LatinVFR A340 Review | Real Airbus Pilot
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Hi Emanuel,
Thank you so much for taking your time and doing the review. We respect your opinion and value it significantly because of your level of experience.
We are sad to hear your experience was not satisfactory with the aircraft. The things you mentioned have been highlighted recently by some other people too. And at this time we have been working to quickly remedy most of them.
About the autopilot, the modes and such, its basically the same as the A330neo, so the issues you may have, might be due to the different flight dynamics of the A340. Sorry to hear you couldn't accomplish A to B, but many reviewers online in youtube were able to fly a standard A to B flight, but I understand experiences may vary and situations can happen, considering the aircraft does have a bit of the Asobo code on it and thus you may encounter bugs.
In the coming days updates will be released improving the overall experience.
Sincerely,
Ricardo
LVFR
Hi Ricardo,
happy to hear an update is coming soon! I really liked the A330 for the intended audience and I'm sure if the A340 gets there as well it'll be a good addon overall!
Cheers,
Emanuel
The plane sucks and nothing varies but the quality of the plane. Don't make excuses. Just do better. I have several of your planes and airports. I have had to delete airports because they have not been updated and your planes work on a minimum basis. We want knowledge of these planes, which means we want the ability to do lnav/vnav departures, we want all system buttons to work, we want full programming capabilities in the mfb, ability to change arrivals during flight.
Communication with your bank (us the community) can make you rich if the product reflects the correct aircraft. Right now your leaving money on the table. LVFR has come a long way but still has some growing to do before I purchase another aircraft or airport from them. I am in constant support that they will get it together.
@@A330Driver Thank you Emanuel!, BTW, the fuel dump system has a bug that only allows jettison if you have fuel on the center tank, you did not have at that time when you activated it
. We are working on fixing it. Thanks
@@GeeRoss Your comment is not anything anyone in the sim community really cares for. Emi was clear this was not a study-level aircraft, nor does the developer advertise it as much. If that's your expectation, buy the Fenix. There are plenty of gamers (yes, this is a game) who aren't interested in becoming pilots and don't really care for that level of fidelity. They just want to get in an airline and soar. So this addon isn't for you? Great. Just move on and have a nice day.
@rodrigju read and innerstand what I said, my brother . I respect your comment, but you got in your feelings. That I don't respect. I stand on everything I said with no feelings. I want them to make better product for us all. Thanks for chatting, my brother.
Thanks for the yet again awesome Video Emi! Plane reviews coming from you are more or less my purchase decision basis for any addon. Also thanks a lot for making an effort in actually sharing your experience as a real pilot with the devs. Hopefully they can gain some insights out of it. Nevertheless, I will still give this one a go as I crave flying longhaulers in the sim besides the ones we already got :)
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31:22 "any non standard or threads? Yes, the aircraft itself!" ;D
Thank you, Captain, for that very interesting video. Your appraisal was very fair and impartial. I do hope that the developers take heed of what you said.
I'm sure they will. Their A330 for good (for the intended audience of course), I'm sure they'll bring this right up there.
Love your channel!
I also love that you're a pilot but take the time to help us wannabe pilots. It tells me you love your profession.
A question: why no rolling takeoffs on a widebody?
Happy AIRAC cycle update day 🤣Thanks for this review!
New favourite channel. Bought MSFS the other day and loved your insightful review of the FBW A32NX, it was amazing to see a real pilot put to test whether a simulation can follow real life procedures and your review also made me very happy with my acquisition. Currently delving into documentation to start attempting realistic flights soon!
Thanks for this review
For new simmers. If you want a Airbus, go for FBW or Headwind, which provides A320Neo and A330Neo. Trust me, these two flies better even though it is freeware and a bit deeper in simulation. Why? Because they have AUTOMATION!
LVFR is to simulation what a wooden horse on a carrousel is to horse riding.
wrong analogy. The wooden horse in a carousel would be a simulator of actual horse riding.
As much as you want to believe it, you are NOT flying an airplane when you are using the sim. Sorry to pop your bubble! 🫧
@@animaxima8302 But neither are you riding horse on a carrousel.
How true, great analogy. Been burnt once by LVFR, and after they stopped Horizon from making LVFR products acceptable, even good in some case, my analogy is once bitten, twice shy!
The autopilot not following the flight director is horrific. If I was programming a basic auto pilot my code would be 'follow flight director with short delay', so even if the flight director logic was messed up, you would expect the autopilot to follow the messed up logic, not whatever this was.
To a new user, this would be detrimental, as they would have no idea what is going on. Let alone the modes not working properly, so they really don't know. VNAV may not even be necessary to a new user (just use OP/Desc or FLCH in Boeing), but if it was advertised, then it should work as intended.
The CFM56 engines on the 737 look different from other aircraft models because the 737's wings are so low to the ground, they actually had to move things like the air starter around to the sides so that they would fit. As such, it gives the cowlings on the 737's engines a much wider appearance compared to other aircraft with the same engines like the A320, A340, DC8 etc...
Hey Emi, hope you’re doing great. Tfdi announced that the md11 is feature complete. It would be great to see you flying it again and demonstrating what state it’s currently in. Have a good evening!
Hi, as far as I’m aware that version was not given to CE owners yet, only to their internal beta team.
@@A330Driver Oh, alright. Anyways, when you get the version, if you have the time it would be very good to see the video with it
I like the A340. I’ve flown on one before. I wanted to get this, but I think I will wait until LVFR put a little more effort into this
If I can make a suggestion, Emi...
When reviewing aircraft, maybe upload 2 separate videos.
The first one would be one like this, where you do a full A to B flight. This gives the audience a comprehensive look at the aircraft.
The second would be the "review", which would be a 10-15 minute summary of all the key points from the full flight video.
Think of it like a video game review - they are generally quite concise and cover all the main points which a potential buyer would want to know. For people who want to know even more, they can watch playthrough videos which are much longer.
I almost decided not to watch this review because of how long it was, but then I decided I'll watch it anyway but just skip to the end, in the hope that you would have a nice summary (which fortunately you did, but I only found the timestamp when reading through the comments).
Had this video been 15 minutes instead of 1 hour and 44 minutes, I think the view count would be much higher.
Just my 2 cents.
If I was an entry level simmer and I saw that flying an approach is more or less eyeballing a possessed wobbly tank down to, hopefully, the destination airport I’d develop a fear of flying IRL.
Thank you for this video.
I am probably not going to be getting the A340 (if I had and extra set of the Thrustmast contols I might, as a South African getting an A340 would be very cool).
But, I enjoy your videos anyway, because of the extra comments you provide and what things are, and how they work.
I am curious, if you cannot access the CBs, how would you pull the CVR, if required?
If you change your mind at some point, be aware that you can assign multiple engines (2,3 or even 4) to a single thrust lever. So for the 747 I have two levers each controlling 2 engines.
@@richardsuttill54 yeah. I would probably do 12 and 34
Go to X-Plane 12. Excellent A340-600 there by Toliss.
I bet this can be approved for STOL if max manual braking is done. Considering, how quickly it slowed down with autobrakes low. 😂
I think you could land this one on Lukla, certainly can stop in time.
LOL Miss ya Mathijs!
37:00
I have had a similar bug with the free pushback addon when using the FBW a320/Headwind a330. Although they said it may not work with other pushback tools, so to be expected. But it was very interesting when in VR, and constantly doing (some very fast) 360s every couple of seconds during a push
hahaha, does that qualify for compensation already?
@@A330Driver Yea maybe, but I think I will need to pass that compensation over to the passengers who have to endure my inability to hand fly an Airbus (I am blaming the quest controllers)
1:27:30 I love it, welcome to Frankfurt, I guess 😂
Ah damn I thought its the other one 😂 nice video as always
ToLiss? I might just about cover that again in the sooner future :D
Or did I miss any other one?
@@A330Driver yep that one:D 😂
Aerosoft Toolbar Pushback pro has a tendency to not work with larger aircraft. What happened to you on pushback also happens with the default 747 and 787-10 for me. The utility should be updated.
@A330 Driver if your parking brakes are not set or your engines are running GSX will not start. You had released your brakes when requesting pushback from the EFB and never reset them before trying to open GSX. I wish they would add a notification like “GSX cannot be opened; your brakes are not set” that would make it easier to understand what is going on.
Thanks! Indeed just some message instead of the menu simply closing would make life much easier...
I feel like a lot of "so be it" is incoming 😂
Should I buy this or the abacus a340 for fsx? Abacus has worse graphics but seemingly more systems depth
Yeah, glad to see that there is finally an A340 for MSFS but it does not do the job. When i bought their A318 i was happy at first but then (even though they had updated it etc), it got bad. The HS mod however fixed it completely.
As for the modelling i think they could also improve on the font for the screens and to me, the cockpit side window looks too big, kind of like the PMP A330.
Very interesting but disappointing in some places.
Great video though
How did you manage that your VDGS are working? I have the sim wings EDDM airport and they are not working.
Maybe with GSX or Aerosoft-VDGS-mod
@@ceoverona1929ok I‘ll try
Hi what eddm add on and what plane injector are you using
Hi Emanuel if the 777 is ready and the features are well worth the wait how come these additional features. Push the release up to July? Seems too much right?
Hi, if you ask for my personal opinion: I think this is a direct consequence of all the haters out on the internet. So many people complaining how shitty PMDG products would be because of the 737 release which added some features at a later stage. Those same people usually also hyped the Fenix so much, even though they did the very same thing (think IAE, or sharklets which we still don't have two years later).
They probably want to make sure not to give the haters any fuel for their fires anymore with this release.
Just my personal 2ct of course...
@@A330Driver but more futures mean higher potential of bugs right? which leads to longer beta time
@@yfig7020 To a certain extend yes, but I can assure you that it's not bugs that are holding the plane up. Sure enough it has some right now, but it's mostly new features being added while a bit of bugfixing is going on next to it. The stuff that's there (most of the plane really) works pretty well by now.
@@A330Driver I hope to see it at least in June following what I hear from Robert it seems ready from a long time ago
already in the cover of the video you can only see the contrail of engines 2 and 3, while the 1 and 4 do nothing.. this shows how it is practically all a derivative of Asobo's a320neo.. Anyway, excellent video as always, I love seeing your reviews and I hope they will seriously improve it because that team has excellent potential
You actually see fuel jettison at low level, so two trails are correct.
@@A330Driver woww really? never seen, thank you! ❣️ I've learnt something new
Emi how do you ever have a chance to fly the real thing? You have been going crazy with the uploads here lately.......And we're better for it! Thank you!
Have wondered that too. I would be sick of aircraft at his pace 😂
haha, I actually flew 89 hours last month and already 50 hours this month with another trip coming up on the weekend.
@@A330Driver My Dad was a police detective and he never switched off either - holiday time, even retirement time he still was always alert to crime around him. In English I would say you are "On a busman's holiday" or should that be an Airbusman's holiday!
So, this is for VFR hand flying only. 😁
I think the biggest problem with LVFR products might be the price. If you buy the A300 from inibuilds for example you'll pay 10€ more but you'll also get so much more out of your money.
Going for an aircraft that is made for a more casual audience is perfectly fine but maybe adjust the price accordingly :/
The casual audience thing makes no sense to me. You can easily load up the Fenix A320 and be flying in 5 minutes using EFB shortcuts. Plus, you're getting a consistent experience because you know the airplane will act correctly each time you fly it. There's no excuse for the quality of LVFR products, even if they cater to "casual" simmers. Just call it what it is, garbage.
@@robbyyant6213 Garbage is a little bit harsh I think. "Casual aircraft" have their place as Emanuel wrote in his second comment under the "toy airplane" comment under this video (He analysis the situation really well I think). Developing a fenix or a pmdg product is a lot of work and financial risk and you can't expect that from every company.
After watching the whole review, there's no defence for the lvfr 340 cause it's broken atm but I believe that not every sim aircraft can be a fenix, toliss or pmdg.
There seems to be a growing and disturbing trend of developers releasing products that really should be beta or even alpha versions, or selling addons as "early access" but at full price, relying on customer's trust that they will eventually fix bugs and add features (but that doesn't always happen sadly). I think as a community we need to push back on this by keeping our wallets in our pockets until the products are ready to go, or until they release early access products at a suitable discount so that we can be their beta testers for them.
I agree, I observed that trend as well.
Hi Emanuel, how do you move so smoothly with the camera around the plane on the ground?
Is it a mod ?
Hi, it’s the drone cam. Search my channel for „walkaound“, I did a dedicated video on how I do these and which settings I use.
@@A330Driver thx. Btw, are you from germany?
@@user-wq9gm9xr4v Isn´t that pretty obvious? The energy, comittment, preciseness and attention to detail can only be accomplished by a German 🇩🇪 Our most entustiastic fligtsimmer on RUclips 👍🏻
I'm ok with non study level planes if at least the basic functions are working which includes accurate flight physics. But this addon in it's current state is an absolute disaster.
And my biggest worries were with the LVFR 340 that basics like simple VNAV, holding, and fuel and weight functions in the FMGS aren't working right... Well, it's a lot worse.
This could be a great addon if they sort out the problems you highlighted. Thanks for such in-depth reviews - love your videos.
Really need fenix to get on and produce their a330 long hauler
A Fenix A330 would be so incredibly amazing!
@@A330Driver it's the only logical next step after the A320 series
Oh dear...that dual contrail in the thumbnail already had me scratching my chin...😅 LVFR do some beautiful visual models for sure, wing flex, wobbling engines, and the aircraft sound is great. Except for all the missing CRCs of course! It's a pity that so many things are not simulated, but oh well. Their A330 which is stil a bit bare, seems to have already improved a little.
It’s not a contrail, it’s fuel dumping 😅
And the 340 actually has just two nozzles, one per wing.
@@A330Driver Oh dang it, that'll teach me for making such assumptions!
Did you ever do an LVFR A330neo review?
Yes I did. Quite a positive one actually: ruclips.net/video/WTGOM2tMK50/видео.htmlsi=CKUBKVr1L6MtPgIk
they should have give us the huge A340-600
Lol. You did a review and they put out an update at the same time.
Thats kinda offtopic, but can anybody tell me why you power up the ADIR´s 1 - 3 - 2 instead of just 1 - 2 - 3?
The is a subconscious logic to it but I guess @A330driver can elaborate
Easy :D What you call 1 - 3 - 2 is actually 1 - 2 - 3. In proper airbus manner the positions are related to the functions. The left knob is for number 1 that is for the Capt. the right one is for the FO and therefore number 2. The center one is the standby one and therefore number 3. It makes perfect sense ;)
@@chaoz1666 oooooh yeah that makes perfect sense!
says a lot about latinvfr that I was more excited when this video dropped than their aircraft 💀
Has anyone worked out how to calibrate the throttles?
LatinVFR is the Captainsim for Airbus
With the exception that LVFR did not kick the community in the butt like CS did. Remember their livery stunt and how they wanted to sue flightsim.to? That sets a huge difference between the two if you ask me.
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I would absolutely love a 340 or 380
I'm sure you'll love the FBW A380 when it finally comes! I really liked its previews at FSWeekend!
I’m scared to watch this 😂, my ToLiss A340 is giving me an evil look 😢
hahaha, tell me what you think about it in the end!
@@A330Driver I watched up to the decent then made cup of tea 😬 nothing personal but you could see what it was by then. Tbf you gave it every chance but I agree the VNAV part doesn’t work and needs fixing or removing from the advert. Every time I watch these type of products my brain breaks as I always end up with just fly the FBW320 it’s amazing and free. Thx for trying gives me excuse try out XP12.1 beta with A340 will bring back great memories.
I'm not buying it until Horizons have access to improve it.
Sad it didn’t come with camera views 😢
I kind of disagree about what an average entrly-level simmer needs. I do believe it should be a really good freeware aircraft like FBW A320, Zibo 737 or even payware like PMDG / Fenix. Otherwise, with something of a lower quality (like this LVFR A340 or the Embraers) the newbie simmer will just struggle to understand whether it's him doing something wrong or it's the aircraft model messing up, he would simply have not enough experience for that, which might cause disappointment, learning wrong things or even abandoning the beautiful world of flight simming. It does not have to simulate super deeply (like faults), but at least the basics must be almost perfect.
Fair play for giving us a review of this aircraft Emanuel. It looks just like I expect a LVFR aircraft to behave, awful. How people pay $30 for this is mindboggling. LVFR are just as bad as Captain sim.
I believe what they call QNH in the EFB is actually QNE.
Seems like it, indeed.
What is crazy is that this plane is 3/4 of the price of the FENIX, which seems like a real money grab from this perspective...
Might not be study level but hey at least we have an a340 now better than nothing
14:21 hmmmmmm 👀
I never thought you did review this shit, I lost a myth. ahhahahaha
Another quickly created "toy" aircraft. Save your money!
Not everyone wants study level. I love my PMDG, but I also love this a340. It’s been fun to fly.
@@jimmytwotimes802 ты прав, но не за эти деньги. сейчас это грабеж и мошенничество, даже баги на самом видном месте не исправлены
Personally I think it’s just a big money grab so I don’t support it. I would rather them make good quality aircraft’s and have less available see they’ve got out an a320,@318,@319,@321,@330,@340 in not even a year. It’s just completely for money.
@jimmytwotimes802 I'm sorry dude we gotta stop supporting these projects that's what default aircraft are for. This flight simulator in particular is too saturated with "toy" projects!!
@@jimmytwotimes802 I totally agree with you. For the price they call, they at least should try to get a decent flight model, engine model and fuel consumption done. To fly something and get mid air no fuel to the destination. This is just another crap
Spätestens nach der Landung sollte jedem klar sein, dass das Ding nix is
I can’t believe they are actually charging money for this…
The only good looking Airbus. I hope it will be polished and then I am happy to pull the trigger. We do not only need hi-fi planes like Fenix, there are plenty of casual simmers who want casual planes.
I personally only have so much time to fly and when I do, I want the experience to be very realistic and fulfilling, not half-assed and hobbled together like many of the add-ons for MSFS nowadays. The whole "casual simmer" thing makes no sense to me. You can easily load up the Fenix A320 and be flying in 5 minutes using the EFB shortcuts. We need less of these mediocre add-ons and more developers aspiring to be at the level of what Fenix, Black Square, and A2A have achieved. Casual should not mean garbage. It's just an excuse for lazy developers.
@@robbyyant6213exactly
@@robbyyant6213 the problem is not the devs but asobo for providing shitty SDK. Sure if they have a stable base to work with, maybe devs are more inclined to spend more time on working their project.
Ladies and gentlemen, X Plane 12.1 is out as a beta.
Yeah this thing is rubbish. I’m glad I didn’t waste my time with this one. My entry level plane back in the mid 2000’s was the PMDG 736 and this was way before any decent YT tutorials existed. I think jumping into the deep end is far more beneficial than learning on something like this especially with the amount of online tutorials available today.
Your "NEW to Flight Simulation? Do yourself a FAVOUR and get a GOOD aircraft to LEARN" (ruclips.net/video/ThNnZOxbl4Q/видео.html) comes to mind. If I was a beginner I'd be very confused about the autopilot bugs / glitches / (half) implemented features. Replace "what's it doing now?" with "it is supposed to do that?" and I think that's where beginners will be.
I don't think people need a full blown "study level" aircraft learn with every system implemented also allowing for uncommon failures. But for an entry level aircraft what's there should work well with standard operations.
I bought the 330 and it was a terrible mistake, definitely skipping this one.
Tja was soll man sagen…
Alright Emi... and now please redo the video with the attitude of your FSS E-Jet videos. I want to hear you cursing and screaming about this waste of space on your hard disk!
Quite simple: If they re-market their products I will gladly do that. I rate the aircraft according to their marketing. Write lots of bs on your productpages and I’ll rate your products against that, be honest and open about what you do and don’t and I’ll likewise rate it accordingly.
@@A330Driver Well they said it would be beginner-friendly and can fly from A to B. You said it yourself in your video many times that none of this is even remotely true. That‘s just as much wrong marketing as FSS did. The feeling is that you did not want to offend LatinVFR (as you did with FSS, rightly so), maybe because they gave you this version for free, because you usually are much more aggressive for BS like the autopilot not even being able to do a level change climb. I’m just feedbacking my disappointment, I was totally expecting you to go total rage over this product :) Also please keep in mind the price: This is not cheap.
@@raphaelmuh621 The difference between the two is that one (FSS) released knowingly and intentionally lying about the products status, trying to fool people into buying the product by deceiving them about the products state. The other (LatinVFR) is known to release entry level products and advertise them as such. Yet they too seem to have messed up big time with this release. Whatever caused it, I don't think it was intentional. They give me no reason to believe so. FSS without any doubt MUST have known their products state. LVFR perhabs not. Might blame that on bad testing or whatever, but not bad intentions of fooling the customer. But it seems more of an honest mistake in their case and not intentionally deceiving customers as FSS did. And that is the part where I make the difference between the two. One had a bad intent, the other just bad testing/you-name-it.
@@A330Driver Fair enough, I understand your reasoning. Off topic: You're based at EDDF now, right? "Discovering" different places in your new job? ;)
You can hear Emanuel frustration during FMS programing... Don't buy this guy's
I feel sorry for the Xbox simmer's getting this sort of trash. How are they supposed to learn how to fly it well enough to get from A to B, where clearly this junk cannot even fly a plan. 4yrs down the line, and i thought we had seen the last of this stuff but sadly not!
what an unrealistic a340 lol
well, realistic just is too much for many.
@@A330Driver doesn't the a340 have poor climb rate?
Gross, no thank you. This is something I probrablhy would have purchased when I was new 15 years ago in FSX.
It's a poor exterior model. I mean to not even model the landing lights is pretty poor. Arcade toy at best. Poor by latinvfr
Haha what junk!
What an absolute shit show!! From start to finish! No way is this a releasable product, never mind a chargeable one!! 😡