Airbus A320/A321 for FSX/P3D

With all of the latest developments and changes being added into the aircraft, the systems which are being used are built in with the intention of being used on a day-to-day basis helping you understand all that entails flying an aircraft.

This is more than just your basic, standard add-on; it comprehensively reworks and changes massive parts of the Aerosoft Airbus design, containing unique modules and improvements that on their own could constitute a solid add-on. This does a wonderful job of helping you become more comfortable with your aircraft, helping you to function better and to fly the aircraft with the correct level of precision and detail included.

What’s New?

This package does a great job of totally recreating the right look and feel of both the Airbus A320 and the A321.

By using this setup, you can easily enjoy proper day-to-day operations that are designed to ensure the full aircraft carries the correct look and feel. However, this package also does a great job of capturing every other feature that has been added in, ensuring that they all work together in tandem and thus creating a fluid and easy to follow system designed to ensure you can get the most out of your new aircraft.

So, what’s new?

• This package comes with a new late model cockpit with both LCD and ADIRS included. This improves performance and control over the aircraft, ensuring that you have no issues when you want to try and use the features which are now made available.

• This is improved by fantastic texture qualities that ensure the whole aircraft looks fantastic, capturing every last little bolt in high resolution textures that look spectacular. More importantly, though, these aircraft don’t bother the simulation performance much at all; instead, they make it much easier to control the overall performance.

• New lighting has been added in, too. This does a great job of making sure you can light up objects in front of you and have more than a cheap brightness change; these are genuine lights that really do spark up the skies and make it much easier to see.

• Fantastic new animations built from scratch are now added in which look wonderful, improving the overall authenticity of the game and also giving you great sound effects. From the main doors and cargo hatches all opening and making the right sounds to new ground objects, this adds a whole new range of experience to the simulation.

• A new web server has been included to ensure that you can get access to the MCDU via any website browser, even on mobile devices like any standard tablet!

• Fantastic XML programming to ensure that you can alter the coding to fit whatever changes you may feel are needed to get the utmost performance.

• Brand new SDK settings will ensure that you can make the alterations that you wish, whenever you are ready. By doing this, you also get full access to LINDA connectivity which makes it easier than ever to create the adjustments and the changes that you were hoping to see here.

• Semi-automated checklists with audio descriptions, new sound systems and also brand new views all come together here to make a truly enjoyable DSX experience. Now, you can easily control the aircraft whilst the aircraft will emulate the 2D panels vies whilst ensuring you are left in total control of your aircraft.

• New manuals have been written to help you get to grips with the more challenging aspects of flying this aircraft, helping you closely understand the depth and quality of the aircraft and every little function which has been included throughout.

Key System Changes

The way that an aircraft flies is obviously one of the most important features that you can get access to, and with this range of mods you will see key system changes being utilized which will include;

• A fully customized fly-by-wire flight system that makes it easier than ever to control you aircraft. Now with access to flight envelope protection, stall protection, g-load limiters and overspeed protection you can make sure your aircraft isn’t going to run into any problems that will put you out of your comfort zone!

• This is improved by the addition of new autopilot systems. These do a great job in making sure that you can reach the destination that you intended without having to push the boundaries – with the new full Category III auto landing, too, things just became so much easier!

• Fully customized thrust computer systems with FADEC, FLEX take-offs and throttle with indents included. These make a big difference to the quality and safety of flight.

• Brand new MCDU features are included which can be controlled using web browsers on tablets means that you can add in new information remotely or via keyboard; it’s a very useful option which improves functionality greatly.

• The new flight plan systems will fully support SIDs, STARs, transitions and various other features such as approaches, go-arounds and many other features to help you enjoy a more comfortable quality of flight – even DME arcs are supported!

• Comes with a brand new NavDataPro navigation database – AIRAC 1409 to be exact – which offers great compatibility as well as backwards compatibility with Navigraphs. This includes AIRAC Data which is based on the time of release, and can be updated whenever you feel like having a more modern version.

• 14 ECAM pages are included, ensuring that you can get the best aircraft information and to stay up to date when you ae flying around .these lovely changes make it much easier to control your aircraft and stay on the right track.

• Detail everything you need to know in your 25 hour storage Digital Flight Data Recorder. This is a very useful tool that can help you manage and control your information to analyse flights.

• Comes with a brilliant FS2Crew Runway Awareness system as well as an Advisory system. This is sold separately, but provides great value in this package!

• A fully features ADIR system as well as a new TCAS system with automated warnings, AI traffic changes, VATSIM and IVAO. These systems all run in conjunction with the TCAS system included, improving your overall flight functionality and control massively.

• Navigation displays are improved more than ever, too! Now, you can easily manage things like curved lines, stopwatches, navaids, runway details, range and mode changes as well as terrain display features to make sure you have total and utter control over every change that you intend on implementing.

• Fully features loading and re-fuelling is now added in to make sure that you can easily control your aircraft when you feel like you are running low out there in the field.

• A print option will let you print off runway data as well as V1, V2 and VR details with a simple click of a button. This feature will help you stay on track with ease.

• A unique development which will ensure you have full access to a weather radar with a multi-scan system; this is a totally new feature and will be your ally on those tough flights out there in the rain. If you can use this to your advantage, you are bound to succeed!

• Totally customized fuel flows and automated brakes with assisted deceleration instead of excess brake pressure.  

New Additions

Aside from the key changes and main reasons for this addition, this modification package does a great job of providing you with lots of other little nice extras that otherwise may never have been included. If you want to use this mod to improve your overall FSX experience then you will find that all of the additional improvements make this easier than ever before.

By combining the various formats and styles along the way, you can find that it’s exceptionally simple to take yourself a step further and begin to properly enjoy the way that these aircraft actually operate.

The various miscellaneous additions include;

• Full compatibility with Tiller, so you can be operating it using additional FSX axis options which greatly improves your usability.

• Ground behavior has been improved massively, too. This helps to make a more realistic and enjoyable process that will definitely make it simpler to control your aircraft. These new ground behavior changes will ensure that you can get something far more akin to the real world without having to make any specific tweaks to FSX itself; these soft changes, then, can be used at your own will and won’t replace anything in the original simulation.

• The engine models have been improved beyond recognition, making it much easier to control and then manage the aircraft in the right manner whilst ensuring that you can take off and feel comfortable whilst you do so. These highly accurate engines even come with the appropriate style of thrust!

• New advanced braking has been created to ensure that you can get the best kind of braking temperatures. This other little layer of realism does a great job of selling the style and the format of the aircraft, ensuring that you can easily enjoy braking as much as actually taking off!

• This comes with both A320 and A321 models changed entirely to fit with CFM and IAE engines, both with and without the winglets included. By following this, you get something far more impressive than you previous iterations can provide, making it much easier to control the aircraft whilst feeling comfortable.

• Each model is further augmented by the inclusion of 25 liveries, all designed to make sure that you can enjoy unique designs that also follow authentic patterns. Now your aircraft can look far more authentic as you take off, giving you something that is much more impressive and makes it easier to fly around knowing what model you are representing.

• The APU comes with the right startup times; this is a small little feature but it does a great job of making sure you have the correct format for your aircraft. These miniscule changes do a great job of optimizing the whole process.

• New background sounds were made from scratch to be used in the cabin crew, the flight crew and even ATC. These new sounds will do a great job of making the aircraft feel a lot more authentic with the new sounds helping you hear what it’s like.

• A view panel bar can be used to make sure that you are using the various views, with 27 2D and 3D views provided to help you find something that really helps you see everything that you need to when flying around. If you need help finding your way around, start here.

• 16 checklists are included to make sure you never miss a beat when you are taking off! This makes a massive difference and will do a big favour to you when it comes to making sure you are flying your aircraft in the right manner, following each check.

• Orally spoken checklists are handled by the game, adding a nice touch of realism and help.

• A new information bar is included as well to make sure you can take the right actions when flying.

• New AES functionality is added in which will make a big change if you are not used to using extra features such as additional pushback options.

• A speed limiter can be used now so that you don’t go too fast and thus risk doing some kind of serious, structural damage to your aircraft in the future.

• You can now pause FSX 10 NM before ToD, or before any other waypoint. This nice little feature is a minor one but makes a big difference.

• New ground services like chocks, pylons, ground power units and external objects all help to add to the kind of atmosphere we all like to see.

• Door controls are now to the service, too, which will help you manage the interior of the aircraft properly.