Countryside Aircraft Design - MD DC 10-30 Cargo for X-Plane 11

Give me a minute to write some words about the cockpit panel. Because there had been trouble about the configuration. Due to my researches about this fascinating aircraft I met retired DC 10 pilots and aircraft mechanics, I looked for literature and Web pages to find a clear answer to the question which cockpit layout is the correct once. And yes, indeed, the only correct layout for exact this DC 10-30 is the complete analog one! Now some of you may disagree because they saw so many pictures of a glass cockpit titled “DC 10-30”. This is wrong and a hard error of the author/photographer! Why? Because this glass cockpit layout is manufactured by Boeing after they bought McDonnell Douglas in 1996. The three person layout of the DC 10 was a very big reason for customers not to buy this aircraft because of the costs. And that’s why Boeing’s first action with this plane was to retrofit it with a 2 person cockpit and call this aircraft “MD 10” from now on. And the only customer they found for this aircraft was Federal Express. 3 of them still are operated by FEDEX in 2020.

• All Flight control instruments are animated, animated 3D switches


• Checklist Chart of V-Speeds


• Gear doors work like with a real plane Gears are damped


• FMC Autopilot TCAS/GPWS


• A Flight Engineers Place


• FUEL Controls


• Flight deck for the flight engineer


• Pressurization


• Animated doors for pax, cargo and flight crew/cockpit


• APU


• NAV1/NAV2 DME/VOR/ADF


• Flaps/Slats


• All NAV Instruments animated


• Reverse Power


• All textures are designed with high end software, latest NVIDIA ® tool. Physically Based rendered Textures in 4K quality.


• FuelDump + Fire fighting


• New designed instrument textures


• Lighting – Logo light, Cargo compartment, cockpit, instruments, runway, taxi and landing light


• Front gear steers for taxiing


• Speed brakes/Spoilers


• Fully animated levers for the flight controls

4 K PBR textures, own sounds, brings stairs and a high loader to you, modern nav support if you like, and more.

Specifications

• File size 750 MB


• Intel/AMD Processor


• Not less then 16 GB RAM and graphics adapter with 8 GB VRAM


• Windows 10 only


• X-Plane 11.41, works best with 11.50 latest Beta, experimental flight model and “use Vulkan driver for faster rendering” checked

Change Log

• The whole fuselage


• Elevator changed to Pendulum elevator


• New gears and gear doors


• Smoother wings and flaps, slats


• New windshield and windows


• New or better fuse panels/circuit brakes


• New designed overhead panel


• New designed pilot seats


• Optimized support for 1 pilot flying


• All gauges are new designed


• Better yokes


• Yokes hide able


• New sounds


• The cowlings of the engines can be opened


• Radar nose to be opened


• Stairs for the flight team


• A highloader is part of the package


• New PBR textures in the cockpit


• Re Designed flight engineers place


• On board normal checklist


• New documentation


• All levers and handles are new


• New pedals


• New ground in the cockpit


• New walls in the cockpit


• New radio section in the pedestal


• All three engines are reverser engines now