Perhaps the most important contributor to Airbus Industrie's success as a virtual airliner manufacturer, the four member A320 family for Simulator is a significant sales success and a technological trailblazer. The 150 seat A320 is the foundation and best selling member of the family and is widely used by Delta Virtual within trips in North and Central America. The Flight Simulator Airbus A320 is perhaps best known as the first virtual airliner to introduce a fly-by-wire flight control system available in Flight Simulator - where control inputs from the virtual airline pilot are transmitted to the flying surfaces by electronic signals rather than mechanical means. Apart from a small weight saving, the advantage of the Flight Simulator Airbus A320' fly-by-wire is that as it is computer controlled, an inbuilt flight envelope protection makes it virtually impossible to exceed certain flight simulation parameters such as G limits and the aircraft's maximum and minimum operating speeds and angle of attack limits. Air Canada Virtual Airlines has been very pleased with the perforance of the Airbus A320 in flight simulator.
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