I’m wondering whether we should add these three planes into the games as well? Now the Dreamlifter was operated by Atlas and National Airlines are planing to lease A300-600ST. What’s more, A300-600ST is currectly used in external commercial transport mission. If it is not suitable to add it into the games, maybe we can set up a system that can least some special aircraft for a short time like a few month?
I see no real use in adding “special cargo” aircraft when we don’t simulate such ops.
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The Dreamlifter is only certified for 767/787 ops and nothing else, the fact that they are operated by Atlas Air is irrelevant. The certificate for the Beluga XL A330 limits the total number of the aircraft (6) anyway just like the old Beluga.
Not sure about the old Beluga A300-600ST and the planned commercial ops so far, but honestly, what do you want to do with this aircraft? It does not even have (nonstop) transatlantic range. It is only suitable for very special needs.
All of these aircraft would be quite bad cargo aircraft in AS especially in terms of payload and maximum payload range.
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Well, they are large-diameter, high-volume, low-weight freighters. So if you have cargo that fits that bill, they are useful. Didn’t they use one of the old Belugas once to transport a large, expensive painting that wouldn’t fit into any other aircraft?
Yeah, but these are exactly the economies that would make them completely expensive and useless in AirlineSim, since we don’t do special freight.