CLS A300B4-600R

The Airbus A300 is a short- to medium-range widebody aircraft. It was the first twin-engined widebody and also the very first Airbus product. The first flight of the A300 took place in 1972 and the first production model entered service with Air France in 1974. Production of the A300 officially ceased in July 2007 although the last delivery was in June 1998. This was due to five orders from Iraqi Airways that remained on the books. Many different variants of the A300 are produced, of which the A300B4 and A300-600 are major production versions. A total of 858 A300s have been produced.

Started in 2005, Commercial Level Simulations (CLS) has grown to a high quality commercial add-on developer for MS Flight Simulator. Their products are not that expensive and yet high quality.

This Airbus A300 package contains the A300-600R with 6 liveries. The exterior is highly detailed and features dynamic shine, dynamic wingflex, opening doors and pushback truck. The interior is a less detailed virtual cockpit and wingview. The virtual cockpit looks nice, but not all systems are modelled, so not all buttons and switches are clickable.

The flightdynamics are well balanced, so for the averange flightsimmer it shouldn't be a problem to manually land this aircraft. Just make sure there isn't too much crosswind, because due to a contact points problem, the aircraft is still drifting sideways after touchdown. This problem has been reported from a few people only, which may indicate that not everybody has encountered the sideway drift or not many people takeoff/land in crosswind conditions. There is a option to enable another contantpoints configuration, but it doens't seem to help.



















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