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[Jeroen Rutgers-Herenius 167]

Hi again,

except of the VNAN what else is incompleted?

thank you

If you search the forum, you will find most - if not all - answers.

[cypair 6]

omg i hope im not to leight with a paint request . i would sooooooo love it if you can do the cyprus airways a320. . no one hardly does this lil airline. and i love it. the livery is amazing. make me proud greek-cypriot.

thanks.

[Ayster 41]

May for the download, July for the box.

Oo, I hope so.. I just did a flight from Dublin (Eiresim) to Trondheim (Aerosoft!) in the Wilco A319, man I forgot how bad it was!

[Maverickmatze 21]

Hello!

I can't wait until this Airbus is released! I'm so excited!

I'm kind of a sound-freak and I allways had one problem which annoys me over and over again.

I have the Wilco busses and downloaded the TSS sound for it.

During engine start (after the completion of the pneumatic start and at the moment the actual iginition starts) there is a short moment where the sound kind of stucks and gets disrupted by the "engine idle sound". I fear that this is a problem either of my system (software / hardware, or maybe a Wilco problem, or it's a FSX problem. That's why I eagerly wanted to see a video of the AirbusX during engine start.

Can anybody confirm that this is a problem that doesn't exist on the AirbusX and that the engine start works perfectly smooth?

Thank you in advance!

Best regard

Mat

[TF-197 28]

Now all we need is a good FSX scenery of Toulouse Blagnac!

Aerosoft... hint... hint... hint?

that would be nice, hint lol

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51562]

can i ask, will you be able to do things like activate the evacuation signal?

No, sorry but that right up with flushing toilets in my book, lol. We got very little attention for emergencies in this project.

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51562]

what software did Stefan use? look so nice cant wait to get the Bus and take of from Blagnac in France for the First Flight of a proper A320 for FSX

the aircraft is rendered in 3dMax and the the landscape is made with terragen 2. So all fake!

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51562]

Hello!

I can't wait until this Airbus is released! I'm so excited!

I'm kind of a sound-freak and I allways had one problem which annoys me over and over again.

I have the Wilco busses and downloaded the TSS sound for it.

During engine start (after the completion of the pneumatic start and at the moment the actual iginition starts) there is a short moment where the sound kind of stucks and gets disrupted by the "engine idle sound". I fear that this is a problem either of my system (software / hardware, or maybe a Wilco problem, or it's a FSX problem. That's why I eagerly wanted to see a video of the AirbusX during engine start.

Can anybody confirm that this is a problem that doesn't exist on the AirbusX and that the engine start works perfectly smooth?

Thank you in advance!

Best regard

Mat

I'll check that next weekend.

[baldk9 28]

After reading a postong on the PMDG forum in regards to passing on information in regards to furture releases, which said it is best that the less the information the developer releases the better. After reading several entries in regards to the development of the Airbus I must agree that the less said the better.

Richard Churchill

[Maverickmatze 21]

I'll check that next weekend.

Thank you, Mathijs

[Nick C 110]

Richard Churchill

Always good to see a fellow 'Churchill', we're few and far between!

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51562]

After reading a postong on the PMDG forum in regards to passing on information in regards to furture releases, which said it is best that the less the information the developer releases the better. After reading several entries in regards to the development of the Airbus I must agree that the less said the better.

Richard Churchill

Well we are not forcing you to read this forum, so I think there is not a real problem, right?

[bionicCrab 7]

LOL....

[federalfsx 2]

LOL, Mathijs is a very wise man 

[hotelfox 18]

Now all we need is a good FSX scenery of Toulouse Blagnac!

I wouldn' t mind if it came in one package with EDHI, Hamburg-Finkenwerder

[Emi 5162]

I wouldn' t mind if it came in one package with EDHI, Hamburg-Finkenwerder

well, it would be really great to have an airbus scenery package, where all of the airbus-important airports, manufactoring places are in...

would be an great thing together with the airbus x...

(for boeing that would be also great, but i think airbus is more important (at least because i fly more often in the eu, and of cause because i live there...))

[Aprilia 4 Ever 35]

one question:

what will the captain do if he is a right handed person?? has he to fly with his left hand or may he says "FO, you have the controls??

but what if the FO is a left handed person?? seat change?!

sorry for off topic but I'm curious.

best regards

[Jeroen Rutgers-Herenius 167]

one question:

what will the captain do if he is a right handed person?? has he to fly with his left hand or may he says "FO, you have the controls??

but what if the FO is a left handed person?? seat change?!

sorry for off topic but I'm curious.

best regards

Even if you're right handed, you fly the bus with your left hand. Nothing different from a "conventional" yoke where you hold it with your left hand, while your right is on the throttle.

[Maverickmatze 21]

Even if you're right handed, you fly the bus with your left hand. Nothing different from a "conventional" yoke where you hold it with your left hand, while your right is on the throttle.

lol - that's true. I thought the same thing: "it must feel strange to control the bus from the captain's seat, beacuse you have to use the left hand...". But after you wrote these few lines I remember some situations I flew a plane with conventional yoke... It is basically the same thing. And I didn't even care about it - ever ;-)

[Paul_Smith 8]

After reading a postong on the PMDG forum in regards to passing on information in regards to furture releases, which said it is best that the less the information the developer releases the better. After reading several entries in regards to the development of the Airbus I must agree that the less said the better.

Richard Churchill

I am not sure whether to agree with you, or say 'too late'.

[EmiloZ 24]

one question:

what will the captain do if he is a right handed person?? has he to fly with his left hand or may he says "FO, you have the controls??

but what if the FO is a left handed person?? seat change?!

sorry for off topic but I'm curious.

best regards

You'll get used to it while in sims, and also on every other plane as a captain you do hold yoke with left and then throttle with right.

So thats not any hard :- )

- Emil

[SimPilot767 157]

If you´re a right-hand person, it´s more easy to handle a sidestick with the left hand than a yoke,

because your arm lies on the armrest.

The sidesticks are angulated to the inside so the necessary force for your wrist

to the left and the right is nearly the same.

Timo

[Nick C 110]

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but...

I'm right handed and around 12 years ago I broke my right wrist and had a plaster cast from my fingers to my elbow for a few weeks. I was forced to use the mouse with my left hand for the first time and I adapted to it within a couple of days. Ever since I've kept using the mouse with my left hand and found it frees my right hand to do the important jobs, such as drinking coffee and scratching my head!

[jankees 180]

that's funny, after developing rsi in my right arm, I switched to a lefthand mouse too, and I still do it that way, I actually prefer it.

Everybody else who uses my computer hates me for it though....

Oh, and yes, I'm very much right handed too...

[saprintz 82]

I am not sure whether to agree with you, or say 'too late'.

(Okay, I have a few minutes away from developing while I wait for something to show up, and I just caught up on this thread, so....)

I'm genuinely not sure why anyone would want to be left in the dark over these kinds of "expected date" things? Seems to me that complete openness is *inherently* better for the average person, no? The only bit suggesting otherwise, and which I can kinda understand, seems to go something like, "we're so excited to get this product, and therefore SO disappointed about any delays in it, that we really just cannot stand the agony of it all, so don't tell us!" Fair paraphrasing?? No sarcasm there -- I've been anxious for products too! Is it that people fear developers give artificially early dates in order to "hook" interest, then lead customers on, etc... a fear of being decieved by the developer, I guess?

I can guarantee you that with this project, every time a date was mentioned, it was because we the developers thought it could be done by that time, really thought that, and that's what we told the only person qualified to give those kinds of "big picture" answers on here. (The guy taking the flak so often now. ;-) But then... well, anyone who programs anything knows... things just *happen.* (You can't predict the unpredictable, or what percentage of possible unpredictables will manifest, or their magnitudes... 'cause they're unpredictable(!!). And it's not even necessarily *mistakes* that become the stick in the spokes in a project... usually instead just something like absolutely completely unpredictable interactions. Or often it's just the idea that, if we're going to do feature A like we must, well I guess we really should do B too... and if B, C would be a great complement to that... and so on. All of you out there waiting so patiently are definitely getting more than was originally planned. By a big margin.

(Please do not forget, some main parameters of this project changed not all that long ago. *Fundamental* aspects. Major feature enhancements. For example, it was decided to go *much* more in depth in the MCDU, to add the Navigraph database, and 10x more expansive flight-planning capabilities. It was only... (hmmm, I guess 3 or maybe 4 months back??)... that the MCDU was going to comprise merely a flight-plan info display page, radios page, speed page, and a few other basic pages. Then it was decided to give more. And it is SO MUCH more now. And just plain very cool. You can fly perfectly fine without ever touching that beheamoth, and those who prefer to mess with it now have the option. But the new plan has had far-reaching (and yes, some unpredictable) implications.)

Oh, and what the A320 series does with its FBW system, the low speed protections, things like that... truly amazing! I had no idea before being this involved. If you wanna have some fun while waiting, take a look at things as "basic" as what the real A32x does to try to eliminate the possibility of stalling the aircraft. (And FSX REALLY does not provide easy means to simulate that, as Finn has said. But it's really done very well now. He deserves applause.) But there's lots of interesting debate on the web about all the automation in the real aircraft, the philosophy behind it (with interesting personal dramas intertwined!), the problems that surfaced w/ the engineers when trying to implement 1 person's complex vision of safety features... plus there's plenty of great debate on whether so much automated "protection" as in the Bus is a good thing, or instead just takes needed control ("at the edges") away from the pilots. Maybe it would be fun to lose yourself in that kind of stuff for awhile, to blunt the trauma of this wait? Heheh. I've found it all extremely interesting reading when I've had a few hours here and there. And I will tell you... each time I have the luxury to actually FLY this product without worry for a bit, to take half an hour and back up from the developing, I'm amazed at how different it is from anything else I've seen out there for MSFS -- just the intangible "feeling" of the controls and how differently the plane reacts than we're all used to. I can't imagine the real engineering challenges there. But some simmers will be very surprised by what they'll get with this. Most very pleasantly, but probably some who will be sure that "this can't be right!" But we've got GREAT beta testers, who know.

Back to the dates and what's best WRT predicting them... as one of the developers, I can assure you that every time a date was mentioned, going back months now, it was because that's what we the developers REALLY TRULY thought at the time, and of course what we told the project lead. Then the "stuff happens" moments arise, and... we're forced to say "we really should add to this," and then "well, we've just GOTTA change this now," or "crap, the autopilot needs to do something the sim just doesn't want to allow," or (what has been my personal little nightmare) "geeze, these speed tapes are much more complicated than imagined given the sim limitations, and getting it only 'mostly right' in flight situation X leads to absurd behavior in situation Y"... and we've all got pride, and a name, and just CAN'T feel good about putting it out there with that feature in *that* condition. So consider all of that... and then there are things that happen in team-members' personal lives... and the fact that with a team comprised of detail-freaks, each now having to reign himself in to being a necessarily *selective* detail freak... that cabn be a little rough. ;-) But maybe you can see how predicting the unpredictable is obviously and inherently impossible?

I'm just very certain that the things causing delay are things you'll be glad were added, and maybe would've been upset about had we not added them. And though Mathijs DEFINITELY does not need my help defending(!!), he really is very confined by what we the developers have predicted for him. Not an easy task for anyone.