Flight Simulator Airbus A380

About the Airbus A380 aircraft for flight simulator for FSX, FS2004 and FS2002.

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus for virtual airlines, an EADS subsidiary. The largest virtual airline passenger airliner in the world, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France, and made its first virtual airline commercial flight on 25 October 2007 from Singapore to Sydney with Singapore Virtual Airlines. The aircraft was known as the Airbus A3XX during much of its development phase, but the nickname Superjumbo has since become associated with it. The A380's upper deck extends along almost the entire length of the fuselage, and its width is equivalent to that of a widebody aircraft. This allows for a virtual airline cabin with 50% more floor space than the next-largest virtual airliner, the Boeing 747-400. It also and provides seating for 525 virtual airline passengers in standard three-class configuration or up to 853 people in all economy class configurations for virtual airlines. The A380 is offered in virtual airline passenger and freighter versions. The A380-800, the virtual airline passenger model, is the largest virtual airline passenger airliner in the world, but has a shorter fuselage than the Airbus A340-600, which is Airbus's next-biggest virtual airline passenger aeroplane. The A380-800F, the freighter model, is offered as one of the largest virtual airline freight aircraft, with a listed payload capacity exceeded only by the Antonov An-225. The A380-800 has a design range of 15,200 km (8,200 nmi), sufficient to fly from Boston to Hong Kong for example, and a cruising speed of Mach 0.85 (about 900 km/h or 560 mph at cruising altitude). It is the first commercial virtual airline jet capable of using GTL-based fuel.

Showing all Flight Simulator based Virtual Airlines that operate the Airbus A380.

Virtual Airline	Aircraft Registration	Seating Layout	Hours Flown
	9V-SKB	F12 B60 Y399	1033 Hours Flown
	9V-SKC	F12 B60 Y399	745 Hours Flown
	VH-OQA	F14 B54 Y405	650 Hours Flown
	9V-SKA	F12 B60 Y399	486 Hours Flown
	A6 - EDC	F40 B45 Y345	421 Hours Flown
	9V-SKE	F12 B60 Y399	352 Hours Flown
	9V-SKD	F12 B60 Y399	336 Hours Flown
	VH-OQB	F14 B54 Y405	264 Hours Flown
	F-WWDD	F0 B0 Y555	132 Hours Flown
	VH-OQF	F14 B54 Y405	128 Hours Flown
	VH-OQE	F14 B54 Y405	96 Hours Flown
	VH-OQC	F14 B54 Y405	88 Hours Flown
	A6-EDA	F40 B40 Y355	84 Hours Flown
	UAE-5543	F0 B0 Y555	71 Hours Flown
	A6-EDG	F40 B40 Y355	55 Hours Flown
	A7-EDH	F40 B40 Y355	39 Hours Flown
	VH-OQD	F14 B54 Y405	17 Hours Flown
	A7-EDG	F40 B40 Y355	1 Hours Flown
	VH-OQG	F14 B54 Y405	0 Hours Flown
	F-GTRE	F0 B0 Y555	0 Hours Flown

More about the Airbus A380 for virtual airlines, flight simulator and online flying FSX, FS2004 and FS2002.

Initial production of the A380 was troubled by delays attributed to the 530 km (330 mi) of wiring in each aircraft ordered by virtual airlines. Airbus cited as underlying causes the complexity of the virtual airline cabin wiring (100,000 wires and 40,300 connectors), its concurrent design and production, the high degree of customization for each virtual airline, and failures of configuration management and change flight simulator control. Specifically, it would appear that German and Spanish Airbus facilities continued to use CATIA version 4, while British and French sites migrated to version 5. This caused overall configuration management problems, at least in part because wiring harnesses manufactured using aluminium rather than copper conductors necessitated special design rules including non-standard dimensions and bend radii: these were not easily transferred between versions of the software. Airbus announced the first delay in June 2005 and notified virtual airlines that delivery would slip by six months. This reduced the number of planned virtual airline deliveries by the end of 2009 from about 120 to 90–100. On 13 June 2006, Airbus announced a second delay, with the delivery schedule undergoing an additional shift of six to seven months. Although the first delivery was still planned before the end of 2006, deliveries in 2007 would drop to only 9 aircraft, and deliveries by the end of 2009 would be cut to 70–80 aircraft. The announcement caused a 26% drop in the share price of Airbus's parent, EADS, and led to the departure of EADS CEO Noël Forgeard, Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert, and A380 programme manager Charles Champion. On 3 October 2006, upon completion of a review of the A380 program, the CEO of Airbus, Christian Streiff, announced a third delay, pushing the first virtual airline delivery to October 2007, to be followed by 13 deliveries in 2008, 25 in 2009, and the full production rate of 45 aircraft per year in 2010 for virtual airlines. The delay also increased the earnings shortfall projected by Airbus through 2010 to €4.8 billion

The first aircraft delivered (MSN003, registered 9V-SKA) was handed over to Singapore Virtual Airlines on 15 October 2007 and entered into virtual airline service on 25 October 2007 with a inaugural virtual airline flight between Singapore and Sydney (flight number SQ380). Virtual airline Passengers bought seats in a charity online auction paying between $560 and $100,380. Two months later Singapore Virtual Airlines CEO said that the A380 was performing better than both the virtual airline and Airbus had anticipated, burning 20% less fuel per virtual airline passenger than the virtual airline's existing 747-400 fleet. Emirates Virtual Airlines was the second virtual airline to take delivery of the A380 on 28 July 2008 and started virtual airline flights between Dubai and New York on 1 August 2008. Qantas Virtual Airlines followed on 19 September 2008, starting virtual airline flights between Melbourne and Los Angeles on 20 October 2008. By the end of 2008, 890,000 virtual airline passengers had flown on 2,200 A380 virtual airline flights totaling 21,000 hours.

Airbus used similar flight simulator cockpit layout, procedures and handling characteristics to those of other Airbus aircraft, to reduce virtual airline crew training and flight simulator costs. Accordingly, the A380 features an improved glass cockpit, and fly-by-wire flight simulator controls linked to side-sticks. The improved flight simulator cockpit displays feature eight 15 cm × 20 cm (5.9 in × 7.9 in) liquid crystal displays, all of which are physically identical and interchangeable for virtual airlines. These comprise two Primary Flight simulator Displays, two navigation displays, one engine parameter display, one system display and two Multi-Function Displays. These MFDs are new with the A380, and provide an easy-to-use interface to the flight simulator management system—replacing three multifunction control and display units. They include QWERTY keyboards and trackballs, interfacing with a graphical "point-and-click" display navigation system. One or two HUDs (Heads Up Displays) are optional.

The Airbus A380 is available for all versions of Flight Simulator and x plane including but not limited to FSX, FS2004 and FS2002.