11 minutes ago, Mengy said:

Huh, when the roadmap stated today would have a media update I honestly expected some more screenshots or videos to be released.  Guess I misunderstood what the term "media update" means?

Wouldn't say so, the roadmap was a bit misleading this time. There was supposed to be a timeline update on the Tech Alpha 2, though due to the delays for the Tech Alpha 1 release they will probably avoid giving out dates from now on. At least it looks like there will be a much bigger update next week.

2 hours ago, Theboot100 said:

So that must have been the last of the discovery series?

I enjoyed them, wish they did more

It was the last of the presentations they gave at the September event.  They've already said they are discussing what further "Discovery" videos will be about, but presumably it'll be a little while before those are ready to start going live.

The version number on their Development Roadmap seems to be pretty useless. Most of the time it seems to be 2.11 although it was 3.10 at one point. Perhaps they should just remove it.

Didn't understand their media update either. I guess we are now used to more meaty updates that's all.

"Weee want braaaiiinn" (meat at least?)

Thanks for the update

Edited December 6, 20196 yr by Noooch

7 hours ago, 188AHC said:

I would dearly love to have a Carbon Cub on floats where I live. Water everywhere to land and takeoff from.

 

Me too if they give us proper water physics. I gave up long ago using the A2A Cub with floats because of the very poor P3D implementation of the water and interaction between aircraft and water. 

One thing I wonder is how their 1000-point model will take into account floats in flying the aircraft.

Reading the unsubstantial update, I thought : Poor Avsim mods, a long week to go of delirious posts🤣 ! 

6 minutes ago, Noooch said:

Didn't understand their media update either. I guess we are now used to more meaty updates that's all.

"Weee want braaaiiinn" (meat ar least?)

Thanks for the update

Media update is not an avantage acquis, my friend 😁 (sorry, private joke, only a French can understand).

1 hour ago, domkle said:

(sorry, private joke, only a French can understand)

Et un Allemand, qui parle français (un tout petit peu) 😊😊

The hint could be they have finished polishing the XCub and its flight model has been approved by their test pilots, just like the Icon update 2 weeks ago.

Just now, bernd1151 said:

Et un Allemand, qui parle français (un tout petit peu) 😊😊

and who follows the French politics which also deserves my respect 😋

5 hours ago, domkle said:

One thing I wonder is how their 1000-point model will take into account floats in flying the aircraft.

The way they are coding the flight model gives me a lot of hope for excellent water landings as well.  They are simulating many hundreds of lift points all over the plane with regards to the air, if we assume float planes have points simulated on the floats themselves then it should be a trivial thing to model a different fluid acting on those lift points too.  At that point transposing water lift to air lift wouldn't be very difficult code wise.

The problem with FSX / P3D is that single lift point on the plane determined by center of mass, it just didn't allow for nice air to water transitions.  MFS seems to at least provide the framework to make water physics on amphibians finally believable.

The fact that the Icon will be a default plane gives me GREAT hope this is the case!

The good news is that they follow the discussions here and there.

As for me, I can't wait to have news about the SDK. This is what makes me (scenery developer) excited and I noticed we will get some SDK news around Dec 19th...

Yes looking forward to explore the SDK more than anything else as I am almost certain I won't be part of the Tech Alpha tests (And I never had high expectations either) concidering the volume of applications and concidering the fact that people like me who develop scenery for MSFS since its early SDK days, FS98, are not necessarly the users targeted for an Alpha test...

So no problem if I am not part of the Alpha Phase but SDK could be my Christmas Gift please 🙂

 

Edited December 6, 20196 yr by Claviateur

9 hours ago, domkle said:

Reading the unsubstantial update, I thought : Poor Avsim mods, a long week to go of delirious posts🤣 ! 

AVSIM could solve all their problems by charging $1.00 for each post. End of nonsense and end of trolling. And the operating expense fund would fill up for the year. 💰

2 hours ago, Claviateur said:

So no problem if I am not part of the Alpha Phase but SDK could be my Christmas Gift please 🙂

same for me,

2 hours ago, rhumbaflappy said:

AVSIM could solve all their problems by charging $1.00 for each post. End of nonsense and end of trolling. And the operating expense fund would fill up for the year. 💰

And 99.9% of the people here would never post again.  Wouldn't pay them that much...