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Project Open Sky Airbus A330-300 FREEWARE

Project Open Sky, is a freeware aircraft developer group that has been around for some time. They developed many aircraft models for FS2002 and FS2004, mostly Boeing aircraft. This Airbus A330-300 is a fine aircraft and it does represent the A330-300 well. The base package contains the effect files and wingview models in three different engine variants. The Airbus house colors paint is included with each engine variant. For a panel and virtual cockpit, you need to download the vc package, which contains the vc models of each engine variant, the vc textures, gauges, modules and the 2d panel (by Eric Marciano). All usual animations are present, like dynamic flexing wings, animated tilting bogies, reflective cockpit windows, crash effects, dynamic shine, opening passenger and cargo doors, condensation effects, and much more. At startup, the A330-300 is a bit overloaded: 12255 pounds over gross weight. For takeoff, you need to decrease the payload. During the takeoff, initial climb, final approach and landing phases of flight, you have to be careful with the stabilizer trim. The trim function is unrealistically fast, which results in extreme up or down movements of the nose. Also, the stabilizer trim is not animated, so it's not visible in the spotview or towerview. And finally, like the FlightCraft A330-200, the main landing gear is sinking into the runway when landing. This is a common problem in FS2004 for a main landing gear sets with four-wheel bogies or more. In this case the result is realistic behaviour of the landing gear, but the lower wheels sink into the ground first.

Panel [?] : Yes Compatibility [?] : FS2004 Virtual Cockpit [?] : Yes Wingflex [?] : Yes, gear compression based Wingview [?] : Yes Landing gear behaviour [?] : Realistic, but sinking into runway Sound [?] : No Rudder effectiveness [?] : Realistic Download locations : Project Open Sky website Liveries : Project Open Sky website AVSIM Library (search in Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications)