May 27, 201313 yr Thanks Richard! The A380 is a very powerful aircraft, actually over-motorized, so I really don't know if that almost immediate response doesn't fit... Anyway, I'll keep waiting for further comments! Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
May 27, 201313 yr I for one wouldn't compare these two: as much as I like Peter's A380, there are many things not being simulated. The B777 on the other side is quite complex simulation, very close to PMDG standards. Get both if you can or get the B777 if you have to select one of them. Jan Betlach
May 27, 201313 yr Author I for one wouldn't compare these two: as much as I like Peter's A380, there are many things not being simulated. The B777 on the other side is quite complex simulation, very close to PMDG standards. Get both if you can or get the B777 if you have to select one of them. My thoughts exactly. Richard 7950x3d | 32Gb 6000mHz RAM | 8Tb NVme | RTX 4090 | MSFS | P3D | XP12
May 29, 201313 yr Author Got the A380 and have had a couple of really nice trips in it. I got to ask you guys that have it one thing, though. How do you do your flight plans? The 380 takes the FMS-format. How do you create them? The manual recommends Goodway flight planner. Is it any good? I've been using the UFMC up until now but I feel that the immersion is totally killed when using several FMC:s. I would like it better to just import the plan from a file into the (somewhat crippled) included FMC and set the parameters for flight and go from there. How do you guys (and gals) do this? Richard 7950x3d | 32Gb 6000mHz RAM | 8Tb NVme | RTX 4090 | MSFS | P3D | XP12
May 29, 201313 yr How do you do your flight plans? The 380 takes the FMS-format. How do you create them? The manual recommends Goodway flight planner. Is it any good? Never used Goodway myself. Personally I use FSBuild which I've been using with FSX for a few years now, you can create your flight plans there and export them into X-Plane FMS format but I've found that they get a bit corrupted and are no longer accurate when you load them into the A380. I think this might be to do with the fact that it's really meant for X-Plane 7-9. I've been using the UFMC up until now but I feel that the immersion is totally killed when using several FMC:s I've been using the free X-FMC and found that it works great. I strictly only use it to create my flight plan using waypoints and airways, SID/STARs, then I turn it off and do the rest using the A380 FMGC to complete all INIT, PERF, CLB, CRZ, DES etc pages. As I don't use X-FMC to interact with the autopilot functions, I still have to manually enter all the altitude restrictions myself into the F-PLN pages, that way it doesn't really kill the immersion. For the rest of the flight I normally won't touch X-FMC unless I have to update approach procedures. Michael R
May 13, 201511 yr Never used Goodway myself. Personally I use FSBuild which I've been using with FSX for a few years now, you can create your flight plans there and export them into X-Plane FMS format but I've found that they get a bit corrupted and are no longer accurate when you load them into the A380. I think this might be to do with the fact that it's really meant for X-Plane 7-9. I've been using the free X-FMC and found that it works great. I strictly only use it to create my flight plan using waypoints and airways, SID/STARs, then I turn it off and do the rest using the A380 FMGC to complete all INIT, PERF, CLB, CRZ, DES etc pages. As I don't use X-FMC to interact with the autopilot functions, I still have to manually enter all the altitude restrictions myself into the F-PLN pages, that way it doesn't really kill the immersion. For the rest of the flight I normally won't touch X-FMC unless I have to update approach procedures. Erm can anyone share the airbus peter hanger a380 config file for xfmc pls i really need it (new to xplane)
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