HNAC A300B4-620 Base Package for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
Copyright (C) 2004 HNAC - Fine Flight Simulation Aircraft
http://www.hnac.org/
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Version History
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V1 - April 10, 2004, initial release
***USES VERSION 2(V2) MDL***
Summary
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- Install: unzip to fs9\aircraft, keep directory structure
unzip a300_effects.zip to fs9\effects
- Takeoff: use lots of nose-up trim with extended flaps, 8.5 on default
Boeing 777 panel; flaps lever position 2, rotate 135-145 kts;
15° climbout, flaps pos. 1 at 200 kts, flaps retract 220 kts.
- Climb..: climb speed 250kts < 10,000ft, 300kts > 10,000ft, adjust
climb rate accordingly
- Cruise.: cruise speed M.79 (economy)
- Descent: descent speed 280kts > 10,000ft, 250kts < 10,000ft, adjust
descent rate accordingly
- Land...: 20nm out flaps 15/0 S-speed (~180kts), LOC intercept flaps
15/15 F-speed (~160kts), GS intercept flaps 15/20 (~150kts),
short final flaps 30/40 (~140kts)
Overview
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The A300-600 development of the earlier A300B4 incorporated a number of
significant improvements and refinements, foremost being a two crew
flightdeck and increased range.
Apart from the two crew EFIS cockpit, with digital avionics based on
that developed for the A310, changes included the A310's tail empennage
which increased freight and passenger payloads, small winglets (an
option from 1989, standard from 1991), simplified systems, greater use
of composites, Fowler flaps and increased camber on the wings, new
brakes and APU, and improved payload/range through an extensive drag
reducing airframe clean up and new engines. First flight for the A300-
600 was on July 8 1983, the first airline delivery was in March 1984.
The A300-600 was further developed into the longer range A300-600R, its
extended range courtesy of a fuel trim tank in the tailplane and higher
maximum takeoff weights. First flight was on December 9 1987, first
delivery was April 20 1988 (to American Airlines).
Convertible freight/passenger versions of all variants of the A300 have
been offered, as has the all freight A300F4-600. The first new build
pure freighter A300, one of 36 ordered for Federal Express, flew in
December 1993. UPS is another major A300-600F customer, following its
September 1998 order for 30. Airbus also offers conversion packages of
existing passenger A300s into freighters with a left side forward
freight door and strengthened floor.
This base model represents msn #317 of the B4-620 with Pratt & Whitney
JT9D-7R4H1 engines, registration F-WZYE, delivered April 1984. The plane
is in operation with Saudi Arabian Airlines, registration HZ-AJF.
Features
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- Moving elevator, elevator trim (yes, the whole horizontal stabilizer
moves), rudder, aileron, flaps, slats, krueger flap, spoilers,
spoileron.
- FS2002/4 style turning nose wheel, only turns when the plane is moving
on the ground.
- FS2002/4 navigation, beacon, strobe, landing, taxi, rwy turnoff and
logo lights.
- Dynamic shine on external parts.
- Reflective textures with light maps.
- Transparent cockpit windows.
- 2-stage rolling wheels.
- Retracting gear with tilting main gear bogies, mechanics true to
Airbus specs.
- 3-stage rotating engine fan.
- Deploying thrust reversers (press F2 after touchdown).
- Working suspension.
- Opening passenger doors, Shift-E for left main doors, Shift-E-2 for
remaining doors, Tailhook (have to assign key) for cargo doors.
Model Installation
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Unzip the distribution archive into your FS2004\aircraft folder, making
sure to preserve the directory structure. The aircraft is then available
as "Airbus -> A300B4-620" in the airplane selection dialog of FS2004.
To install the custom effects, unzip the content of a300_effects.zip to
your FS2004 "Effects" folder.
Flying the A300-600
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Frank Weiss created a model that combines the A300's "heavy" feeling
with the proverbial good-natured handling of the original. Make sure to
set elevator trim up A LOT for takeoff to compensate for flaps 15/15 and
rotate at 135-145kts, depending on takeoff weight. With the default 777
panel set the trim to 8.5 and you should be OK for a max. 15° initial
climb angle.
Climb out at around 2-3,000 fpm and <250 kts IAS below 10,000 ft. Above
10,000 continue climb with 300 kts IAS (you will have to reduce climb
rate for a moment to gather speed). Adjust climb rate to keep 300 kts.
At M0.78 switch to hold Mach speed, accelerate to M0.79 at cruising
altitude.
The A300-600 uses a combination of Krueger flap, leading-edge slat,
trailing-edge flap and flaperons as high-lift devices. They are modeled
as separate flap sets and operate as follows:
Lever position ! Krueger flaps ! Slats ! Flaperon ! Flaps ! VFE
---------------+---------------+-------+----------+-------+--------
1 ! full ! 15° ! 9.2° ! 0° ! 250kts
2 ! full ! 15° ! 9.2° ! 15° ! 215kts
3 ! full ! 15° ! 9.2° ! 20° ! 205kts
4 ! full ! 30° ! 9.2° ! 40° ! 175kts
Due to the way the standard Microsoft flap gauge works the lever
positions aren't displayed correctly. To correctly represent the flap
extension and retraction times, we use movement percentages in the
aircraft.cfg for slats and flaps.
A300B4-622R Operational Data
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Engines..........: 2 Pratt & Whitney PW JT9D-7R4H1
Max. cont. thrust: 50,000 lb
MTOW.............: 363,760 lb
MLW..............: 304,230 lb
ZFW..............: 286,600 lb
Cruise speed.....: M0.79
Max. altitude....: 40,000 ft
Operational range: 6,482 km/3,500 nm
Vmo/Mmo..........: 335kts/.82M
Gear extension...: 270kts
Gear retraction..: 240kts
Tanks............: outboard: 2 x 1,225 US gal
inboard.: 2 x 4,640 US gal
center..: 4,650 US gal
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total...: 16,360 US gal
Liveries
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This base package includes the Airbus Industries demonstrator livery,
the textures are located in the texture.AIB folder. Future liveries for
the A300B4-620 will be distributed as texture sets only, going into
equally named folders (texture.[ICAO airline code]). This will reduce
download sizes significantly.
Repaints
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Repaints of this aircraft are welcome, as long as the result is released
as freeware with the same license as layed down below and proper credit
is given to the original authors. A paint kit with layered Photoshop
files is available via well-known flight simulation portals, check for
file "A300B4-622R-PaintKit-HNAC-V1.zip".
Recommended Panel
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Simon Topmann is working on an adaption of his A310 panel for the A300-
600. Use the A310 version (a313st20.zip + patch a313st20_patch.zip at
AVSIM) until the new version is released. Check our Web page for
availability.
Recommended Sound
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For the best A300 sound available get "snda-300.zip" from Scott Schar.
It's for FS2000, but works fine in FS2004 and gives you the typical
heavy turbofan sound of an Airbus wide-body airliner. A modified
sound.cfg is provided in the sound folder, for reduced cockpit noise.
Credits
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Thanks to Frank Weiss for his hard work on the flight dynamics.
Thanks to Martin Juengel for his thorough testing, 3D work and paint
jobs.
Thanks to Simon Topmann for adapting his A310 panel to the A300-600.
License
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This aircraft is released as Freeware. Copyright Harald Nehring and
Frank Weiss. As freeware you are permitted to distribute this archive
subject to the following conditions:
- The archive must be distributed without modification to the contents
of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files added,
removed or modified is prohibited.
- The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another
archive without the prior permission of the author is prohibited.
This means, for example, that you may not upload an archive that uses
our visual or flight models with your own aircraft or include it in a
package containing a panel or aircraft sounds without first obtaining
the authors' permission.
- No charge may be made for this archive other than that to cover the
cost of its distribution. If a fee is charged it must be made clear
to the purchaser that the archive is freeware and that the fee is to
cover the distributor's costs of providing the archive.
- The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be
respected.
Copyright 2004 by Harald Nehring. All Rights Reserved.
Contact Information
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Harald Nehring, harald.nehring(@)web.de
Frank Weiss, ReinfriedWeiss(@)lycos.de
Martin Jüngel, modsen(@)web.de
Simon Topmann, SimTop15(@)yahoo.de
