7 hours ago, peloto said:

Any info when the skiing and the float versions, together with the glass cockpit will be released?

I'm hoping it will be easy to mod because that would be awesome. Along with making all engines afterburning with a .cfg tweak (if possible). Then take it into multiplayer for some chaos 😃

Take off run in 10 feet 😅

Right now the 747 and 787 are fun in multiplayer madness but the 225 beast will be something else. Im sure we'll see people trying to STOL it into Lukla...

6 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

The AN-225 were built by the Soviets as a transporter for the Buran shuttle.  With the collapse of the Soviet Union the Buran shuttle project was cancelled and there was no need at the time to finish the second AN-225.

It is true that several years after AN-225 Soviet Union collapsed and so is Buran space program. Yet AN-225 still was commercially used with unprecedented oversize cargo  capacity and virtually no competition in its class.

The actual  reason that second 225 was never build is absence of money! As USSR collapsed and Ukraine gained it independence  Antonov company lost all subsidies from the union and had to survive as it could. When I was working over there it was in a design department there were so many projects, but without government or investor interest nothing really got tractions. Finishing another AN-225 would cost at least 133 million dollars and require 4 billion if make serial production.

Anton company tried to offer An-70 to NATO. But at the time West was reluctant to invest in post USSR county and opted to build they own A400.

Look at photo below AN-70 - first flight in 1994

and now look A400 - first flight in 2009

7 minutes ago, ThrottleUp said:

I'm hoping it will be easy to mod because that would be awesome. Along with making all engines afterburning with a .cfg tweak (if possible). Then take it into multiplayer for some chaos 😃

Take off run in 10 feet 😅

Right now the 747 and 787 are fun in multiplayer madness but the 225 beast will be something else. Im sure we'll see people trying to STOL it into Lukla...

There are plenty of arcade games when your dream can come true. LOL GTA would be one of them

How would it be to set the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle to six engines ?? 🤔

That could cause quite some headache..

cheers 😉

In speaking of which I thought the sim only simulated 4 engines (max) in its current state with the inclusion of 16 in SU12? how will this pan out for the An 225 release later today?

25 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

In speaking of which I thought the sim only simulated 4 engines (max) in its current state with the inclusion of 16 in SU12? how will this pan out for the An 225 release later today?

Don`t ask me, ask Asobo..🤪

I would like to know that, too..🤔

 

cheers 😉

44 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

In speaking of which I thought the sim only simulated 4 engines (max) in its current state with the inclusion of 16 in SU12? how will this pan out for the An 225 release later today?

Interesting question, but we also have the Hughes Spruce Goose already in the sim.

As you say, only four are controllable (at the moment, until SU12), so for now, some engines are coupled or just follow the main throttle axis.

Then again, will people actually be buying multiple throttle units (levers) to control these aircraft? 
I won't.  I will just split them to left and right side controls.  Startup, Shutdowns, and fuel flow etc. will have to be done from the virtual cockpit I suppose.

Wait until we get a B-36!    Six prop, four jet engines! 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

Edited February 27, 20233 yr by bobcat999

10 hours ago, peloto said:

Any info when the skiing and the float versions, together with the glass cockpit will be released?

That will be in the upcoming GotFriends mod - skis in late March, the rest will follow, including RATO packs some time later.
It will only be available from their own website now of course.  

I really hope it will be as detailed as the A310 in term of what is simulated. 

Does anyone know what time its coming out?

13 minutes ago, bendead said:

I really hope it will be as detailed as the A310 in term of what is simulated.

To be honest I do not have that hope ... but I would be really happy to be proven wrong.
But will get it in any case

16 minutes ago, shamrockflyer said:

Does anyone know what time its coming out?

Hard to say, famous flyer 3 released at 11 eastern, but Famous Flyer 1 released at 4pm

I can’t find a release time for Famous Flyer 2

Edited February 27, 20233 yr by Tuskin38

19 minutes ago, bendead said:

I really hope it will be as detailed as the A310 in term of what is simulated. 

I don't think it will be.  While it looks in-depth enough for most, it is only $20 dollars, and while price isn't always an absolute indication of system depth, it generally is. 

8 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

while price isn't always an absolute indication of system depth, it generally is. 

Not for Asobo published planes.

Their quality tends to depend on the developer, not the price.

Edited February 27, 20233 yr by Tuskin38

One of the Streamers stated (Cannot remember which one) your all going to be qiute happy with  the AN-225. Some things like the 6 cockpit crew needed to fly the aircraft, have had to be worked around, whilst others have been completed to a very good state.