This model represents yet another a major leap forward in core technology used by Thranda, refining features that have been around in Thranda
products for a while, but giving them a markedly more robust and refined feel. This plane is a continuation of Thranda’s "
Dynamic Generation Series", and we call it "DGS+", because of the significant leap in customization we are now moving toward.
More about the DGS+ Series
The Beechcraft V35B Bonanza is a single-engine, piston-powered general aviation aircraft produced by Beechcraft, an American manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas. Celebrated for its elegant styling, impressive performance, and versatility, the V35B remains a favorite among private owners, instructors, and cross-country travelers. It boasts a low-wing design paired with retractable tricycle landing gear, making it well-suited for operations from both paved and unpaved airstrips. It has the distinction of the longest continuous production run of any aircraft in history. The V-tail V35 series debuted in 1966, with the refined V35B variant introduced in 1970 and produced through 1982, with approximately 1,335 units built.
Special features:
- ALL NEW: every instrument screen, pop-up, and ThrandaPad have been re-written in X-Plane's latest FBO (Frame Buffer Object) architecture:
- Run component's logic once per frame (not twice, as before, which was wasting resources)
- No de-synchronization issues (where 2D and 3D content doesn't match)
- Once a texture is drawn in the FBO, it just gets "mirrored" onto 2D and 3D
- More optimized and in line with X-Plane's new core architecture
- Visual coherence: same pop-up style as X-Plane's internal one.
- Reduce and centralize Lua logic; run more on JSON one-time component calls.
- More user-facing customizability
- Lazy loading. (Load only what's needed, when it's needed, saving resources).
- Increased modularity: core logic is now a series of expanding tables.
- "LEGO block" style authoring of increasingly complex components.
- Possibility for real-time in-sim authoring, and WYSIWYG interface.
- FULLY configurable 3D instrument panel.
- Over 60 instruments to choose from! (Including Aspen EFD 1000, and support for TDS GTN650 and GTN750)
- Move any instrument to any location on the panel, or even between pilot and copilot's panel! (Might require adjustment of default lighting knob)
- New and improved technology for the display of instruments that are embedded within the panel, achieving a sleek finished look while maintaining complete instrument configurability/mobility.
- Comes with 5 panel presets, but can easily be expanded by moving instruments around, using a simple and intuitive interface.
- Save your own presets, and even share them with the community!
- Instruments can be moved in 3D directly, on a 2D pop-up preview window, or by numerical entry for precise placement, in a completely re-written panel editor software.
- New multi-digit scroll manipulators throughout the interface: more intuitive, unified look and feel, and much more flexibility in using mouse scroll to edit values, from very small to very large.
- GNS430 and 530 can be swapped out, but a restart of the plane is required, as 430s and 530s are mutually exclusive in terms of compatibility in X-Plane
- Dynamic livery editor (like in the F33A, the Kodiak, the Beaver, the Wilga, the Islander, the C337, the C172, the C206, the C208 Caravan, the Pilatus PC-6, and the Pilatus PC-12)
- Full PBR control! Create stunning metallic liveries, or matte, sand-blasted look in mere seconds! (Applying the color scheme to the livery may take a few seconds to around a minute, depending on hardware).
- Completely re-written dynamic livery interface with 4 design presets and 40 ready-to-apply liveries, with the ability of almost unlimited variants.
- New color wheel makes selecting colors for the paint scheme much more intuitive and nuanced, greatly enhancing usability and favoring creativity in livery design.
- Additional control over dirt/grime, adjustable in real-time to dial in the exact desired amount of wear and tear.
- Create "virtual" liveries, based on four common design layouts, and assign any color to any available paint segment.
- Quickly create a 3D preview of livery in real-time, using intuitive controls. Previews include visualization of metallic materials and dirt overlays.
- Apply selected livery in real-time, right in the sim, without the need to even touch a 3rd party image editor!
- Application of design to textures now proceeds in stages, with further information about the process, options, and settings in each pop-up window.
- Ability to down-scale to 4k, 2k, or 1k any dynamic livery design.
- Ability to process the dynamic livery output using the computer's CPU or GPU, configurable in the UEFB (Universal Electronic Flight Bag)
- Choose between percent-based (0-100%) or 255-based RGB value entry for the scroll manipulators.
- Option to change the tail number in real-time, or disable it altogether. (Enter a "space" instead of a callsign number to create a blank tail number.)
- Tail number now gets rasterized directly into the plane's livery texture, as opposed to being assigned a separate texture space on a decal.
- This also allows for saving of entire ready-made liveries, to the plane's default "liveries" folder, with the ability to easily share it with the community.
- The tailnumber texture can now be moved, rotated, and resized, as well as the font can be altered on a per-livery basis.
- Easily and quickly create dozens of paint schemes in-sim!
- Also supports 5 traditionally painted liveries, all visible in a convenient pre-selection preview window inside the EFB (Tablet).
- Package size greatly reduced, while adding more livery variety options than ever before!
- Uses SkunkCrafts Updater.
- Excellent hi-res PBR realistic materials, featuring true-to-life plate deformation and to-the-rivet precision.
- Features Continental IO-520-B engine with precisely modelled behavior.
- Rain visualization
- Implementation of latest lighting technology in X-Plane, including per-instrument post lighting with 3D spill lights, hot-swappable with an "easier-on-FPS" LED strip under the glare shield setup.
- Glass parts done in 8k textures
Feature-rich Universal Electronic Flight Bag (ThrandaPad) with pop-up/pop-out capability with the following features:
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- Use it in 3D: you can move it from the pilot's side to the copilot's side, mount it on the pilot’s or copilot’s yoke, or disable it completely in 3D. Mounted on a swivel when mounted on windows, for convenient viewing angle.
- Use it as a 2D pop-up window, or pop the window out onto a secondary screen.
- Use it in VR in either mode.
- Control the brightness of the EFB in 3D or 2D
- Intuitively set up like an iPad with different apps, all documented in the included manual.
- Expandable: Create your apps with ease, without knowing code, and without needing access to the source code!
- "Universal", because this represents a new generation of Thranda-powered EFB "OS" that allows for the addition of future software and integration of other 3rd party software (such as AviTab, and more in the future).
Here's a list of the apps in the EFB, and how they work:
Aircraft Options App:
- Control over chocks, tie-downs, and engine covers
- Control over the electric tug
- Window reflections on or off
- Instrument reflections on or off
- Startup running or cold and dark
- Ground Power Unit (GPU) option
- Control over chocks and tie-downs
- Control over covers
- Control over exterior and interior lights via a schematic of the plane.
- Control over doors
- Master control over all exterior lights simultaneously
- Master control over all interior lights simultaneously
Weight and Balance app
- Full control over aircraft's weight and balance.
- Control weights on a per-seat basis, or dial in the desired total, and the desired CoG directly.
- Hover mouse over main passenger/pilot area to reveal seats and loading parameters
- Control weight in each seat by scrolling over each seat
- Control fuel quantities in the wing tanks by simply scrolling over the wing tank with the mouse.
- Senses tip tank presence.
- Add weight to the copilot's seat, and the copilot shows up.
- Switch between Lbs and Kg.
- Preview weight and balance on a graph
- Load preset configurations, and save them to disc for later use.
- New scroll implementation makes for very intuitive and quick adjustments.
Dynamic Panel app
- Move any instrument to any location on the panel, or even between pilot and copilot's seat, on the pedestal
- Supports 3rd party RealityXP AND TDS GTN650 and GTN750 instruments, also fully configurable
- Can now be configured with two 650 bezels or two 750 bezels, or a mix of 650s and 750s, no matter if by RealityXP or by TDS.
- Save your own presets, and even share them with the community!
- 2 operating modes: Layout page and Individual Instrument page. Move instruments around a virtual panel layout or use numerical entry for precision placement.
- Individual instrument page now features "cover flow" style instrument selection, and more common design features with main panel layout.
- UNDO now supported!
- Revert-to-last-saved also supported.
- Also allows for control over instrument placement in 3D space, via special click spots that are made visible in edit mode.
- GNS430 and 530 can be swapped out, but a restart of the plane is required, as 430s and 530s are mutually exclusive in terms of compatibility.
- Supports G1000 configurations
- Several preset panel configurations, showcasing different layouts and instrument equipment.
- Includes 5 panel configurations, with different backgrounds, lighting configurations, instrument options, etc. Even circuit breakers and switches are configurable via this flexible instrument and panel configuration system.
Static Livery app
- Preview available liveries and tailnumbers by scrolling over the plane.
- Apply dirt dynamically, in real-time!
- Also supports 5 traditionally painted liveries, in all their full 8k glory!
- Compatible with custom liveries. (Folder names should be named the same as the registration number, and the plugin picks that up as the livery's name.)
- Watch for new directory structure, however: livery folders go a bit deeper than in past products, as a new organizational structure has been implemented.
DynaFeel app
- Dial in exactly how difficult you think the controls should be.
- This simulates different pilot's physique and strength. (Stronger pilots can put more pressure on controls, and hold full deflection at higher speeds).
Log Book App
- Calls up Laminar's log book within the ThrandaPad's own display window.
- Log your flights and track your virtual adventures.
Checklist App
- Very complete and accurate checklist, matching the one in the user manual, and allowing for the ticking off of boxes of completed items.
- Completely re-written app, now supports "click-and-drag" to quickly select entire pages of checklist items.
- Navigate the many pages by using the scroll hotspot, now spanning the entire canvas.
Ground Handling App
- All-new app featuring 4-in 1:
- Preflight/Securing: Control covers, chocks, and tie-downs from here.
- Audio/Slew: Bringing back and improved upon the in-sim audio mixer, as well as slew control, which has been rewritten and made smarter.
- Ground Ops: Check on fuel, control external power, enable tug
- Control the cameras assigned to the NumPad. Expandable in the future, to include more snap points.
Dynamic Livery app
- Create "virtual" liveries, based on one common design layout, and assign any color to any available paint segment.
- Supports control over roughness and metalness
- Add dirt to your dynamic livery, and save these settings along with your livery preset.
- Quickly create preview of livery in real-time, using intuitive controls
- Apply selected livery in real-time (Granted, with these huge textures, it may be a bit of a wait... but no external graphics software required!)
- All-new C++ helper plugin, used to process textures more quickly. (Auto-fallback to Lua, if there's any problems)
- Option to change the tail number in real-time, or disable it altogether
- Easily and quickly create dozens of paint schemes in-sim!
- New color wheel for quick and intuitive color selection
- New copy-and-paste feature, which allows for the copying of exact RGB values from one color index to another.
- Add new liveries and alter them. Save them as rasterized liveries in your plane's "Liveries" folder, for later use (via the familiar livery switching method, default to X-Plane).
- Select export options for liveries, such as 4k, 2k, 1k, and even process them with Anti-Aliasing (experimental)
- Select whether to process liveries using CPU or GPU on the computer (CPU is more stable, more compatible with Zink, GPU could be faster, but uses more video card resources.)
Flight Computer App
- Easily visible data like OAT, Groundspeed, Endurance (HH, MM), Range, NMPG, altitude data, airspeed data, Fuel Flow, used fuel, headwind and crosswind component data.
Equipment App
- Select optional tip tanks (which have an effect on flight dynamics, drag, moment of inertia, fuel weight, etc.)
- Add Fuel Window to tip tanks.
- Select tinted windows for the rear.
- Swap Pilots: Choose whether the pilot in command is male or female
AviTab App (optional)
- If AviTab (freeware plugin) is installed, it can be viewed inside the tablet, or as a pop-up window.
SkunkCrafts Updater
- Thranda recommends using the standalone SkunkCrafts Updater app, to stay up-to-date on the latest versions of the plane.
- It also includes a (more limited) version of the SkunkCrafts Updater inside the ThrandaPad. The reason it is more limited is because while the plane is open, the updater cannot access certain files. (It will auto-launch the external version of the SkunkCrafts Updater, if available).
Flight dynamics and systems:
- Detailed and accurate flight dynamics and weight and balance with the help of real-world V35B pilots. This not only gives this aircraft the proper "feel", but also accurate takeoff, climb, cruise, and landing performance.
- The Bonanza's refined aerodynamics and retractable landing gear make it a joy to fly, but there are flight envelopes in which this plane can be a bit unpredictable.
- The V35B features a detailed electrical system, including bus tie breakers and failure modes, batteries, avionics busses, generator, starter, external power (GPU), in this case, a little unit that sits on the wing.
- Tie-downs and chocks actually keep the plane from moving, even in high winds.
Advanced FMOD-based sound system:
- High fidelity, multi-track sounds with smooth transitions and amazing atmospheric effects.
- Different sounds for front of plane than for back of plane
- Panning around the plane in exterior view yields awesome 3D audio effects, including "blade slapping" sound when view is perpendicular to prop.
- Individual buttons and switches in the cockpit each have their own unique sound.
- Sounds actually give you clues as to what's happening under the hood… such as electrical load on the busses, hooking up the GPU, etc.
- Outside wind intensity is affected by slip and AoA. (The more the surface area of the fuselage is hit by oncoming wind, the louder the sounds)
Thranda’s implementation of the V35B is the first in a new series of aircraft that makes use of a completely new logic operating system for the tablet (now called "ThrandaPad"), as well as the logic that drives all the instruments and their respective pop-up windows, which allows for enormous flexibility in configuration and customization. It still provides support for 3rd party add-ons, like both TDS’s new and RealityXP’s GTN650 and 750 units, as well as AviTab, and makes use of 8k textures throughout the plane, ensuring extreme detail and fidelity to the original. 5 static liveries are included, but the dynamic livery editor can be used inside the sim to reconfigure 4 further paint scheme variants in many different colors. The new dynamic livery editor features an improved user interface, as well as the option to scale, anti-alias, and save created liveries. Additional software has been added to the ThrandaPad tablet, including a new JSON file browser, an Engine Configuration app, a built-in version of the SkunkCrafts Updater, and a sandbox app that lets users edit and configure Pop-up windows for instruments.
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