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Abacus Fly the Airbus Fleet A310-300 PAYWARE

This Abacus package contains six aircraft: Airbus A310-300, A319-100, A320-200, A330-300, A340-600 and the A350-800. The package comes with one sound set, which is used by all six aircraft. Like the other aircraft in the package, the A310-300 is not a work of art. Although the exterior model looks all right (only a General Electric powered model), the liveries are not very well done. For example, the clearly visible grey lines are not very appealing, the top-side of the wing is too dark and there is no registration on the bottom of the wing. Also, some animations are off or are not present at all. The stabilizer trim is not animated and the landing gear is not at the right angle and doesn't have suspension. The flight dynamics are not that good either. It seems that an extreme high trim setting is required to successfully rotate the aircraft. The approach and landing suffers from the trim problem as well, you need to trim all the way up and pull back the stick to prevent a nose down attitude on approach. Also, the aircraft is not stable on the ILS. It's best to follow the glide scope manually, because the autopilot seems not be able to keep the aircraft on the glide path. The 2d panels and the virtual cockpit are simple and don't look like the real A310 cockpit. Instead of typical Airbus systems, flap settings, auto brake, etc, many buttons and handles do look like (and work like) the ones used in the FS2004 default (Boeing) panels. Don't expect systems like TCAS and GPWS, those are simply not modeled. A simple FMC can be used to load FS flight plans and execute them in order to auto navigate on IFR flights. Some nice features are: A passenger cabin which is fully modeled into the virtual cockpit. The default viewpoint in the virtual cockpit mode is the virtual cockpit itself, but with a small program called 'Cabin Views' you can set other viewpoints in the virtual cockpit, like 'Rear Coach Seating' and 'Forward Business Class'. Also, the wings and engines are visible from the cabin windows. With the wing fold command, air stairs, a fuel truck and baggage carts show up around the aircraft. The engine sounds are great, both the internal and external sound, and it resembles the A310 General Electric engine sound quite well. However, the other five aircraft in this package would benefit from separate sound sets, because the A310 General Electric CF6-80C2 engines sound different than the CFM or Rolls-Royce engines of the other aircraft. The 48 pages pdf manual is well written and covers the features of all six aircraft in a user-friendly way.

Panel [?] : Yes Compatibility [?] : FS2004 & FSX Virtual Cockpit [?] : Yes Wingflex [?] : No Wingview [?] : Yes Landing gear behaviour [?] : Unrealistic, no suspention Sound [?] : Yes Rudder effectiveness [?] : Realistic Pros : - Virtual passenger cabin - Dynamic scenery like air stairs, fuel truck, etc - Nice engine sounds Cons : - Only the General Electric powered version modeled - Crappy liveries - The stabilizer trim is not animated on the exterior - The stabilizer trim is unable to prevent a nose down attitude on approach - Not stable on the ILS - The landing gear is not at the right angle and doesn't have suspension - Simple panel and vc: doesn't look like the real A310 cockpit Product location : Abacus website Liveries : AVSIM Library (search for "abacus airbus" in Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications)

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