The EF2000 Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta wing, multirole fighter.
The Typhoon is a highly agile aircraft, designed to be an effective dogfighter in combat.
The Typhoon is a dual engine, loosely coupled delta canard tailless design featuring a 53-degree leading edge sweepback, relaxed stability, and a digital fly-by-wire control system.
It is a highly agile aircraft at all speeds, subsonic and supersonic, achieved by having intentionally relaxed stability, combined canard and flaperon control surfaces, and a very low wing loading.
The quadruplex digital fly-by-wire control system manages the inherent instability, allowing better maneuverability than direct pilot control.
It is described as "carefree" and prevents the permitted manoeuvre envelope being exceeded.
Roll control is primarily achieved by differential use of the flaperons. Pitch control is by coupled operation of the canards and flaperons.
The wing leading edges are fitted with automatic movable slats. A single large rudder provides yaw control.
Engines are fed by a chin double intake ramp situated below a splitter plate.
A hydraulically operated air-brake is integrated behind the cockpit, moving into a near-vertical position to maximise drag when required.
The Typhoon uses lightweight construction (82% composites consisting of 70% carbon fibre composite materials and 12% glass fibre reinforced composites) as well as aluminium lithium and titanium components on leading edge surfaces.
The airframe has an estimated lifespan of 6,000 flying hours.
This simulated version features:
- high detail visual models
- liveries for every squadron that operates the EF-2000
- detailed and realistic avionic and systems simulation
- finely tuned flight model
- accurate sound package
After installing v1.0.1 to MSFS 2020 much has improved. It’s not quite perfect yet, to suggest so would just be dishonest. However the frame rates are vastly improved, but still have issues if you turn on the radars. So until they fix that I’ll just keep them off for the time being. I must say also that the visuals are stunning. Almost as good as the IFE F14. Very nice to fly.
I have all of IFE aircraft for MFS 2020 and never had a problem. While this is as beautiful as expected inside and out, the frame rates are horrendous. Very choppy and just so bad (single digits bad) I can’t enjoy flying this at alI. I don’t have the best gaming PC there is but I’ve also never had such a massive hit to performance and I have loads of high demand add ons that all perform smoothly. Not the case here. I hope they can fix this soon. I’ll most happily revisit my poor rating. For now I am very disappointed.