Aerosim 787 Dreamliner landing following a flight from Manchester to Baghdad

 

 

 

 

 

 

Al

Nice ones Al.... is that VC fully functional?

Nah, it's a typical Aerosim one - functional enough to enable reasonably realistic airliner flights, but many of the switches on the glareshield, panel and overhead are mere eye candy apart from essential things like heading, alt, LNAV, VNAV, V/S, A/T, FD etc, although it does have an FMC of sorts.

 

What I do is make an IFR plan, pull it into Aivlasoft EFB to add the SIDs and STARS, save it back out in FSX format and then load that into FSX, which loads it into the 787 FMC complete with procedures and all the speeds and stuff. Then I load the same plan into Radar Contact and use MCE, that way it hardly matters that I'm not touching many of the switches since the FSX plan sets it all up right with VNAV speeds and such, and since I get the MCE co-pilot to do all that stuff whilst I fly and handle ATC via voice, it still comes over as reasonably realistic.

 

To be honest, the reason I like Aerosim jetliners is not because they have super-realistic systems and mega-functional VCs, since they do not, but rather that they have a low system overhead, and when Air Hauler, EFB, Radar Contact, MCE and REX etc are all running and I've got AI traffic on full throttle at payware airports and all the FSX sliders on the right, the less RAM and Processor the add-on airliner is grabbing, the better it is. I'd have to back some of those settings off if I was running the A2A B377 or the PMDG NG or one of those other very fancy airliners where even the light bulbs in the panel simulate the correct voltage fluctuations LOL, whereas Aerosim ones run better FPS than the default FSX airliners because they only choose to model what you need for the kind of flight I mentioned; those clever Japs really seem to know what they are doing when it comes to squeezing performance out of FSX, and their modeling is very nice.

 

Those who only worship at the altar of PMDG won't like it, but it's fun for a quick blast around in a reasonably realistic fashion when you throw in all those other third party whistles and bells.

 

Al

Looking good Al. No doubt this will prove to be a busy route for the 787 ;-)

BTW - any pointers for chart sources for Iran/Iraq/Kuwait/Afganistan?, I've seen some tower/ATC coverage on VATSIM at various times over the last week or so and would like to fly some routes by the book but cant find charts anywhere?

Basic info:

 

http://www.airport-d...I-SDA/#location

 

Much more detailed info with plates and stuff about using IR dazzlers, chaff and flares etc (and no, I'm not joking)

 

http://www.iraqcaa.c..._edition_59.pdf

 

Al

Thanks Al, wow thats some detail in that PDF

Had another dig around and found the Iran AIP info too: http://ais.airport.ir

I'm sure the QW one will kick some a** ^_^

Hmm these photos are amazing, the quality of that 787 cockpit doesn't look bad :Thinking: