24 minutes ago, Luis Hernandez said:

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.

Agree. For my use, the Airbuses in v2024 are more than good enough for my particular desires. Though I’m regularly tempted to get the Fenix or FSL, I just don’t fly airliners enough to justify the payware versions of the same things. 🤙

6 hours ago, Speedbird 217 said:

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.

Like you I'm a busy family man, and have a full time job in aviation, I don't have time to spend 8-10 hours at my PC, and having it fly overnight while I'm asleep or jump ahead features hold zero appeal for me either - I'm busy enough in the mornings with the family or work as it is.

I am really happy to report that the A340 on my hardware at least is flawless at 8x sim rate. I do have a beefy system (9800X3D, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM and a 4090) so YMMV but I've just completed a trans-atlantic flight and it performed amazingly.
Both laterally and vertically it tracked to perfection, just as good as the PMDG 777s.
In every other Airbus (INI A330, A321LR, A350, FBW A380) to use 8x I have to pull the VS and set 0 to avoid the wild pitch oscillations, lateral tracking is always fine, but in the A340 I can leave it in ALT CRZ with no problems and it holds altitude perfectly. I'm well impressed.
Fuel only burns at 4x, however once I reached the point at TOD where I wanted to go back to 1x sim rate, I just set the fuel in the EFB to what Simbrief had planned at TOD and it set the fuel with no fuss and I had a wonderful descent, approach and landing at realistic landing weight.

Anyway just passing along if you have the hardware that can cope you can run the Ini A340 at 8x with no problems at all (except for the fuel burn, which can be worked around).

How do I download liveries through the Inibuild app? I bought the aircraft through the msfs2024 marketplace but the app still shows that the A340 is not bought

 

Found them in the marketplace 

Edited October 9, 2025Oct 9 by Bill A

13 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

The crew reacted incorrectly to this, causing the aircraft to enter an aerodynamic stall, which the pilots failed to correct

Perhaps the pilots need more time on a flight simulator … hehe … any flight simulator since they all can simulate a stall. 🙂

 

21 hours ago, GCBraun said:

A "Jump to" solution does not give me that feeling of a flight/journey. I could then just save/load a takeoff and lading situation at this point.

Neither does flying at 8x the normal speed. 

8 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Neither does flying at 8x the normal speed. 

It does for me. I can takeoff, fly in normal speed until cruise and, when I am usually over the ocean, activate 8x until I need to perform actions such as step-climbs...

In the end, it is pointless further discussing this as it comes down to personal preference...

7 hours ago, Bill A said:

How do I download liveries through the Inibuild app? I bought the aircraft through the msfs2024 marketplace but the app still shows that the A340 is not bought

 

Found them in the marketplace 

In the Inibuilds Manager app, look for "Liveries" in the left pan. From there you will be able to select the aircraft and a set of associated liveries. Simply click the install button on those you want to install and that's all.

Yes, having been purchased through the Marketplace the aircraft is not listed in your "Library" within the Ini app.

Regarding the time acceleration, I finally found it in the EFB "hidden" under the cogwheel. I then played with it in a short hop from Lisboa to Porto, and tried 2x, then 4x and just as I had selected 4x after a few seconds pretty much everything froze in my A340. I still had kind of pitch response, but rather weird, but couldn't interact with pretty much anything else 😕  WASM bummer for sure...

Edited October 9, 2025Oct 9 by jcomm

Long haul flights would be almost impossible for me. There is no way that I could ever use time acceleration or "jump to" features during a flight, and I do not fancy the thought of leaving the PC on all night as my plane cruises to its destination. Thankfully, I am not interested in long haul flights. Even two hours would be a big stretch.

Edited October 9, 2025Oct 9 by Christopher Low

1 hour ago, Farlis said:

Neither does flying at 8x the normal speed. 

But you can jump to normal speed at any time to take care of anything that needs doing or just to vibe along for a bit. 

That's what I do - it's 8x until I need to make a radio call, re-check fuel, plan descent, etc. You're still engaged in the flight. I think you miss a lot of that if you just skip ahead to TOD or leave the machine running overnight.

Just now, Georgleboui said:

But you can jump to normal speed at any time to take care of anything that needs doing or just to vibe along for a bit. 

That's what I do - it's 8x until I need to make a radio call, re-check fuel, plan descent, etc. You're still engaged in the flight. I think you miss a lot of that if you just skip ahead to TOD or leave the machine running overnight.

You can skip ahead to any fix in the flightplan you want in the FSLabs. 

So for example if you are on VATSIM in uncontrolled airspace you can skip ahead to the 30 miles before the next manned sector. 

Or you skip ahead to your step climb. Fuel and time are adjusted accordingly. 

This is much more efficient than time acceleration in my book. 

Best way would be to have both options in the aircraft. 

10 hours ago, SayAgain said:

Perhaps the pilots need more time on a flight simulator … hehe … any flight simulator since they all can simulate a stall. 🙂

 

We do in primary training in real airplane: departure stall, arrival stall, unusual attitudes.. For commercial  you need also show accelerated stall, for CFI spin recovery..I think on average regular instructor does more stalls than wide body captain with highest seniority level LOL

8 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

We do in primary training in real airplane: departure stall, arrival stall, unusual attitudes.. For commercial  you need also show accelerated stall, for CFI spin recovery..I think on average regular instructor does more stalls than wide body captain with highest seniority level LOL

You do all that in the PPL in Canada, and we stall the ATR in the sim, but I’ve never come close to stalling it IRL.  
 

The sim is fun for all sorts of stuff you can’t do IRL, like rolling inverted over the airfield and trying to land on the runway.  

22 minutes ago, ATRguy said:

You do all that in the PPL in Canada, and we stall the ATR in the sim, but I’ve never come close to stalling it IRL.  

I had an old retired airliner (also CFI) told me he was doing stalls in actual airliners (in 70th) as part of initial airline experience. Not sure if it was full aerodynamic stall or just stick shaker high alpha, but recovery was a bit different from light GA (from his account). They could  not deep nose down as they would loose couple thousands feet right away - so it was full power pitch up.

P.S. My dad was test pilot for Antonov, they stalled all aircraft during tests including AN-124. I even seen a footage of that from the spotter airplane.

 

Secondary stall development is the worst scenario ...

How Does A Boeing 737 Handle On A Full Stall?

Boeing B787 Stall Demonstration & recovery on Autopilot (simulator) with tips, see description

How it feels when an aircraft stalls✈️ #aviation

Airbus A320 stall recognition and recovery training

And... rool in a 777: Boeing 777 upset training

 

Edited October 10, 2025Oct 10 by jcomm

Hmm will properly pick this up as i am just to curious with those 4 engines . I havent even tried the A330 yet and also alot of the other Premium Deluxe owners stuff in both 20/24.

I like the A350 in MS24 but performance wise i am using it without the cabin.

I do LOVE the skip to function FSL started in the airbus series and i also need time for FSL Neo action with MEL (havent even bought it yet)

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