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Headwind A330-900 - Stable 0.4.0

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Hi guys,

I have been impressed with the latest version of the Headwind A330. This could be my long-hauler of choice until the 777 provides the balance, much like todays 737/A320 dynamic. (Both of which I switch in and out of).

I found the HW flew very well, 3 hour flight, climbed out nicely, no big pitch or power problems, Approach and landing very nice to hand fly at the end. I did a short block in 4x speed and it handled it fine. 

What impressed me the most was the sound set. It has this really nice bottom-end rumble to it that you often feel when in the cabin for real. Putting a small bit of power in when taxiing really feels nice. The first few seconds of take off also. This distinguishes the plane a bit from the smaller jets we are using.

Give it a go.

Regards,

Max    

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Cool, thanks for the heads up. The avionics are from FlyByWire, right? How is the autopilot? It still doesn't have VNAV, right? 

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37 minutes ago, Bdub22 said:

Cool, thanks for the heads up. The avionics are from FlyByWire, right? How is the autopilot? It still doesn't have VNAV, right? 

Correct, I had to use the descent calculator. Might have another go to confirm I didn't miss anything but it's very much a FBW look and feel.

Regards,

Max    

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They use the avionics of the latest FBW 0.10.0 stable version (slightly cusomized for the A330). So no VNAV in there. They don't want to use dev or exp version cause we update these versions very often, which would mean for Headwind they would have to constantly adapt their plane to new versions.


 

Is there a new Simbrief profile for the Headwind A330?  I'm using the original

3 hours ago, ErichB said:

Is there a new Simbrief profile for the Headwind A330?  I'm using the original

There's a new one included by Simbrief especially for the Headwind version (A330-900 -> airframe: Headwind MSFS).

For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.

Did my first flight yesterday since the updated release.  Really impressed.  Sound package also a top notch enhancement.

I heard next week should be VNAV. 

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At this moment only one door is opening on the left side.
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5 hours ago, rutrA said:

I heard next week should be VNAV. 

Gavin over at Easy Jet Sim Pilot is streaming the prerelease VNAV now, so it does feel imminent.

Sunday release apparently

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I wonder if the stable FBW will release then with VNAV. 

1 minute ago, BrammyH said:

I wonder if the stable FBW will release then with VNAV. 

It will as part of version 0.11

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Wow that's quick. Why didn't they include it in 0.10, which was released this week? There have been no updates to VNAV since then, if I read GitHub correctly.
Anyway great to hear the Headwind will have VNAV, too!

Edited by Fiorentoni

For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.

Wow, the Headwind A330 is also getting VNAV soon? If the Headwind A330 gets VNAV, does that mean it will be better than the upcoming Aerosoft A330? How will the Aerosoft A330 match the Headwind A330?

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