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Simubuild Airbus A340-500 FREEWARE

Simubuild was a developer back in 2002 with only a short lifetime. Their website has been closed for years now. They developed the two longest Airbus A340's: The A340-500 and -600. Originally developed for FS2002, this A340-500 still looks nice and works in FS2004 too. Like many other forgotten products, the number of paints available for this aircraft is limited. The flight dynamics seem ok, but the stabilisator trim animation is unrealistic. The horizontal stabilizer is moving too far up and down and looks really weird. Perhaps this is a result of the fact that this model has been developed for FS2002. Besides the trim problem, the aircraft flies alright. There is no virtual cockpit included, but a virtual passenger cabin instead. The wings are visible from the virtual cabin, so you can look out a window like a passenger would. 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 [?] : No Compatibility [?] : FS2004 & FSX Virtual Cockpit [?] : No, vc cabin Wingflex [?] : Yes, gear compression based Wingview [?] : Yes Landing gear behaviour [?] : Realistic, but sinking into runway Sound [?] : No Rudder effectiveness [?] : Realistic Download locations : AVSIM Library Simubuild A340-500 in Emirates livery (search for "a340-500_emirates.zip") WSPilots Simubuild A340-500 in Thai Airways livery Simubuild A340-500 model files only Liveries : AVSIM Library (search for "simubuild" in Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications)