http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/67239-the-airbus-projects/

 

 

 

Just wanted to update our fine customers of what we will be doing in the next few months.

 

Let me start by saying we are very happy with the results of the Airbus X Extended so far. It sells in serious numbers, makes a solid profit, reviews are very positive and on the whole customers are happy (yes, I know it always seems different, but per sale this is a low maintenance project for our support departments and boxed returns are about as low as possible).

 

We always intended this to be a medium complexity project and 'just' to be the best Airbus 320 project for FSX. Tick that box, that goal was most certainly reached. But we also said that we would keep the development team working on enhancements. This would be a family of projects. And they have been working non-stop and will continue to do so for a year. Let me explain what they are doing. It is also a good way to explain that we have to change the names.

 

Aerosoft Airbus A320/A321 version 1.10

Expected in the next few weeks

Price: 33.61 Euro (plus VAT when applicable)
Update free from Airbus X Extended

This is the Airbus X Extended as we know it now with many updates. New models, new liveries, enhanced VNAV, updated manuals. We will then stop working on this project (hold on, more on that later) but will fix serious bugs of course.

 

Aerosoft Airbus A318/A319 version 1.00

Expected this fall

Price: 33.61 Euro (plus VAT when applicable)

Customers of the Airbus A320/A321 (or Airbus X Extended) get most likely a 50% discount.

This is the 318/319 version of the Airbus X Extended, but it will have more systems. Weather radar, terrain radar and some more. We also expect more of the less used systems working, but we will still refrain from making it a systems simulator, it will remain aimed at the job of the captain.

 

Aerosoft Airbus A320/A321 version 1.20

Expected late fall, early winter

Price: 33.61 Euro (plus VAT when applicable)
Update free from Airbus X Extended and Aerosoft Airbus A320/A321

This update will move the new systems developed for the 318/319 to the 320/321. We also expect to have some rather innovative modeling features included.

 

Aerosoft Airbus A330 version 1.00

Expected 2014

Price: expected 33.61 Euro (plus VAT when applicable)

Customers of the Aerosoft Airbus A318/A319/A320/A321 get a discount

This is a almost complete new project that we are still deciding on the features for. It is sure however that the basic idea of the Airbus X Extended will be the same. We make the product so you can simulate flying the aircraft and we have little care for the systems that have never (or nearly never) been used in the real aircraft. It got to be well priced and easy on the frame rates. It also got to look seriously good.

 

 

 

While these projects are progressing it is almost sure a X-Plane spin-off will also be done. There will also be a lot of Airbus related hardware from the well known companies in this year. Side sticks, complete overheads, throttles. We got some in our offices and they are expensive but damned I would almost sell my tractor to own them.

 

Hope this make things a bit more clear and explains why we do things as we do. As always we do not spend a lot of time looking at our competitors, we got our own ideas, our own plans and a few tens of thousand of customers spending their money. It's for them I wrote this message.

 

 

Wow, that's excellent news for serious fans of the AXE like me! :smile:

 

I'm not surprised they're renaming the product; "Aerosoft Airbus X Extended" doesn't exactly drip off the tongue! ...... The addition of the A318/A319 is very welcome (and expected) but the additional systems is also great to hear but wasn't expected.   :smile:

 

And as for the A330 ...... yeeha!!!

 

This is the Airbus product range I'll be following and supporting. 

 

Well done Aerosoft!

They turned down the wx radar every time a user requested it ... LOL!

Outside of the NGX, AXE are the only other aircraft I ever really fly. So, this is excellent news for me and I'm excited to finally see a 330 in there, though I'm far more interested in having a 318/319.

With that upcoming version 1.1 it will even be nearly complete! (as compared to the AS A320/321 advertising ...; A318/319 to be complete right from the start with v1.0)

With that upcoming version 1.1 it will even be nearly complete! (as compared to the AS A320/321 advertising ...; A318/319 to be complete right from the start with v1.0)

 

It is currently as 'complete' as any aircraft in my hangar.

 

As @@DetCord said, I too only really fly the NGX and the AXE at the moment, and although the AXE doesn't have the depth of background systems, it's very convincing in a normal operating line flight.

Thanks for the heads up Oliver, esp the news about the A330.

Sounds great! Can't wait for the A318-319 package. Thanks for sharing!

 

 

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An A330....yeeeeeeeee hahhhhhhhhhh!!!

AMAZING STUFF !! With all the updates and upgrades, this product could well be priced at over $100.00 U.S Wow, yet the upgrades will be free.

That's fantastic news, especially the update to 1.20! Thanks for the HU!

I am also a fan of the AXE.

I love flying both that and the NGX - I haven't flown anything else for quite a while. I'm also not into the nitty gritty like failures.

Nice to see that AeroSoft are looking after us. The AXE is a fabulous aircraft. I do have one criticism, though. I do wish that someone could release a script for the keyboard to emulate my T16000. I fly the NGX with the keyboard a lot, but that is impossible with the AXE.

Regards
Bill

 

Well, systems coding is accessible to other developers with a SDK, as well.

 

Guess, since the A320/321 is being expanded to a whole fleet of Airbus models, this should work to speed up development of those emulations, too!

I'll be happy when i'm flying it and it doesn't drift away in the middle of the ocean. Let's have it working first, the part i paid for, THEN i'll be happy about the freebies

A320/321 update is first on their list and if this update doesn't finish and fix the current version to some reasonable extent I'll completely forget about CS and I'll concentrate on Aerosoft instead ...