It’s just the aircraft Airbus use to move bits of other aircraft around.
The Airbus A300-600ST, or Beluga, is a version of the standard A300-600 wide-body airliner modified to carry aircraft parts and outsize cargo. It received the official name of Super Transporter early on; however, the name Beluga, a whale it resembles, gained popularity and has since been officially adopted.
And there’s now a XL model based on the A330, which has large whale eyes painted on.
I would like to see a Socata TB9. I flew that one today IRL from EHLE to EHTX and back… Would love to see one in the sim.
Messerschmitt Bf 108 B “Taifun”
almost 90 years old. Probably the first modern low-wing 4-seater general aviation aircraft with retractable landing gear and constant speed propeller. A long time before the Bonanza or the Mooney came along. And the performance is still respectable by today’s standards
power 240hp V8 (later models 270hp)
cruise 140kn
top speed 165kn
landing speed 46kn
ceiling 20,000ft
range 540nm @ 130kn
rate of climb 1100ft/min
The tail is identical to that of the early Bf 109 fighters.
The Bf 108 has foldable wings for easy storage and automatic leading edge slats.
After WW2 it was also built by SNCAN in France as the Nord 1000 with a 240hp 6-cylinder inline Renault engine.
It is very rare for a pilot in any real world air force to get to actually fire a live weapon unless there is a war on. So you are just simulating normal day to day operations of most militaries.
Why is that ? Money.
Typical weapon costs for an F18:
AIM-9X Sidewinder - around half a million dollars
AIM-120D (AMRAAM) - just over a million dollars
AGM-88G (AARGM-ER) - just over six million dollars
AGM-114 Hellfire - $45,000 to $213,000 dependant on type
AGM-158 (JASSM) - one and a quarter million dollars
AGM-158C (LRASM) - three and a half to four million dollars
AGM-179A (JAGM) - roughly a quarter of a million dollars
GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) - $39,000
GBU-53/B StormBreaker/Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) - $195,000
Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) - average cost $23,000 each
Mk 82 standard, unguided 500-pound class bomb has a unit price of $4,000
Mk 84 2,000-pound class unguided bombs cost $16,000 apiece.
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Plus, it’s fun to go fast!
I’ve been told by someone who flies both 42 and 62 ( although predominantly DA42 ), that they’re practically the same aircraft once airborne.
Regarding mil jets - worse than the lack of working weapons is the entire military ecosystem, there’s no controllers or support systems at all. Mil trainers make fun GA aircraft though.
Why do people keep asking for aircraft that there’s no hope of being remotely realistic, though? especially if they’re the same people who have a go when developers release something without putting any effort into the FM.
I will never understand people raising this subject again and again and again, when there are already multiple threads on it that explain it quite extensively.
So I suggest you may want to read them, learn from them, maybe understand - or don’t.
But please leave it out of here because it’s off-topic.
but you can’t fly the Star Wars canyon or the Mach Loop or below cable cars in the mountains because they don’t exist in DCS and even if they did, they would look like c*rap. ![]()
Aeroplane Heaven had both the Devon and Dove for FSX/P3D - you might email them to see if they plan on updating that package for MSFS
When I read this topic I am amazed how everyone have is one preference. Actually it make me discover some planes i didn’t know ![]()
I have flown the Viggen in DCS, which is very unique and quirky. So I’d like to see someone develop some of the SAAB civilian aircraft, the 340 and the 2000 I quite like.
I would to see the following (some of which i know are in dev now)
PC-12
DC-9 or 717
Emb-145
Dhc-2
Dhc-8
Citation X
Cessna 195
Soon there will be PC-12 from Carenado,
DHC 8, you didn’t specified version, but Majestic announced Q400 version. When it will be released, no one knows.




