French aircraft designer Airbus performed a virtual five-hour flight on his new A350XWB airliner 129 passengers

In their official press communiqué, one of the world's largest aircraft manufacturers reported that passengers who participated in the simulated flight were also accompanied by two pilots and eight flight attendants . Virtual th flight took place in the so-called "cockpit zero" - the test fuselage A350 installed at one of Airbus in Hamburg . Passengers took part in testing all stages of a typical flight in a civilian airplane: from boarding an airliner to delivering food and drinks by stewardesses . After the suitcases were placed on the luggage racks, the test participants moved from one armchair to the other, and the engineers of the aircraft designer tested all the interior systems of the aircraft (air conditioners, lamps, smoke detectors and t . d .) .

Completed vir ualny flight allowed developers of new aircraft to check all aircraft operations and to assess fully "human factors" affecting the performance of the flight. The first deliveries of the Airbus A350 to airlines are scheduled for the second half of 2014.

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