Overland A321
review
Simmer's sky is a label of the japanese company Overland Co.,Ltd. Along with a few other products, they sell the Fly into the sky! package, which contains many Airbus and Boeing aircraft.
This Airbus A321 is a beautiful designed aircraft. The Fly into the sky! package contains two A321 liveries: Air Canada and Vietnam Airlines. The 2d panel is framerate friendly, but doesn't have a FMC. For full IFR flights, you need to use the default Carmin GPS unit. ILS Approaches are no problem, just enter the course/ILS frequency and use the LOC and APPR buttons. The virtual cockpit is a bit simple, only the most important systems are modelled. But it looks nice and is framerate friendly too. There is also a wingview model for even better framerates.
The flightdynamics are ok, but the ground effect is minimal, which can result in bumpy landings due to the little effect of the flare. Another thing is the main landing gear. Like almost all other overland aircraft, the main landing gear seems to float for a bit over the runway upon landing and finally sinks to the ground when rolling out. This is a common problem in FS, especially landing gear sets with four-wheel bogies or even more wheels. In this case the problem is present with two-wheel bogies.
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License |
: | Payware |
Price Indication |
: | �19.95 - �49.00 |
Panel |
: | Yes |
Virtual Cockpit |
: | Yes |
Wingview |
: | Yes |
Sound |
: | No |
Developed for |
: | FS2004 |
Compatibility |
: | FS2004 FSX |
Wingflex |
: | No |
Landing gear |
: | Realistic, but floating |
Rudder effect |
: | Realistic |
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on 09/06/2008 at 10:56:44
The only problem with this is the following:"Automatic Reverse Thruster" (Where when I deploy my reverse thrusters they come back slowly on there own, then when I move my throttle back to idle, the reverse thrusters slider stays back for a few seconds and then closes. This is very inaccurate. The REAL aircraft are not automatic like this. They should be able to close IMEADIATLY when I move my throttle back to idle, and they should not slowly open up on there own when I deploy my reverse thruster)"
"No Moving Nose Landing Gear" (Where the nose landing gear does not rotate/turn)"
"Slow Spoilers" (Where the spoilers come up VERY slow, I noticed this particularly on the A319, A320, and the A321)"
Its a good model, and I emailed overland to see if they were willing to fix this, but are ignoring me.
on 03/18/2009 at 7:56:24
Niccothe slow reverser is called idle reverese the nose gear does turn and slow spoilers that is how they are on an a320 series airplane
on 05/04/2009 at 14:15:05
Hey Chris, could you tell me where are you getting those beautiful runway textures? It just seems like a scenery, those markings from touchdowns, the surface, it all looks great...on 05/05/2009 at 20:24:48
At Nicco, the moving nose landing gear part of your comment is false, the front landing gear will move only if you use the rudders, but will not if you use the auto-rudderon 05/09/2009 at 14:34:51
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