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A400M Atlas · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Checklists inside the aircraft displays
The NORM button opens the electronic checklist in the lower part of the engine/warning display. A pedestal joystick selects items and the ECAM check button confirms them. Some entries require manual acknowledgement; others detect a switch position and change colour automatically, including the manual's seat-belt example.
iniBuilds A400M manual v1.0, 18 September 2024; documented simulator behaviour · PDF p.34
Airbus A400M Atlas
The A400M occupies the space between smaller tactical transports and larger strategic airlifters. Its high wing, rear loading ramp and four large propellers are organised around moving troops and bulky cargo. Airbus developed it as a replacement for older transport fleets including the Transall C-160.
The simulated aircraft combines cargo handling and transport missions with an electronic flight deck, whose controls are described in the included manual.
Aircraft / family
From Kaunas to Cape Town: an A400M pilot reports
Stefan Gierke and Filip van Bosch · 12 July 2021
Abu Dhabi, Australia, Washington and Wunstorf: around the world
Kevin Geiken interviews Ralph K. · 19 June 2025
Nonstop from Wunstorf to Hawaii with aerial refuelling
Interview with Markus Knoll · 26 June 2026
H125 · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The flight bag reflects the selected mission variant
Sim Update 3 removed the cargo tab from the mass-and-balance interface for the Rescue and Rescue Hoist versions. Microsoft also records clearer EFB wording, increased cockpit lighting and corrected rain effects. Those changes are specific to the bundled H125 at the August 2025 release.
MSFS 2024 Sim Update 3 · 1.5.27.0, 20 August 2025
H125 · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The manual maps the starter and fuel control explicitly
Cowan’s H125 guide uses TOGGLE TURBINE IGNITION SWITCH for the overhead starter and TOGGLE ENGINE 2 FUEL VALVE for the fuel cutoff. The engine-number binding is the developer’s simulator assignment; it does not describe a second physical engine.
Gathered Cowan MSFS H125 manual · PDF pp.8–9
H125 · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Searchlight and landing lights use different assignments
The landing and taxi-light switches are on the collective head. The separate searchlight controller uses the wing-lights binding for its on/off function. These assignments differ from the taxi-light binding used for the searchlight in Cowan’s 206 guides.
Gathered Cowan MSFS H125 manual · PDF pp.9–10
H125 · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Stability assistance and upper modes do different jobs
Cowan's HeloSAS uses small cyclic corrections to stabilise the helicopter. The manual distinguishes force-trim behaviour with SAS engaged and disengaged, and explains the difference between spring-centred and non-centring controls. Its upper autopilot modes become selectable above 44 knots in the documented implementation. Stability assistance, rotor-speed governing and route-following modes are separate systems.
Archived document; installed package version not observed · PDF pp.1-2
H125 · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Cyclic trim and control assignments
The MSFS H125 guide documents longitudinal and lateral rotor trim together with a separate trim-reset binding. It also records a discrepancy between the hydraulic switch's cockpit operation and its hardware binding in this manual version. The manual's mapping pages list the external-control assignments.
Archived document; installed package version not observed · PDF pp.4,7
H125 · CowanSim · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
The VEMD guide includes a significant version limitation
The 2022 guide illustrates engine checks and performance pages, but explicitly says the IGE and OGE performance calculations were unfinished in that version. The archived manual leaves the implementation status of later versions open.
Gathered Cowan X-Plane H125 guide · PDF pp.13–19
H125 · CowanSim · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12
Display popups and a post-flight report extend the panel
The guide allows either VEMD screen to be popped out onto another monitor. Its flight-report description includes flight duration, engine-cycle information and recorded limitations or failures. The manual describes the engine-cycle counters as partial records.
Gathered Cowan X-Plane H125 guide · PDF pp.18–19
