Project Airbus A300-600ST "Beluga"
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The Visual Model
This is our aircraft release on the first version of our Airbus A300-600ST "Beluga" version 3.0 (based on our newest A300-600). The aircraft registration is F-GSTC and is the fourth one made by Airbus. The Aircraft features are very detailed including the following:
Animated rudder, elevator, ailerons (workings as flapperons as well), multiple spoiler/airbrake function, aerodynamic correct spoilerons, Krueger-slats, slats, flaps, opening cargo doors, the "mouth" and a stair case, (will open on ground when engine1 and/or engine2 is off and blades come to a complete stop), complete 3d interior, 3d rotating fan-blades, thrust reversers, animated landing gear with gear bays and doors, rotating tires, "tilting" bogies, steerable front gear, moving pilot heads with rudder input, complete night lighting including taxi lights, unsynchronised beacons, landing lights, strobes, navigational lights, tail lights and last of all an emergency Ram Air Turbine (RAT) comes down when all engines cut-off in mid-air.

All of our aircraft are designed to work with Microsoft® Flight Simulator 2000.
This aircraft is an Airbus A300-600ST "Beluga" and it was designed and made by Project Airbus using FSDS, Aircraft Animator and SDL Edit V2.0.
For more information on the aircraft, please visit our website.

Installation
-Find your Flight Simulator aircraft directory.
(It should be C:/PROGRAM FILES/Microsoft Games/FS2000/aircraft)

-Place the aircraft file into your FS2000 aircraft folder.

-Run FS2000 and select the aircraft under the Aircraft menu and you should be able to see and fly it, Enjoy!

Known Issues
On every visual flight model made for Flight Simulator there are problems, mistakes and visual inaccuracies. Not all of these things can be determined and are overlooked before and the release of the visual model to the public. The problems, mistakes or visual inaccuracies we have found and know about are included on the list below. These issues may be fixed later on with a patch, our next model or not fixed at all, so please do not send us an email or post in the forum saying we have made a mistake/problem/visual inaccuracy regarding the issues we know about already.
Known issues about our Airbus A300-600 model:

-Flap textures on the left wing "jump" at and after 2 notches of flaps and textures do not look right

-The wheels seem to be turning backwards because the model file has a hex offset of 6, which is the longitude position of the aircraft. Basically meaning the rotation direction of the tires depends on the direction of your plane. We know this is not 100% accurate, but it was the best we could, also you only notice the wrong rotation at slow speeds. They will be modeled far more accurately in FS2002.

-The slats are supposed to deploy before the flaps are to go down. This will most likely be corrected in future versions.

-The front door or "mouth" has two doors, one in the up positions and one in the down position for a few seconds, this will be corrected in future versions.

Legal notes
Disclaimer

Although this aircraft has been tested, it has not caused any problems. There is absolutely NO warranty or guarantee of any kind, expressed or implied, for any problems arising from the use of our aircraft. This includes, but is not limited to, any hardware and/or software problems. The use of this aircraft and related files is at the users own risk. If there are any problems, questions, comments, you may post a message in the Project Airbus Forum.

License:
Project Airbus aircraft are FREEWARE and are created for the sole purpose of entertainment for fellow flight-simmers. You may NOT redistribute them to make money.

Repaints:
You may not repaint this aircraft model in any livery and redistribute it. You may repaint this aircraft for yourself only.

Credits and Contact
For any problems, suggestions, comments please contact:

Thomas Ruth tom@impact-records.de
Trevor Slack trevorslack@hotmail.com
Nick Wu Webmaster nick@the-wu.org

We would like to thank Patrick Saint-Dizier for allowing us to use his .air file (modified by Thomas Ruth)

PROJECT AIRBUS
http://www.the-wu.org/projectairbus