36 minutes ago, LVFRicardo said:

The A330-neo on release won't be vatsim level. The A340-300 will be, and at that same time the A330neo will get the update.

The A330neo as it will be on release will have VNAV and TOD. We are finishing up the Navigation side and it will be ready for vatsim.

as someone who doesn't fly on VATSIM, what makes an aircraft VATSIM ready?

Just now, Tuskin38 said:

as someone who doesn't fly on VATSIM, what makes an aircraft VATSIM ready?

Holds, missed approaches etc for aircraft navigation.

2 minutes ago, LVFRicardo said:

Holds, missed approaches etc for aircraft navigation.

Thanks

4 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

They announced months ago they're done with scenery.

They can't compete in that category anymore no competition on the Marketplace for "water down" aircraft.

10 minutes ago, LVFRicardo said:

We apologized to Horizons if anything we said was taken out of context or wrongly intended. We are open to keep helping them mod our A32x family in the meantime, and leaving open the possibility of doing something with the A330/A340 in the future. But the plan is to have the A330/A340 family to be vatsim level at least. Later on we can see what if anything, Horizons wants to do or can do.

 

I sincerely hope both parties keep that option open for the A340. 👍

26 minutes ago, JBDB-MD80 said:

They can't compete in that category anymore no competition on the Marketplace for "water down" aircraft.

I'd say having a functioning VNAV and TOD will already make it better than most aircraft on the marketplace.

Edited October 16, 20232 yr by Tuskin38

2 hours ago, Steve Dra said:

Are there any other airlines besides LH that still fly her?  I'm not up on the model's current status.

Not many still in service now, Steve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A340_operators

Lovely looking aircraft though, as you say. 🙂

1 hour ago, jmknights said:

Without a doubt that's true.. but a large reason why their products sold were because of Horizon Sim. I for one only purchased every LVFR Airbus because the HS mods made them acceptable to fly.. Shutting off the 3rd party community in my eyes is sucide. 

....unless the developers intend to improve the complexity and realism themselves. How about you give them a chance before throwing them to the wolves?

Glad we are getting some heavies. Still going to pass due to lack of RNAV/RNP.. Apparently I'm not yet in the target market 😞

4 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

I'd say having a functioning VNAV and TOD will already make it better than most aircraft on the marketplace.

LVFR can rattle off all the features they want, but I highly doubt anything will actually be accurate. Chances are, VNAV won’t meet proper alt/spd constraints and LNAV will spin you in circles or veer you off course, all things that are frustrating on VATSIM. We’ve seen time and time and time again that these “light” attempts a making airliners never really deliver on their promises. 

1 minute ago, chapstick said:

LVFR can rattle off all the features they want, but I highly doubt anything will actually be accurate. Chances are, VNAV won’t meet proper alt/spd constraints and LNAV will spin you in circles or veer you off course, all things that are frustrating on VATSIM. We’ve seen time and time and time again that these “light” attempts a making airliners never really deliver on their promises. 

How about we wait and see instead of pre-judging?

Going to wait for both aircraft to actually release and people do videos on them before judging them fully.

Edited October 16, 20232 yr by Tuskin38

Just now, chapstick said:

LVFR can rattle off all the features they want, but I highly doubt anything will actually be accurate. Chances are, VNAV won’t meet proper alt/spd constraints and LNAV will spin you in circles or veer you off course, all things that are frustrating on VATSIM. We’ve seen time and time and time again that these “light” attempts a making airliners never really deliver on their promises. 

They gotta start somewhere. But on the other hand i would have hoped it would have been a collaborative effort than just shutting the door on the devs that improved their product.

Will see how this pans out. For me personally i don't need failures but everything else should be working and that includes the complete navigational feature set for me to be interested.

Just now, Maxis said:

They gotta start somewhere. But on the other hand i would have hoped it would have been a collaborative effort than just shutting the door on the devs that improved their product.

Will see how this pans out. For me personally i don't need failures but everything else should be working and that includes the complete navigational feature set for me to be interested.

Thanks no we haven't shut down the doors with them. We gonna leave open the possibility.

The main issue we got a team working nonstop in improving the systems, working on and investing heavily, we can't collaborate with another group that already has everything that we are now working on. Like you said we are starting from scratch.

We aren't closing the doors on Horizons, we gonna keep it open, but our development team can't count on Horizons nor FBW for what we are doing, and we can't have our customers depend on them when we are actively working on making things better.

We might have said things that sounded wrong but we are open to collaborating later on, in anything the A340/330 doesn't have and they can help

 

22 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

I'd say having a functioning VNAV and TOD will already make it better than most aircraft on the marketplace. LVFR aircraft will still have some default systems to be paid for.

And so is the default 78X, 748, CJ4, Longitude and the soon to be A320n by Inibuilds that will not cost extra.

Edited October 16, 20232 yr by JBDB-MD80

9 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

How about we wait and see instead of pre-judging?

Going to wait for both aircraft to actually release and people do videos on them before judging them fully.

Yes, best to ignore reality, good point