- NEW: Three realism levels available: Beginner, Intermediate and Expert. Inexperienced users won't have to read tons of documentation to fly; intermediate users will have more realism while enjoying some flight sim 'shortcuts'; expert users will have to follow actual procedures
- NEW: Flight Simulator X Viewpoints: Gear, Wing, Cabin and more
- NEW: Ability to save your flights including ALL FMC-programmed parameters
- GMax-built exterior/interior models with high-resolution reflective textures, dynamic shine and realistic night lighting.
- 39 international liveries
- Detailed interiors (economy/business class) with superb details, including seats, screens and catering
- Complete and ultra-realistic digital 'fly-by-wire' technology
- A319/A320/A321 are delivered with CFM and IAE engines, with their specific sounds, displays and flight dynamics
- Flight dynamics by Rob Young have been tested by active Airbus pilots and instructors.
- Real simulation from complete Cold & Dark cockpit (FS2004 only) to full auto landing.
- Truly immersive sound experience, as per the real aircraft: engine, APU, batteries, air conditioning, passenger signs, clicks
- Detailed passenger view
- Numerous animations: hydraulic suspension, flaps, slats, spoilerons, speed brakes, thrust reversers, passenger doors and cargo hatches
- Load Manager and Fuel Planner
- Frame-rate friendly
- Easy-to-use Paint Kit so you can create your own liveries and share them on the Net (PhotoShop or compatible software required).
- High-resolution textures
Panel Features
- Glass cockpit with advanced digital avionics, CAT II and III landing certification
- Photo-realistic 2D panel with multiple sub-panels: overhead, pedestal
- Interactive 3D Virtual Cockpit – as per the real aircraft!
- Day and night lighting
- Aircraft flyable from the Captain or First Officer's seat from the Virtual Cockpit
- Mouse hotspots on the panel to ease access to 2D panels.
- Screen resolutions from 1024x768 to 1600x1200 for excellent instrument readability
- Pop-up EFIS screens for multi-monitor displays, resizable and detachable for any additional monitor use
- Vector graphics displays (GDI+ technology) for nicer and smoother graphics
- Barometer and additional chronometer in the Virtual Cockpit
EFIS Features
- All the Airbus EFIS are available: Primary Flight Display (PFD), Navigation Display (ND), Engine/Warning Display (E/WD), System Display (SD), with all the system pages available.
- All the EFIS screens are developed with vector graphics technology that makes them detachable and resizable without any quality loss, and their brightness is adjustable.
- All the EFIS screens use GDI+ technology for optimal rendering (anti-aliasing)
- PFD provides all the Airbus-specific flight information: Flight Mode Annunciator (FMA), reference speeds, altitudes, heading and ILS information.
- ND provides all the navigation information
- All modes available: Rose, Arc, Plan, Nav, ILS, Range from 10 to 320 NM.
- Airport, Navaid, VOR, NDB and Waypoint around the aircraft
- FMS route display
- TCAS display
- E/WD provides essential engine information, alert and status messages, and landing and take off checklists
- SD provides many pages for monitoring the aircraft systems: Engine (ENG), Bleed, Pressure (PRESS), AC Electric (EL/AC), DC Electric (EL/DC), Hydraulics (HYD), Fuel, APU, Air Conditioning (COND), Door, Wheel, Flight Controls (F/CTL)
Advanced
Configuration Module
Integrated module accessible through the Flight Simulator pull-down menu. The below are adjustable:
- Weight systems: European virtual pilots can use the metric system (Kg) and US/English pilots can use the imperial system (pounds)
- Volume setting for all the sounds played by the panel
- Keyboard set-up for the use of the keys on the MCDU
-
Cold & Dark start-up
Systems Features
- Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) and caution messages
- Radio Management panel
- Realistic auto-brake system
- Inertial Reference System (IRS) - fully working Navigational System
- Fully featured fly-by-wire system
- Fully featured autopilot system, with ALL the Airbus-specific modes
- Fully featured FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) system
-
Alert system
More about Systems features
Inertial Reference System (IRS) - Fully working Navigational System.
Fully featured Fly-by-Wire system
- Bank angle management
- Auto-trim for the pitch control.
- Flight envelope protection.
-
Bank angle management:
a) Pitch and bank angle limitations.
b) Alpha-prot system against stall - Integrated into Flight Simulator: no need for a specific joystick configuration
Fully featured autopilot system, with ALL the Airbus specific modes
- SRS mode for initial climb
- Open Climb (OP CLB) and Open Descent (OP DES) modes
- Selected and Managed modes (for speed and heading)
- Link with the FADEC for fixed and variables thrust modes
- Airbus-specific flight director
- Accurate auto-land system with flare and roll out modes.
- Integrated into Flight Simulator, the standard Auto pilot keys are still usable.
- Fully featured FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) system: - Completely re-written auto-thrust system to handle the complex engine management, with a better accuracy than the standard FS auto-thrust
- All the fixed modes available: managed climb and descent modes
- All the variable modes available: speed and Mach modes
- Speed protection system.
- Airbus specific flight director
- Alpha-lock specific mode (linked to the Alpha-protection implemented in the fly-by-wire system)
- Advanced modes: auto-thrust limitation and thrust locking
- Integrated into Flight Simulator: no need for a specific throttle device configuration, and validated with multiple throttle devices
Alert system
- Alert management with aural warnings
- Checklist management
- Complete and ultra-realistic FMGS, including regularly updated SIDs & STARs
- Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) with multiple callouts
- APU start-up/shutdown sequences fully simulated and linked to fuel consumption
- IRS display
- Overhead electricity management (linked to the corresponding SD page)
- Overhead hydraulics management (linked to the corresponding SD page)
- Overhead fuel management (linked to the corresponding SD page)
-
Overhead air management (linked
to the corresponding SD
page)
FMS Features
(Flight Management System)
The flight management system is
composed of:
- The Multi-Control Display Unit (MCDU): interface between the pilot and the system
- The Flight Management and Guidance Computer (FMGC): the heart of the flight management system that calculates the route and the appropriate speeds
- Auto-trim for pitch control
Basic FMGC features
- Flight plan entering
- Flight plan following
- Decision Height/Minimum Descent Altitude management
- Optimal engine management.
Advanced FMGC features
- Calculation of the managed speeds
- Holding pattern
-
SID/STAR management
39 high quality international liveries
A318 CFM engines
- Airbus house livery
- Air France
- Frontier
- Mexicana
A319 CFM Engines
- Easy Jet
A319 IAE engines
- BMI
- British Airways
- United
A320 CFM engines
- Aeroflot
- Airbus House
- Air Canada
- Air France
- Alitalia
- EasyJet
- Iberia
- Lufthansa
A320 IAE engines
- Airbus house livery
- Bangkok airways 1
- Bangkok airways 2
- Bangkok airways 3
- British Airways
- Jet Blue True Blue
- Jet Blue Blue Yorker
- Jet Blue Sky ahead
- Jet Blue Blues Brothers
- Jet Blue Bada bin bada blue
- Jet Blue Bett.be it.
- US Airways
- Wizz Air
A321 CFM engines
- Airbus house livery
- Aer Lingus
- Air France
- Air Mediterranee
- China East Airlines
- Finnair
- LTU
- Swiss
- TAP Air Portugal
A321 IAE engines
- Airbus house livery
