FS2004 Evergreen Airbus A310-203

Evergreen Airbus A310-203 in "interim" livery. Harald Nehring's A310-203 repainted in "interim" Evergreen International livery. Evergreen textures by Nige Edwards.

The A310 first began life as the A300B10, one of a number of projected developments and derivatives of Airbus' original A300B airliner. Initially designed to serve short and medium range high-volume routes, the A310 is mostly used for medium and long range flights today. 255 planes have been built and delivered so far, production has basically stopped now, except a few freighters being delivered from time to time.

While based on the larger A300, the A310 introduced a number of major changes. The fuselage was shortened by 13 frames compared to the A300B, reducing seating to around 200 to 230 passengers and a new higher aspect ratio wing of smaller span and area was developed. New and smaller horizontal tail surfaces, fly-by-wire outboard spoilers and a two crew EFIS flightdeck were incorporated, while the engine pylons were common to suit both engine options.

The first flight of the A310 occurred on April 3 1982, after the program was launched in July 1978. Service entry was with Lufthansa in April 1983.

The A310-203 was the initial model of the A310-200 series, powered by two General Electric CF6-80A3 engines. It lacks the small winglets of later -200 and -300 models and has a limited operating range of 6,667km (3,600nm). 48 airplanes of this model where built.

Features:

This model is my first flight simulation plane development. The 3D model is created with discreet's GMAX software, textures are painted with Jasc's Paint Shop Pro. A number of GMAX/FS2002 features are included:

• Moving elevator, elevator trim (yes, the whole horizontal stabilizer moves), rudder, aileron, flaps, slats, spoilers, spoileron.
• FS2002 style turning nose wheel, only turns when the plane is moving on the ground.
• FS2002 navigation, beacon, strobe, landing and taxi lights.
• Reflective textures with light maps.
• Transparent cockpit windows.
• 2-stage rolling wheels.
• Retracting gear with tilting main gear bogies.
• 3-stage rotating engine fan.
• Deploying thrust reversers (press F2 after touchdown).
• Working suspension.
• No virtual cockpit so far.

Model Installation:

Unzip the distribution archive into your FS2002\aircraft folder, making sure to preserve the directory structure. The aircraft is then available as "Airbus/A310-203" in the airplane selection dialog of FS2002.

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