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.
Images & Screenshots
1 totalProject 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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How to install this mod
FSX / P3D
aircraft
How to install this mod
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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 insideFSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\. The folder must contain anaircraft.cfgfile. Effects go intoFSX\Effects\; gauges go intoFSX\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 areadme.txtorREADMEfile. 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
This list displays the first 500 files in the package. If the package has more, you will need to download it to view them.
| 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 |

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MANY OF THE OVERHEAD SWITCHES DO NOT WORK, AS WELL AS RADIO SELECTION, LANDING LIGHTS ETC.