Erik Bender / Rikoooo integrated a dedicated virtual cockpit with TDS’s GEnx-powered Boeing 787-8, 787-9 and 787-10. It uses MagKnight’s 3D assets, XML instruments rewritten from Gavin Munro’s work and animations created for this adaptation. Kairi Akai supplied the GEnx sounds. Three Rikoooo liveries accompany the schemes listed below.

Flying is through the virtual cockpit: there is no complete 2D panel. Pop-up windows provide access to the principal avionics. The package includes 22 camera views, GPWS, switch sounds, pushback, a maximum-landing-weight calculator, GSU and lighting panels. Flight dynamics have been revised for stability and balance.

Choose between two configurations during installation. The lighter version removes maps and navigation information from the MFD/PFD screens, leaving navigation displayed on the GPS. The normal version retains these displays, with a graphics workload that can reduce frame rate depending on your computer.

Native FSX and Prepar3D v4 models are provided. PBR rendering in the updated models is for Prepar3D v4 and v5 only; FSX does not support it. In P3D v4, set Dynamic Reflection to Off if textures look grey from some angles. This issue is not reported for v5.

Navigation and landing

The GPS covers the main GPS 500 functions and adds ILS tuning, selectable or automatic VOR/NDB tuning, nearest-airport and intersection searches, and detailed terrain maps. It displays TCAS traffic, a TAWS map, the flight plan, selectable overlays and runway lists. The map can be moved, the background colour changed and pages accessed directly.

An approach can be selected and activated in two clicks, with transition selection, localiser and glideslope indications, and Direct-to. The gauge takes visual inspiration from 787 displays rather than reproducing a particular real instrument.

Stable version 1.1 includes GPS 1.8: distance to destination on MAP, active frequencies on nearest-VOR/NDB pages, corrected intersection-coordinate display around 180° longitude and fixes for identical ILS frequencies. TERRAIN/TAWS maps, RANGE, master alarms and the PFD’s SPD text have also been corrected.

Dimitrios Moschos’s ILS CAT II/III Autoland is included and configured. The lift_scalar values have been adjusted for its use. Read AUTOLAND_Readme.txt in Documents before using it; the cockpit and aircraft manuals are also located there.

Documentation and contributors

AES, Intelliscene and GSX configuration files and the public TDS 787 paint kit are supplied. Permissions cover Hiroshi Igami’s exterior models, Mariano Gonzalez’s MagKnight freeware v05.2 assets, rewriting Gavin Munro’s gauges and using Carlos Eduardo Salas’s liveries.

Gavin Munro also helped with gauge programming, while Hiroshi Igami assisted with the model and textures. Ken Webber created HD VC textures and the Rikoooo liveries. Oniel Black contributed to the 3DS Max animations, and Hiroaki Itoh helped test the flight dynamics and systems and diagnose errors.

Included liveries