QualityWings Simulations – BAe 146 FSX preview

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1. Nice work – the night lighting is also excellent which is good, many developers don’t spend a lot of time with it.

2. The only thing that bugs me a little about it is the B737 MCU under the glareshield. Unless they’ve modelled it off an aircraft which has had the avionics completely replaced, I’ve never seen or heard of a BAe146 with an autoflight control system that sensible!

   All the aircraft I know of or can find information on had the usual (and typically British) units with very little common sense applied, but which somehow worked regardless.

   http://www.airliners.net/photo/0945251/L/ is more like I’d expect to see.

3. There are 146’s / RJ’s with the 737 style MCU/MCP.
   Check these photo’s: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Swiss-International-Air/BAE-Systems-Avro/1896816/L
   and: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Malmo-Aviation/BAE-Systems-Avro/1969366/L

   I think it’s part of an avionics upgrade package.

4. Thanks Frank, but both of those are Avro RJs, not BAe 146s.

   It’s a bit like, say, upgrading a B737 Classic with the panel functionality of a B737NG. In fact the Avro RJ series was effectively the same thing – a modernisation package of the BAe 146 airframe and systems and Qualitywings do state that they will be doing both BAe 146 and Avro RJ models seperately.

   What I don’t know is whether they will have the same panel and gaugework or not. It’s not a major issue, it wouldn’t stop me buying or using the package, it just stands out a little.

5. Hi Ian,
   I might be wrong here, but the topic on the qwsim forum states they’re currently working on the RJ100. I assume the screenshots they’re showing are coming from the RJ100….

6. That would make sense, although I understood that with the ‘base’ 146 pack already released for FS9, they were doing the FSX version of that first. It’s quite likely that I’m wrong and heck, I don’t care which comes first… I’ll happily get either Avro RJs or BAe 146s!