I have been flying Cessna Citations recently and looking through old, untrained eyes, the Hawker 800XP is a dead ringer for the Cessna Citation X or maybe vice versa. The wreckage was crated, sent back to the UK and lived to fly again. The 800 model is the one that took two hostile missile hits and managed an emergency landing with an African Head of State onboard. It is not really known for economics but more for safely conveying VIPs from point A to point B. based 800XPs and another 200 around the globe. The 800XP is a true 2 nd generation 125-800 after a name change when Raytheon purchased BAe’s corporate jet division and production was moved to Wichita in 1993.
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It wasn’t a Hawker and it wasn’t a 400 series Hawker, It was actually a spiffed up Mitsubishi Diamond. The name “Hawker” was powerful enough that the newly formed Hawker Beechcraft aircraft company ‘took’ the name from the legendary HS.125 design and applied it to the Beechjet 400A upgrade, creating the somewhat confusing Hawker 400XP. Model numbers like the 750, 850, and 900 series were all just 800 series with very minor changes but, gave the marketing department something to use to attract sales. The production run from 1995 – 2005 was a testament to the popularity with passengers and flight crews. This brought newer, more efficient engines and therefore better climb and cruise performance. In 1995 the XP was added to the model number with a focus on ‘Extended Performance’. The Hawker 800 was the first corporate jet to feature EFIS (electronic flight instrument systems).
This gave it less of a Space Shuttle look and more of the Lear and Challenger image. The exterior also got a facelift with a smoother nose and windscreen.
Add an updated and modern interior with better utilization of cabin space and you have the basics of what would become the 800XP. The 800 series was born with larger wings, more fuel capacity and better short field performance. With firm roots in the military, a good safety record and a keen interest in mid-sized jets, the timing was right in 1983 to match the new Garrett TFE turbofans with a slightly modified fuselage and new wings. Over the years, other manufacturing names would appear, like BAe, BAC, Raytheon, and eventually Beechcraft. It all started in 1962 in England with the Bristol Siddeley Viper turbojet which eventually flew as the DH.125 Jet Dragon then the HS.125 after de Havilland became a division of Hawker Siddeley. Or, perhaps the manual?Īs for the earlier version of the Airbus (without the weather radar), I have done some flights in that with AS2016 and ASCA and I've experienced no issues whatsoever.Let’s begin with a brief history of the aircraft. There was a number of discussions about this on their forums and a quick forum search should find some results. However, the Aerosoft Airbus forums will be helpful in this regard.
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This background scanning has been known to cause FPS drops on people's systems and may be the cause of the issues you are discussing here.Īs for where or how to make those config changes, I am not sure (I don't own that version of the Airbus). It is possible to change this behaviour via some configuration settings for the airbus to get the radar to only scan in the background "occasionally" or, depending on your choice, to not do this at all. The weather radar implementation apparently does checks in the background, to keep the screen current and up to date, even when the radar is "off" in the cockpit. The earlier Airbus (Airbus X Extended), didn't have the weather radar. The latest Airbus models from Aerosoft include a weather radar.