Perfect Flight Fly The Airbus A380

The Airbus A380, nicknamed 'Superjumbo', is a double-deck wide-body jet airliner. Its the world's largest passenger jet (with the Antonov An-225 being the larges civil aircraft since it carries cargo and no passengers). The Airbus A380 development program was officially launched in June 1994 and the first flight took place from Toulouse, France on April 27, 2005 and led to a flight test program involving five Airbus A380s. The first A380 entered commercial service with Singapore Airlines on 25 October 2007 with a inaugural flight between Singapore and Sydney.

The A380 seats 555 passengers on two decks in a three class arrangement or up to 853 people in all economy class configurations. A380 has 49% more floor area and produces 50% less cabin noise than its direct competition, the Boeing 747-400. Initial production of the A380 was troubled by a few delays that made many airlines reconsider their A380 orders. The A380-800F freighter orders were cancelled and Airbus negotiated a revised delivery schedule and compensation with 13 customers of the passenger version.

If there was a contest of the worst aircraft add-on, this A380 would be at least one of the winners. Perfect Flight developed a complete, but horrible aircraft package. So what's the problem with this aircraft? Well let's see: Too much climb performance, the angle of the main landing gear is not right, doesn't have suspension and is floating. Also, the engines are not Rolls-Royce Trent 900 or Engine Alliance GP7000 and shouldn't have IAE style reversers, the outboard engines shouldn't have reversers, the rudder effect is insufficient, simple panel and virtual cockpit that do not resemble the real A380 cockpit and the liveries are not very well done and do have too much reflection.

At least the autopilot seems to be working and the flight dynamics are ok. A two deck passenger cabin is modeled into the virtual cockpit, although the quality isn't very good. The weather radar visible on screenshot 2 and 3 is just a dummy and doesn't actually work. A brief manual explains various features of this package.















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