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demand of a growing aviation industry and
updated to support new technologies as they
became available.
After the merger of the Douglas Aircraft
Corporation and McDonnell the aircraft
was still at the forefront of the company’s
strategic planning. The aircraft was renamed
the McDonnell Douglas MD80 series and
continued to evolve, culminating in the
MD90 series of aircraft, complete with a
full glass cockpit and an array of electronic
navigation equipment. This was a far cry
from the original DC-9 and its ‘steam-driven’
gauges! However, the aircraft still held true
to the basic airframe design that had been
such a success for the company. Ironically,
McDonnell Douglas was purchased by
Boeing and the aircraft was renamed the
Boeing 717. This year sees the planned
retirement by
Boeing of the 717
series, with the last
scheduled production,
barring a last-minute major order or
reprieve, being in May 2006, when the
production line at Long Beach, California,
will close after more than 40 years of
producing the DC-9 family.
It is not surprising therefore that current
interest in the DC-9 and all its variants is
currently running high, with simmers being
offered a spate of releases based on this
family of aircraft over the last few months.
The latest to join the list is the collaborative
effort of Flight 1 and Coolsky with their
‘Ultimate Airliners – Super 80’ package.
The choice to model a 1979 vintage
MD80 (DC9-81) ‘Super 80’ has proved
to be a fascinating one and represents a
stage in the life of the aircraft family when
electronic equipment was still in its infancy.
McDonnell Douglas was taking its first
teetering steps into cockpit integration, with
embryonic devices that would evolve into
the navigation equipment in use today.
Integrated cockpit training
Upon loading the aircraft into FS2004
we were welcomed by a splash screen
superimposed over the aircraft panel,
informing us that this was the Super80
integrated cockpit training system. The
splash screen immediately highlights the
core aim of this package. Rather than simply
offering an MD80 and expecting the virtual
pilot to get to grips with the systems, the
developers have provided a fully interactive
trainer, which is used as the core focus of
the entire experience. This is certainly the
first time we have seen a training package
of this type applied to an FS2004 airliner.
Training is available for various systems
and can be selected from an overlaid
menu. The training lessons themselves are
comprehensive and discuss items such as
automated flight, the Omega Navigation
System, the Performance Management
System, the auxiliary power unit, take-off
and landing procedures. Each training lesson
is presented with a text box on the screen,
with the software opening sub-panels as
required and highlighting the appropriate
switch or gauge. It becomes very simple
indeed to follow the text instructions, flick a
highlighted switch and allow the tutorial to
continue interactively. We were fascinated
to find that as we followed each tutorial,
the view would automatically shift between
overhead panel, 2D main panel, the throttle
quadrant and on to each part of the aircraft
currently being discussed. The impressive
array of tutorials and the presentation style
are certainly the next best thing to sitting
in the aircraft with a real instructor and we
were rapidly able to assimilate a great deal
of information regarding the operation of the
aircraft.
This information is supplemented by the
excellent PDF documentation included with
the package, which includes more than
400 pages of aircraft systems and details
on using the interactive tutorials. Often it
will point the student to specific pages to
acquire a more in-depth explanation of a
key system than what was given on screen.
Also included are on-screen checklists,
available for all phases of flight, based on
the actual aircraft checklists. These follow
the interactive style of the tutorials and are
voiced by a First Officer, who will provide
the appropriate challenge and wait for a
response and confirmation from the user,
before continuing on to the next item on
the list. Aircraft weights and take-off speeds
can also be overlaid on to the screen. These
are displayed on a dynamic speed chart,
the values of which are tailored to the
current aircraft weight. The overall effect
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