Carenado B1900 HD Series on Linux

The Beechcraft 1900 is a 19-passenger, pressurised twin-engine turboprop fixed-wing aircraft. It was designed, and is primarily used, as a regional airliner. It is also used as a freight aircraft, corporate transport, and by the United States military and other governments. The aircraft is designed to carry passengers in all weather conditions from airports with relatively short runways. It is capable of flying in excess of 600 miles (970 km). In terms of the number of aircraft built and its continued use by many passenger airlines and other users, it is one of the most popular 19-passenger airliners in history (Wikipedia)

Performance
Cruise speed: 280 knots (518 km/h, 322 mph) at 20,000 ft (6,100 m) : Range: 707 km with 19 passenger payload (439 mi) : Ferry range: 2,306 km (1,432 mi) : Service ceiling: 25,000 ft (7,620 m) : Rate of climb: 2,615 ft/min (797 m/min)

View from the left wing

Best Viewed Full Screen

in the air

Features

• HD quality textures
• 3D gauges
• Original HQ digital stereo sounds recorded directly from the real aircraft
• 3D stereo effects, such as outside sounds entering open windows.
• Customisable panel for controlling window transparency, instrument reflections and static elements such as wheel chocks and turbine inlet/exhaust covers.
• Realistic behaviour compared to the real aeroplane. Realistic weight and balance. Tested by real pilots.
• Realistic 3D night lights effects on panel and cockpit.
• Individual passenger 3D reading lights and numerous HDR lighting effects.
• Dynamic loading/unloading of 3D parts and plug-in logic for FPS optimisation.
• Ice and Rain effects

 

Just the tip

First impressions

The detail of this aircraft is incredible, it is possible to view the dials and buttons from a distance without being too small and pixilated and there is an option to use the mouse scroll to adjust the dials, which if you don't own a Saitek Pro Flight Radio Panel or Saitek Pro Flight Multi Panel could be a life saver if you don't like the click and drag approach. The Audio is pretty impressive also, the audio changes depending where in the aircraft you "seated"  and when the pilots window is opened the volume gets louder. I could certainly hear that they paid much attention to the audio not just the graphics on this aircraft.

inside the B1900

The first flight of this aircraft was a dismal failure due to user error, the high simulation detail of the aircraft and firstly I skimmed the documentation and then I forgot to pull back on the throttle and after running at ~98% for 20min and not turning on auto feather caused the engines to catch fire.

My second flight from EGNM to EGCC was far more successful, this aeroplane is a beauty to fly. once off the ground and the GPS is set she more or less flies herself, with only slight adjustments for feathering.

The GPS is the built in GPS module from X-plane 10.30, there is also a custom auto pilot panel allowing easy and quick access to the panels without looking away from the instruments as much, there is a nice youtube tutorial on the real hardware the GPS is based upon here and how to use it.

Auto-Pilot stack on the left, GPS module on the Right

Linux 
Carenado support Gnu/Linux and this aircraft was tested using X-Plane 10.30 on steam running on Fedora Linux, Arch Linux and Debian Linux. using the KDE Desktop. They all worked out of the box with no issue, thus nothing to report here. it works as it should even with the Saitek Panel

Purchased from X-plane.org store
http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=571


Test System

NVIDIA GTX 970 4GiB
Asus z87-Pro Mother Board
16GB RAM
2TB HDD /home
500GB HDD system drive
 

sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_1900
http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=571