Hi everyone,

I was really happy to see your 2024 release of the A300 with many really lovely visual upgrades to the exterior model. That's why I had high hopes on one particular issue being fixed. I'm usually a really positive person and do my bug reports in a constructive manner, but at this point I'm just disappointed.

The gear on the new premium version still clips into the fuselage on retraction as it is too big for the gear bay.

You've known this through severeal, still available reports on the forums. You did a lot of work on the gear bay and yet you deciced to leave this major flaw in modelling as it is? At this point I just can't understand how a company with a strong focus on visual quality let's stuff like this through it's quality control. We've seen similar quality issues with gear animations on the A400M and A330 lately and I honestly fear the worst for the A350.

Anyway, let me try to be constructive once more:

While I believe the gear strut in it's entirety is too big, thing could still be fixed by having the strut extend way more without weight on wheels.

Here's two nice pictures showing the extension of the linkages being much more intense than on your current rendition. The forward linkage is almost parallel to the main strut.

(Source: https://www.aviation-gadgets.com/photo/airbus-a300-main-landing-gear-door/)

 

(Source: https://community.infiniteflight.com/t/this-a300-looks-happy-more-panning-content/566426)

So, for the love of god, I beg you to take another a look at this. It just doesn't fit in with the overall fidelity of this bird.

Thank you!

Thanks reported.