After the terrible CRJ release I will never purchase anything from Aerosoft especially anything made by Hans Hartman. 
 

Good luck competing with Fenix and FSLabs  

56 minutes ago, 320Driver said:

Hilarious to read this guy writing about simulation of the pilots job. Has always been an excuse for shortcomings. 

Yup, he always pulls out the same trick out of his bag of nonsense.

Edited February 15, 20224 yr by Ricardo41

While I personally will never purchase an aircraft made by Aerosoft ever since purchasing there god awful A320 a few years back. I do believe in my opinion that Aerosoft even considering an A320 for MSFS is just pure laziness. There are many great aircraft out there, the SAAB 340/2000 for example, ive never seen any of those aircraft in either P3D or FSX.

Developers need to think outside the box, build something new, something that the masses would flock to since it doesn't have any competition.

Edited February 15, 20224 yr by shamrockflyer

Over 2 years after release and they still do not have dedicated manuals for the P3D A330.  Flat out ridiculous. 

It might be useful for us to actually read the original forum posting at

https://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/170683-what-msfs-airbus-to-do-next/

Some classic Mathias quotes here like

we do not consider Fenix etc to be an important factor

 our friends of at FBW are doing is kick-word not allowed stuff for the A320

no way anybody can get access to the tables needed to make a serious A350

all developments for P3D are stopped. Commercially that market is dodo dead

That should keep us AVSIM folks going for days.

Best wishes to all.

 

2 hours ago, pstrub said:

Nope, Aerosoft is based in Germany, but Mathijs is Dutch actually. 😉 

and he lives in France at 100 km from Asobo headquarters😁

I don't understand the market they are going for other than their A320 will be more visible (available on Xbox and in MS store).
There's a much more complex, feature-rich A320 on the way from Fenix that *a lot* of flight simmers are interested in, then there's a good freeware A32N from FBW. 

An Aerosoft A320 is neither going to be detailed enough for anyone used to FSLabs, FlightFactor or ToLiss Airbuses, nor as cheap as the FBW to compete on price.

1 hour ago, bendead said:

I really don't get his point on this :

The obvious choice. Now to be clear we do not consider Fenix etc to be an important factor. Not only because they obviously aim for a different kind of product (they want to simulate the aircraft, we want to simulate the job of being a pilot)

Like what? Simulate being stuck in holdings for hours, drunk passengers, being unable to launch a flight if you fail an exam, obligation to send blood and urine sample to a German testing facility before you can install?

Just as long as they don't simulate that pilot being the one who worked for Germanwings. 😮

Hi,

I really hope that they will create an A320. Like this it can be avoided that they produce some other aircraft like an Embraer E-Jet and prevent some other developer from doing this, because they think its already on the market. With the A320 they can't to much damage. A high qualitity one is already in the making (Fenix) as well as an amazing freeware (FBW). If you want an A320 with bad lateral navigation capabilities, default systems, an awful soundpack and ridiciulous support you can then go for the Aerosoft A320. 

Kind regards

Martin

8 minutes ago, F737NG said:

I don't understand the market they are going for other than their A320 will be more visible (available on Xbox and in MS store).
There's a much more complex, feature-rich A320 on the way from Fenix that *a lot* of flight simmers are interested in, then there's a good freeware A32N from FBW. 

An Aerosoft A320 is neither going to be detailed enough for anyone used to FSLabs, FlightFactor or ToLiss Airbuses, nor as cheap as the FBW to compete on price.

Well, Fenix won't be on Xbox unless some miracle happens, nor FBW, I got confirmation on their discord this morning.

So the goal of Aerosoft is to target new simmers on PC, those not really informed as to what is getting done in the background of the marketplace and Xbox. They don't need much as long as it's flyable and got beautiful exterior and cockpit.

If your framerates dip below 18, it'll fall out of the sky.

An A330 would be a nice middle ground aircraft, or an A340.

Last time I flew (in 2005) was Air Canada A330 from Heathrow to Calgary and back, not a bad plane.

“What do you want?  BTW we’re not considering any of those things”

There are a ton of cool turboprops they could do. I'd love a good Metroliner, Fokker 50, classic Dash 8, some sort of King Air, Dornier 328, the list goes on. I would take any of these any day over another Airbus. Heck, there are TONS of biz jets that could be done too. 

If he's intent on building tubeliners, he really should look into the older airframes. 707, 727, 737-Adv, 747-200. IniBuilds has the A300/A310 covered in MSFS, so they lost out on that one, but they can slide over to the L-1011 Tristar or the DC-8.

Less complex, glorious liveries, and a lot of older pilots love 'em.