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What does the ECAM mean for the pilot, is that besides the advance capabilities it offers to help solve particular issue, it most noticeably helps the pilot be ready to fly as soon as the aircraft is loaded in having as much guidance as possible to reach normal configuration.


The EFIS simulation in the Airliner XP A320 is also designed with a high-fidelity model, recreating the exact RGB (Red, Green and Blue) components of every single item calibrated from the manufacturer CRT specs. It also features the exact Airbus font with the correct font size on screen. It is so advanced that even the CRT over-scan black edge is properly calibrated to the real world CRT specifications.


The EFIS Symbols are also carefully recreated exactly at their correct size, location and display conditions: the Airliner XP A320 EFIS have been designed from the ground up to train pilots to transition to Airbus EFIS and are dead-on accurate in look and feel.


The Airbus systems are identical to the real aircraft with a complete hydraulic, electric, pneumatic and fuel simulation. They are designed to recreate their real world counterpart in their entirety. The systems simulation is also designed to function in a standalone fashion and does not require Flight Simulator to run. In turn, it is the Airbus simulation that bends Flight Simulator SDK variables and not the reverse for the most accurate simulation of these systems. It even features a working anti-skid system which performance is directly related to surface contamination, and of course, availability of the normal or alternate brake system in the Airbus simulation.


Unlike other simulations designed for Flight Simulator, the Airliner XP Airbus A320 simulation features an organic simulation approach. With this type of approach, all the hydraulic, electric, pneumatic and fuel simulation are not running in a finite state machine, where each state is predictable and coded for. Instead, every system is running with a life of its own, within the organic simulation, and behave over time like their real world counterpart. Hydraulic pressure builds-up, temperatures changes, computer-driven valves open and close to cope with the changing conditions. In short: the Airliner XP A320 makes the pilot feel the machine is living under his command, and not under the commands of a canned, pre-determined, state.


The Airbus unique computer based architecture is also fully recreated with dozens of individual computer simulations, like a dual CPC (Cabin Pressure Controller) with the correct Airbus pressure laws, triple DMC (Display Management Computer) with all the correct EFIS reversions simulated, the complete ELAC, FAC and SEC computer suite and all the other computers driving the functions and features of the Airbus. All these computers are internally simulated like their real world counterpart, connected with ARINC-like data buses. Even communication between the computers and the EFIS are driven through a data bus and permits separating the aircraft simulation from the EFIS.


In addition, the Airliner XP A320 simulation features a real EGPWS with terrain, Weather Radar with correct physics simulation of radar beam energy absorption/reflection and TCAS simulation passing the industry-standard 250 TSIM tests.

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