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Hope it sells well for them; disappointing sales being apparently the reason why PMDG dropped theirs from further development. 

Actually the only thing which really surprises me is that it's taken them so long to do an MD-11 given that they're already halfway their on the avionics. 🙂


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I think the MD-11 will be a hot seller for TFDI. I fly for UPSVAC and I know we've been dying for a MD-11. TFDI has come a long ways and didn't give up on the 717. I'm sure the MD-11 will be a huge success for them. Probably more than the 717. 

As far as PMDG and the MD-11 goes, I don't think disappointing sales had anything to do with it. I think it's due to an old partnership that went different ways after the MD-11 project. 

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2 minutes ago, Wise87 said:

I think the MD-11 will be a hot seller for TFDI. I fly for UPSVAC and I know we've been dying for a MD-11. TFDI has come a long ways and didn't give up on the 717. I'm sure the MD-11 will be a huge success for them. Probably more than the 717. 

As far as PMDG and the MD-11 goes, I don't think disappointing sales had anything to do with it. I think it's due to an old partnership that went different ways after the MD-11 project. 

I totally agree with this.  I mean how many people are lining up to buy a jetstream from PMDG?


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45 minutes ago, Wise87 said:

As far as PMDG and the MD-11 goes, I don't think disappointing sales had anything to do with it. I think it's due to an old partnership that went different ways after the MD-11 project. 

Chris Makris of PMDG stated a few days ago in the latest update thread on their forums that the reason they dropped the MD-11 is, in fact, poor sales/not financially viable. According to him, the NGXu alone made more profit within the first day after release than the MD-11 in its whole lifetime. Even the DC-6 surpassed the MD-11's profit.

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Can't wait for the MD-11....

and to be fair (accurate), the view change crash in the B717 end up being an issue with P3D. LM resolved it in one of the latest 4.5 HF.

 

 


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7 minutes ago, threegreen said:

poor sales/not financially viable

I would say different developers will have different ideas of what 'financially viable' is. 😉

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Just now, bill62 said:

 the view change crash in the B717 end up being an issue with P3D.

Yes and no. I've had it with B717 and P3D only non stop, flying a few different aircraft and never experiencing it.

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1 hour ago, Wise87 said:

As far as PMDG and the MD-11 goes, I don't think disappointing sales had anything to do with it. I think it's due to an old partnership that went different ways after the MD-11 project. 

Of course it is!

Let's discount what the developer actually says about this, in favor of a speculative, unsupported theory, cooked up by the angry / disappointed customers... 

... makes perfect sense.

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Instant buy along with another dream. The A350.

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1 hour ago, Chock said:

Hope it sells well for them; disappointing sales being apparently the reason why PMDG dropped theirs from further development. 

That was not the reason Alan 😉


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1 minute ago, Nyxx said:

That was not the reason Alan 😉

I'm pretty sure that was the reason PMDG gave.

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It sure was 🙂 but...

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2 hours ago, skully said:

I'm not sure we're ever going to get a really good DC-10. 

Perhaps TFDI will consider building one?

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12 minutes ago, Rafal said:

I would say different developers will have different ideas of what 'financially viable' is. 😉

Yes of course. I don't know about TFDi, but since PMDG are working full-time and thus have to spent the appropriate amount of development resources, I'd assume they need some more income than other developers who are working part-time and make their living off their other jobs and may even employ less people. I was actually surprised the DC-6 surpassed the MD-11, which seems the MD-11 really is a niche because the DC-6 surely is and if 'even' that generates more profit I think it makes sense.

Though times have changed and chances are a 2020 MD-11 may sell better than an FSX MD-11 from a decade ago. This is going to be interesting.


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