Iberia Airlines · CC BY 2.0 · Boeing 747 picturedThe 747 first flew in 1969 and entered airline service in 1970. Its broad main deck transformed the scale of passenger flying, while the elevated cockpit also suited a freighter with a nose-loading door. Passenger and cargo developments remained important throughout the programme.
The flight deck changed dramatically between classic three-crew 747s and later two-pilot aircraft. The 747-8 also brought a further wing and engine development. The simulator products cover several generations, including the classic 747-200 and modern 747-8.
Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental
Boeing’s early concept archive shows that the familiar 747 shape was not the starting point. The development team studied several arrangements with two passenger decks. Problems with those configurations led Joe Sutter’s team toward a wide fuselage with most accommodation on one level. Moving the flight deck upstairs also left room for a cargo door in the nose below it.
The 747 evolved through several generations, including the 747-400 and the later 747-8, while passenger and freight operations gave the family different careers. Boeing marked the final delivery on 31 January 2023 at Everett, handing a 747-8 freighter to Atlas Air. The manufacturer recorded 1,574 aircraft built over more than half a century.
People who had helped design and build the original aircraft returned for the ceremony. Atlas provided another link across generations: the company began with a converted 747-200 freighter and later operated types including the enlarged Dreamlifter, used to transport 787 components.
First flight: February 9, 1969 ( 1969-02-09 )
Westerdijk recalls choosing a first-officer position on the 747 over an opportunity to command the DC-9. After earlier F27 and A310 flying, the prospect of long-haul operations appealed to him, and he eventually became a 747 captain. His recollections of the 200 and 300 include six-day rotations through Dubai and Bangkok to Hong Kong, with the return journey retracing those stops.
Kai Tak made those trips particularly memorable. He describes the transition from instrument guidance to the visual turn beside the city, with buildings close by and western winds sometimes adding turbulence. As a first officer, the allocation of flying duties determined whether he received that prized landing. When he later commanded the aircraft, he discussed the division of sectors with his first officer.
Osborne traces his fascination with the 747 to seeing Airport 1975 as a ten-year-old. Years later, as a US Air Force C-141 instructor, he would look across Frankfurt airport at newly arrived 747-400s and imagine flying one. After leaving the Air Force, his airline employer acquired the aircraft used in the film, and he eventually became part of its crew. The machine that had started the ambition became part of his working life.
Writing as a 747-400 captain, he describes another connection with that childhood excitement: the preserved N661US at the Delta Flight Museum. Passing it near the employee parking area at the beginning and end of trips brought back the same sense of wonder. The recollection is about a lasting attachment to the aircraft rather than a technical evaluation of its handling.
By the time of this 2022 interview, Vize had spent more than twenty-two years flying 747s for Atlas and visited more than a hundred destinations in the type. The cargo varied from cars and boats to holiday gifts and equipment for sports teams. Acceptance flights for two new 747-8 freighters gave that career a personal turn: while he flew the aircraft, Joe Masone carried out the functional checks and systems tests. Masone had trained him about twenty-five years earlier and helped him find his way to Atlas.
Vize also recalls a brief meeting with his son Brandon during a military deployment in 2010. His own arrival coincided with his son departing aboard another Atlas 747, flown by a colleague. Among the many journeys and loads he remembers, that chance encounter stands out as a moment when the aircraft joined his professional and family lives.
At Oshkosh in 1995, McMurtry stood beside his own Waco biplane and amused his interviewer by describing a much larger two-winged machine he flew: the 747 carrying a Space Shuttle. His route to that unusual assignment included naval aviation, test-pilot training and Lockheed U-2 flying before joining NASA in 1967. He became one of the original 747 project pilots for the Shuttle approach-and-landing test programme.
Asked how the carrier handled with the Shuttle aboard, he said the change was less dramatic than an observer might expect. The added vehicle nevertheless produced considerable drag, and disturbed airflow around it transmitted shaking to the 747’s tail and airframe. These handling observations concern the modified carrier combination.
The 747 first flew in 1969 and entered airline service in 1970. Its broad main deck transformed the scale of passenger flying, while the elevated cockpit also suited a freighter with a nose-loading door. Passenger and cargo developments remained important throughout the programme.
This starting point selects Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental. Its aircraft-level settings do not select a particular developer’s custom systems.
Spring resistance builds with the selected airspeed response. Directed aerodynamic loading is omitted.
Pitch-trim relief is off. Autopilot following is enabled for supported control references.
The 747 family spans the classic -200, -400 and later -8, with separate avionics and engine installations. The cited -400 maintenance discussion reports breakout and full-aft column effort varying with trim; an early-747 handling account describes its wheel effort. These are related-type reports, not measured -8 force curves. Dreamlifter and Supertanker guides additionally describe specialized autopilot controls and mission configurations.
The gains are normalized profile settings. They describe the chosen effect balance; hand force depends on the device and its output limits. IAS references are tuning values rather than operating limits. Physical acceptance of this revision remains pending.
施加于模型产出的一切、在设备上限之前的最终整体输出缩放。
调高: 一切(弹簧、载荷、效果)一同增强。
调低: 一切一同变柔。
设定理由: Scales overall profile strength while preserving effect balance, subject to device and output limits.
把摇杆拉回中央的基础回中力。其他所有力都叠加在它之上。太低,正常飞行中摇杆会发软;太高,它会与你的手较劲,并掩盖叠加其上的细微提示。
调高: 更硬的回中,更抗手。
调低: 更软的杆,只靠气动载荷。
设定理由: The powered-control response uses qualitative family feel context; older maintenance and handling accounts do not calibrate every -8 axis. The baseline spring is 0.2. Low-speed spring blending is off.
Boeing 747 LCF Dreamlifter Instructions and ReferenceBoeing 747 family reference中央附近弹簧保持安静的小中立区,让静止时的微小移动不会咔嗒作响。更宽更安稳但更松,更窄更精确但可能在中央附近抖动。
调高: 更安静但更松的中央,旷量更大。
调低: 更紧的中央,静止时可能抖动。
设定理由: Sets travel around the centre before the baseline spring resists. Smaller values engage it sooner.
设定理由: Adds smoothly ramped resistance outside the centre deadband. Zero removes this preload.
设定理由: Sets the travel used to ramp in centre preload. Wider intervals make its onset more gradual.
作用于两条持续轴载荷的主缩放,在它们各自的独立平衡之前施加。配置文件通常不动它,而是调校两条轴载荷。
调高: 两轴载荷一同加重。
调低: 两轴一同减轻。
设定理由: The 0 gain omits sustained directed airspeed loading. Spring resistance remains independent.
启用低速弹簧介入窗口(上面的起始/全强度节数)。关闭时弹簧在所有速度下恒定。
设定理由: Allows baseline spring strength to rise with indicated airspeed where the control law permits it.
在静止、空速尚未产生气动力之前,弹簧还剩多少。下限高,停机时摇杆结实;下限低,则是停放轻型飞机那种钢索松弛的感觉。
调高: 停机和滑行时杆更结实。
调低: 停机时杆发软,只随速度苏醒。
设定理由: Sets low-speed spring strength as a fraction of baseline when blending is enabled. One keeps full strength.
弹簧从低速下限开始向全强度攀升的空速:起飞滑跑中操纵面"苏醒"的那一刻。
设定理由: Sets the IAS where the low-speed spring blend starts rising. This is a feel threshold, not a flight limit.
弹簧达到全强度的空速。从起点到这里,随着气流在操纵面上增强,回中逐渐变硬。
设定理由: Sets the IAS where the low-speed blend reaches baseline strength; high-speed stiffening also uses it.
气动载荷达到设计满值的指示空速。它把整条载荷曲线锚定在飞机真实的速度范围:172在110节就载满,喷气机要晚得多。
调高: 载荷来得更晚;杆轻到更高速度。
调低: 载荷来得更早,巡航更沉。
设定理由: Sets the IAS reference for aerodynamic loading. It is an estimate, not published cruise TAS or a flight limit.
在偏转载荷之外,回中本身随速度变硬的程度。零则中央手感恒定;越大,巡航时回中越硬,起落航线上越松。
调高: 中央随速度明显变硬。
调低: 任何速度下中央手感恒定。
设定理由: The high-speed spring-stiffening gain is 1. It strengthens the permitted spring response above 122 KIAS, with the squared-speed ratio capped at 7.8.
速度驱动的中央变硬上限,防止高速飞行把弹簧无限上紧。
调高: 高速允许更多总硬化。
调低: 硬化更早封顶。
设定理由: Limits the squared airspeed ratio used for high-speed spring stiffening; it is not a device-force cap.
由副翼偏转和空速产生的持续横滚载荷,独立于俯仰调校。与升降舵载荷一起,决定评测中常说的操纵协调比。
调高: 横滚力更重。
调低: 副翼更轻更灵。
设定理由: Roll and pitch aerodynamic scales are 0.65 and 0.65, respectively. These stored weights do not create directed aerodynamic loading while that term is inactive. No custom spring-travel curve is enabled.
由升降舵偏转和空速产生的持续俯仰载荷,独立于横滚调校。这是决定机型俯仰重量的主杠杆。它不影响副翼、弹簧、配平或抖振力。
调高: 速度下持续俯仰力更重。
调低: 升降舵更轻,握持更省力。
设定理由: Scales pitch aerodynamic loading; pitch spring travel and trim responses are separate settings.
每个稳态俯仰或横滚力到达设备前的上限,防止猛烈机动中砸击或饱和硬件。
调高: 削波前更高的稳态力峰值。
调低: 更柔的上限;猛烈机动更早被抹平。
设定理由: Caps directed-force output. Native spring effects and device limits remain separate.
升降舵配平缓解持续俯仰力、移动杆的安定位置的强度。在100 %时,配平得当的飞机不需要保持压力——正是真实飞行中"用配平消掉载荷"的流程。
调高: 配平消掉更多持续力;100 %时满配平可完全抵消。
调低: 即使配平也仍要持续用力。
设定理由: Trim-sensitive column effort is family mechanism context, while the profile's exact trim authority remains a selected approximation. Pitch relief is off, with stored authority 0; roll authority is 0.
Boeing 747 LCF Dreamlifter Instructions and ReferenceBoeing 747 family reference横滚配平的同类缓解。多数通航机型没有真正的副翼配平,所以保持为零;有横滚配平的机型获得相应的值。
调高: 横滚配平消掉更多持续力。
调低: 横滚配平作用更小。
设定理由: Scales supported roll-trim relief and permitted centre movement. Zero removes roll response.
由轮速和地面类型(铺装、草地、砾石)产生的滚动振动。
调高: 杆上更强的地面质感。
调低: 更平滑的滑行。
设定理由: Sets rolling texture strength, modified by speed, surface and undercarriage configuration.
来自伸缩缝、车辙和粗糙地面的短促离散颠簸,为持续隆隆声打上标点。
调高: 接缝与车辙的冲击更清晰。
调低: 更柔的地面细节。
设定理由: Sets gear-bump texture during ground motion, separate from touchdown impact.
接近失速及失速警告响起时的机体抖动:这副机翼宣告不满的音量。断失干脆的机型抖振收敛,让喇叭承担警告。
调高: 更强的失速前颤抖。
调低: 更含蓄的机翼;警告交给喇叭。
设定理由: Sets stall-buffet strength. Zero removes the cue without changing simulator stalls or warnings.
接近马赫极限的跨音速抖振。对接近MMO的喷气机有意义,对到不了那里的活塞机和涡桨机为零。
调高: 接近马赫极限时更强的跨音速抖振。
调低: 高马赫下更平滑的飞行。
设定理由: Sets high-Mach buffet strength; onset and full-strength thresholds are separate.
襟翼伸入气流后机体的低频振动,发生在它们真正做功的速度窗口内。
调高: 襟翼做功时更粗糙的飞行。
调低: 更柔的进近襟翼。
设定理由: Sets flap buffet at the configured position and speed gates. Flap movement texture is separate.
可收放起落架悬在气流中引起的机体鼓振。固定起落架机型为零,它们的机体外形从不改变。
调高: 放起落架时更多鼓振。
调低: 放起落架飞行更干净。
设定理由: Sets gear aerodynamic buffet; movement and ground-contact cues are separate.
由飞机自身失速警告系统触发的专用抖杆器振动。只有真有抖杆器的机型才有值;其余全靠气动抖振和喇叭。
调高: 更硬的抖杆器。
调低: 更含蓄的抖杆器。
设定理由: Sets triggered shaker strength; inactive while the shaker feature is disabled.
机轮触及跑道那一下的单次冲击,按下沉率缩放:轻柔着陆是耳语,结实到达是一记闷响。
调高: 触地时更硬的一击。
调低: 更柔的到达。
设定理由: Sets landing-impact strength; landing telemetry and response shape determine the pulse.
反推或桨叶beta区工作时的滑跑振动。无反推机型为零。
调高: 反推下更粗糙的滑跑。
调低: 更含蓄的反推。
设定理由: Sets reverse-thrust vibration with valid reverser and engine conditions. Zero removes the cue.
从慢车到全功率跟随转速的持续动力装置振动——前方有东西在烧油的永恒提醒。
调高: 杆里更多发动机。
调低: 更含蓄的发动机。
设定理由: Sets estimated engine vibration using configured telemetry and response, not measured cockpit vibration.
仅在模拟器报告襟翼舵面确实移动时的持续振动。它跟随真实作动器的运动和故障,而非估算的计时器。
调高: 襟翼移动中更多振动。
调低: 更含蓄的襟翼行程。
设定理由: Sets texture from observed flap movement; a command without movement does not establish the cue.
自动驾驶指令可以让杆实际移动多远。在MSFS中保持极小,因为移动的轴可能被读回为飞行员输入;零则完全禁用跟随。
调高: 自动驾驶让你的杆移动得明显更多。
调低: 几乎察觉不到的跟随。
设定理由: Sets admitted AP-follow gain, not a percentage of travel. Runtime ownership and input limits still apply.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Retained for compatibility and group membership. Trim relief, rather than this flag, controls centre movement.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Allows trim relief with supported control law and valid telemetry. Axis authorities set its amount.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables local force trim, separate from aircraft-owned trim and add-on integration qualification.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Allows load-factor changes to modify permitted spring laws. Passive fly-by-wire feel can suppress it.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables rate damping with the configured coefficients and control law.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Following is on at 1 authority when a supported, valid autopilot control reference is available.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Permits centering hold during a supported AP state, separate from following a moving target.
设定理由: Sets admitted AP neutral-hold strength; inactive while neutral hold is disabled.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables aerodynamic cues; each still needs nonzero strength and its simulator conditions.
Where this effect reaches full strength (or has fully faded, for washouts).
调高: a more gradual build to a later peak.
调低: a quicker build.
设定理由: Sets the final flap index for detent normalization. UP plus three detents uses maximum index3.
Where this effect begins fading in.
调高: the effect begins later.
调低: it begins earlier.
设定理由: Sets the first flap detent that admits buffet; this is a handle index, not degrees.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Permits shaker at supported warning conditions; the switch does not establish aircraft equipment.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables ground effects; each still needs its own strength and contact or motion telemetry.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables engine cues with nonzero settings and valid running-engine telemetry.
Whether this feature is active in this profile.
设定理由: Enables accessory cues with configured strengths and observed accessory movement.
The strength of this effect.
调高: a stronger effect.
调低: a weaker one.
设定理由: Sets texture from observed gear movement, separate from aerodynamic and touchdown effects.
| 参数 | 数值 | 控制作用及原因 |
|---|---|---|
| Spring strength | 0.2 | The powered-control response uses qualitative family feel context; older maintenance and handling accounts do not calibrate every -8 axis. The baseline spring is 0.2. Low-speed spring blending is off. |
| Spring deadband | 0.0 | Sets travel around the centre before the baseline spring resists. Smaller values engage it sooner. |
| Forces · Center starting force | 0.12 | Adds smoothly ramped resistance outside the centre deadband. Zero removes this preload. |
| Forces · Center starting force transition | 0.05 | Sets the travel used to ramp in centre preload. Wider intervals make its onset more gradual. |
| Force gain | 0 | The 0 gain omits sustained directed airspeed loading. Spring resistance remains independent. |
| Master gain | 0.85 | Scales overall profile strength while preserving effect balance, subject to device and output limits. |
| Dynamic-pressure blend | False | Allows baseline spring strength to rise with indicated airspeed where the control law permits it. |
| Minimum spring factor | 0.55 | Sets low-speed spring strength as a fraction of baseline when blending is enabled. One keeps full strength. |
| Spring wake-up speed | 20 kt | Sets the IAS where the low-speed spring blend starts rising. This is a feel threshold, not a flight limit. |
| Spring full-strength speed | 122 kt | Sets the IAS where the low-speed blend reaches baseline strength; high-speed stiffening also uses it. |
| 力反馈调校速度 | 275.0 kt | Sets the IAS reference for aerodynamic loading. It is an estimate, not published cruise TAS or a flight limit. |
| Airspeed spring stiffening | 1.0 | The high-speed spring-stiffening gain is 1. It strengthens the permitted spring response above 122 KIAS, with the squared-speed ratio capped at 7.8. |
| Airspeed stiffening cap | 7.8 | Limits the squared airspeed ratio used for high-speed spring stiffening; it is not a device-force cap. |
| Aileron force scale | 0.65 | Roll and pitch aerodynamic scales are 0.65 and 0.65, respectively. These stored weights do not create directed aerodynamic loading while that term is inactive. No custom spring-travel curve is enabled. |
| Elevator force scale | 0.65 | Scales pitch aerodynamic loading; pitch spring travel and trim responses are separate settings. |
| Maximum output force | 0.55 | Caps directed-force output. Native spring effects and device limits remain separate. |
| StickFeel · Trim feel enabled | False | Retained for compatibility and group membership. Trim relief, rather than this flag, controls centre movement. |
| StickFeel · Trim relief enabled | False | Allows trim relief with supported control law and valid telemetry. Axis authorities set its amount. |
| StickFeel · Elevator authority | 0 | Trim-sensitive column effort is family mechanism context, while the profile's exact trim authority remains a selected approximation. Pitch relief is off, with stored authority 0; roll authority is 0. |
| StickFeel · Aileron authority | 0 | Scales supported roll-trim relief and permitted centre movement. Zero removes roll response. |
| StickFeel · Force trim enabled | False | Enables local force trim, separate from aircraft-owned trim and add-on integration qualification. |
| StickFeel · G load enabled | False | Allows load-factor changes to modify permitted spring laws. Passive fly-by-wire feel can suppress it. |
| StickFeel · Rate damping enabled | False | Enables rate damping with the configured coefficients and control law. |
| Autopilot · Follow enabled | True | Following is on at 1 authority when a supported, valid autopilot control reference is available. |
| Autopilot · Follow authority | 1.0 | Sets admitted AP-follow gain, not a percentage of travel. Runtime ownership and input limits still apply. |
| Autopilot · Neutral hold enabled | False | Permits centering hold during a supported AP state, separate from following a moving target. |
| Autopilot · Neutral hold strength | 0.6 | Sets admitted AP neutral-hold strength; inactive while neutral hold is disabled. |
| Aero · Enabled | True | Enables aerodynamic cues; each still needs nonzero strength and its simulator conditions. |
| Aero · Gain | 0.3 | Sets stall-buffet strength. Zero removes the cue without changing simulator stalls or warnings. |
| Aero · Gain | 0.22 | Sets high-Mach buffet strength; onset and full-strength thresholds are separate. |
| Aero · Gain | 0.14 | Sets flap buffet at the configured position and speed gates. Flap movement texture is separate. |
| Aero · Max flap index | 6 | Sets the final flap index for detent normalization. UP plus three detents uses maximum index3. |
| Aero · Min flap index | 2 | Sets the first flap detent that admits buffet; this is a handle index, not degrees. |
| Aero · Gain | 0.1 | Sets gear aerodynamic buffet; movement and ground-contact cues are separate. |
| Aero · Shaker enabled | True | Permits shaker at supported warning conditions; the switch does not establish aircraft equipment. |
| Aero · Amplitude | 0.9 | Sets triggered shaker strength; inactive while the shaker feature is disabled. |
| Ground · Enabled | True | Enables ground effects; each still needs its own strength and contact or motion telemetry. |
| Ground · Gain | 0.4 | Sets rolling texture strength, modified by speed, surface and undercarriage configuration. |
| Ground · Gain | 0.32 | Sets gear-bump texture during ground motion, separate from touchdown impact. |
| Ground · Gain | 0.9 | Sets landing-impact strength; landing telemetry and response shape determine the pulse. |
| Ground · Gain | 0.5 | Sets reverse-thrust vibration with valid reverser and engine conditions. Zero removes the cue. |
| Engine · Enabled | True | Enables engine cues with nonzero settings and valid running-engine telemetry. |
| Engine · Gain | 0.06 | Sets estimated engine vibration using configured telemetry and response, not measured cockpit vibration. |
| Mechanical · Enabled | True | Enables accessory cues with configured strengths and observed accessory movement. |
| Mechanical · Gain | 0.12 | Sets texture from observed flap movement; a command without movement does not establish the cue. |
| Mechanical · Gain | 0.12 | Sets texture from observed gear movement, separate from aerodynamic and touchdown effects. |
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