First look at the Aerosoft A330-900 - flying from Atlanta to Dallas in Flight Simulator 2024

Today we’re taking a first look at the new Airbus A330 from Aerosoft in Flight Simulator 2024. We’ll explore the aircraft together, and learn as we go - flying the aircraft from Atlanta to Dallas. I’ll be using SayIntentions.AI to provide air traffic services during the flight. Should be fun!

To get a FREE trial of SayIntentions.AI click the link below: https://sayintentions.ai/join#677719f0e67f8 Debrief Apart from the disastrous pressing of a random key combination by accident that threw our aircraft thousands of feet into the air while taxiing out to the runway (it’s called “Back to Fly”, if you’re wondering), the rest of the flight went really smoothly - right up until final approach. I’m not sure if it was the weather, or the flight model itself - but lift seemed to be massively affected by wind speed. I had gusting winds during finals, which caused the aircraft to sink, and then rise in a somewhat exaggerated manner. After the gear touched down on the runway, I discovered I had no rudder authority - while trying to pull the nose-wheel around to the centreline. Not ideal. I’m not sure if either occurrence was a one-off - I’ll have to take the aircraft for a test flight at an airport with an ILS to do some touch-and-go circuits to test it. Oh - one more thing - I noticed after engine shutdown that the MCDU flight plan page seemed to have gained a mind of it’s own - I’m pretty sure in other Airbus aircraft that the route clears itself with weight on wheels - without knowing the A330 in that much detail though, it’s difficult to say. All things considered, I was actually impressed for a 1.0 release. VNAV worked on descent as advertised (although needed a little help here and there with spoilers - maybe due to the gusting conditions). As I said - the only strangeness really happened on finals. On the plus side, the EFB within the cockpit is very nice - and the controller calibration tools worked very well.