FSX: Steam Edition - Eurofighter Add-On review

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The Eurofighter Typhoon is a multi-role combat aircraft which first entered service in 2004. It is the result of Europe’s largest military collaborative programme. The Eurofighter fleet has accumulated more than 160,000 flying hours around the world, and are featured in seven different international air forces.

The Eurofighter add-on for FSX: Steam Edition includes the single-seat Eurofighter Typhoon, which features the signature delta wing with reverse camber roots, flaperons and foreplanes. Six accurate ordnance load-outs give you the opportunity to experience this swing-role aircraft in its various configurations. The aircraft features numerous animations including wheel chocks, pre-flight flags, engine covers and a ground power unit. Even the seeker heads on the Paveway and Maverick are animated!

The fully functional virtual cockpit features accurate multi-function displays with a variety of pages for monitoring the aircraft systems, and the collimated and conformal HUD with real-world symbology will provide you with excellent situational awareness.

Features:

MODEL

• Accurately modelled using real-world aircraft plans
  
• Signature delta wing configuration faithfully reproduced including reverse camber roots and washout
  
• Fully animated and functioning elevators and flaperons
  
• Functioning leading edge slats, forward position canards and air-brake
  
• Retractable refuelling probe, controllable from the virtual cockpit
  
• Authentically detailed and fully animated landing gear
  
• Working engine nozzle vanes and afterburners
  
• Animated braking parachute and tail-hook
  
• Fully detailed exterior cockpit with animated pilot
  
• Ground equipment includes wheel chocks, pre-flight flags and engine covers
  
• Switchable Ground Power Unit and cabling
  
• Complete set of ordnance with descriptions, safety cones and perimeter
  
• Six accurate weapons/ordnance load-outs, selectable from the virtual cockpit MFD
  
• Realistic afterburner/reheat effects
  
• Animated seeker heads on Paveway and Maverick bombs
  
• Custom-coded engine intake ‘lips’ react automatically to changes in airspeed and angle of attack
  
  VIRTUAL COCKPIT
  
• Fully functional, accurate multi-function displays (MFDs):
  
• Centre MFD displays fully functional GPS
  
• Centre HUD binnacle displays radio and autopilot information, radio frequencies, fuel states and engine N1 data
  
• Collimated and conformal HUD with real-world symbology
  
• Radio MFD on right console displays Nav and Comms (standby and active), transponder and ADF frequencies. All are switchable using authentic push-buttons
  
• Functional autopilot with heading, track, altitude and speed hold modes
  
• Switch panel for controlling lighting, avionics, ground power, on-board power, refuelling probe and fuel transfer, starters and more
  
• Throttles with in-built fuel cut-off switches and auto-reheat functionality
  
• Control stick can be toggled for a better view of the centre-MFD
  
  OTHER FEATURES
  
• Highly accurate flight dynamics closely simulate the real aircraft's performance envelope
  
• Lighting and effects including afterburners, start-up smoke, strobes, recognition and navigation lights
  
• Authentic sound set from Turbine Sound Studios delivers the full force of the two Eurojet EJ200 engines