7 minutes ago, xender said:

Oh guys stop it! You're going to make buy it!

I got burned by their A300 (Still buggy to this day) and sweared to never again trust inibuilds. Now you're just showering inibuilds with praise. If this attitude from the community continues I will have to buy it 

This won’t help but I’ll call this the least buggy airliner ini has released.  😀

Three long hauls in and I’m loving it.  Currently doing a 777 flight to try out Boris’ new sounds (they are great!), but TBH I’m looking forward to my next flight being back with the A340. 

9 minutes ago, xender said:

Oh guys stop it! You're going to make buy it!

I got burned by their A300 (Still buggy to this day) and sweared to never again trust inibuilds. Now you're just showering inibuilds with praise. If this attitude from the community continues I will have to buy it 

Just wait 3 months just to be sure the initial bugs and idosyncrcies that do not reflect correct Airbus behaviour had a chance of being fixed.

8 minutes ago, regis9 said:

This won’t help but I’ll call this the least buggy airliner ini has released.  😀

Three long hauls in and I’m loving it.  Currently doing a 777 flight to try out Boris’ new sounds (they are great!), but TBH I’m looking forward to my next flight being back with the A340. 

I LOVE long hauls. I always do flights to the maximum range of the aircraft at hand. For example, Im always doing 6 hour flights with the a2a comanche.

I always loved the A340-300. Its so underpowered that I find it charming. It seems I may have to buy this one

On 10/10/2025 at 6:21 PM, FPVSteve said:

By that logic PMDG shouldn't bother modelling a stall warning in their 737 - or Boeing for that matter.

Theres a big difference between a stall warning and, a system that takes away pilot control....  I'll be honest, I've never tested to see if the stall warning system works on the PMDG bird, I assume it does but Ive never stalled to test it. Why would I? I should never have the jet in that energy state in the first place.. Kinda like why would you test to see if you can pop a 4 engine jet into a spin or if the simulated computer on the simulated plane will prevent you from doing it. Like I get it that for accuracy it should be there but I don’t think it's a super important thing or somthing that a dev should prioritize over flight dynamics because in reality you should never have an A340 anywhere near a stall let alone a spin.

Edited October 13, 2025Oct 13 by z06z33

2 hours ago, z06z33 said:

Theres a big difference between a stall warning and, a system that takes away pilot control....  I'll be honest, I've never tested to see if the stall warning system works on the PMDG bird, I assume it does but Ive never stalled to test it. Why would I? I should never have the jet in that energy state in the first place.. Kinda like why would you test to see if you can pop a 4 engine jet into a spin or if the simulated computer on the simulated plane will prevent you from doing it. Like I get it that for accuracy it should be there but I don’t think it's a super important thing or somthing that a dev should prioritize over flight dynamics because in reality you should never have an A340 anywhere near a stall let alone a spin.

Everything you've said here applies to what you're arguing about regarding the Airbus. It should still be simulated even if you don't use it because it IS the flight dynamics. It's one of several laws the aircraft has onboard to govern how the aircraft reacts to a given flight state and since it is a fundamental part of the Airbus Fly By Wire systems it begs the question ... how accurate is the rest of the aircraft? Not to mention that it would be very easy for the aircraft to get into a particular state when it is in a low energy configuration such as immediately after takeoff or during landing, especially in weather.

Edited October 13, 2025Oct 13 by FPVSteve

I really like how the A340 (and their 'default' A330 actually for that matter) handle when being handflown. They feel appropriately heavy and carry quite a lot of inertia that you can feel particularly in roll. I've never flown a large jet but they seem to handle quite plausibly for what I can imagine a heavy widebody would feel like.

Their A350 by comparison feels like a fighter jet for some reason. I don't know if this is accurate or not but it feels like the A350 was developed by a completely different team within Inibuilds than the A330 and A340.

I'm VERY happy with the Inibuilds A340.  I won't talk about VR other than say that all of my flights are in VR and that this, of course, adds a performance challenge to any sim aircraft.  And so far the A340 has passed with flying colours in both MSFS2020 and MSFS2024.

I'm still trying different scenarios but so far have tried a number of medium distance flights under FSHUD air traffic control and it is one of the smoothest airliner flying experiences I have had with either sim.  In fact, in a recent flight I would say that is was the smoothest and visually sharpest of any flight I've done in VR in MSFS2024 SU3.  As a comparison, the Fenix A320...generally one of my favourites..is presently struggling bigtime on my system to the point I am not able to use it.  I'm just hoping that SU4 sorts it as, pre-SU3, it was fine.

But back to the A340 - at the moment, happy chappy!   

1 hour ago, Tom Wright said:

Their A350 by comparison feels like a fighter jet for some reason.

Apparently this is pretty realistic. I watched a bunch of real world Airbus pilots on YouTube, and most said the same thing - the A350 really is lighter and more responsive to inputs IRL, and the sim version is pretty close to the real world. 

So yeah, I guess it's good? I'm never going to fly an airliner in real life, so I'll take their word for it. 

Eh. I own the 300 from them. It's enjoyable. But currently flying XP12 more than MSFS, so holding off on ANYTHING until the platform stabilizes more. That includes the iFly 737MAX, ini A350, etc. Fed up with constant instability. I have Toliss A340 in XP12 and couldn't be happier with it. I doubt ini surpasses it. 

Edited October 13, 2025Oct 13 by BostonJeremy77

2 hours ago, BostonJeremy77 said:

Eh. I own the 300 from them. It's enjoyable. But currently flying XP12 more than MSFS, so holding off on ANYTHING until the platform stabilizes more. That includes the iFly 737MAX, ini A350, etc. Fed up with constant instability. I have Toliss A340 in XP12 and couldn't be happier with it. I doubt ini surpasses it. 

I frankly forgot about any instabilities after SU2. I’m running long hauls for hours without any trouble. 

16 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

I frankly forgot about any instabilities after SU2. I’m running long hauls for hours without any trouble. 

Ditto here.

10 hours ago, FPVSteve said:

Everything you've said here applies to what you're arguing about regarding the Airbus. It should still be simulated even if you don't use it because it IS the flight dynamics. It's one of several laws the aircraft has onboard to govern how the aircraft reacts to a given flight state and since it is a fundamental part of the Airbus Fly By Wire systems it begs the question ... how accurate is the rest of the aircraft? Not to mention that it would be very easy for the aircraft to get into a particular state when it is in a low energy configuration such as immediately after takeoff or during landing, especially in weather.

My point was simply with proper piloting, you'll never be in a bad energy state

8 hours ago, JonathanC said:

Apparently this is pretty realistic. I watched a bunch of real world Airbus pilots on YouTube, and most said the same thing - the A350 really is lighter and more responsive to inputs IRL, and the sim version is pretty close to the real world. 

So yeah, I guess it's good? I'm never going to fly an airliner in real life, so I'll take their word for it. 

Some days ago i had a Chat with the YouTube A330Driver and he too said that from his Simulator experience the A350 flightmodel is pretty close to the real one..

40 minutes ago, RTK1972 said:

Some days ago i had a Chat with the YouTube A330Driver and he too said that from his Simulator experience the A350 flightmodel is pretty close to the real one..

There are many people in this hobby who have no experience in flying any aircraft, yet they think they know more about an how an aircraft actually flies, compared to those that actually fly it on a daily basis. There is also a strong correlation between those same people who like to bring this up, and then start the “my sim is better than your sim” debates in regard to flight models.

While my flight experience is limited to twin engine Baron’s, I enjoy how the A350 flies and trust the RL type rated pilots POV’s like A330 driver or machtalk on YouTube.

Just bought the a340 and did a short flight…had a minor thing with gsx but I think it’s a gsx thing. I wasn’t sure how much of a difference it would be in terms of buying another airbus (fenix 320), but it was really excellent! The differences are significant and the feel and handling, as many others have noted, really is good. Spent some time with it and for a first version release, I have to say that for me it is already well worth the $. Nice launch, inibuids!