Samdim Design Group Il-86
review
The Ilyushin Il-86 is a medium range wide-body jet airliner produced by the Ilyushin design bureau. The Ilyushin Il-86 was Russia's first widebody airliner, intended as a replacement for the Il-62 on Aeroflot's long international and transcontinental routes and could carry 350 passengers. The Il-86 was equipped with four Kuznetsov NK-86 low-bypass turbofans similar to the NK-8 engines of the Il-62 'Classic' (though of somewhat higher power), which have a high fuel consumption. With a bypass ratio of only 1.15 to 1, these engines severely limited range compared to Western wide-body jets that used turbofans with bypass ratios of 4 or 5 to 1.
The Il-86 was a unique aircraft in that passengers boarded into the lower level where they dropped off their luggage and then walked upstairs via a fixed internal staircase to the main passenger cabin. Due to the fact that many Soviet airports had weak surfaces, the Il-86 was equipped with a complex and heavy multi-wheel landing gear. By the time production stopped in 1994, over 120 had been built. Many are still operated by Aeroflot, Ural Airlines, Atlant Soyuz, Transeuropean, and Transaero in Russia, as well as Kazakstan Airlines, Armenian Airlines, and Uzbekistan Airways.
Despite the fact that the Il-86 remains one of the most reliable aircraft in the domestic civil aviation, the aircraft has been banned from most European airports due to new aircraft-noise limits issued on 01 April 2002.
The Samdim Design Group is developer of various Russian aircraft for FS2004 and FSX. Their Ilyushin Il-86 is a freeware product, compatible with FS2004 and FSX. The exterior looks good and is very frame rate friendly. Everything works well and all the usual animations are present. The 2d panel is very simple and build with a few FS2004 default gauges. The main landing gear looks nice, but the animation is not right. The wheels are sinking a bit into the ground on takeoff and landing. Also, the suspension is unrealistic, the wheels are going up and down, but the fuselage stays level. Interesting detail: the brake disks color red on roll out after landing.
Note that the 2d panel is included in the update, not in the basepack.
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the good
the bad
License |
: | Freeware |
Panel |
: | Yes |
Virtual Cockpit |
: | No |
Wingview |
: | Yes |
Sound |
: | Yes |
Developed for |
: | FS2004 |
Compatibility |
: | FS2004 FSX |
Wingflex |
: | Yes, gear compression based |
Landing gear |
: | Unrealistic suspension, floating |
Rudder effect |
: | Realistic |
FS2004 |
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FSX |
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notes
The effect file for the smoke effect seems to be missing. If you want to see engine smoke, download this smoke effect , unzip and place the file "SMOKE_JT8D.fx" in the main effects folder of FS2004 (assuming that your FS2004 is installed on your C: drive):
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Effects\
Then, go to the Il-86 aircraft folder and open the aircraft.cfg file with notepad or another text editor:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Aircraft\Ilyushin Il-86\
Look for the text that says:
[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-5.00, -2.00, -57.167, fx_smoke_rx
smoke.1=-5.00, -2.00, -33.833, fx_smoke_rx
smoke.2=-5.00, -2.00, 33.833, fx_smoke_rx
smoke.3=-5.00, -2.00, 57.167, fx_smoke_rx
Change it to:
[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-5.00, -2.00, -57.167, SMOKE_JT8D.fx
smoke.1=-5.00, -2.00, -33.833, SMOKE_JT8D.fx
smoke.2=-5.00, -2.00, 33.833, SMOKE_JT8D.fx
smoke.3=-5.00, -2.00, 57.167, SMOKE_JT8D.fx
Save and close the file. Now the smoke effect can be activated by pressing the "I" key on your keyboard. Press the key again to disable.
Installation of the Ilyushin Il-86 in FSX
This aircraft is fully compatible with FSX, although the 2d panel that comes with the update is not. Follow these directions if you want to fly this aircraft in FSX:
1. Run the installer (Ilyushin_Il86_setup.exe) and when the installer asks you to choose an installation folder, make sure it's a different location than where your FSX or FS2004 is installed. For example: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 10 . Then press next and the installer will ask you if it's alright to create a new directory (folder). Click on "Yes" and wait until the aircraft has been installed. Do the same for the update, install it to that location as well (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 10).
2. Now go to the folder called "aircraft" which is now in the new folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 10\Aircraft\ ). In that folder, you'll see another folder called "Ilyushin Il-86". Copy that folder to the aircraft folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\ ).
3. Now you can delete the folder that you've created for the installation (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 10\). Make sure you don't delete the real FS2004 or FSX folder!
4. Go to the panel folder of the Ilyushin Il-86 (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\Ilyushin Il-86\panel\) and delete all files except "default_panel.cfg". After that, rename "default_panel.cfg" to "panel.cfg". Now it will use the default B747-400 panel of FSX. Note that some parts of the panel are not working in combination of this aircraft.
5. OPTIONAL: Thumbnail image for the aircraft selection list.
Right-click on the image below and choose "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As...", browse to the folder \Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\Ilyushin Il-86\ and save the thumbnail.jpg image.
Next time when you start FSX, the aircraft should be visible in the aircraft selection list and work fine. If you download additional liveries, you can make thumbnail images yourself: you need to make a screenshot of each livery of the aircraft and resize it to 256x128 pixels (use an image editor like photoshop, paintshop or whatever you prefer). Make sure the image format is JPG and name each of them "thumbnail.jpg". Then copy the image to each texture folder inside the aircraft folder.
on 02/10/2009 at 14:49:03
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