1 hour ago, Marwan Gharib said:

Hello every one,

I'd like to present a better showcase for the project :

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/upcoming-hondajet-for-msfs/418226/40?u=marwangh7929

 

Please let me know your thoughts and looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Looks very nice! How are the flight dynamics and avionics relative to the real plane?

Is this still on track?

12 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Is this still on track?

It's on discord if you wish to follow it.  He continues to add more features because there is a HDJT pilot on there as well.

https://discord.gg/mxeF434N

1 hour ago, ryanbatcund said:

It's on discord if you wish to follow it.  He continues to add more features because there is a HDJT pilot on there as well.

https://discord.gg/mxeF434N

I can also confirm it is in beta testing. So it's plugging along.

I could swear the author was working on this about 3 years ago and teased it on P3D forum, (of course memory can get confused after quite a bit of time) I'm glad he switched gears to MSFS.

17 minutes ago, jimcarrel said:

I could swear the author was working on this about 3 years ago and teased it on P3D forum, (of course memory can get confused after quite a bit of time) I'm glad he switched gears to MSFS.

Yeah he did...I think there was a pic or two buried on the discord from p3d.

Usually I take those previews with a grain of salt but this developer kept going and adapted and went to MSFS.  And the jet is looking amazing!

1 hour ago, jimcarrel said:

I could swear the author was working on this about 3 years ago and teased it on P3D forum, (of course memory can get confused after quite a bit of time) I'm glad he switched gears to MSFS.

I learned from the man himself that he did indeed start off this project for P3D. It was actually academic at first as he was doing a modeling assignment for school and it took off from there and he decided to go the whole 9 yards and make a workable aircraft out of it.

Now, he has a small army of volunteers helping him out by beta testing, suggestions and the like. As Ryan said earlier, one of them is an honest-to-goodness actual HondaJet pilot who obviously has access to the real thing and has posted videos and pics.

Per the man, release may be 2-3 months from now. Lots of fine-tuning, debugging, and adding in smaller features.

UPDATE!

Thought those who are interested in this little beauty may like to know that it is currently undergoing alpha testing (soon to be beta, actually).

Many features are in place and the developer, Marwan, continues to implement various tweaks, and some smaller features such as moving doors and a working toilet (you read that right!). Sounds will be sourced soon and added. Polishing of the existing systems and the G3000 continues as well as dialing in numbers for an accurate representation of flight dynamics and fuel burn. A Simbrief profile has been added to the Simbrief database (with thanks to Derek for adding that). A Little Navmap profile is also in the process of being made, it's just a matter of narrowing the performance numbers down to be as accurate as possible.

Be patient everyone, it's moving along at a very steady clip...Marwan is a busy and talented developer!

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Edited August 24, 20214 yr by Tuskin38

11 hours ago, CLE_AA-5B_GrummanTiger said:

UPDATE!

Thought those who are interested in this little beauty may like to know that it is currently undergoing alpha testing (soon to be beta, actually).

Many features are in place and the developer, Marwan, continues to implement various tweaks, and some smaller features such as moving doors and a working toilet (you read that right!). Sounds will be sourced soon and added. Polishing of the existing systems and the G3000 continues as well as dialing in numbers for an accurate representation of flight dynamics and fuel burn. A Simbrief profile has been added to the Simbrief database (with thanks to Derek for adding that). A Little Navmap profile is also in the process of being made, it's just a matter of narrowing the performance numbers down to be as accurate as possible.

Be patient everyone, it's moving along at a very steady clip...Marwan is a busy and talented developer!

Looks fantastic assuming it can use the working title g3000

The configuration has been done before but is rare enough that many people have not come across it.

The claimed advantages are it is more suited to unpaved runways and also ingress and egress for passengers is easier, due to the cabin being closer to the runway, compared to underwing designs,  but also it weighs less and has more cabin space than you get with a a tail mounted engine.  Presumably the "nose up on power failure" thing you get with tail mounting will be reduced as well.

Edited August 25, 20214 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

To be honest these things look a bit fugly in real life with that configuration - there's a black one which occasionally comes into Manchester. There is the disadvantage of the engines being alongside the cabin, which is less great for both cabin noise levels and indeed environmental noise levels when on the deck since the engines are a bit higher up, which allows sounds to travel a bit further, but on the plus side the engine is less prone to FOD and probably a bit easier to work on with a set of engineering steps as opposed to crawling under a wing.

Still, it looks like the developer is doing a good job of it. I seem to recall seeing initial pics of this one a few years ago, so it's been in progress a while.

1 minute ago, Chock said:

To be honest these things look a bit fugly in real life with that configuration - there's a black one which occasionally comes into Manchester. There is the disadvantage of the engines being alongside the cabin, which is less great for both cabin noise levels and indeed environmental noise levels when on the deck since the engines are a bit higher up, which allows sounds to travel a bit further, but on the plus side the engine is less prone to FOD and probably a bit easier to work on with a set of engineering steps as opposed to crawling under a wing.

Still, it looks like the developer is doing a good job of it. I seem to recall seeing initial pics of this one a few years ago, so it's been in progress a while.

The pics from a few years ago is the same guy when he developed it for P3D, I believe. 

Also, HondaJet is very quiet *because* of the engine placement. Confirmed that from an actual typed pilot who currently flies it for his job. 

44 minutes ago, Jetman67 said:

Looks fantastic assuming it can use the working title g3000

Can confirm it is. 

Edited August 25, 20214 yr by CLE_AA-5B_GrummanTiger

5 minutes ago, CLE_AA-5B_GrummanTiger said:

The pics from a few years ago is the same guy when he developed it for P3D, I believe. 

Also, HondaJet is very quiet *because* of the engine placement. Confirmed that from an actual typed pilot who currently flies it for his job. 

Can confirm it is. 

This will be nice, working title has turned the CJ4 into a brilliant plane compared the default toy

Does it have VTech engines? 🤣