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Asobo/MS Planning AN-225 for Local Legend

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No. No, Mav, this is not a good idea.

Sorry Goose, but it's time to buzz the tower!

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Still waiting for the An-2 that was supposed to come in, what, back in January?

9 minutes ago, gunther said:

Still waiting for the An-2 that was supposed to come in, what, back in January?

The developer that is making the AN2 is actually from Ukraine. Hence the delay... 🙏

17 minutes ago, gunther said:

Still waiting for the An-2 that was supposed to come in, what, back in January?

Same here. Was really looking forward to a good ol' Soviet bird.

ATSimulations had also indicated their Piaggio P.149 would be updated once the An-2 was released. It now looks like both projects may have gone AWOL...

 

 

Cheers anyway,

2Low2Slow

 

Edited by TooLowTooSlow

6 minutes ago, bigifooti said:

The developer that is making the AN2 is actually from Ukraine. Hence the delay... 🙏

Oh... I was under the impression he was Russian and based out somewhere in the Russian far east. 

All the same, wishing him and his family a bright future 🤗

I went aboard the AN-225 at Farnborough in 1990 and, from memory, I reckon it'll take quite a while to accurately develop the VC. I'd like to see it in MSFS, but I also hope for the IL-76 Candid one day.

Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting.

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1 hour ago, TooLowTooSlow said:

Oh... I was under the impression he was Russian and based out somewhere in the Russian far east. 

Yes, that is correct. The developer of the An-2, Andrey Tsvirenko, is from Russia.

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3 hours ago, bigifooti said:

The developer that is making the AN2 is actually from Ukraine. Hence the delay... 🙏

Here is from Russia not Ukraine

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2 hours ago, Paul K said:

I went aboard the AN-225 at Farnborough in 1990 and, from memory, I reckon it'll take quite a while to accurately develop the VC. I'd like to see it in MSFS, but I also hope for the IL-76 Candid one day.

An-225 cockpit is very similar to An-124. Anotnov company uses one full motion sim to train crew for both AN-124 and AN-225. 

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1 minute ago, sd_flyer said:

An-225 cockpit is very similar to An-124. Anotnov company uses one full motion sim to train crew for both AN-124 and AN-225. 

Yes, but it'll still take a lot of time and effort to produce a VC. As far as I'm aware, there's no developer with an An-124 VC available that could be modified as a starting point for the An-225, so they'll be building it from scratch. And unless the pilot's seats have the curtains drawn behind them, there'll be the two flight engineers, the navigator and the radio operator's positions to model too.

Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting.

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The An-2 by ATSimulations (successor to Sibwings) was held up due to the licensing process (according to the official and the sim-outhouse forums) but the addon itself was fully completed. Perhaps MS doesn’t foresee a licensing issue at the point that an An-225 aircraft would be completed. Also, the An-2 dev being Russian may have complicated payment agreements. 
 

Interested to see if this 225 actually comes out or if it’s a gesture to show solidarity but with no follow-through. 

Edited by STK

Really looking forward to this one. 

I was in Finland, playing ice hockey, and stepped off my plane at Tampere to see, just a few metres away, an An-124 parked alongside. Massive! I can only imagine how the 225 looked up close. I used to enjoy the challenge of flying the 225 in FSX.

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5 hours ago, Paul K said:

Yes, but it'll still take a lot of time and effort to produce a VC. As far as I'm aware, there's no developer with an An-124 VC available that could be modified as a starting point for the An-225, so they'll be building it from scratch. And unless the pilot's seats have the curtains drawn behind them, there'll be the two flight engineers, the navigator and the radio operator's positions to model too.

My dad used to be part of a flying test crew for both 124 and 225. He may still have some photos. I’ve been numerous times inside 124/225 so I roughly remember way around and how thing work .
There is YouTube channel of current Antonov chief pilot coincidentally also Antonov. I’m pretty sure he can provide a lot of details . Contemporary cockpits introduced some more modern equipment for the past 20 years

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Here is a channel of current Antonov chief pilot

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_itQ8eJZ2qZQcu2feXWhDg

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Who knows, maybe Antonov is motivated to be involved in, or at least support with information, the development of the AN-225 as a memorial to the aircraft given the publicity it’s destruction received? 

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