Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Airbus A350-900 Added to the Fleet

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Airbus A350-900 Added to the Fleet

DVA2887
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Charlotte, NC

1,286 legs, 1,796.2 hours
840 legs, 1,047.8 hours online
1,268 legs, 1,774.2 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on July 30 2016 06:57 ET by Andrew Vane

We welcome the Airbus A350-900 to the fleet. Vietnam Airways, a Delta codeshare, currently flies this new bird and Delta is on the list to obtain one in 2017/2018. The A350 is a 325 passenger long haul jet capable of flying over 7300 nautical miles.

Here is the profile:
Range: 7,560nm (8700sm)
Minimum Takeoff Runway length 9.000 ft
Minimum Landing Runway length: 4,500ft
MZFW: 431,000 lbs
MTOW 617,000 lbs
MLW: 456,000 lbs

Freeware and Payware aircraft are available for multiple FS platforms as outlined below. To obtain this A330 secondary rating, request additional ratings in the A330 program via the pilot center and Salem or Tony will get you set up. Some of you have already discovered its presence before this announcement. biggrin

FSX only - Freeware:

-> http://www.rikoooo.com/en/downloads/viewdownload/6/807

FS9 & FSX compatible - Freeware :

-> http://pages.videotron.com/camsim/ags350.htm (Delta livery and Animated Ground Service available)

FS9 & FSX compatible - Payware :

-> http://www.afs-design.de/afs-design-fsx-airbus-a350.htm

X-Plane 10 - Payware (the one i use myself, awesome high quality add-on !)

-> http://store.x-plane.org/Airbus-A350-XWB-Advanced_p_348.html

-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppvi7Pj7Ygo

Photo credit: AFS Design web site

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA12568
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Atlanta, GA

769 legs, 1,968.6 hours
704 legs, 1,838.9 hours online
695 legs, 1,825.3 hours ACARS
19 legs, 89.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 31 2016 17:29 ET by Christian Samuels

YES! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christian Samuels (DVA12568)

DVA11445
Senior Captain, B727-200

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"Amici e vini sono meglio vecchi..."
West Monroe, LA

1,808 legs, 2,793.5 hours
1,716 legs, 2,499.9 hours online
1,755 legs, 2,711.3 hours ACARS
1 legs dispatched, 1.9 hours

Posted onPost created on July 31 2016 20:19 ET by Ronnie Jacola

Nice! Thanks, Drew!

Ronnie Jacola

Senior Captain, B727-200

Posted onPost created on July 31 2016 20:26 ET by Andrew Vane

AFVA did the work to add it. I just checked the box to make it active for DVA. smile

Posted onPost created on July 31 2016 20:36 ET by Ronnie Jacola

Andrew Vane wrote:

AFVA did the work to add it. I just checked the box to make it active for DVA. :)

Thanks to AFVA for the new bird and thanks to Drew for checking the box razz

lol

Ronnie Jacola

Senior Captain, B727-200

DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
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Joined on July 26 2015
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Boca Raton, FL

153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs, 43.1 hours online
145 legs, 252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs, 23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4 hours

Posted onPost created on July 31 2016 21:30 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

Awesome!

DVA12216
Senior Captain, MD-88
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Alexandria, VA

1,798 legs, 4,339.1 hours
378 legs, 681.8 hours online
1,718 legs, 4,088.0 hours ACARS
14 legs, 36.8 hours event
311 legs dispatched, 224.4 hours

Posted onPost created on July 31 2016 22:50 ET by Matthew Murray

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

Matthew Murray (DVA12216)

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Daytona Beach, FL

3,271 legs, 11,709.7 hours
2,885 legs, 10,250.1 hours online
3,142 legs, 11,149.0 hours ACARS
326 legs, 874.1 hours event
274 legs dispatched, 316.5 hours

Posted onPost created on August 01 2016 21:56 ET by Soonho Lee

I've done some flying in the Rikoooo A350, and found a couple of faults.

1. The fuel quantity is not as same was what Airbus website states (http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a350xwbfamily/a350-900/specifications/). With 1US gal = 3.78 liter conversion, it comes to 36,507.9365 US gallon total. In the rikoooo, you get about 25,000 gallons O.O

2. Even when you edit out the fuel tank sizes to meet with the specs provided above, the aircraft cannot fly the advertised max range. It has quite higher fuel burn.....

Soonho Lee (DVA11591)

Posted onPost created on August 02 2016 22:43 ET by Andrew Vane

I found this with the fleet installer 787 also. Its about 1000nm less in range than whats published by Boeing.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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