| Native Airbus A330-900neo for MSFS
The A330-900neo is a wide-body jet airliner manufactured by Airbus.
It is an evolution of the popular A330-300 with new improved wings and modern high bypass engines (Rolls-Royce Trent 7000) for better fuel efficiency.
The first A330-900neo entered service on December 15 2018 with launch partner airline TAP Portugal, it can carry up to 287 passenger with a range of 13300 km.
Introduce
This project was originally started by Philippe Marion before being completely re-worked from the ground up by Headwind, to make it fully compatible for MSFS. This is not a study level aircraft, however it allows to make complete flights.
→ Communication : I don't have time to respond to private messages, however i regularly post information in this group : https://flightsim.to/group/18198/airbus-a330-900neo-conversion
→ Discord Server : https://discord.gg/UxWy8C6kgv
→ Simbrief Profile : Simbrief don't offer the A330-900neo profile but you can add this custom profile : https://www.simbrief.com/system/dispatch.php?sharefleet=352855_1650394989146
Key features
- 4K PBR textures
- Native wingflex and engine torque (first freeware aircraft with this feature)
- Custom flight model
- MSFS native effects and materials
- Semi-customised cockpit
- based on FBW A32NX system
Installation
- Please remember to delete your previous headwind-a330neo from your community before installing an update. Don't override.
- Simply drag and drop the headwind-a330neo folder into your community.
- Remember to calibrate the trottle from the tablet (EFB).
- Keep in mind that the first loading can be a bit slow.
More:
- You don't need any FBW A32NX installed : This A330-900neo is standalone.
- Chokes and plots are visible when Beacon switch is OFF, engines is OFF and parking break switch is ON
- Cockpit is based on the default A320 cockpit but semi-customised. This is not perfect but a few changes make it a bit different from an A320 cockpit.
- This is a beta and free version, please be cool.
Important informations
This aircraft systems are forked from the great FBW A32NX project, version 0.7.4. This means that the systems are more advanced than on the default Asobo A320. A cold and dark start requires some knowledge. If you don't know how to start an Airbus, I invite you to follow this tutorial.
If you are not familiar with the FBW A32N project, I invite you to consult the FBW official website and the documentation here.
A huge thank you to the FBW team without whom this project would not be possible. Please not that this A330neo is completely independent from FBW projects.
→ Tutorial for Throttle calibration : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oqFfAMXCcc
Paintkit and liveries
This initial version contains 11 real world liveries in 4K PBR:
- Airbus House “Foundation 10 years"
- TAP Portugal (Portugal)
- TAP Portugal, Star Alliance (Portugal)
- Hifly (Portugal)
- Condor SEA, ISLAND and BEACH (x3, Germany)
- Air Belgium (Belgium)
- Corsair International (France)
- Delta (USA)
- Blank
Find more than 300 liveries here : https://flightsim.to/c/liveries/airbus-a330-900/
A paintkit is provided here : https://fr.flightsim.to/file/21285/a330-900-neo-paintkit
Special thanks
- Kevin Widjaja : Thanks to Kevin who implemented version 0.7.4 of FBW's A32NX systems. Kevin work on a free Sukhoi SSJ project for MSFS, you can discover his SSJ here
- Philippe Marion : Initial inspiration for the project, advice and translations.
- Bluemesh: help on blender and the sunglass.
Open Source
Open Source Projects contributing to the realisation of this MSFS A330-900 Neo :
- Systems, cockpit, cockpit texture, sound : FlyByWire
- FBW integration : Tyler58546
- Cockpit 3D parts, learning : Project Mega Pack
This project repository is on GitHub here : https://github.com/headwindmsfs/a330-900
Credits
The original contents of this repository are DUAL LICENSED. Original textual-form source code in this file is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
Creative Commons License Artistic Assets (Models, Textures) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
asures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Microsoft Flight Simulator © Microsoft Corporation. The Project Mega Pack A330 was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.
Microsoft Flight Simulator © Microsoft Corporation. The FlyByWire Simulations A32NX was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.
This project are not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with the Airbus brand, or any of its subsidiaries or its affiliates.
headwind
Hello,
Finaly done à discord server : https://discord.gg/UxWy8C6kgv (thanks to Revyn112)
izzinuddin89
If you are aware, Headwind A330Neo model has some imbalance fuel issue. I observed when I had a short haul flight like 2.5 hours, during the approach, I checked the fuel consumption and saw the lefthand side fuel tank reduced significantly faster than the righthand side fuel tank though the Engines consuming almost the same amount of fuel. Also, I had activated fuel tank cross feed all the time and had turned off lefthand side fuel pump during the flight so that the engines get the fuel from righthand tank. It didn't help, the lefthand side tank keep reducing. So, during the landing, right side aileron deflected a little bit down and a little bit up on the left aileron due to imbalance CG. Anyone knows how to fix this?
soulmohsav
hello , great plane , can someone help me with the control, i have a hard time turning with the plane is it anyway i can reset the controls like the previous version. thank u.
tequila975
Bonjour dans la maj y'a t'il une correction pour pouvoir tourner correctement au sol ou pas svp sinon tres belle avion
Chrispaesi
Good evening,
is there a release date for version 0.3? The community is waiting for it so much. Have a great evening and keep it up
The_Fly 3 day(s) ago
Their discord server says that it will be updated when the FBW A32NX Stable version 0.9 is released
nobi1710
When I start the A330 I have purple tiles in the cockpit in the view outside. How can I fix this
flyok123
Aircraft needs an update desperately. Great aircraft however.
GAD16DK
Everything works great! Until i land, and then engine one shuts down (almost). But it spools down with no way of spooling it back up, and then it won't turn right?
Homertallica
turn on the batteries, and external power, display and tab continues off .
CC_2387
really nice but i think its a little light even with full capacity load. Really hard to land well with a large light plane in heavy winds
ceeonon
My cockpit not working and i dont know what to do 😞
Slyxer01 6 day(s) ago
im having the same issue
phoenixhahn
The A339X is awesome! Hope to see the latest one soon. Keep it up devs!
DJJ346
Can the nose wheel be operated with the tiller ??
frandy05
The mod is great for a freeware mod, but it needs some work. The game crashed a couple of times, once while taxing, the other one when I just took off, and the last one right after I landed after a 5 hours flight (I almost cried). Also, there are some bugs like the doors not closing, the plane not turning fast enough, and the front wheel was doing 360s as you are turning like a shopping cartwheel. I'm just going to wait for the next update, which should be coming out very soon, according to their discord.
CaptaoCoubes
Its a very good mod
CommandProMC
Unusably long loading times for all flybywire aircraft also affect this one, making it completely unflyable 😞
Pilotensohn 21 day(s) ago
no , uninstall the bing maps to google maps scenery tool mod you have installed by following a yt video its kinda complex but after that it should be fixed. the above mentioned addon breaks youre sim
AEL021
Question : what is the exact Vref on that aircraft ? I have seen 140 and other 142.
A330-300 is category C.
But what is the APC (Aircraft Performance Category) for -900neo ? Is it C or D ?
TheAngryGerman
Love the Airplane and been flying it since it's release, however i prefer the version before FBW, is there a way to get it?
1johnsullivan
I have been flying the A330-900 since it was first released and have had no problems until very recently, possibly just after the last update! I now find that the fuel management system has gone haywire, it appears to be taking fuel out of the left main tank and transferring it to the right main tank ie the left tank is emptying rapidly and the right tank is filling up..!! Operating the X-Feed has no effect on this. This evening I decided to see what would happen if you let the tank completely empty (maybe it's just a computer glitch) but no, sure enough, the engine just wound down.
This has finally made the aircraft unusable for me. Has anyone any ideas, I would hate to stop using this aircraft?
Aleksandr1981 19 day(s) ago
same same
AEL021 18 day(s) ago
I got the same problem too. But the engine is still running.
Zaid201 8 day(s) ago
same problem 😞
clubsceneuk2 2 day(s) ago
From what i have read this is going to be fixed in the next release.
Schlindi
First of all: Great work and thanks that so many developers give their stuff for free to the community! You guys keep the Flightsim alive for many, many years now. I am still happy with this aircraft, unfortunately I have to look for an alternate. The bugs with fuel consumption, taxiing and parking breakes (FSDT GSX Pro) are not solved yet, 2nd & 3rd is not that important, fuel bug really sucks. Please tell us if you work on anoher update or not. Thanks!
djjoost
I stopped using it. It is just too buggy.
Doors through the EFB are not working correctly. Sometimes the doors will open, many times they won't . Sometimes doors won't close at all.
APU sometimes cuts out for no reason.
GSX works if you play around with it, parking brake does not. So if using GSX than do not use pushback.
Taxiing , steering is a bit wonky. It works but the rudder input you have to do is extreem.
Just tried a flight , turned on the autopilot and instead of turning left it banked right into the ground.
Did a couple of flights, sometimes it works ,most of the times it just doesn't.
It is a nice plane if everything works ,but that is rare.