Airbus A340-600
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| Type | Airbus Long-Range Civil Airliner |
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| Author(s) | Liam |
| FDM | YASim |
| --aircraft= | A340-600 |
| Status | Under development |
The Airbus A340-600 is an aircraft by Airbus Industries of France. The aircraft is the longest civil airliner in world, aswell as flightgear. It was was developed into FlightGear by Liam, started in early November 2009.
Designed as an early generation 747 replacement, the A340-600 flies 380 passengers in a three-class cabin layout (419 in 2 class) over 7,500 nautical miles (13,900 km). It provides similar passenger capacity to a 747 but with 25% more cargo volume, and at lower trip and seat costs. First flight of the A340-600 was made on 23 April 2001. Virgin Atlantic began commercial services in August 2002. The A340-600 is more than 10 m longer than a basic -300, making it the longest airliner currently in production; more than four metres longer than the Boeing 747-400 and 2.3m longer than the A380. The Airbus A340-600 will continue to hold the record for being the worlds longest commercial aircraft until the first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental is rolled out in 2010.
You can follow updates on this aircraft project on Liam's Hangar or on this wiki.
Development status/Issues/Todo
Complete
- Aircraft Model
- YASim FDM
- Splash Screen
- Fully Textured
- Sounds
- Autostart control
- Cockpit Window glass
- Lights
- Wing view/Tail view/Gear view/Cabin view
- Livery Selection Dialog
- Engine fires
- Tyre smoke on landing.
- 3D cockpit.
- 4 Rolls Royce Trent 500 engines.
- Vapour trails/Contrails.
- Cabin SFX (Seatbelts and Safety Briefing sound effects) dialog options.
- Pushback (Goldhofer), compatable with both CVS and non-cvs users.
- A nicely detailed interior.
- Some instruments added to the cockpit.
Liveries:
- Virgin Atlantic (complete)
- Lufthansa (complete)
- Cathay Pacific (complete)
- Qatar (complete)
- Iberia (complete)
- Thai Airways (complete by kuwaitcreator)
- Etihad Airways
- South African Airways
- China Eastern
- Hainan
To-do
Outside:
- Futher FDM configuring
- Further enhancements to the interior
- Landing Gear Animations
- Tail rudder/wing animations
- Reverser's/speedbrake/flaps animations
- Wing Flex (may be possible under YASim, but with practise)
- Stairways/Jetway animations
- Windscreen Wipers
Inside:
- More instruments in the cockpit, Joystick Yoke.
(for progress screenshots, visit this link)
Problems with the aircraft
- None known (feel free to add some here)
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