From a simmer's perspective, there are a couple of things on the 310 that I think add a bit, even if they are kind of frills, that would be nice to have on the Bonanza and other planes.
Progressive dirt and visual wear on the external model is cool.
Also I believe on the 310 that if you don't put the engine covers and plugs in before quitting, the plane wears more before the next time you fly it. That is fun. (Wouldn't it be neat if the plane knew when it was in a hangar and wore even less?)
I recall that the Accu-Sim planes for P3D kept track of how long it had been since you last flew them, and recommended a fuel additive if you were going to let it sit for so long. I don't know if long periods of inactivity translated into more wear or higher chance of failure. But it would be another thing that would be fun to incorporate on an MSFS plane.
More seriously, I am still exploring the analog Bonanza to see if the engine systems appear to be properly modeled. For example, when leaning the engine. Leaning in flight is a controversial topic among RL pilots with disagreement over the method and whether EGT, CHT, RPM, airspeed, smooth running, or some combination of those should be used as a guide. Leaning on the ground is relatively simple, the consensus seems to be to lean to where the engine runs at the speeds you'll need for taxi, say 1100 or 1200, but quits if you add much more throttle. So you'd find that on your plane by progressively leaning it at 1100 and then running it up to 1500 until you find where it quits. On the stock Asobo planes, there is no such setting. I tried it on the stock 172, and even if I lean it to where it almost quits at 1100, I can still increase it to full throttle and it won't quit. That tells me there's no real modeling of the fuel system there, just a power and fuel flow curve applied to the mixture control. On the 310, the system works as in RL and you can accurately set the ground mixture that you want. I'm not sure about the Bonanza, I haven't done the test yet. But I did watch the video by VR Flight Sim Guy,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwPgrMtx-Lc, where he took off with the mixture still leaned for taxi (9:50). I was yelling at my screen when he did his cockpit check, "You forgot the mixture! You're gonna stall and die!" but his engine never missed a beat. (He never admitted that he took off with the mixture leaned, but you can see from the position of the mixture handle on his motion rig that he only enriched it at the 11:10 mark when climbing out.) Could be he didn't lean enough when on the ground to starve the engine at takeoff power; or, could be the Bonanza just pseudo-models the fuel system like the stock airplanes. I also haven't experimented enough to learn whether leaning in flight affects the temps as it should. If I find that it is possible to lean with reference to peak temps on the gauges, it will improve my opinion of the mod.
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