2 hours ago, z06z33 said:

Then don't do things that will put the jet in the spin... Been flying for over 20 years IRL and Ive never been in a spin I didn't do on purpose..

That's a lazy response to be honest. The whole point of FBW is to protect you from getting the aircraft into a situation where that could become an issue even if you DO try.

Stall protection, pitch/roll angle limitation is a signature feature of Airbus - it should be the first feature modelled in the simulation.

27 minutes ago, FPVSteve said:

That's a lazy response to be honest. The whole point of FBW is to protect you from getting the aircraft into a situation where that could become an issue even if you DO try.

Stall protection, pitch/roll angle limitation is a signature feature of Airbus - it should be the first feature modelled in the simulation.

Things do happen though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

The BEA's final report, released at a press conference on 5 July 2012, concluded that the aircraft suffered temporary inconsistencies between the airspeed measurements—likely resulting from ice crystals obstructing the aircraft's pitot tubes—which caused the autopilot to disconnect. The crew reacted incorrectly to this, causing the aircraft to enter an aerodynamic stall, which the pilots failed to correct

32 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

Things do happen though

AF447 was in alternate law due to the wrong airspeed readings, not the same level of envelope protection.

In sim terms: they had „failures“ active. The pilots did not even know they were in a degraded protection mode, that's why they were able to stall it (and didn't realise soon enough to recover). I don't think iniBuilds simulates these kind of abnormals.

Edited October 8, 2025Oct 8 by roesti

15 minutes ago, roesti said:

AF447 was in alternate law due to the wrong airspeed readings, not the same level of envelope protection.

In sim terms: they had „failures“ active.

I guess I've been flying in alternative law all my life!  LOL Once I had a bug  stuck inside pito tube causing erroneous airspeed reading I didn't even declared an emergency. 

1 minute ago, sd_flyer said:

I guess I've been flying in alternative law all my life!  LOL Once I had a bug  stuck inside pito tube causing erroneous airspeed reading I didn't even declared an emergency. 

These "laws" are all airbus stuff, if you don't fly it, you don't have it 😄 You got "normal law" if everything works correctly, in this mode, the plane should not allow the pilots to bring the plane in a critical attitude. Then theres "alternate law" (degraded protection) and "direct law" (Sidestick moves control surfaces "directly" without any protection).

And like you said: Things like blocked pitot tubes happen. That's the tragedy of this accident. They could have saved the plane, if they knew what was going on (they didn't and were confused).

Just wanted to thank all the early adopters for testing this addon and many more. Cheers!

Hmm.. trying to calibrate my 2 axis Thrustmaster Airbus controller. It seems like Axis 1 controls engine 1 and 2 in the calibration tab but not 'for real'..? Do I have to change the controller settings in MSFS as well?

Edit: Disregard. Got it working. 🤪

Edited October 8, 2025Oct 8 by Swe_Richard

On 10/7/2025 at 7:31 AM, Luis Hernandez said:

Just $10 less than MSFS2024 with the A332 and A333 included 😟

And VAT on top of that (as any Marketplace purchase here)? I like the A340, but I can wait one or two Black Fridays until a sale in the iniBuilds store (where I'm not charged VAT).

I’ve never understood the idea of comparing the cost of a flight simulator to the cost of an aircraft simulator. 

AFAIK, no Default addon is at the fidelity level of Tier 1 addons. 

I appreciate time compression is a highly sensitive and subjective thing.

When I was a student, I had plenty of time to let my sim run in the background for 12 hours and I didn’t use sim rate. Those days are long gone and with a full time job and a family I simply don’t have the time to spend 3-4 hours in the evening for flight sim. I may be lucky to get 2. I only fly real world routes, so if I wanted to do a LAX-HKG on an A350, with 4x that’s still easily going to take me 4 hours when factoring in the flight setup and planning, take off and approach in real time and the completely uneventful pacific crossing at 4x.

There is 0 reason why the 350 or 340 shouldn’t support 8x or 16x like all of the PMDG birds. Instead ini throw around excuses like “no computer is strong enough to run this aircraft at more than 4x”. That’s funny, because the other day I flew the 350 at 16x using the sim key commands. My FPS were fine, the aircraft was following the plan just fine but fuel burn was capped at 4x, rendering it useless.

i respect anyone wanting to fly in 1x and ask for the same in return. Jump ahead defeats the purpose for me. If you want to sell me a long haul aircraft then let it do 8x as an absolute minimum.

9 hours ago, JETPETER2 said:

yet here, NO GROUND noises... what TF I am angry.... just a dull roar as is default.

No issues here.

Check the EFB sound settings, some sounds are turned down to 50% by default 

I bought it this evening and completed a successful short hop.

I really like it, seems really nicely modelled, EFB and integration with Simbrief is excellent. It flew an RNAV approach perfectly and was nice to hand fly, felt heavy in roll. I really hope they do a premium version of the A330 with the same EFB and refinements that the 340 has.

1 hour ago, Tom Wright said:

I bought it this evening and completed a successful short hop.

I really like it, seems really nicely modelled, EFB and integration with Simbrief is excellent. It flew an RNAV approach perfectly and was nice to hand fly, felt heavy in roll. I really hope they do a premium version of the A330 with the same EFB and refinements that the 340 has.

Agree.  It's in great condition out of the box.  Only issues reported over at their discord seem to be related to SU4 Beta which is understandable.

They've done a great job with V1.0.0 

Jase

FYI - I initially downloaded it instead of streaming and my frame rates were not great.  I then uninstalled and reverted to streaming and gained 10 fps.

4 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

I’ve never understood the idea of comparing the cost of a flight simulator to the cost of an aircraft simulator. 

AFAIK, no Default addon is at the fidelity level of Tier 1 addons. 

I'm actually not comparing with MSFS2024, but with the iniBuilds A330-200 and A330-300 only. I know these are beyond the level we were used to get as default.

From all the discussions, the only different point that I can see is the availability of EIS1 screens and logic. Hope to be wrong.

Just completed my first full flight, a short trans-Atlantic flight Halifax- Zurich flown by Edelweiss…Halifax’s first and likely last scheduled A340 service.  I let the 6.5 hour flight run while I was out for supper, it made it to TOD no issue.  When I resumed the flight it did pitch down quite a bit, though I was able to regain control and finish the flight.

All in all, I’m quite happy with this.  I would absolutely pay for an enhancement pack that brought the default A330s to this level.  In the meantime, I’ll sub in the A340 where I can (come on Air Canada repaint! 😀)