So I doubt we’ll ever see failures for this aircraft, although I am personally okay with that. Aerosoft maintains a philosophy that they want to implement the plane from the left-hand seat, similar to how the pilot would fly it. One of the points of feedback that we’re seeing a lot when it comes to this plane is the lack of failures. The EFB worked smoothly and looked good, and I commend Aerosoft for including one. You can also calculate performances via the tablet and see performance tables. You can set the plane’s payload through a handy interface with sliders for passenger numbers. Aerosoft’s A330 comes with a fully functional EFB that interacts with the plane. One of the nice extras that I got to play around with was the EFB. The textures, which were set to Ultra, looked incredibly sharp and highly detailed. The modelling looked of high quality and the interior and all its knobs, buttons and other objects in it looked refined. The interior modelling and textures honestly looked really good. I’ve never tried the latter so I can’t verify this claim, but I don’t have reason to doubt their statement. Aerosoft claims that this plane has been built from the ground up and that it’s not just a simple port of the Prepar3D version. With the autopilot enabled, I took a little moment to look around the cockpit. Overall the AP systems seemed to work quite well, although I did not test every feature here. The speed restriction was followed, as was my heading. Once I enabled the autopilot (again with a little help, because I did not remember the difference between managed and selected mode), the plane followed the autopilot nearly perfectly. The plane felt heavy, but still responsive, which to me felt quite accurate and realistic. I hand-flew the plane around for a little while, up to 5000 feet or so, while making a few slow turns. The second I lifted my nose-gear, the plane felt heavy – like it should.
The taxi mechanics during my take-off roll worked quite nicely she wasn’t overly jittery and wanted to go relatively straight with minimal input from me. With some help, because I don’t really fly Airbuses in MSFS, I was able to set the A330 in take-off config, spool up the engines and get her flying. Having that said, when I tried out the plane it did feel quite complete. They even allowed you to get up close with it through a hands-on setup at their booth.īefore diving into the plane, the team told me that this was a build that was two months old and therefore not everything was working yet. At FSExpo, however, Aerosoft was not shy about showing every part of the aircraft, from interior to exterior. Over the last months we’ve gone from previews of the cockpit and exterior of the plane to an internal release for beta testers, which also resulted in a number of previews – though exclusively of the exterior. It’s not a surprise that Aerosoft is getting closer to releasing this plane, and I’ll talk more about that later on in this article. So you can imagine my surprise when I went over to their booth and not only found a brand new unannounced airport ( Frankfurt), but also a working and flying Airbus A330.
The company came to the show with a moderately sized booth and a small team, and I noticed little in terms of advertising about what they were planning on bringing to the show.
One of the bigger surprises for me at FSExpo was Aerosoft.
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