It’s been a few weeks now since iniBuilds first released their simulation of the Airbus A350. This highly anticipated airliner release has now hit version 1.0.2 bringing in a few more features and fixing a whole list of bugs. There’s been some interesting cross promotion with Swiss International Air Lines and iniBuilds A350 and there are a few other things to check out so… let’s have a look!
New features
iniBuilds have added two new features for the A350. The first is MORA (Minimum Off-Route Altitude) which allows for terrain clearance in altitude and off route centerline together with the A350’s flight management system.
They’ve also added the SND or Secondary Navigation Display which is a backup system when the primary systems are lost or degraded.
The update and mods
There has been quite a bit of commentary about the iniBuilds A350 since the airliner launched. It seems right now that there are parts of the community with nothing but enthusiasm for the product and other parts expressing frustration with the airliner. We’ll get to that but one of the biggest items of frustration is surrounding WASM related crashes during all phases of flight. Version 1.0.2 has quite a few items aimed at stability with 8 specific items fixed in the latest version.
There’s also several dozen fixes to systems, art and screen elements, and to sounds. They’ve added miniFCU compatibility, fixed rain and contrail effects in MSFS 2020, tweaked displays, fixed a bug with manually tuning ILS frequencies, and quite a few more.
Also in the patch notes is a note about mod use. One of the criticisms I’ve seen is that some people are finding the A350 twitchy to fly at times and difficult to manage in certain weather conditions. Several mods have appeared in the community to address these issues, perceived or real, however it sounds like many of them don’t do what they advertise with iniBuilds noting down several mods won’t work because they are controlled within the WASM code for the airplane.
Here’s what they had to say broadly:
Comments and updates from community regarding flight model cfgs are mostly irrelevant, or a placebo effect, as they have little to no effect on how the aircraft performs in sim. We have tuned the plane to fly as closely to real life with the support of our technical working group and A350 pilots team.
The changelog can be found here!
Interesting cross promotion with Swiss International Air Lines
Swiss International Air Lines has just revealed a special livery being applied to one of their A350 aircraft that they are calling “Wanderlust” with a mix of graphics across the aircraft representing different parts of Swiss identity. The design, by artist Frédéric Siegel, isn’t on a real airplane yet but it has made its way into Swiss’ advertising via the iniBuilds A350.
It’s an interesting collaboration and its a livery that you can go and download for the A350 right now while the real airplane is waiting to be delivered.
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