And She (Finally) Flies!

Climbing Slower Than Expected

Breaking the 4th wall now...

I had built this beauty inspired on the A380/900 - an Airbus A30 variant that was never built.

What I wasn't expecting is that she would ending up behaving pretty near as the original would be, what was kinda an accident because I was just building a 1k seats airliner without caring about the original.

Toying with the airplane, I ended up climbing in "phases" - I decided to do not cruise below 180 m/s (what's pretty slow for a modern airliner) and so climbed until the airspeed dropped to 180, then burnt some fuel until I could climb again.

I wondered if the original would have similar problems, did some research and found this:

TL;DR: YEAH, the A380 behave like that. And the A380/900 would be even more sluggish!