Following the release of the latest World Update, the Microsoft Flight Simulator Team has taken to its social media to announce the release of a new Local Legend: The CAP-4 Paulistinha, a Brazilian-built airplane born in the Golden Age of Flight, is now ready to explore the skies of MSFS 2020 & 2024.
The CAP-4 Paulistinha
The CAP-4 is a light aircraft powered by a Franklin 4AC 4-cylinder, air-cooled, flat-four piston engine that produces up to 65 horsepower with an engine that turns a fixed-pitch, 2-blade, wood propeller. Having a range of 310 miles, a service ceiling of 13,000 feet, and a climb rate of 610 feet per minute, the aircraft is also relatively fast, cruising at a velocity of 87 miles per hour.
Flown primarily in Brazil, the country where it was built, the CAP-4 was also exported to other South American countries such as Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The aircraft, both acquired by civil and military customers, not only served mainly as a training aircraft, but also as a general-purpose one.
Introducing The CAP-4 Paulistinha to MSFS
With the help of iniBuilds, Microsoft Flight Simulator has accurately reproduced the CAP-4 Paulistinha for pilots to fly all over the world in MSFS 2024 with no extra charge. According to Microsoft Flight Simulator, aviators will find it “wonderfully versatile,” given that the aircraft is capable of operating not only from the world’s largest airports, but also from hidden airfields in the bush.
The aircraft comes with six liveries: N505, PP-HCP, PP-HIY, PP-HLJ, PP-TJR, and PT-ZGA. The team has communicated that the CAP-4 is one of the four aircraft that were promised to MSFS 2024’s customers as a compensation for the issues the simulator had during its launch. Although, as mentioned earlier, the plane is free for MSFS 2024 users, it costs $14.99 in the MSFS 2020’s in-sim marketplace.
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