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Special Thanks to the User Groucho from the FGFS forums, who made it possible that I could look into the Flight Manual!
Special Thanks to the User Groucho from the FGFS forums, who made it possible that I could look into the Flight Manual!


[[File:Dornier 328 First Prototype.jpg|thumb|270px |First prototype of Dornier 328 in its House colors- model before prop had been textured but I do like the sky in the background and the light effect on the tail]]
[[File:Dornier328.jpg|thumb|270px |Dornier 328 TurboProp exterior model in Skywork Airlines colors, current state at 08/20/2013]]
[[File:Dornier328.jpg|thumb|270px |Dornier 328 TurboProp exterior model in Skywork Airlines colors, current state at 08/20/2013]]
[[File:Dornier 328 above the autrian alps.jpg|thumb||270px |upper side of the Dornier 328, showing wing structure]]
[[File:Dornier 328 above the autrian alps.jpg|thumb||270px |upper side of the Dornier 328, showing wing structure]]

Revision as of 00:15, 20 November 2013

Fairchild Dornier 328TP
Dornier328.2.jpg
Type Airliner
Author(s)
  • Heiko Schulz (3D model
  • FDM), Syd Adams (Flightdirector, Primus Avionic)
FDM YASim
--aircraft= do328
Status Alpha
 FDM Stars-4.png
 Systems Stars-0.png
 Cockpit Stars-0.png
 Model Stars-4.png
Download Download the Fairchild Dornier 328TP aircraft package for the current stable release (2020.3).


Introduction

The Dornier 328 aircraft is a shortrange commuter, developed and built by Dornier. It was the last aircraft made by Dornier, and the last airliner completely developed and built in Germany.

The developement has been started back in the 1980s as successor for the Dornier 228. Dornier found that there was a marketplace for a 33-passenger aircraft, so they created an aircraft with a complete round fuselage and the TNT-wing (Tragflügel neuer Technologie = Wing of New Technology) of the Dornier 228.

Developement started December 1988, maiden flight had been at 6. December 1991 and in October 1993 it had been finally certified. The aircraft had been developed for high climbrate and high speed, but short landing which was possible due the wing and the new developed propeller. As non-typical for this class of aircraft the flightdeck has been fitted with 5 Displays from the Honeywell Primus 2000 avionic. The cabin was very comfortable for its aircraft class, as it was wide, round, and there was an active eletronic noise supression- that together gave a jet-like feeling.

In the 90s Turboprop aircraft wasn't really liked, as flight companies preferred smaller jets. So Fairchild-Dornier developed the Dornier 328 JET, a jet driven version of the Dornier 328. There had been larger versions of this aircraft planned: Dornier 428 and 528, stretched versions of the Dornier 328, but was never built.

When Fairchild-Dornier went bankrupt, the production of the Dornier 328 had been stopped in 2005, only 217 aircraft (Prop and Jet version) had been built, plus 3 prototypes.

There are 4 Turboprop- variants available, and 3 Jet variants:

  • Dornier 328-100 (basic version, 33 passengers, Pratt & Whitney Canada PW119)
  • Dornier 328-110 (increased MTWO by 350kg, increased range), Pratt & Whitney Canada PW119B)
  • Dornier 328-120 (special short range equipement)
  • Dornier 328-130 (higher speed, improved rudder, Pratt & Whitney Canada PW119C)

Ground spoilers and APU had been optional on all Turboprop variants

  • Dornier 328-300/ 328JET (jet driven version)
  • Dornier 328 Envoy 3 (Business Jet version)
  • Dornier 328DBJ (Replacement of the Envoy 3 with a larger cabin)


The FlightGear model is currently in developement, simulating the Dornier 328-110 with ground spoilers and with and without APU and will be probably available sometime 2013, due to heavy real life load of the author. Special Thanks to the User Groucho from the FGFS forums, who made it possible that I could look into the Flight Manual!

First prototype of Dornier 328 in its House colors- model before prop had been textured but I do like the sky in the background and the light effect on the tail
Dornier 328 TurboProp exterior model in Skywork Airlines colors, current state at 08/20/2013
upper side of the Dornier 328, showing wing structure
Testing the multiple lightmap feature. Here showing the logo lights at the tail, and the de-ice lights in FlightGear. Effects of Beacon and Landinglights still missing
08/21/2013: Latest State of flightdeck developement: finally 3d work of the flightdeck has been mostly finished, needs only the textures, controlls, and some details and the Overhead panel- we'll see what the weekened will bring.


Developement Notes:

Completed already

JSBSim FDM:

  • [11/19/2013]: realistic Vr/V2 speeds according to sources, plausible climb rates, realistic roll rates

Datas used for the FDM:

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Exterior

  • [11/19/2013]: textured and animated props, improvements to landing gear, small updates to liveries
  • [11/19/2013]: flightdeck progress- PFD and MFD working; working throttle quadrant, nearly working autoflight panel

autoflight

  • [11/19/2013]: added autoflight system from Syd's Citation X

To-Do-List:

Near Term Tasks

*fdm:

  1. tuning of prop so it decelerate much more on glideslope
  2. correct groundspoiler logic
  3. simulating roll spoiler
  4. reduce braking force of landing gear to match real landing distances
  5. enable friction.nas
  6. simulate latch of throttle
  7. tune fuel consumption

*finishing the flightdeck:

  1. working autoflight panel
  2. Overhead Panel with fully 3d models knobs, switches, warning lights
  3. Center Pedestal
  4. EICAS page(s) --> canvas??
  5. addings small details (pencils, placards...)

*systems:

  1. autoflight: more tuning, change systems to act like real thing

*3d-model

  1. missing animation
  2. realistic wing flex
  3. add lights
  4. optimize for Rembrandt(No-shadow tags, lights)
  5. realistic sounds
  6. dummy cabin so you can't look through the fuselage anymore

*Dornier 328-300/JET

  1. creating the 328JET fdm
  2. modifying the exterior model to the Jet version
  3. modifiying the flightdeck to jet version (Overhead panel, center pedestal, Primus 2000 EICAS)
Mid Term Tasks
  1. add cabin
Long Term Tasks

all what is left

Help needed for
  1. programming systems like hydraulics, pneumatics, APU (for jet), CDU, missing pages on EICAS, MFD...
  1. failures


References
  1. datas like wing incidence from the Original Flight Manual Dornier 328-100
  2. Pilot report. Published by www.flightglobal.com.
  3. Pilot report 2. Published by compair.aviationresearch.com.
  4. Accident report. Published by www.skybrary.aero.
  5. some stall speeds. Published by http://www.caa.co.uk.
  6. Accident Report Bremen 2001. Published by BFU Germany.
  7. Accident report Saarbrücken. Published by BFU Germany.
  8. EASA Type certification. Published by EASA.
  9. Accident report Aberdeen. Published by AAIB.
  10. Real life procedures. Published by flashcardgame.