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We do not have a concrete date set, but at current progress maybe early summer! Getting around to testing out liveries.

Enjoy! And its freeware.

The aircraft is almost ready!! More images coming!

That liverie is so close to the real world photo thats its really not worth any debate, its spliting hairs . BTW fantastic job Airbus! Really looking forward to flying this beauty over the upcoming Norcal scenery! How sweet life is :-)

Hi there! Almost a month since last update, but a lot of work have been done. The development for version 1.1 is almost finished, only few minor tweaks are remaining plus documentation update. Some major features of this version: Optimized 3D cockpit geometry (a lot less polygons)Full AUTOPILOT simulationImproved flight model (now within less 10% of the real aircraft)SASL based systems simulation and logic Full checklist displayed on MFDMany bugs fixesHere is a pic with the checklist on MFD

Hello, it's been some time, and i'm still working on the Swissair-livery. Almost finished the exterior, maybe with some little things to be done like transitions between fuselage and wings. Will then move to the interior, cockpit and (cargo-) cabin. So i wanted to show some screenshots of what it looks at this time. Greetings from Munich Andreas

I can't claim that one Rhydian, that's Nils Danielsson's work, easily at the top of class IMO. TomK

Most bigger airliners have 3 autopilot systems. This is called a "fail operational" system - even if one autopilot freaks out, the other two can continue to do the job of landing the airplane, as they can simply overpower it. Boeing has a system of grading the landing capability on more modern aircraft - they usually asess their own landing capability and announce it on the FMA. The 737-300 can not do this - the pilot is expected to asess and apply the correct minimum. "Land 2" would be a fail-passive system that allows autoland, but with a certain decision height that allows the pilot to take over if one of the two autopilots fails just before touchdown. "Land 3" would be the fail-operational system, where the two remaining autopilots could land the aircraft if the other autopilot fails. These system can actually have no decision height, meaning the plane will land even if the pilot sees nada. Don´t confuse Land 2 and 3 with the Category II or Category III approach, though. While related, it is still different. For example, the 737-300 would technically have a "Land 2" capability (fail passive) if doing an automatic approach with two autopilots. This would enable it to fly a Category IIIa approach, though (50´DH - 200m RVR). Jan

Yes, Rhydian, the two flight-control computers are totally redundant during regular flight. It is important to know, however, that FCC A (left side autopilot and flight-director) are hardwired to the left side instruments like altimeter and VOR/LOC receiver. So if you set the ILS frequency on NAV1 - the autopilot B will never fly it! Thats why the captain will always use autopilot A and the copilot will always use autopilot B. The one exception is a malfunction, for example A hydraulic system down - in this case autopilot A won´t work, and the captain - even as pilot flying - could use autopilot B. During a dual-channel-autoland ILS approach, both autopilots work the flight-controls at the same time. This has the added benefit of a "fail passive" system setup, meaning that if one autopilot freaks out and wants to roll the plane inverted, the other one is strong enough to stop it from doing that . There are several parameters that must be met before being able to engage both autopilots - so it can´t be done for regular flight. Even though you can engage both as soon as these parameters are met, the second autopilot will only actually start working when well established on the ILS. Jan

So, I've got a couple shots to show off. The front of this building is finished... mostly. The front has a curb which is integrated into the doors and front of the building. I'm pondering what my next move will be. I'm thinking I'll do the left side, since the right side is modeled. And then it's off to the woods for a few pictures of the runway side of the building. Enjoy a few shots of the mostly complete front:

Very nice video. Leading (Cutting) Edge, you keep making planes like these, you will put me in the poor house

Something for the Citation fans!

Oh totally! I totally knew it was an april fools joke! (not) I was freaked!

and a sneak peek at some cockpit texturing currently underway. 3rd video on autopilot will be posted by the weekend also.

Final flight test of my Avanti II before v1.1 release

California's spectacular Central Valley. Yes, it's flat, but it's incredible to fly over!

That looks so sexy when my girlfriend walked into the room I closed the browser window really fast.

Hi everyone, we are busy chipping away on the 737. The exterior is coming along nicely, recent work added landing gear detail and further improvements in various areas. We had quite a time getting the landing gear strut compression and damping coefficients right to maintain the great crosswind capability this aircraft enjoys - so I figured I upload a video of a crosswind landing like I did many during recent testing. The video shows a landing at a very stiff crosswind, more than I have ever done in the real aircraft. In fact the limit for dry runways for us is 30kts. Boeing demonstrated 35kts - but thats for testpilots, the right stuff and all that . Tom is also in posession of the next two autopilot videos, narration and cutting is done, he just needs to annotate them with his nifty arrows. This might give you guys a chance to follow my rapid-fire rambling. Pester him to finish and upload them if you please. Jan