Stephen Posted January 11, 2016 Report Share Posted January 11, 2016 News! - Updated - Peters Aircraft Airbus A380 and A320 Series Peters Aircraft have issued updates to his A380 and full A320 Series (A319, A320, A320-NEO, A321) aircraft. Airbus A380 The A380 has at this point just had a lighting update to cover the new X-Plane v10.40 lighting feature that allows for the lighting to widen or compress depending on the angle that you look at it. Also the A380 COM1/2 frequency selection of digits are also fixed, and finally the new SASL-plugin does not crash anymore in El Capitan. More significantly noted is that a more comprehensive update of the A380 is coming (Which is well overdue by current standards) that includes the ECAM or Electronic Centralized Aircraft Monitor systems display. (at this point the current ECAM is limited to just a few functions) The systems on the A380 are of course complex and the point of the ECAM is to reduce the system complexity to a visual overview that is easier to monitor all aspects of the machine or to troubleshoot systematic failures within the aircraft. Just adapting the A320 Series ECAM to the A380 is a far more complex job, but the results will be worth waiting for. Hopefully a more intergrated 2-D to 3-D cockpit input is also on the update list. The A320 Series (A319, A320, A320-NEO, A321) update is mostly on the APU start up procedures. The original APU START was simply the triggered OPEN FLAP and APU START. Now it is APU MASTER button triggers OPEN FLAP, the APU START button triggers APU START. As Peter Hagar notes why this operation is needed. "This is how it works on the real Airbus. So the pilot has the option to open the flap early, even some minutes before APU start. This is of advantage when the taxi time after landing is difficult to predict, since opening the flap does not burn fuel, but it shortens the entire APU start procedure by ~20 seconds. So the APU can be started shortly before reaching the parking position, thereby avoiding unnecessary running time of APU or worse, of main engines." X-PlaneReviews will keep in tune of any A380 update news and release dates. You can get the A380/A320 updates via Emailing Peter Hagar or checking your X-Plane.OrgStore Account. ______________________________________________________________________ Yes! the Full updated A380 Series by Peter Hargar is available from the new X-Plane.Org Store here : Peter Hagar : Airbus A380 Price is US$54.95 Includes 3-D Cockpit Peters Aircraft Site: Peters Aircraft ______________________________________________________________________ ECAM images are courtesy of Peter Hagar Stephen Dutton Updated : 11th January 2016 Copyright©2016: X-PlaneReviews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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