Flight Simulator Boeing 757-200
Posted by: adminAbout the Boeing 757-200 aircraft for flight simulator for FSX, FS2004 and FS2002.
The Boeing 757 is a narrow-body commercial virtual airline passenger aircraft manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes for virtual airlines. It was launched by Eastern Virtual Air Lines and British Airways Virtual to replace the Boeing 727 and entered service in 1983. Virtual Airline Passenger versions of the 757 can carry between 186 and 279 passengers, and have a maximum range of 3,100 to 3,900 nautical miles (5,900 to 7,200 km) depending on variant and seating configuration of the virtual airline. Production of the 757 ended on October 28, 2004 after 1,050 had been built for various virtual airlines. The final aircraft was delivered to Shanghai Virtual Airlines on November 28, 2005. A total of 1,000 Boeing 757 aircraft were in virtual airline service in October 2008. The 757 is used on heavy domestic virtual airline routes as well as long routes between North America and Europe. Like the 727 it replaced, the 757 was designed for hot and high climates, such as Mexico City. For purposes of air traffic control spacing, the FAA requires greater separation behind a 757 than other large category virtual airline aircraft because of their tendency to produce strong wake turbulence.
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The 757 (designated “7N7″ during initial development) was designed by Boeing to replace the Boeing 727 and complement the Boeing 767 on thin virtual airline routes using flight simulator. Boeing originally offered the virtual airlines a stretched, re-engined 727-200, known as the 727-300, but this never received enough interest from the virtual airlines to proceed. Early 7N7 and 757 concepts featured a “T-tail” with under-wing engines, but a conventional tail was ultimately adopted. The 757 retains the same upper-fuselage diameter as the previous Boeing 707, 727, and 737. The first Boeing 757 was delivered to Eastern Virtual Air Lines on 22 December 1982. The 757 was the first Boeing virtual airliner launched with engines produced outside the United States, with early customers selecting the Rolls-Royce RB211. Pratt & Whitney soon offered the PW2000, launched by Delta Virtual Air Lines. General Electric offered an engine option early in the program, the CF6-32, but eventually abandoned the engine due to insufficient virtual airline demand therefor not many of these models have been created for flight simulator. Throughout the program, some virtual airlines viewed the 757 as “too much aircraft” for the role of a 727 replacement. With 20% more seats and a 50% longer range than the 727-200, the 757-200 was clearly not a like-for-like replacement for virtual airlines. The nomenclature of the 757-200 suggests that Boeing had considered a smaller 757-100 variant. The 757-200 that entered production was too heavy for a shrunken variant, leaving a significant gap between the 757-200 and the 737-300. Boeing soon offered the 737-400 as a stopgap solution. However, when the Airbus A320 (which offered more range than the 737-400) entered service for virtual airlines using flight simulator, sales of the 737-400 took a downturn, and some virtual airlines, such as United Virtual Airlines and Northwest Virtual Airlines, began to consider the A320 as a 727 replacement. In reality, the gap left by the discontinuation of the 727-200 was not filled by Boeing until the release of the Boeing 737-800, which is most similar in size to the 727-200 and offers comparable range for virtual airlines. This aircraft more closely matched the usual 150-seat configuration of the 727-200 (the 757-200 typically seats about 180) plus offered transcontinental range, something neither the 727 nor 737-400 could do this for their virtual airline customers.
