I am betting on A300-600F. They did mention months ago they were working on one after the A310 launched.

They should focus on optimizing all their sceneries for DX12. Worst performing scenery of all third party developers I currently have installed.

Looks like the engine nacelle with the Rolls Royce RB-211-535C fitted, used in the B757 series

Edited June 14, 20232 yr by JustanotherPilot

56 minutes ago, B777ER said:

They should focus on optimizing all their sceneries for DX12. Worst performing scenery of all third party developers I currently have installed.

They are a bit rough on perf - but they look beautiful.

3 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

The fan blades in the image have numbers written on them.

If the same fan blades were going to be refitted after removal for maintenance reasons, then they would be numbered so that they went back in the same positions as there were weighted and were balanced sets.

31 minutes ago, JustanotherPilot said:

Looks like the engine nacelle with the Rolls Royce RB-211-535C fitted, used in the B757 series

Don't get me too excited hehe - B752 my favorite airliner of all time.

Pretty sure A300

4 hours ago, Nixoq said:

*sad noises*

It's still possible, on the CF6-80 there are two sensors located at around the 10 and 2 clock position whilst looking through the air intake (see the below pic). These are not visible in the screenshot but it may just be the angle (and perhaps purposely? 😁).

Thinking of it, the A300-600 uses a CF6-80C2 engine which should also have these sensors visible in a similar location, so I don't think they're referencing the A300 unless they're producing the older variant which is the A300B4-200, they didn't do this variant for XPlane. So the A300 seems more unlikely and I wouldn't really call it 'ultimate'.

I am betting on the DC10 or B742... The B742 however had several engine options whereas the most popular variant of the DC10 (-30) only had one...😁 Unfortunately I just cannot find any good photographs of a DC-10 fitted CF6-50 inlet, they're very old engines now!

Edited June 14, 20232 yr by G MIDY

iniBuilds have done a masterful job of ginning up interest in this leading up to FSExpo next weekend, all their social media channels are full of chatter about this lol.

The top two choices appear to be the A300 or 747-200. One of the ini devs posted a cryptic "Kai Tak ops!" on discord which means the 747-200 fans should feel optimistic? who knows, as the A300 equally applies to that airport too I guess, although 747 landings there were iconic.
 

Edited June 14, 20232 yr by lwt1971

5 hours ago, peloto said:

Ok. let´s go out of doubts, I am going to spend some money in a pythoness, and I will post later which aircraft, and no more guesses.

The 300 is going to appear sooner or later yes or yes, who is first, the pythoness didn´t tell me, she wanted 100€ more to tune the observation.

1 hour ago, lwt1971 said:

. One of the ini devs posted a cryptic "Kai Tak ops!" 
 

That to me is clear that it would indeed be a B747-200.

5 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

That to me is clear that it would indeed be a B747-200.

Sure?

 

Just now, peloto said:

Sure?

 

Sure.  The 747-200 is shown in all the classic checkerboard approaches

14 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

Sure.  The 747-200 is shown in all the classic checkerboard approaches

Korean Air | Airbus A300-600R | HL7581 | Hong Kong Kai Tak

Airbus, A300-605R, A6-EKD, "Emirates", VHHH, Kai Tak, Hong Kong

Buahahaha (malefic smiling)

Edited June 15, 20232 yr by peloto

747-200 all day!  We don't need another old fat airbus.