The Antonov An-124 Ruslan/Condor is a strategic airlift cargo four-engined aircraft designed in the 1980s by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Soviet Union.Is the world's heaviest gross weight production cargo airplane and heaviest operating cargo aircraft,capable of carrying up to 120 t (264,600 lb) payload of cargo internally.Aircraft is powered by four Lotarev D-18 (Progress D-18T) turbofan engines,each capable of generating up to 229.5 kN (51,600 lbf) of thrust.To reduce the landing distance required,thrust reversers are present.
The airplane has a simple FMC panel,where you can:view aircraft data (fuel,weight,required speeds,radios,etc.),the Flight Plan and edit/change parameters regarding the flight route (altitude and speed at specific points in the flight plan,etc.)-Flight Plan must be loaded from the game menu.
There are two aircraft models
- in the russian version (metric units-meters,km/h)
- in the english version fully translated (imperial units-feet,knots).
The in-game model has the ability to change the engine covers to modified ones like in the An-124-100M-150 (Configurator SHIFT+1).
Operators (paint patterns all in this pack):
- Russian 224TH AIR DETACHMENT OF MILITARY TRANSPORT AVIATION
- Russian VOLGA-DNEPR
- Russian POLET FLIGHT
- Ukraine ANTONOV INTERNATIONAL CARGO
- Ukraine ANTONOV INTERNATIONAL CARGO ADB
- United Arab Emirates MAXIMUS AIR CARGO
- Libyan FLATAM
In FSX In any mode,it is necessary to use the Autostart hotkey for each engine when starting (the default shortcut is CTRL+E).Observe Engines N2 Turbine indicator (in Engineer Panel/Engines Panel),when the needle of starting engine exceeds 10% -use the shortcut.Use this shortcut for each engine you start,even in Configurator pop-up window modes-"ALL SYS AND ENGINES",and "ENGINES STARTER".
Advanced simulation of avionics systems.
High quality 4k-textures (contains PBR materials).
High quality 3D cockpit with 4k-textures (no 2D cockpit).
Exterior Model and Virtual Cockpit are very detailed and animated.
Ilustrated user manual in pdf format (in ...SimObjectsAirplanesAntonov AN-124 from FFS folder).