CLS 747 Screenshots

As promised, here are some screenshots of the classic "queen of the skies" -- enjoy!

All of these are in the default liveries, as I have not taken the time to download any repaints yet.

Here is the 747-200 lined up for an evening departure from New York's JFK Airport:



Here is a 747-300 cruising somewhere over south Texas at around FL230:



Note: just for kicks, I decided to see if I could land this bird at the Brazoria County Airport (KLBX) in Angleton, TX on this particular flight. (This is the airport closest to my parents' house, in case you were wondering.) This uncontrolled airport sees one or two flights a day from an Airbus A319CJ corporate jet operated for Dow Chemical, primarily used to shuttle employees back and forth between Dow's plants in Midland, MI and Freeport, TX. Otherwise, the airport typically gets just a handful of GA arrivals and departures each day. It has a single narrow 7000+ foot paved landing strip with an ILS approach available for Runway 17. (As the prevailing winds typically blow in from the nearby Gulf of Mexico to the south, takeoffs and landings are almost always in that direction.) I seriously doubt this runway could handle the weight of a 747 in real life, so please kiddies, don't jump in your 747 and try this for real!

Anyway, I am happy to report that, with a very small amount of fuel in the tanks (around 10-20% or so), I was able to land the 747-300 at KLBX with plenty of room to spare. Autobraking, reverse thrust, and spoilers all help out a great deal here. I'm sure my arrival probably annoyed all the locals and maybe even made the front page of the local paper. Now I'm just not sure how I'm going to get this bird outta there!

And now, back to the show. Here are the overhead switches:



And the pilot's instrument panel:



And the view from the copilot's chair:



Oh yes, as with most of the classic jets, the 747-200/-300 requires a flight engineer. Here is the flight engineer's panel:



Note that there appears to be a bug in this picture, in that all the fuel gauges are showing zero! I later downloaded the SP1 update from CLS, and the gauges were working fine after that. If you purchase the 747 add-on from CLS from now on, it will come shipped with the SP1 update already.

Here's the radio stack and the INS. The INS isn't really all that functional, but it is kind of interesting to note your GPS position at times:



And here are the impressive array of throttles:



The CLS 747 is not a terribly demanding plane in terms of learning curve, but beginners and experienced pliots alike can have some fun with it.