Simubuild A340-600
review
The Airbus A340 is a four-engined, long haul wide-body commercial passenger jet aircraft. Airbus launched the A340 in June 1987 in parallel with the A330, as a single aircraft program. Both aircraft share the same wing and similar fuselage structure, and borrow heavily from the advanced avionics and composite structure technology developed for the A320. The A340-300 first flew in 1991 and entered service with Lufthansa and Air France in March 1993. The A340 is a competitor of the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 and the Boeing 777. It seats between 261 and 380 passengers, and has a range between 6,700 and 9,000 NM. The CFM International CFM56-5C4 engines are the only engine choice for the -200 and -300 variants.
The -500 and -600 variants are powered by the Rolls-Royce Trent 500 engines. The A340-500 is the longest-range variant and can fly 313 passengers in a three-class cabin layout over 8,650 nm (16,020 km). The A340-600 is with a length of 75,30 meter almost 5 meter longer than the Boeing 747-400 and with that the longest passenger aircraft in the world. It was designed as an early generation 747 replacement. The A340-600 flies 380 passengers in a three-class cabin layout (419 in 2 class) over 7,500 nautical miles (13,900 km).
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 A340-600 still looks nice and works in FS2004 and FSX as well. 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.
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License |
: | Freeware |
Panel |
: | No |
Virtual Cockpit |
: | No |
Wingview |
: | Yes |
Sound |
: | No |
Developed for |
: | FS2002 |
Compatibility |
: | FS2004 FSX |
Wingflex |
: | Yes, gear compression based |
Landing gear |
: | Realistic, but sinking into runway |
Rudder effect |
: | Realistic |
FS2004 |
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FSX |
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on 12/27/2008 at 19:05:07
This is aircraft is okay but the nose is very unrealistic, the gears are also unrealistic and its really hard to take-off, however the virtual cabin was good.on 07/02/2009 at 15:48:20
I think it's a pretty good plane and I love the virtual cabin. The wingflex is very good.Add a Comment
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