Marketing people will demand a large choice of aircraft. Logically so. As we know that quality payware aircraft require from to two years of work for companies like A2A, PMDG, Dodosim etc.,  thinking that FS20 will carry a full hangar of such aircraft is unreasonable.

 I would personally prefer only two but excellent A2A-grade aircraft than ten Carenado-grade ones but it doesn’t make sense sales wise..

 

Edited September 19, 20196 yr by domkle

I think most first time fliers would be overwhelmed by the study level sims made by A2A/PMDG/Dodosim.  They're going to need jump-in-and-fly aircraft.

After experiencing some of the default FSX aircraft I could only dream of having all Carenado quality. 😄  

I don't mind paying extra for a study level aircraft.  I said very early on that I wanted the option to pay a higher price for a higher quality aircraft.  This was back when a lot of people were complaining about the price of addon aircraft.

FSX had a good selection of aircraft.  Flight's selection was good although too limited.  For now I'm going to trust Microsoft to do it right, and hope the third party developers fill in any empty spaces quickly.

Hook

If they're really restarting the franchise, not just making a one-off, or one that they will update from time-to-time in the future, it's possible that they will be releasing new versions every few years like before, which means the a/c makers expecting to have the luxury of a few years to roll out their products may find themselves too late.

Well it did not take PMDG years to port 747-400 to P3Dv4, some could already be working on that you will not know NDA`s will see to that.

26 minutes ago, rjfry said:

Well it did not take PMDG years to port 747-400 to P3Dv4, some could already be working on that you will not know NDA`s will see to that.

That's because FSX and P3D don't have many differences. Early on it was possible for users to port PMDGs..

And it's not like P3D brought so many new features to PMDG products besides some visual things. What certainly brought was an increased price for a pretty ported product.

 

This certainty up to this day, at least for users, is not there since we don't know how different this new simulator will be from the older ones.

1 hour ago, france89 said:

his certainty up to this day, at least for users, is not there since we don't know how different this new simulator will be from the older ones.

There are strong visual cues that it is significantly different.

2 hours ago, france89 said:

That's because FSX and P3D don't have many differences. Early on it was possible for users to port PMDGs..

And it's not like P3D brought so many new features to PMDG products besides some visual things. What certainly brought was an increased price for a pretty ported product.

 

This certainty up to this day, at least for users, is not there since we don't know how different this new simulator will be from the older ones.

FSX old 32bit P3Dv4 new 64bit not just a strait port over.

For all we know MSFS is a new 64bit sim, with better scenery ORBX base scenery oops sorry that`s FSW ☺️

Edited September 19, 20196 yr by rjfry

1 hour ago, france89 said:

That's because FSX and P3D don't have many differences. Early on it was possible for users to port PMDGs..

They didn't have many visual differences, but they are significantly different.

10 minutes ago, rjfry said:

FSX old 32bit P3Dv4 new 64bit not just a strait port over.

In my experience, anything that was a native FSX model works perfectly in P3Dv4.

Try using PMDG 747-400 version 1 in P3Dv4 when the sim CTD you find out, I did not purchase it again for nothing.

32 minutes ago, rjfry said:

FSX old 32bit P3Dv4 new 64bit not just a strait port over.

For all we know MSFS is a new 64bit sim, with better scenery ORBX base scenery oops sorry that`s FSW ☺️

Yeah, not so in earlier versions of P3D 🙂 

As long If there isn´t going to be a study level plane like FSLabs or PMDG or even a "alsmost.... study level" one like QW 787, then I am not going to jump from P3D to MSFS.......

7 hours ago, mpo910 said:

As long If there isn´t going to be a study level plane like FSLabs or PMDG or even a "alsmost.... study level" one like QW 787, then I am not going to jump from P3D to MSFS.......

This thread is about the default aircraft.

It's not like P3D had these aircraft as default.  

Hook

Edited September 24, 20196 yr by LHookins

8 hours ago, LHookins said:

This thread is about the default aircraft.

It's not like P3D had these aircraft as default.  

Hook

Sorry. You are right. 

Well, with proper flight dynamics, the default Cub they showed in earlier teasers, could be a study level aircraft. Nobody said that you need tens of  buttons and levers to kill yourself. Taking off and landing a small tail dragger require some study😉.