Apparently John Venema of Orbx is currently listed as a 3rd Party dev and is assigned to a 3rd Party Developers Group with a few others on MSFS forum. He also has access to Tech Alpha 1. Quite interesting as they havent made any official announcement yet.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/u/waxycloud394345/summary

You can view the complete list of 3rd party devs here

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/g/GRP_KH_ALPHA_DEV_19

plus (at least)  Alabeo, Carenado, fsdreamteam & Milviz.

Can you login into this form? I am a mere mortal user (albeit insider + registered for the forum) and can't.

Kind regards, Michael

2 minutes ago, pmb said:

Can you login into this form? I am a mere mortal user (albeit insider + registered for the forum) and can't.

Kind regards, Michael

Yes, You can. Even if You are not in the Alpha Testers Group.

Perhaps a MS forum moderator still has to activate your account.

 

5 minutes ago, pmb said:

Can you login into this form? I am a mere mortal user (albeit insider + registered for the forum) and can't.

I can't either.

31 minutes ago, pmb said:

Can you login into this form? I am a mere mortal user (albeit insider + registered for the forum) and can't.

Kind regards, Michael

There are still a few who cant access the forum. I got access a few days back although I am not a tech alpha tester and I cant view tech alpha forum. The stats show that the forum is exploding with posts from tech alpha testers. In excess of 2k posts made each day. 

I had access a few days ago, but now get an error message:

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I'll just sit back and wait. Anyway, it's a good sign they confirm 3rd party partners.

Kind regards, Michael

Great to see so many 3rd party developers involved in the testing even before the game is out.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/u/CopingSoda31523

orbx

There's someone called "OrbxEd" too, I think there was an Ed at Orbx as well. Seems like they're getting fully involved, along with some other developers that FDEdev mentioned above.

Let's hope for a barrage of partnership announcements soon...

FSDreamteam https://forums.flightsimulator.com/u/umberto67/summary

Forum users self-identify as third-party developers, just as virtually everyone on this forum imagines himself to be a third-party developers. Such self-pronouncements in no way indicate a formal business partnership with Asobo for their products to be incorporated into the base sim.

 

16 minutes ago, David Mills said:

Forum users self-identify as third-party developers, just as virtually everyone on this forum imagines himself to be a third-party developers. Such self-pronouncements in no way indicate a formal business partnership with Asobo for their products to be incorporated into the base sim.

 

Linked profiles are actually members of a group called 3rd Party Developers. You cant just join that group. I mean you can send a request but a mod has to approve it and highly doubt they are allowing random nobodys to join that group without verification. There are only 37 members.

Just now, Baber20 said:

Linked profiles are actually members of a group called 3rd Party Developers. You cant just join that group. I mean you can send a request but a mod has to approve it and highly doubt they are allowing random nobodys to join that group without verification. There are only 37 members.

You are correct, Sir. I stand corrected.

Another one of the clear names: Andrew Wilson (FSLabs).