is absolutely not the case as the features and quality are as good and even better in many areas. There is atgcab's F27 (known as Rotate) that was a devil to fly, but it did only have a semi-functional 3d cockpit. The SAAB 340 may seem as a direct competitor to the F50, being a twin turboprop, but it only carries 34 passengers compared to the F50's 46 to 56 capacity, as noted speeds are about the same (S340 - 467 km (290 mph, 252 kn) at 7,620 m (25,000 ft), but the F50 is obviously faster point to point, but there would be no doubt they would fly together on the same routes and schedules.Įxternally the Carenado F50 is excellent, and finally we have a quality F27/F50 in our X-Plane simulator. So there was no doubt a lot of anticipation for another brilliant short haul regional aircraft and one based on the legendary F27 as well. Takeoff weight 19,773 kg (43,592 lb) was however increased to 20,820 kg (45,900 lb) for the F50.Įarlier this year Carenado released their version of the SAAB 340, and this was a truly outstanding aircraft, and one that is still in the running for aircraft of the year. Speeds for the F50 are 565 km (351 mph, 305 kn) with a general cruise speed of 500 km/h (310 mph, 270 kn) which was also slightly faster than the Darts at 460 km (290 mph, 250 kn). Various different propeller designs were also adopted over the same time span of the aircraft's production with the best outcome with the six-bladed Dowty Rotol composite propellers, while an increasing proportion of composite materials were used in the airframe with adjustments to the wing design, and a higher degree of cockpit automation were other areas of major advances of the Fokker 50 over its predecessor. As a result of these modifications, such as the adoption of Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127B turboprop engines (1,864kW (2,500 hp) each over the older Rolls Royce Darts Turboprop (1,678 kW (2,250 hp)), Fokker was then able to progressively reduce the F27's fuel consumption by 30 per cent. Not really a totally brand new aircraft as the Fokker 50 was basically an amalgamation of all various refinements and improvements which had been made to the design of the F27 Friendship over the years.
So how do you replace such a legendary aircraft against the newer and jet powered designs. The F27 was first flown in 1955 and then entered service in 1958 and as nearly 600 Friendships were built the and aircraft was well into production even until 1987. In the 50 seater commercial aircraft market that is currently dominated by CRJ550 and the Embraer 145 in jets and the Dash 8 and ATR in props, there was before this regional era no other aircraft for decades to compete against the Fokker F27 Friendship, as this was an aircraft that absolutely totally ruled this short but light route market. Aircraft Review : Fokker 50 XPlane 11 by Carenado
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