Aerosoft working on A321Neo Alongside A330Neo?

[ndflieger 55]

Greetings all,

This was in my news feed this morning. I can't vouch for its accuracy - haven't seen mention of it anywhere else:

https://www.thresholdx.net/news/teaneo

 

 

[RTK1972 288]

Maybe they should first try to make the 330 flyable. Thinking back to the P3D version this plane was a mess.....

[ndflieger 55]

6 minutes ago, RTK1972 said:

Maybe they should first try to make the 330 flyable. Thinking back to the P3D version this plane was a mess.....

I agree. I found it interesting the article mentioning Kok moving over to PMDG.

[Bobsk8 12,835]

8 minutes ago, RTK1972 said:

Maybe they should first try to make the 330 flyable. Thinking back to the P3D version this plane was a mess.....

And people that complained about the P3D version were told to "go away"...

[MikeH99 157]

P3D version was great what was wrong with it? More planes is good. 

[thepilot 588]

They got a grant from the German government of almost half a million Euros to develop both an A321NEO and A330NEO. This is for real. 
 

https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Wirtschaft/Games/Games-Projekte/airbusneo.html

[Ricardo41 5,958]

2 minutes ago, thepilot said:

They got a grant from the German government of almost half a million Euros to develop both an A321NEO and A330NEO. This is for real. 
 

https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Wirtschaft/Games/Games-Projekte/airbusneo.html

This sounds like easy money. Let's see what I can whip up.......

[RTK1972 288]

1 hour ago, thepilot said:

They got a grant from the German government of almost half a million Euros to develop both an A321NEO and A330NEO. This is for real. 
 

https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Wirtschaft/Games/Games-Projekte/airbusneo.html

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[Tuskin38 6,625]

Germany throws money at a lot of German made software/gaming projects.

Edited August 12, 2023 by Tuskin38

[ndflieger 55]

737NG Driver has weighed-in on the topic:

 

 

[F737MAX 5,729]

1 hour ago, thepilot said:

They got a grant from the German government of almost half a million Euros to develop both an A321NEO and A330NEO. This is for real. 
 

https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Wirtschaft/Games/Games-Projekte/airbusneo.html

Unglaublich

How does this pass Euro Commission state aid rules? De minimis amount is €200k and as FSLabs appears to be Cypriot, they would have a case for unfair advantage resulting in a distortion in the market.

1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

This sounds like easy money. Let's see what I can whip up.......

Given where they are on the issues roadmap, perhaps you're in with a chance! 😄

[Zangoose 1,633]

9 minutes ago, F737MAX said:

Unglaublich

How does this pass Euro Commission state aid rules? De minimis amount is €200k and as FSLabs appears to be Cypriot, they would have a case for unfair advantage resulting in a distortion in the market.

Given where they are on the issues roadmap, perhaps you're in with a chance! 😄

Seems to be quite common for Germany to hand out grants towards gaming and software developers. I suppose if other EU countries wanted to do similar then they can. 

[Ricardo41 5,958]

I suppose money DOES grow on trees (at least in Germany).😄

[omarsmak30 4,068]

Such a waste taxpayer money go into a company like Aerosoft. 

[RALF9636 1,985]

So we have the LVFR A321, an A321 mod for the FBW, a Fenix A321 by the end of the year and presumably an FSL A321 in the works.

Great to see tax euros at work for the 5th A321...

Apart from that at least this shows that flightsimming is not a niche anymore. MSFS has shifted flightsimulation into the mainstream branch of software industry.

 

Edited August 12, 2023 by RALF9636