FSX / P3D aircraft

FSX Platinum Airways Airbus A380-800

Project Airbus A380-800 in Platinum Airways’ latest livery brings a polished superjumbo experience to FSX, pairing a detailed virtual cockpit with standout animation work. Expect dynamic wingflex, realistic gear and bogie behavior, smooth flap and spoiler movement, windmilling fans with inertia, plus animated vents, wipers, probes, and lighting.

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A large four-engine jet with Platinum livery is parked on a snowy taxiway near trees and a runway sign.

Project Airbus A380. Full aircraft, repainted in Platinum Airways' new livery by Al Nel, auto-installer by Vic Ayres. Platinum Airways is the Open Skies VA that allows its pilots to fly the mission of their choice with the aircraft of their choice at the time of their choice.

Screenshot of Platinum Airways Airbus A380-800 on the ground.

Installation:

Run the auto-installer. It should install the aircaft into your FSX Airplanes folder.

Features:

Dynamic wingflex with input from several new parameters including ground spoilers, fuel load, and angle of attack.
Control surface droop when the engines are off.
Independent parallel bogies when on the ground.
Custom tire rotation code.
Animated pack vents.
Idle-reverser animation.
Ground spoilers.
Smoothed gear and flap animations.
Customised nosewheel steering animation.
Accurate aileron LAF simulation.
Custom coded engine fan start-up and shutdown animations.
Windmilling engine fans (incl. fan inertia).
Improved antenna hiding method--alpha no longer required, thereby avoiding the "fuse hole" issue in FSX SP2.
Animated window wipers.
Animated probe sensors.
Hard coded "double strobes".

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Filename

pt_a380-800_fsx.zip

File size

32.16 MB

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How to install this mod

FSX / P3D aircraft

Extract the downloaded archive

Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
Copy aircraft files into SimObjects

Place the aircraft folder inside FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\. The folder must contain an aircraft.cfg file. Effects go into FSX\Effects\; gauges go into FSX\Gauges\.
Verify in FSX

Launch FSX, go to Free Flight → Select Aircraft and find your new aircraft under its manufacturer.
Always read the included readme

Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.

What’s inside this archive

The archive pt_a380-800_fsx.zip has 5 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

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Filename/Directory	File Date	File Size
Pt_A380-800_FSX.exe	07.30.13	32.25 MB
PT_A380-800_FSX.jpg	08.01.13	33.10 kB
Readme.txt	07.30.13	4.38 kB
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B