Qantas Boeing 777
This repaint depicts VH-EFR, currently the only Boeing 767-300F in the Qantas Freight fleet for the FSX payware 777-200LR/F by PMDG. The textures are packaged as a PMDG livery ptp file which can be conveniently installed using the PMDG Operation Center. Screenshot of Qantas Freight Boeing 777. Boeing 777X loses Qantas’ Project Sunrise to Airbus A350 Qantas picked its favorite: Airbus could be the manufacturer to break the record for the longest commercial connection in the world. The Airbus A350-1000 was selected as the “preferred aircraft”.
Qantas will revisit plans to offer ultra-long-haul flights from the east coast of Australia to markets such as London and New York by the end of this year with an eye toward launching the flights in 2024, the airline’s CEO, Alan Joyce, revealed during one of a series of Eurocontrol “Straight Talk” interviews on Tuesday. Known as Project Sunrise, the plan originally called for a launch in early 2023 of flights between Sydney and London with Airbus A350-1000s. The airline had just gotten ready to place an order for the aircraft before the Covid crisis took hold last spring.
In late 2019 Qantas chose the A350-1000 over the proposed Boeing 777-8X for the missions and indicated it would likely need 12 airplanes. Plans called for Airbus to add another fuel tank and slightly increase the A350-1000’s maximum takeoff weight to give it the required range.
The airline performed three test flights between Sydney and New York/London using a Boeing 787, collecting nearly 60 hours of “Sunrise flying” experience and thousands of data points on crew and passenger well-being. The research flights underscored the importance of dedicated space for stretching and movement for economy passengers in particular, as well as the potential benefits from redesigning the service onboard to actively shift people to their destination time zone.
“We were taking it unbelievably seriously,” said Joyce. “We were literally weeks away from ordering the aircraft. We had done the deal with Airbus, the aircraft was capable of doing it…and we had done a deal with our pilots; 86 percent voted in favor of a new enterprise agreement. So we were planning to order the aircraft and introduce it in 2023.”
Tense negotiations between Qantas and the union representing its pilots, AIPA, centered on so-called productivity and efficiency gains, including the ability to use the same pilots across the A350 Sunrise fleet and the airline’s existing Airbus A330s, in return for 3 percent annual pay increases and promotion opportunities.
“The economics before Covid-19 were very strong,” said Joyce. “Perth-London was the most profitable route on our international network and had the highest customer satisfaction in our network, believe it or not, on the longest route.”
Joyce noted the special position in which Qantas sits for making the economies of scale work for such long-haul flying. “It is a unique opportunity for Qantas because Australia is so far away from everywhere,” said Joyce. “We could apply a fleet with a significant [number] of aircraft that makes it economic, whereas if you’re a BA or a Lufthansa, probably the only place you need the aircraft for is Australia.”
Qantas’s plans call for flights from the three major cities on the east coast of Australia—Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane—to destinations including London; Frankfurt, Germany; Paris; New York; Chicago; Rio de Janeiro; and Cape Town, South Africa.
Qantas Boeing 777-300ER 'Socceroos'. Includes new 3D light effects. Original aircraft by Melvin Rafi. Conversion and updates by David Grindele.
'MELJET'
Original Model By: MELVIN RAFI
Updates and Conversion to FSX By: David Grindele
'Whats new'
Most of Mel's aircraft were designed to fly in FS 2000 OR FS 2002 and very few were converted to FS2004 and the ones that were converted to 2004 had afew flight dynamic problems I guess one of the reason's for this was know one tweaked the air file to fly in FS2004 but they are still nice aircraft.
For FSX I wanted to do something very special for MELJET'S I wanted them to have the same Luster and flight dynamics that Mel wanted them to have without looseing or having to compromise anything. What I have done is tweak air files, And the cfg file, I have added A2A 3D Lights and Redux.
And have kept the quality of the aircraft intact. Most of the aircraft have opening engine cowlings that open for maintenance Which makes the Jet engine visible. By pressing shift + E. While at the gate the jetway will now close on the aircraft by pressing crtl + J on your key board.
MELJET'S have alway's been one of my favorite aircraft and I didn't want them to die with FS2000 & FS2002 and I thourght they would when FS9 & FSX hit the market place.
I truly believe you cannot buy and aircraft with the quality of work that has went into these aircraft. And I am proud to say I helped keep Meljets alive.
'THIS AIRCRAFT HAS ONLY BEEN TESTED WITH FSX'
Aircraft Type: Boeing 777-300ER Qantas Socceroos
Original Aircraft BY:MELVIN RAFI
Conversion and Updates BY: David Grindele
New 3D Light Effects
These aircraft have only been tested with FSX, Windows Vista 32 bit OS
and WindowsXP OS.
Installation:
Qantas 747 First Class
1. Copy the 'Aircraft' folder included in the zip file to your..FSXSimobjectsAirplanedirectory.
Qantas 787 Seating
2. Start FSX and select MELJET from the aircraft menu and select the desired aircraft.
3. Nothing needed for this aircraft to work. Everything is included.Except for the A2A 3D Lights & Redux program. Which is needed for the 3D Lights to work.