The Antonov An-225 Mriya (Dream) was a strategic airlift cargo aircraft designed in the 1980s by the Antonov
Design Bureau in the Soviet Union.It was designed to airlift the Energia rocket's boosters and the Buran-class
orbiters for the MAKC (Multipurpose Aerospace System) space program,and only one example was ever completed.
After successfully fulfilling its military missions,the aircraft was mothballed for eight years.
It was then refurbished and reintroduced into commercial operation with Antonov Airlines since 3 January 2002,
until 24 February 2022,carrying oversized payloads.
The airlifter holds the absolute world record for an airlifted single-item payload of 189,980 kg (418,830 lb),
and an airlifted total payload of 253,820 kg (559,580 lb).It also transported a payload of 247,000 kg (545,000 lb)
on a commercial flight.Only one aircraft was completed and it flew commercially.
The loads carried on the back of the aircraft are:
- Buran orbiter,
- MAKC-OS Version with the orbital plane and the external fuel tank (Molniya),
- External Tank,carried liquid oxygen,kerosene, and liquid hydrogen propellants,
- MAKC-T,Russian winged orbital launch vehicle.All cargo version of MAKS.Air-launched would use an expendable
second stage with a payload container,
- British Aerospace HOTOL (Horizontal Take-Off and Landing),unmanned,fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO)
winged spaceplane.
These objects are included in the Exterior Payload selection options in this add-on.
The plane and its systems are reconstructed on the basis of Antonov's documentation.Operation of the aircraft's
systems is also based on Antonov's documentation for this aircraft systems can be started manually--
for hardcore virtual-pilots as reading the manual is required in this mode ;-) ,however,systems can also be turned
on in automatic mode-for people who just want to fly the largest plane in the world- just press SHIFT+1 and turn
on/off selected systems (electrics,engines,etc.),or turn everything on and fly ;-).
Note for fans of "flexible wings" - this plane has very stiff and thick wings that do not swinglike a pigeon or B787,
but float at the right speed on the ground during take-off ;-).
The aircraft cockpit can be switched between Russian-default (metric units-meters,kilometers) and English-
fully translated (imperial units-feet,inches) with one click in the Configorator (SHIFT+1).
In this package Antonov An-225 Mriya in two painting schemes:
-Russian painting scheme,
-Ukrainian painting scheme,
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 (around 500 thousand vertices).
Ilustrated user manual in pdf format (in ...SimObjectsAirplanesAntonov AN-225 folder).
High quality soundset.
All gauges are based on real ones.
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Really nice to fly and probably the best $25 I've ever spent on flight sim. Some switches are grouped up but that's to be expected for a $25 addon. My only gripe with it is that it uses the default P3D flight plan menu/system so flying this on VATSIM is pretty hard unless you install a FMC 2d panel like the freeware one by Garrett Smith (the Honeywell one). A fuel planner would be nice along with a Simbrief/PFPX profile.
+ visual part is excellent
+ animated nose lift and door opening
+ there is a smoke effect at maximum thrust modes
+ good headlight illumination at night
+ good quality simulation of the cockpit
+ performs a flight route (vor, dme, glide all works and shows)
+ it feels the difference on the takeoff and run-up depending on the weight
+ clickable by 70% - most of the overhead, engineer, electrician and navigator panels.
+ supports acceleration *2 and *4
- some of the buttons are activated in groups instead of one and there is no possibility to click every switch, so I consider this a minus
- has difficulties to gain an echelon of 310 without a difference empty or loaded, flights performed at an altitude of 7-8 km
- fuel system worked out conditionally - if there is a full tank, all turns of fuel pumps automatically turn on when exhaust is turned off automatically if conditionally 50 tons, only 1 queue, saying "tank" I did not misspell it here has one tank
- not convenient location gps monitor and the lack of 2d window (had to prescribe the default gps to track the route
- not nice effects of lights and headlights on
- absence of flood lights
- crumpled up engine start and stop sound and broken gpws system (maybe i couldn't find where to turn it on)
- Loading through the airplane configurator has no effect on the weight!
Hopefully there will be updates.
The systems work as you can see in the videos on the internet.The flight model seems to be very well made,you have to be careful with the choice of airport,because a fully loaded plane actually needs more than two kilometers of runway,and landing with cargo is about three kilometers.There is a huge difference in the behavior of an empty versus a fully loaded aircraft.
Starting systems and engines is a lot of manual learning,fortunately there is an option to auto-start systems and engines,especially starting the various systems of the aircraft is very satisfying.An additional advantage is the ability to switch to the cockpit mode in English (Russian by default),you can do it at any time in the pop-up Configurator (SHIFT + 1).
In particular,the autopilot is very complex and works differently than in Western airplanes,but after turning on the English cockpit,it can be managed.Interestingly, after a closer look at the autopilot,it turns out that it has a lot of different functions that make flying easier,e.g.the plane can make 90-degree turns by itself,or circle non-stop.
The plane carries several loads on its back,I liked the Molniya mini-shuttle the most.
The sound of the engines is also polished,especially the roar of the engines at high revs and when starting.The plane's volume is adjusted so that it is the first plane where I did not have to silence the game to a minimum so as not to go deaf.
Prepar3D v4.4 or higher
Prepar3D v5.x.,
2 Gigabytes of free RAM minimum,
1.6 Gigabyte of free disk space.
