1 hour ago, micstatic said:

The aircraft from the outside is super appealing to me. Though the cockpit is a little dated for my preference 

I was in full mock up 125/225 cockpit level D sim training for a week. For a  guy who never flew anything larger that Piper Lance at the time it felt huge. I physically was not able to reach for a gear handle, so instructor always had to assist as a copilot. Yoke was huge  and hydraulic booster controls  felt very heavy; nevertheless, I adjusted in no time! My only problem was soviet style attitude indicator that I don't get to use to read correctly. But ergonomic was surprisingly really well! 6 pack was right in front of the gaze and all annunciator panels right above. I could easily grab all 6 throttles, and aileron.rudder trim controls where easily reachable in the middle pedestal just by putting right hand down to the side . My only trouble was a thrust reversal a huge handle that you have to move backward, before moving throttles - it was a bit confusing!

During a span of the week we did all kind of scenarios including engine failures (three on one side as well!), total six engine flameout at 10000 feet 20 km out at full gross, followed by a glide and emergency  landing without thrust reverse! I must say Kurlin was absolutely amazing as instructor. Very professional and very intelligent. Before each flight he would layout math on a board calculated speeds, pitch, distance . I just followed his instruction and everything turned out exactly how he intended! Sadly he passed away and didn't witnessed this horror of war and destruction of Mriya 

 

I’m picturing the engine failure procedures:

”captain we’re down an engine!”

”meh, let me know if we lose two more” 😂

1 minute ago, regis9 said:

I’m picturing the engine failure procedures:

”captain we’re down an engine!”

”meh, let me know if we lose two more” 😂

Or a flat tire.

"If it's not the front gear, I don't want to hear about it." 😉

I saw the AN-225 in the sim once as Live Traffic. Didn't have an AN-225 model to sub in so it just showed up as a generic airliner, but still neat.

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Thanks for sharing that sd_flyer and салют for your father

Thanks for the story sd_flyer I imagine Vatsim and IVAO will be flooded with An225 traffic in the near future in support.

Thank you, Lord !!

What sort of navigation will it have?  Not an FMC I assume.  But will it have GPS to simulate GLONASS or something similar?  Or straight radio navigation?

There are versions of this around on flightsim.to right now, converted from FSX and mostly with 747 cockpits. I did a conversion back in the early days and managed to get the original cockpit in ok, but the aircraft stopped working a few updates ago. Really looking forward to having a (hopefully) proper version in the sim.

Now if they can follow this up with the AN124, the Galaxy C5 and maybe the Carvair I'll be a very happy bunny.

27 minutes ago, Mace said:

What sort of navigation will it have?  Not an FMC I assume.  But will it have GPS to simulate GLONASS or something similar?  Or straight radio navigation?

They have a navigator, two flight engineers and one radio operator I'm pretty sure they can figure something out LOL Joke a side I believe Antonov aircraft upgraded several times to guarantee RNAV approaches. Back in days when my dad was flying using INS and good old NL 10 calculator 

Couple years ago Antonov company celebrated first flight of AN124. My dad was among first test crew and so he was invited to Kyiv for a celebration. You can recognize guy on the left, my dad is on the right. You clearly see FMC on center pedestal!

 

3 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

They have a navigator, two flight engineers and one radio operator I'm pretty sure they can figure something out LOL Joke a side I believe Antonov aircraft upgraded several times to guarantee RNAV approaches. Back in days when my dad was flying using INS and good old NL 10 calculator 

Hey...just a thought...this An-225 gives WT the opportunity to make an INS for MSFS.   It'd be so neat!  And it could be leveraged across other vintage aircraft, like a C-141 Starlifter, Boeing 707's etc. etc.

Just now, Mace said:

Hey...just a thought...this An-225 gives WT the opportunity to make an INS for MSFS.   It'd be so neat!  And it could be leveraged across other vintage aircraft, like a C-141 Starlifter, Boeing 707's etc. etc.

I totally agree! INS would be nice addition!

There is what appears to be a Garmin GNS 530 on the right side

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1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said:

There is what appears to be a Garmin GNS 530 on the right side

Ahem.  That's GLONASS there...wink wink  👍