How about...if I pilot you today from Hongkong to Bangkok in utmost luxury...🙂...? No, I don't mean in the (cramped) space of that Cessna Citation Longitude (lingering) in our hangar. Here, I mean, in a full-size aircraft...one that's one-and-half times longer in size than the Longitude, with two powerful (commercial grade) CFM56 Engines capable of delivering 3 times the Thrust, same (0.80+) Mach Speed and a range of up to 5,000 miles...an a/c that could transport you, point-to-point, anywhere on the Globe...🙂...Oh well...this all sounds like bit of a sales-pitch, but it's not, because these are all facts. However, being a serious simmer, that you're, you'll surely overlook the virtual part of the (actual) transportation. And I left the best part for last. We'll also take a look at the interior of our aircraft (ample pictures included below).

LVFR has simulated specifically the A318CJ 'Elite' version, and I read, "This aircraft's private interior is made with the blueprints of a real A318CJ 'Elite.'" So, please examine the interior cabin images, below, and judge for yourself. It looks impressive indeed except, maybe, for the plasticine characters (word borrowed and learned from andy1252...🙂...). Recently, my teenager was asking...why his Xbox "Games" characters look so vividly real (and life-like) while my MSFS characters (typically) look so questionable...with such minimal mime-like motions...🙂...there must be a good answer, but I wonder why it's not possible to fix it. When I see our (virtual) crew members (or pax) in the SIM, I'm still (sometimes) reminded of that "Otto" (balloon) character from the movie "Airplane". Anyway, things here are improving for us...I think...

So, this typical A318CJ (CJ = (Airbus) Corporate Jet, the likewise Boeing's term is BBJ = "Boeing Business Jet"), has the following cabin sections:

1. Fwd Cabin: Entourage Lounge (I liked this section the best, see the last image of my set of interior screenshots, though I would have preferred the latest issue of "PC Pilot"...🙂...rather than the "Digital Camera" magazine on the desk)
2. Mid Cabin: VIP Dining Area and Lounge
3. Aft Cabin: Private Office and VIP bedroom
4. Lavatory: 3x (Not shown below...🙂...but they are there hopefully even in our virtual setup here...)
5. Galley: (Not shown below, but I checked it's there and looked normal to me...)

And Misc. Facilities include (to name just a few):

1. 4x 20" TVs, 1x 31" TV in the Private Office (that sounds like a good place to hook up my MSFS2020/Xbox to that 4K TV...🙂...), and 1x 42" TV in the Executive Lounge
2. Satcom Telecommunications, Swift 64 Internet, and 7x Cordless SAT phones
3. Zonal Temperature and LED/Lighting Controls, and individual Dome lights in all areas
4. Aircraft Safe Box, Video Center with 6x CD player (with surround sound), Bluetooth Printer and Fax Machine

With that introduction to our aircraft, please find, below, 20 images of my A318-112 ACJ 'Elite' (RW Reg. B-6186) in the elegant (light-blue) color of Yalian Business Jet (an enterprise based out of China), starting off on a very early (~5:30am) flight from Hong Kong International Airport (VHHH) to (Bangkok's) Suvarnabhumi Airport (VTBS), across ~1,000 miles (takeoff-to-touchdown), mostly flying over-water, just as the resplendent Sun is rising up into the sky, on my port side window, above the shinning blue South China Sea.

Thanks for viewing. Hope you enjoy this collection of images...from our flight today...!

Edited April 20, 20242 yr by P_7878

Fine shots and a nice A318 !

cheers 😉

Nice!

Excellent set, P_7878! Definitely one of my favourite aircraft in the sim. It really would be a very fine private plane. A personalised A-380 would be fun - you could have all the posh accomodation on the upper deck and a couple of bowling lanes on the lower! But while I wait for that, this is just fine <grin>

As to the pixel people in MSFS, I don't really understand it either. A question of resource utilisation, I guess. For most people here on avsim at least I suspect any resources allocated to improving this sort of thing would be considered sacrilegious. Some addons do certainly have better looking and quite convincingly animated characters, so it is obviously possible.

Maybe someone will get around to doing a version of Elvis's Convair, or perhaps the Led Zep tour plane, all complete with realistic interiors and characters (although by all accounts the latter of those might have to be sold age-restricted).

Beautiful shots! 😉 

15 hours ago, pmplayer said:

Fine shots and a nice A318 !

cheers 😉

Thanks, pmplayer...Yes, a nice A318 it is ...🙂...

 

14 hours ago, Todd2 said:

Nice!

Appreciated the note, Todd. Glad you liked.

 

11 hours ago, andy1252 said:

Excellent set, P_7878! Definitely one of my favourite aircraft in the sim. It really would be a very fine private plane. A personalised A-380 would be fun - you could have all the posh accomodation on the upper deck and a couple of bowling lanes on the lower! But while I wait for that, this is just fine <grin>

As to the pixel people in MSFS, I don't really understand it either. A question of resource utilisation, I guess. For most people here on avsim at least I suspect any resources allocated to improving this sort of thing would be considered sacrilegious. Some addons do certainly have better looking and quite convincingly animated characters, so it is obviously possible.

Maybe someone will get around to doing a version of Elvis's Convair, or perhaps the Led Zep tour plane, all complete with realistic interiors and characters (although by all accounts the latter of those might have to be sold age-restricted).

...🙂...Thanks for the thoughts, Andy. Yes, the A380 Private would be something...never flew on a regular A380, but I've heard from a rich uncle (not sure why it's the always uncles but not parents that are rich...🙂...), who often used to travel first class in the A380 talking about On-board Shower Suites and all...the Private Business Jet version (palace) would be mind-boggling...seen pictures of it...

An A380 is coming up in MSFS. I'm sure someone would do justice to such BizJet A380 interiors...

 

9 hours ago, Alaska738 said:

Beautiful shots! 😉 

Appreciated the comment, Will. Cheers...!

34 minutes ago, P_7878 said:

An A380 is coming up in MSFS. I'm sure someone would do justice to such BizJet A380 interiors..

That is, indeed, what I'm hoping will happen. I got a copy of an "Airliner World" special recently on luxury travel/aircraft/fittings and some of the things in there are borderline obscene. Actually, probably way beyond the border. Lovely looking stuff, incredibly impressive and so on, but then I find myself thinking about the sort of person who could/would spend 30k or whatever on a flight and suspecting, rightly or wrongly, that they would probably be a person I would not want to meet.

But hey, if one of those models turns up in MSFS I'll be on board! (at least I'll have the plane to myself, none of the likes of Elongated Muskiness or similar allowed on my personal A380)

2 hours ago, andy1252 said:

That is, indeed, what I'm hoping will happen. I got a copy of an "Airliner World" special recently on luxury travel/aircraft/fittings and some of the things in there are borderline obscene. Actually, probably way beyond the border. Lovely looking stuff, incredibly impressive and so on, but then I find myself thinking about the sort of person who could/would spend 30k or whatever on a flight and suspecting, rightly or wrongly, that they would probably be a person I would not want to meet.

But hey, if one of those models turns up in MSFS I'll be on board! (at least I'll have the plane to myself, none of the likes of Elongated Muskiness or similar allowed on my personal A380)

….🙂…My only exposure to just a bit of luxury on the plane was in the first class of an Air France 777, thanks to mileage points of the spouse…🙂…I was by myself, and surely the cabin crew must have known a-priori (a) Here is a free-loader (b) The mileage points reward is a gift from someone else …🙂…

Though I cherish the pampering to this day, once was enough for me.

Regarding the magazines you see in my (i.e. LVFR’s) images above are Wallpaper, Nouvel Air, Digital Camera, and Travel Europe (not shown on the table in front of the stewardess)…front cover of it showing $199 vacation packages…🙂…And Finance Daily with news about, “What’s in store for Britain’s future?”…🙂…

Yes, we need to replace these un-interesting magazines in our own private jet…🙂…

Nice set P_7878, colorful shots and a good looking plane. Of course a A318 is a good size for a business jet....not too small and not too large....🙂

On 4/21/2024 at 12:59 PM, andiflyit said:

Nice set P_7878, colorful shots and a good looking plane. Of course a A318 is a good size for a business jet....not too small and not too large....🙂

Thanks, Andreas...yes, not too small and not too large...🙂...since we were just talking about here how an A380 BizJet (interior) might look like....