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Downloads / Aircraft List / Commercial Jets : McDonnell Douglas / iFDG MD-11
| International Flightsim Design Group (iFDG) MD-11 |
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iFDG's McDonnell Douglas MD-11 was released back in 2003 and updated to version 1.5 in August 2004. Like all iFDG's aircraft, this one doesn't have a panel, virtual cockpit and engine sound, so you need to use one of the default panels and sound or download them yourself.
The exterior model looks great and all the usual animations are present. The flight dynamics are well balanced, flying this aircraft feels like a heavy aircraft should feel. Unfortunately, the main landing gear is at the wrong angle and not flexible like the one of the Overland model. Although the rudder is effective, it doesn't move as long as the aircraft is on the ground. It seems that iFDG wanted to increase the realism by separating the movement of the nose wheel from the movement of the rudder and decided to keep the rudder 'dead' on the ground. So I guess it is a matter of taste. The brake system behaves quite realistically, it takes a lot of runway length to stop this heavy.
NOTE: If you don't like the huge amount of smoke on touchdown, then open the aircraft.cfg with notepad and find:
[effects]
touchdown = fx_rb_md11_tchdwn, 1
Change it to:
[effects]
touchdown = fx_tchdwn, 1
Save to file. Now you'll see the default smoke effect on touchdown. |
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FS2004 & FSX |
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No |
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Yes, gear compression based |
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Yes |
Landing gear behaviour [ ?] |
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Unrealistic, not flexible, angle off |
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No |
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Realistic |
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- Nice model
- Frame rate friendly |
Cons |
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- The main landing gear is not flexible and not at the right angle |
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Liveries |
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| iFDG website |
| AVSIM Library (search for "ifdg md-11" in Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications) |
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martijn