Lancair Legacy
The Lancair Legacy for MSFS 2024 has been developed to bring this fast, highly customized aircraft into the simulator with multiple configurations, realistic handling, and a deeper ownership experience. The package includes the standard Lancair Legacy glass cockpit, an analog panel version, and the award-winning StarHawk Legacy, each offered in both turbocharged and naturally aspirated configurations.
This project was created in collaboration with 3DR, who produced an amazing exterior and in... The Lancair Legacy for MSFS 2024 has been developed to bring this fast, highly customized aircraft into the simulator with multiple configurations, realistic handling, and a deeper ownership experience. The package includes the standard Lancair Legacy glass cockpit, an analog panel version, and the award-winning StarHawk Legacy, each offered in both turbocharged and naturally aspirated configurations.
This project was created in collaboration with 3DR, who produced an amazing exterior and interior model with photorealistic textures. We also worked directly with the owner of STARHAWK, a Lancair Legacy celebrated for its extensive refinements, earning EAA Grand Champion honors as well as the prestigious Stan Dzik Memorial Award for Outstanding Design Contribution. STARHAWK’s builder provided extensive design information, 3D scans, photos, videos, sound recordings, performance analyses, and direct participation in flight dynamics and handling development. This close involvement, along with additional scanning by Flysimware, allowed us to capture the aircraft with exceptional accuracy, from exterior details to cockpit switches, knobs, controls, and system behavior.
The sound package was developed with SimAcoustics, using recordings from a real Lancair Legacy to create a highly accurate engine sound experience. From startup to cruise power, the goal was to capture the unique character of the aircraft and bring the user closer to the real machine.
A major part of this product is our new TrueSim technology, designed to give us deeper control over how the aircraft behaves beyond the default simulator systems. TrueSim allows us to model engine behavior, turbocharged mixture logic, fuel system behavior, failures, maintenance, and wear-and-tear in a more realistic way, so the aircraft does not always behave as if every component is perfectly healthy. For users who prefer a simpler experience, these realism features can be adjusted or disabled.
The turbocharged variants include custom mixture and supercharger-style logic designed to create more realistic high-altitude operation. This helps the aircraft respond more naturally as altitude, RPM, and power settings change, including the need to properly manage and lean the mixture during high-altitude flight.
The aircraft tablet is integrated into the default MSFS 2024 EFB environment and includes several pages for aircraft setup, failures, maintenance, and system management. Users can manage the aircraft’s condition, service wear items, wash dirt and debris from the exterior, service tire-related conditions, and handle failure options directly through the tablet. The included fuel page also allows fueling from any airport location, giving users more flexibility than the default simulator fueling system.
Ground service behavior has also been expanded beyond simple default simulator functions. Fuel truck and GPU-related ground support are handled with custom logic, helping the aircraft feel more alive while parked, serviced, or prepared for flight.
The Legacy also uses modern MSFS 2024 systems, including modern fuel, hydraulic, and electrical systems built to closely match the real aircraft. The electrical system includes real-world circuits, fuses, and circuit breakers depending on the selected variant, with glass panel versions using fuses and analog panel versions using circuit breakers. Glass panel variants also include fuse drawer behavior, with failed fuses able to illuminate for easier troubleshooting. These systems are designed around the real aircraft layout rather than simplified default behavior.
The real Lancair Legacy uses free-castering nosewheel steering, which requires differential braking and proper rudder pedal hardware for realistic ground handling. To make the aircraft enjoyable for more users, we are also including steering-enabled variants for pilots who do not have toe brakes or prefer a simpler ground handling setup. This allows users to choose the level of realism that best matches their hardware and flying style.
To improve compatibility with a wide range of flight simulation hardware, the aircraft also includes Flysimware’s integrated hardware binding interface using the default in games panel. This system allows users to assign custom aircraft controls and modern MSFS 2024 systems directly to their hardware without requiring third-party LVAR binding utilities. It also restores access to custom functions that are not available through the simulator’s default control assignments, providing a more complete hardware integration experience.
Features
- 4K full PBR textures
- Advanced MSFS 2024 flight model physics with CFD-based aerodynamic handling
- Interactive Wwise environment sounds with SimAcoustics engine audio
- Glass and analog cockpit configurations
- Turbocharged and naturally aspirated engine configurations
- Starhawk configuration with propeller feathering
- Custom turbocharged mixture logic for realistic high-altitude operation using our new TrueSim technology
- New TrueSim technology for advanced engine behavior, fuel system logic, failures, maintenance, and component wear
- Optional realism settings for users who prefer simpler aircraft operation
- Free Flight failure system with MTBF, speed-based, and scheduled failure modes
- Save-state support for many switches, aircraft options, and supported systems
- Modern fuel, modern hydraulic, and modern electrical system using the new MSFS 2024 simulation
- Functional circuits, fuses, and circuit breakers appropriate to the selected cockpit configuration
- Glass-panel fuse drawer simulation with failed-fuse illumination for troubleshooting
- Realistic castering nosewheel variants for users with toe brakes
- Steering-enabled variants for users without toe brakes or who prefer simpler ground handling
- Tablet app integrated into the default MSFS 2024 tablet environment
- Tablet controls for failures, component wear, maintenance, aircraft setup, and aircraft management
- Aircraft surface cleaning, servicing, and maintenance features
- Rain can gradually clean the aircraft depending on weather intensity and aircraft movement
- Windshield rain, surface rain, bloom, exterior icing, dirt, dust, and mud effects
- Interactive ground fueling and GPU support
- Preflight equipment includes chocks, engine plugs, pitot cover, removable nacelles, and control-surface inspections
- Ground equipment can be removed before flight and restored after landing
- Deflated tires feature visible sidewall bulging and animated rolling deformation
- Cabin temperature simulation with air conditioning, heat, canopy ventilation, and weather-influenced behavior
- Defrost mode uses cabin heat to help remove windshield and canopy ice
- Integrated Hardware Bindings interface for assigning custom aircraft switches and controls through the default in-game EFB without third-party LVAR binding software
Model Variation
Includes 36 total aircraft variations.
Glass Cockpit Configurations
- Legacy Glass — G3X GTN 750
- Legacy Glass — G3X GTN 750Xi
- Legacy Starhawk — G3X with GTN 750
- Legacy Starhawk — G3X with GTN 750Xi
Analog Cockpit Configurations
- Legacy Analog — GTN 750
- Legacy Analog — GTN 750Xi
- Legacy Analog — GNS 430
- Legacy Analog — Avidyne IFD5
- Legacy Analog — No GPS
Avionic Variation
- PMS50 GTN 750 GPS integration (Requires PMS 50 GTN750 product) (PC-Payware/Freeware)(Xbox-Light version)
- TDS GTN 750Xi GPS integration (Requires TDS GTN750Xi product) (PC-Payware Only!)
- Working Title GNS 430 integration — Analog cockpit configuration
- Working Title Avidyne IFD integration — Analog cockpit configuration
- Traditional no-GPS analog configuration with dual KX-155 NAV/COM radios
Paint Themes
- StarHawk livery N321TF
- Legacy livery C-GPHL
- Legacy livery N2AA
- Legacy livery N26XY
- Legacy livery N122LL
- Legacy livery N299L
- Legacy livery N315WP
- Legacy livery N345LA
- Legacy livery N550AW
- Legacy livery N707MM
- Legacy livery ZU-LEG
