AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Jardesign a330 cockpit prep not complete8/23/2023 ![]() In this hypothetical flight, we would get our flight briefing in the airline’s dispatch area, airside in the KCLT airport. I have downloaded and installed the American Airlines livery from the Jar Design site, and am using the KCLT freeware scenery by XFiber, as well as the Nimbus KATL pay-ware scenery package (which I reviewed last year). While airlines in reality only fly smaller aircraft to other airline hubs, this simulated flight has an A332. This fictional flight represents a flight from American Airline’s Charlotte, North Carolina, hub (KCLT) to Atlanta, Georgia, the largest hub of its main competitor- Delta Airlines. The Wikipedia article linked here gives the details of the total fleet. Incidentally, American now operates a fleet of 944 aircraft in total, making it the largest commercial fleet in the world, including the largest A319, A320 and A321 complement world-wide. The original A330 series shared the same wing with its cousin –the A340- and so the wing was never optimized for a twin jet. There are newer “NEO” versions of the A330 now in early production by Airbus- apart from the better engines there are also aerodynamic improvements that are due largely to a re-designed wing. Although the airline has more recently purchased Boeing B787’s to begin to replace the aging B767’s, the A330s are too new to be replaced at this time and continue to fly. Then in 2012 / 2013 the airline purchased US Air, which was a predominantly Airbus fleet, and included 15 Airbus A330-200 and 9 A330-300 aircraft. So, to the setup to the flight test for this review: American Airlines used to operate an exclusively Boeing fleet. Since this is very annoying, I was pleased to discover that by going to the MCDU MENU page (on the MCDU) has an item to remove the red text. When I launched the XP11.41 frame-rate counter I found my fps to be greater than what was being reported by the red text. I also got a flashing red message on my screen telling me that my frame-rate was too low. Incidentally, when downloading the aircraft from the X-Plane store, there is an option to download the XP10 model as well. Use of the Ground Handling plugin without registration for any other aircraft will crash XP11. As mentioned later in this review, as well as by Angelique, the plug-in is free for this aircraft only- a registration must be purchased if you wish to use it with any other aircraft. This green text goes away once you have it installed in Resources / Plugins. Loading the Aircraft into X-Plane 11.41Īs I first loaded the Jar Designs A330-200 (known throughout this article by its ICAO abbreviation of “A332”), to familiarize myself with the product, I noted that I got a green text telling me to download the Ground Handling add-on, with a link to it. I have tried to write this from the perspective of an airline pilot, although I have never actually done that. Bruce Knight has created a fictitious flight within the USA, one that is flown usually by smaller Airbus aircraft such as the A320. We’re pleased to offer you part II of another flight with the JARDesign JDA330. Part II – the JARDesign JD332 Introduction
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |