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Tupolev designed the Tu-154 in the 1960s for medium-range routes. Three rear-mounted engines and a high horizontal tail formed its outline. It served across the Soviet Union, its successor states and overseas airlines. Felis represents the Tu-154M; the original product and community continuations support different versions.
Aircraft background
Wikipedia contributors · Read more ↗A move into the Tu-154 brings a different pace of work
Epishkin had hoped to move to the Il-76, but that opportunity did not work out. He eventually accepted the invitation to join Tu-154 flying at Minsk. Compared with the Yak-40, the larger aircraft demanded closer attention as speed built after a change of attitude. The adjustment was part of learning a more complicated machine. He was comfortable remaining a copilot after his earlier experience in command.
Interview with a former Yak-40 captain who converted to the Tu-154 in 1986. He describes entering the Tu-154B-2 as a copilot; this is not a Tu-154M checkout report.
Airforce.ru · Read more ↗Check the simulator edition before following this listing
The Felis listing specifies X-Plane 11 and explicitly excludes X-Plane 12. It names version 2.06 and offers a switch between Russian and English cockpit labels.
Tupolev Tu-154 · Felis · X-Plane 11
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Meet Tupolev Tu-154
Tupolev designed the Tu-154 in the 1960s for medium-range routes. Three rear-mounted engines and a high horizontal tail formed its outline. It served across the Soviet Union, its successor states and overseas airlines. Felis represents the Tu-154M; the original product and community continuations support different versions.
Tupolev Tu-154
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Tupolev Tu-154
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History & design
Development milestones
Designer: Tupolev Design Bureau
First flight: 4 October 1968 ( 1968-10-04 )
Wikipedia contributors · Tupolev Tu-154 ↗Tupolev Tu-154 · family/variant named by the source · Wikipedia revision 1372712967
Pilot accounts
A move into the Tu-154 brings a different pace of work
Epishkin had hoped to move to the Il-76, but that opportunity did not work out. He eventually accepted the invitation to join Tu-154 flying at Minsk. Compared with the Yak-40, the larger aircraft demanded closer attention as speed built after a change of attitude. The adjustment was part of learning a more complicated machine.
He was comfortable remaining a copilot after his earlier experience in command. In the interview, he describes the captain’s work as keeping track of the engineer, navigator and other pilot while also doing his own job. Having already known the responsibilities of command, Epishkin did not feel driven to repeat that career step.
Interview with a former Yak-40 captain who converted to the Tu-154 in 1986. He describes entering the Tu-154B-2 as a copilot; this is not a Tu-154M checkout report.
Read the full account · Airforce.ru ↗Learning the same aircraft through different captains
Okan remembered beginning Tu-154 airline work in Krasnoyarsk with three experienced captains whose methods were broadly consistent. As a very new copilot, he welcomed their continuing instruction and credited them with teaching him well within the circumstances of the time. Their similar approach gave him a relatively steady introduction to the aircraft.
Moving to Sibir brought captains with more individual preferences. He learned that a technique accepted on one flight might be criticised on another. Later, among crews drawn from several different backgrounds in Moscow, he was struck by how the same aircraft and operating manual could produce different interpretations.
First-person memoir in the publisher’s free preview. Early Tu-154 copilot years at Sibaviatrans and Sibir; later Boeing passages are outside this selection.
Read the full account · Ridero / Denis Okan ↗Leaving the Tupolev closes a chapter of a pilot’s life
Kochemasov’s diary marked the end of his Tu-154 years with sadness. Almost a decade had passed since he first took its controls, and moving on felt like closing a chapter of his life. Even after conversion to another airliner, the Tupolev remained the aircraft against which he found himself making comparisons.
The interview does not present that attachment as an inability to enjoy the new work. He also recalled his first flight as a Boeing 737 captain with pleasure. Affection for the Tu-154 coexisted with the satisfaction of learning and flying its successor.
Former Tu-154 captain interviewed after converting to the Boeing 737. AviaPort reproduces the January 2010 Izvestia article; his sentiments are personal assessments.
Read the full account · Izvestia / AviaPort ↗In your simulator
Systems, equipment and documentation for each developer’s aircraft.
X-Plane 11Tupolev Tu-154
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Simulator documentation
Check the simulator edition before following this listingTupolev Tu-154 · Felis · X-Plane 11
The Felis listing specifies X-Plane 11 and explicitly excludes X-Plane 12. It names version 2.06 and offers a switch between Russian and English cockpit labels.
Official store listing · checked 13 September 2026
Felis · Read the source ↗Nosewheel steering has a ground-panel settingTupolev Tu-154 · Felis · X-Plane 11
Version 2.06 documents tiller control selected on the GND panel and revised toe-brake axis handling. It also lists Better Pushback compatibility.
Developer change notes · 12 October 2020; no undocumented binding inferred
Felis · Read the source ↗Navigation equipment has documented alternativesTupolev Tu-154 · Felis · X-Plane 11
The version 2.02 notes offer the default or RealityXP GNS430 in place of the KLN90B. These are listed options; third-party equipment availability is separate.
Felis version history · 18 June 2018
Felis · Read the source ↗Use the service menus for loading and failuresTupolev Tu-154 · Felis · X-Plane 11
The feature list includes load and weight management. Version notes describe a service panel for repairing failures on the ground, with APU failures added in 2.06.
Product features and version history · 2018–2020
Felis · Read the source ↗A Belavia airframe supplied the development referenceTupolev Tu-154 · Felis · X-Plane 11
Felis identifies Tu-154M registration 85748 as a reference and thanks the Belavia crew for documents, photographs and videos. This records the model’s development sources.
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Felis · Read the source ↗Pilot account
A move into the Tu-154 brings a different pace of workInterview with a former Yak-40 captain who converted to the Tu-154 in 1986. He describes entering the Tu-154B-2 as a copilot; this is not a Tu-154M checkout report.
Epishkin had hoped to move to the Il-76, but that opportunity did not work out. He eventually accepted the invitation to join Tu-154 flying at Minsk. Compared with the Yak-40, the larger aircraft demanded closer attention as speed built after a change of attitude. The adjustment was part of learning a more complicated machine. He was comfortable remaining a copilot after his earlier experience in command.
Sergey Epishkin
Airforce.ru · Read the source ↗Learning the same aircraft through different captainsFirst-person memoir in the publisher’s free preview. Early Tu-154 copilot years at Sibaviatrans and Sibir; later Boeing passages are outside this selection.
Okan remembered beginning Tu-154 airline work in Krasnoyarsk with three experienced captains whose methods were broadly consistent. As a very new copilot, he welcomed their continuing instruction and credited them with teaching him well within the circumstances of the time. Their similar approach gave him a relatively steady introduction to the aircraft. Moving to Sibir brought captains with more individual preferences.
Denis Okan
Ridero / Denis Okan · Read the source ↗Read the original documentation from the people who created it. Manuals open on their publisher’s website.
Aircraft background
Tupolev Tu-154Wikipedia contributors · Research background · retrieved 2026-09-12Product
Tu-154MFelis · Official developer / designated store catalogue · checked 2026-09-12Type designator
ICAO Doc 8643 — aircraft type designatorsInternational Civil Aviation Organization · Public search data retrieved 2026-09-14; authority update 2026-09-03Aircraft documentation
Tu-154 transport aircraft, historical fleet recordCzech Ministry of Defence · Czech Ministry of Defence historical Tu-154 fleet page, technical table explicitly for Tu-154M.Built-in force-feedback profiles
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