A320 Jetliner for FSX

This highly detailed add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator X by Just Flight, accurately portrays the A320 as the proud, first member of the family, launched in 1984. The distinctive wing-tip fences of this short-to-medium ranged commercial passenger airliner, will make it stand out from the default collection. Moreover, customised flight dynamics help replicate the feel of this aircraft, including the reduction of aerodynamic drag that the wing-tips provide. The download package contains both CFM56 and V2500 engine sound sets. Read more...

Compatibility: Microsoft Flight Simulator X inc. Steam Edition
File size: 208.1 MB
Developer: Just Flight

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All the animations you would expect to see are present, from engine fans to passenger and cargo doors, as well as extending landing lights and realistic thrust reverser animations. Combined with special effects, particularly the fire and sparks from the rear underbelly that occur when you over-rotate, all come together to deliver an impressive visual experience.

This add-on comes with a great set of bump maps to give a more realistic 3D feeling to the whopping 4 authentic, high-resolution livery sets, ranging from British Airways to United Airlines, giving you even more choice when flying the A320. All the repaints offer a high level of detail without compromising frame rates. The added specular maps create realistic lighting effects on the aircraft, so you can admire the hard work your GPU is doing when taking to the air using any of the multiple viewpoints, which includes a wing-view that allows you see the wings from the interior of the aircraft.

If a Virtual Cockpit is more your thing, Just Flight have built one with mouse-clickable operations, overhead, throttle quadrant and radio stack panels, so you can really sink into the experience of piloting this multi-national jetliner. The A320 family pioneered the use of digital fly-by-wire flight control systems, as well as side-stick controls, in a commercial aircraft, which Just Flight took into consideration with the custom-coded flight management guidance system. That, combined with the custom-coded Multi-purpose Control Display Unit (MCDU) that has been built to assist with functionality, demonstrates how much work has been put into this add-on. The MCDU features cockpit navigator pages, check-list pages and allows you to load and activate pre-made FSX flight plans, without having to leave the cockpit.

Manufacturers Description

The A320 is Europe's answer to the American-built 737 and has been highly successful on short- to medium-length routes, with over 4,500 in worldwide service or on order since the aircraft first entered service in 1988.

Designed and built exclusively for Flight Simulator X the A320 Jetliner is part of the much acclaimed and user-friendly Just Flight F-Lite series.

Developed in-house by Just Flight's expert designers, A320 Jetliner features accurate and detailed exterior and virtual cockpit modelling, a custom-programmed MCDU (Multifunction Control Display Unit), CFM56 and IAE V2500 engine models with high quality sound sets for both engine types, and 20 international airline liveries.

Features overview

Developed exclusively for Flight Simulator X
Highly detailed A320 model with distinctive wing-tip fences
High quality interactive 3D Virtual Cockpit
Custom-coded MCDU (Multifunction Control Display Unit)
Four high-resolution liveries
Accurate animations
High quality sound sets for both CFM56 and IAE V2500 engines with sound cones
Option for showing the wings from the interior view (wingview)
Specular map to give realistic light effect on aircraft
A great set of bump maps to give a more realistic 3D feeling to the livery sets
Multiple viewpoints
Comprehensive manual including flight tutorial - German manual also available to download from the Support section

Panel and VC features

Custom built Virtual Cockpit with mouse-clickable operations
Overhead, Throttle Quadrant and Radio Stack panels
Custom-coded Flight Management guidance system

MCDU (Multipurpose Control Display Unit)

The A320 Jetliner features a custom-coded MCDU) to assist you with functionality that many pilots find lacking on the default FSX A321 aircraft.

Flight Plan pages - load and activate pre-made FSX flight plans without having to leave the cockpit, track the route, get an overview of distances and arrival times to the next waypoint en route and your destination
Modify your route and save it
Cockpit Navigator pages - easily switch panels (open/hide) via the MCDU
Checklist pages - access the A320 checklists and work from them with MCDU help, showing you matches/mismatches between required checklist items and current aircraft settings. Only when all aircraft settings match the checklist requirements will the checklist will be completed and closed.
Aircraft/ flight status page, showing date/time, coordinates and some general aircraft information at a glance (flaps status, gear status, fuel status, lights etc.)
The MCDU can hold two flight plans - an active flight plan and a standby flight plan. You can load a flight plan direct as the active flight plan (for immediate use) or you can load it as a standby flight plan and set it as active later. You can have an active and a standby flight plan loaded at the same time, so you have an alternate route in case you need to change plans. With both flight plans you can add and remove waypoints.

Animations

Passenger and cargo doors
Passenger doors linked to FSX airport Jetway animations
Realistic thrust reverser animation
Engine fans
Rotating wheels
Undercarriage
Nosewheel steering.
Extending landing lights
Fully animated control surfaces: flaps, rudder, elevators, spoilers, leading edge slats and spoilerons

Special effects

Engine start smoke
Touchdown tyre smoke effects
Fire/sparks from the rear underbelly when you over-rotate

Lighting

Red anti-collision beacon
White flashing wingtip strobe lights
Coloured wing tip and tail navigation lights
Cockpit light
Tail logo light
Passenger windows lighting
Landing lights that illuminate the runway

Textures

Highly detailed texture mapping without compromising frame rates
FSX DX10 preview compatible
Layered paint kit included to help create your own liveries (suitable additional paint program such as Photoshop required)
Bump mapping
Specular maps
Night maps

Flight Dynamics

Custom designed flight dynamics for FSX - all fuel and weight stations based on actual A320 references.

High fidelity sound sets

CFM56 engines sound set
V2500 engine sound set

Flight planning

Uses the default FSX payload and fuel editor for ease of use and reliability
Uses the default FSX flight planner and Navigation Log for accurate flight/fuel planning
Use of the SIDs and STARs in the Flight Simulator database
Radio and Navigation frequency entry
V-speed calculation
'Direct to' waypoint features
Progress display
Estimated fuel on board, and more

Liveries

Four authentic international airline liveries are included:

Air France
British Airways
Lufthansa
United Airlines

Additional livery packs

Four additional livery packs, each containing eight liveries, are available to purchase to expand the A320 Jetliner fleet.

Expansion pack 1 (8 liveries)

AirAsia
Air Canada
China Eastern Airlines
Iberia
JetBlue Airways
Mexicana de Aviacion
TAP Portugal
US Airways

Expansion pack 2 (8 liveries)

All Nippon Airways (ANA)
Aer Lingus
Alitalia
Delta Air Lines
Indian Airlines
Jetstar Airways
Vueling Airlines
Wizz Air

Expansion pack 3 (8 liveries)

Aeroflot
Air Arabia
EasyJet
IndiGo Airlines
Kingfisher Airlines
Sichuan Airlines
Swiss International Air Lines
China Southern Airlines

Expansion pack 4 (8 liveries)

Aegean Airlines
Air Berlin
LAN Airlines
Philippine Airlines
Spanair
TACA International Airlines
Turkish Airlines
Virgin America

Review

The developer has modeled the A320-200 which is the only A320 variant available. There are 20 liveries included along with a paint kit. The liveries run the gamut of operators across the world, from Air Asia to Virgin America. There is something for everyone. The boxed version comes with a 68 page manual of pilots operating instructions. These consist of how to install the jet, a pretty comprehensive manual of the FMS, key commands, and a tutorial flight.

A walk around of the aircraft shows the time that Just Flight has poured into their A320. The aerodynamic lines of the baby 'bus look almost exactly like its real world counterpart. There are numerous animations, the usual ailerons, rudder, gear, speed brakes, and so on. - FlightSim

About Just Flight

Based in the United Kingdom, Just Flight, owned by Mastertronic Group has been in the simulation business since the early days of FS2000. Developing in-house creations and publishing flight sim add-ons from third-party developers for various platforms including MSFS, X-Plane, and Prepar3D.

Their latest focus has been on the next-gen platforms including P3Dv5 and Microsoft's latest flight simulator, MSFS (2020) release.

Trusted by thousands of flight simmers worldwide, Just Flight is a household name in flight simulation.

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Customer Reviews

Rated 3.2/5.0 based on 5 customer reviews

paul hunter havelock 05/11/2014: 5/5

I bought this product and i loved it that much i just had to buy all the add-on liveries,another beatiful aircraft from " justflight " , the add-ons are at a very reasonable price on the justflight.com web-site,you have to keep your eyes peeled on the site as they have offers at reduced prices and you gain points to use towards your next purchases, use your points and it reduces the cost even further, if you use them wisely you will be even happier . I love justflight so much now i advise all my friends to pay the site a visit constantly for justflights latest products...check it out you`ll be glad you did... A318/A319 products also available..

Peter Norman 10/18/2020: 1/5 Verified Purchase

Big and small problems with this. Flying under the included tutorial and following the instructions, the aircraft became completely unstable when climbing to the suggested cruse height of 34,000 at 280 knots. It pitched up rapidly causing it to stall. This was under autopilot as instructed. I tried the tutorial 3 times and this happened each time at the same point of the tutorial. (Crossing the English Channel). I have FSX (Steam version) and a very high powered computer. I also use the Saitek Flight yoke system. I will try reinstalling it and try again.

Neil Bonner 02/25/2020: 1/5 Verified Purchase

3D cockpit is far from par. Looks as if it was just thrown together from the A321 panel. Acft lands extremely heavy (900 to 1100 FPS). Myself and another purchased this at same time and he also has same results. Almost as if the config file is missing some entry lines regarding the Pitch" settings. Very bad product IMHO.

AVari Setyadana 12/02/2015: 4/5 Verified Purchase

Good add-on, worthed to purchase. And nice to fly, friendly to land and take-off. 2D cockpit to be upgrade to be more photo-realistic

Cheki DorJee 12/30/2018: 5/5

Sir, Can I have Druk air livery for my flight simulator of stream X ? I want to buy and install. Thank you .

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