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Not to be cute, but unless you have about 3 monitors and a king's fortune in VC enhancement hardware, your best bet is to create a 2D panel using an old Eaglesoft CJ1 panel bitmap, with resized Carenado CJ2 2D pop-ups overlayed.

Sounds like your climb schedule is the culprit. You're initial climb is probably 5,000 to 6,000 FPM, with the IAS decaying with altitude increase. This won't work in a CJ2. Initial climb rate should be about 3,000 FPM, maintaining 230 KIAS with power. When full power is reached, begin using VS to maintain 230 KIAS, until reaching Mach .55. Maintain Mach .55 until reaching the desired cruising altitude. Your VS will need to be continually reduced to maintain the Mach .55. It will look something like this: 3,000 FPM thru FL200 2,000 FPM thru FL350 1,000 FPM thru FL390 500 FPM to FL450 You can't just blast off in this airplane. You have to manage the IAS and VS. If not, you will run out of airspeed and energy well before reaching the airplane's max altitude.

Real world, it's a matter of relative costs of the avionics vs airframe. The most realistic would be an airplane that's somewhere between being too old to justify the expense, and not so new that it came out of a factory with a G1000 or Avidyne Entegra avionics suite. Given that there's few, if any Garmin add-ons for FSX that match the F1 GTN-750 in realism and capability, I've found that if you can find a suitable PFD, you can enlarge the GTN-750 to simulate a G1000 MFD rather easily with a panel editor. This is a means to justify using the GTN-750 in many different GA airplanes. Using this method, you'll also need to find some suitable engine gauges. Given, to my knowledge, there's no flyable Stratocruisers left in existence, and Delta never flew them, you're already well into the Twilight Zone. The GTN should fit right in.

I've pulled the G600 off the Carenado Seneca V, and I'm running it in a 2D window on the S550. It would be nice if the legacy Citation developers, would provide updated avionics in these airplanes. Very few of these are flying around with the original 30 year old panels. The Carenado S550 is a real box of horrors in that regard. With the G600 and F1 GTN, you can basically ignore everything else except the electrical, pressurization, and engine gauges. Somebody who knows this stuff, could clean that VC panel up, and integrate the G600. Find or design some Meggitt LCD engine monitors while your at it. Nobody's flying an old Citation around with as many CRT's as are in the Carenado model.

Solved it. I was landing with the yaw damper on. It seems this model is more realistic in that regard, than other FS aircraft. I never thought the YD did much in FS, but I guess Carenado has incorporated it into the flight model.

This is one of the easiest to hand fly FS airplanes I've encountered. However the ground handling is abysmal. Most noticeable being on landing rollout. I literally can't keep it on a 150 foot wide runway. Anyone else having this problem? Is there a parameter in the aircraft config file that can be edited to fix this? I tried reducing rudder sensitivity, since the rudder and nosewheel are interconnected, or should be anyway. This didn't do any good.

Don't know how realistically it's modeled in FS, but in real life the Avanti is renowned for being a runway hog. Not exactly suitable for short runways. I think he's looking for something that predates the Pro Line 21. I'm not an Eaglesoft fan, but their circa 1985 Citation II has conventional gauges with the exception of a Sandel ADI and HSI. This would come closer to meeting the short runway requirement than the 20/30 series Lears.

You have to use the mouse wheel. Clicking doesn't work. Took me awhile to figure this out too. Seems to be common with Carenado autopilots, as the CJ2 is the same way.

I stuck with FS9 for a decade, mainly because of all of the scare stories concerning FSX and the need for an expensive computer to run the thing. Recently, on a whim, I purchased FSX-SE. I have been running FS9 on a year old Dell off the shelf from Best Buy. 3.1 Intel dual core, 4MB, with the dreaded integrated video card. I have had the usual issues with FS9 and Win 8. But it has run decently with good FPS. I installed FSX-SE, and was presently surprised it runs better than FS9. I have bought a couple of Carenado airplanes, and Flight1's GTN-750. With this relatively basic computer, I'm still getting 30 FPS, even with the previously mentioned add-ons. All settings are in the mid-range. I'm very pleased with FSX-SE, and would highly recommend it.

No 500/550 series Citation has ever been produced with an APU. Nor, to my knowledge, has one ever been retrofitted. N1 fan speed is the limiting factor on the JT15D engine. If ITT exceeds redline, there's something internally wrong with the engine. With a properly functioning engine, if N1 is kept within limits according to OAT and altitude, so will ITT. I think you're confusing this with certain turboprops, where torque is the limiting factor until ITT increases with altitude and OAT, at which point ITT becomes the limiting factor.