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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Flight Model and Aircraft Systems?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Interior and Exterior Graphics?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Audio and Aircraft Sounds?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate your Overall Enjoyment of this aircraft?
Something is odd with the OPT FL and MAX FL level on the progress page on
this aircraft (see the coffin corner already at FL360 despite MCDU saying “REC MAX 396”)
Despite of that, I did a flight and it was kite enjoyable. Not the best, not Fenix Simulations leve, but I think it was ok. (I don’t know so much about the real Beluga XL, let’s see if someone on this forum knows and can compare)
Regarding the external model（All of A330s and Beluga）: The engine blade rotation direction is reversed (absurd), and the wing flex on the left side is much stiffer than on the right side. Regarding the aircraft system（All of A330s and Beluga）: I have bound the control wheel, but it doesn’t work for turning; I can only use the rudder pedals (I have set the rudder pedals and control wheel to be separate in the tablet).
Yesterday I flew it on Xbox and the textures were atrocious. Meaning blurry, flashing and coming in and out. As I panned around the camera, the blue paint on the engine covers came & went, resulting in jagged gray triangles. There was also ghosting of the plane where you saw an outline of it overlayed off center of the plane. Very strange. Sim crashed before I could get screenshot
Not sure if something happened during one of the updates, but the aircraft has no engine or APU sounds now. From older videos it appears the engine sounds have always been weak, but from what I can tell, there is zero engine and APU sounds now. Maybe they are there, but if they are, I can’t tell the differences between them and just the ambient/environment sounds. I’ve deleted the sound folder and even the whole airplane from the StreamedPackages folder and then let the game download it again and still no change.
The aircraft seems pretty great otherwise and looks gorgeous, but my Virtual Airline has a Tour that involves the Beluga and I’m finding it hard to complete with no engine sounds. Thanks.
There was an update apparently and they did a bunch of things to the Beluga yet did not fix the engine sounds. You can hear them SLIGHTLY, but still not enjoyable to fly. Hoping the address this soon and wondering why they haven’t yet….
After Sim Update 5 I finally put some time into this aircraft. I still plan to use the Beluga as a Career “endgame” for myself, but something surprised me.
Is this aircraft really supposed to be this silent? There’s barely any noise in the cockpit beside the generic “hum” background noise. Takeoff, cruise, landing, it’s all the same. I know we sit far from the engines but it just feels too quiet. Also in external view, the engines barely produce any noise apart from some “whoosh”.
In comparison, the A330 freighter is much louder, you can hear the engines spool up during takeoff, etc. It just feels like a more lively plane. The Beluga is silent.
Also some feedback, performance on Xbox is not ideal, the framerate is constantly below 30 fps. It’s stable, not stuttering, just choppy all the time, both on the ground and in the air. It’s a plus that the whole cargo bay interior is modeled, but maybe it should be (optionally) excluded on Xbox to claw back some performance. Again, in comparison, the A330F is much smoother.
Lack of engine sounds reported in 2025, and yet they still used this plane as the oversized heavy cargo pin up aircraft, with included lack of engine sounds.
This is unbelievable. 12 posts on this aircraft since launched. Nobody likes it and perhaps that’s due to the lack of audio amongst other legacy bugs
