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by Peter » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:35 pm
Real world airlines don't use soviet era aircraft because of their high noise levels and the poor fuel efficiency of their engines, even aeroflots current fleet is pretty much all airbus and boeing aircraft. But VAs don't pay for the fuel they use so its not a problem and who's complaining about noise levels! The Tu-204 actually uses modern Rolls-Royce RB211s. I think more VAs should use more russian planes because in my opinion they're all too much alike, they've all got the same fleet of aircraft, I know that this reflects real life fleets, except concorde/vc-10/dc-3. Every VA operates a 757, a320, and a emb190, a380, b777, b787, which is the ideal modern airliner fleet. I would however much prefer a VA had an all russian fleet such as il-86 or-96 (replaces 747, a380 and any other widebody), il-62 (replace vc-10), tu-154 (replace 757), tu-134 (replace a320), yak-42 (replace emb190), an-24 (replace dash-8) and keep the dc-3, but call it a li-2 to be authentic. Most of those planes don't exist on ysflight, but a little variety in the aircraft used by VAs would be welcome. Just look at the airliners in OWLs pack, use a AVRO RJ or an a330.
