Features overview
- Developed exclusively for Flight Simulator X
- Highly detailed A320 model with distinctive wing-tip fences
- High quality interactive 3D Virtual Cockpit
- Custom-coded MCDU (Multifunction Control Display Unit)
- 20 high-resolution liveries
- Accurate animations
- High quality sound sets for both CFM56 and IAE V2500 engines with sound cones
- Option for showing the wings from the interior view (wingview)
- Specular map to give realistic light effect on aircraft
- A great set of bump maps to give a more realistic 3D feeling to the livery sets
- Multiple viewpoints
- Comprehensive manual including flight tutorial
Panel and VC features
- Custom built Virtual Cockpit with mouse-clickable operations
- Overhead, Throttle Quadrant and Radio Stack panels
- Custom-coded Flight Management guidance system
MCDU (Multipurpose Control Display Unit)
The A320 Jetliner features a custom-coded MCDU) to assist you with functionality that many pilots find lacking on the default FSX A321 aircraft.
- Flight Plan pages - load and activate pre-made FSX flight plans without having to leave the cockpit, track the route, get an overview of distances and arrival times to the next waypoint en route and your destination
- Modify your route and save it
- Cockpit Navigator pages - easily switch panels (open/hide) via the MCDU
- Checklist pages - access the A320 checklists and work from them with MCDU help, showing you matches/mismatches between required checklist items and current aircraft settings. Only when all aircraft settings match the checklist requirements will the checklist will be completed and closed.
- Aircraft/ flight status page, showing date/time, coordinates and some general aircraft information at a glance (flaps status, gear status, fuel status, lights etc.)
- The MCDU can hold two flight plans - an active flight plan and a standby flight plan. You can load a flight plan direct as the active flight plan (for immediate use) or you can load it as a standby flight plan and set it as active later. You can have an active and a standby flight plan loaded at the same time, so you have an alternate route in case you need to change plans. With both flight plans you can add and remove waypoints.
Animations
- Passenger and cargo doors
- Passenger doors linked to FSX airport Jetway animations
- Realistic thrust reverser animation
- Engine fans
- Rotating wheels
- Undercarriage
- Nosewheel steering.
- Extending landing lights
- Fully animated control surfaces: flaps, rudder, elevators, spoilers, leading edge slats and spoilerons
Special effects
- Engine start smoke
- Touchdown tyre smoke effects
- Fire/sparks from the rear underbelly when you over-rotate
Lighting
- Red anti-collision beacon
- White flashing wingtip strobe lights
- Coloured wing tip and tail navigation lights
- Cockpit light
- Tail logo light
- Passenger windows lighting
- Landing lights that illuminate the runway
Textures
- Highly detailed texture mapping without compromising frame rates
- FSX DX10 preview compatible
- Layered paint kit included to help create your own liveries (suitable additional paint program such as Photoshop required)
- Bump mapping
- Specular maps
- Night maps
Flight Dynamics
- Custom designed flight dynamics for FSX - all fuel and weight stations based on actual A320 references.
High fidelity sound sets
- CFM56 engines sound set
- V2500 engine sound set
Flight planning
- Uses the default FSX payload and fuel editor for ease of use and reliability
- Uses the default FSX flight planner and Navigation Log for accurate flight/fuel planning
- Use of the SIDs and STARs in the Flight Simulator database
- Radio and Navigation frequency entry
- V-speed calculation
- 'Direct to' waypoint features
- Progress display
- Estimated fuel on board, and more
20 authentic international airline liveries
- Air France
- British Airways
- Lufthansa
- United Airlines
Additional livery packs
Four additional livery packs, each containing eight liveries, are available to purchase to expand the A320 Jetliner fleet.
System requirements
- Flight Simulator X (SP2 and Direct X 10 preview compatible)
- 3.0GHz PC or any Dual Core
- Windows 7, Vista or XP
- 1.0Gb RAM
- 512Mb graphics card
- 400MB hard drive space
