Suprunov Design - Yakovlev YAK-40

Yak-40 was the revolutionary aircraft of its time and still remains unique in the world in many aspects.

• It is first in the world regional jet.
• It is the only trijet in the world with middle engine reverse. This design feature offers unique piloting technique of landing on short runways.
• It has freedom to be boarded and started just everywhere having build-in retractable stairs and auxiliary power unit. It can be used on dirty airfields equipped with nothing of ground services.
• Thanks to its “Russian metal” style of airframe and gear it has no problems with any class of airport.

Our cadets in AVLUGA (Aktyubinsk Higher Flight School of Civil Aviation) during my study there in 1986 flew 40-s from three parallel dirt airstrips in Kazakhstan’s stepp far away from any cities and towns during 40C hot summer and were used only “Mark II eyeball” as landing system, performing 20-30 landings a day in a training crew.
This is amazing machine which permits you to feel what is that “to be a pilot” indeed. It doesn’t matter how many flight hours in simulator you have. If you are dedicated air wolf already with thousands of hours logged, then you might be tired from mouse controlled autopilots with wings and want to wake up your muscles and brain, get true pleasure from flying.
You can fly fast, far away and land everywhere. Any airfield is potentially your target: snow, dirt, ice, mountains, islands...
If this is your first payware package then it is a great choice to start your career. When you will feel that you have fully managed to fly this aircraft in any conditions you will gain enough skills to take controls of just everything which flies in skies of simulator.
This aircraft is not easy to manage due to its simplicity. It counts on pilot’s skills, knowledge, brave heart, fast and thinking capable brain.
Don't become frustrated, though, we're sure you'll get the hang of it in no time. Just remember, the AVLUGA (Yak-40 Flight School in former USSR) had to spend years teaching its cadets the same information that our simulation tries to teach in hours (and days).
We wish you fascinating flying and wait your stories and screenshots about your voyages in our friendly pilot’s club on SD FORUMS

Flight Deck

• 2D panel consists of more then 20000 bitmaps and represents actual environment of the Yak-40 flight deck with incredible detail.
• More then 200 clickable and fully operational switches and knobs
• 4 modes of deck lighting: Day, Night with white floodlight, Night with red spotlights and Mixed (Night with both floodlight and spotlights).
• 6 Full screen panels: Captain's seat, Co-pilot's seat, Center Pedestal, Overhead, Left and Right consoles.
• "Zoomed-up" subpanels represent all vital instruments in easy to use and convient way and even permit precision flying in external view
• The complete Type-3 layout with international SO-72 transponder, Feet and metric altimeters, SD-75 DME indicators, Kurs MP-70 VOR-DME system (2 units), 2ADFs, authentic GMK-1G course system with latitude and magnetic correction.
• The Electrical system consists of 6 inverters (4 switchable and 2 automatic), 2 batteries (which can charge from ground electrical power and generators and discharge), control panel for 28V, 36V and 115V subsystems and circuit breaker panels.
• The Hydraulics system consists of two subsystems (primary and emergency) and is equipped (in panel logics) with 2 hydraulic pumps, hydraulic reservoirs, hydraulic feed station, control gauges and switches. The system feeds with hydraulic pressure the movable stabilizer, brakes, the thrust reverse mechanism, the nose gear steering, flaps, landing gear and the combined retractable stairs/door of the main exit.
• Engines can experience danger vibrations, icing and overheat conditions if the pilot fails to accomplish the flight manual procedures in correct manner.

Exterior model

• This model was created as accurate replica of 4400kg fuel load variant of classic passenger version of the Yak-40.
• Model animations include all standard control surfaces, trimmers, gear, flaps, doors and emergency exits, retractable stairs, movable stabilizer, retractable landing lights, thrust reverser and other nice-looking goodies like wings flexing etc