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Perfect Flight Fly the TriStar L-1011-500 PAYWARE

The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar is a medium to long range, wide body commercial passenger jet aircraft. In response to an American Airlines requirement for a medium range airliner smaller than the Boeing 747 that can operate on smaller airports, the development of the TriStar was launched in 1968. Initially, Lockheed studied a twin engine layout, but decided to develop a tri-engine layout instead to ensure it could takeoff at max weights from smaller runways. Despite the interest of American Airlines, they opted for the Douglas DC-10. Instead, Eastern Airliners became the launch customer with the first TriStar delivered to them on April 26, 1972. When the production of the TriStar ended in 1983, a total of 250 TriStar variants were built. Like many aircraft developed by Perfect Flight, the package is very complete, but the realism level is very low. The exterior looks ok, the 97 liveries are average quality, but the panel and virtual cockpit do not resemble the real TriStar cockpit. In the vc mode, you'll also find a good looking passenger cabin modeled, with the wings visible through the windows. Ground vehicles appear with the wingfold command. Some animations are not quite right: the stabilizer trim movement is not animated and the main landing gear is not realistic, because it is not flexible. The rear set of wheels make first contact with the runway, then the forward set of wheels should come down too, which is not happening until the nose wheel comes down. The flight dynamics are ok, although the climb performance is way too high for a classic aircraft. You can choose for the FS2004 or FSX version, but there is a free update for the FS2004 version that makes the aircraft flyable in FSX.

Panel [?] : Yes Compatibility [?] : FS2004 & FSX Virtual Cockpit [?] : Yes Wingflex [?] : No Wingview [?] : Yes Landing gear behaviour [?] : Unrealistic, see review above Sound [?] : Yes Rudder effectiveness [?] : Realistic Pros : - Complete package, many liveries - Nice virtual passenger cabin incl. wingview - Ground service vehicles Cons : - Too much climb performance - Simple panel and virtual cockpit - The stabilizer trim movement is not animated - Unrealistic main landing gear Product location : Perfect Flight website Liveries : AVSIM Library (search for the file "pf_l1011_eal.zip" for two Eastern Airlines liveries)

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