https://fenixsim.com/blog/entries/2025-03-28_roadmap/

 

EDIT: I love those guys. Pure love.

Edited March 28, 20251 yr by Fiorentoni

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"Hello everyone... So, straight to the point - we built some NEOs"

Aamir, how can you say this so nonchalantly!? 😂

I'm looking forward to every part of this. The icing. The Neo. The WXR. Keep up the great work guys!

CEASE DISCORSE AND ABSCOND WITH MY CURRENCIES

Very exciting blog post 

WXR? Yay, it was taking too much time!

A Neo? Well, competition is fierce: not only the default iniBuild birds (A20N for both sims, and A21N for 2024), but also the FBW A320 we all love.

Somehow I was thinking about an A330 when I read "the new airplane" in the Discord notification. But the WXR and the A319 SL made my day 😁

I thought the header image was a photo at first
then I saw it said FENIX, and then I started noticing the other signs it was a screenshot but yeah

My word, as part of the BFG

"There’s also a new dynamic touchdown system which individually accounts for each wheel’s touchdown rate, and generates unique touchdown sounds accordingly. "

21 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

https://fenixsim.com/blog/entries/2025-03-28_roadmap/

 

EDIT: I love those guys. Pure love.

Are we talking XLR here?

Wow. Long post. But unlike some other CEOs posts line by line informative

This is indeed exciting news 😊

Awesome news! In addition to announcing the A320 NEO, it's also a whole 2025 roadmap update ...

The bits that stood out to me:

• To begin with - instead of attempting to turn our CEO into a NEO with a bit of brain surgery and ECAM fiddling, we've opted to replace the entire ECAM from the ground up at a "NEO" standard, this is wholly and solely Fenix - no longer shared with ProSim (some ammo for internet arguments). As a result, we've been able to dive down ECAM messages and functions not present even within the prior implementation - unlocking a whole host of possibilities for features we're not quite pulling the covers off yet
• We're looking at launching later this year. We're building the A320neo, and the A321neo. The LEAPs and the GTFs will both be fully represented in XEM. And, finally, we are putting all this in one package. This is a standalone product. No prior ownership necessary
• So the NEO was not the only one to have a bit of brain-out work. We didn't build one ECAM. We built 2 side-by-side. Our NEO, in the latest shiny standard and our CEO in the standard you know and have today. We couldn't leave the CEO behind, this is the hammer with which we built the house. While for CEO customers this may not present initially as a massive immediate difference, we think this was incredibly important in supporting the product going forward - and it was an extraordinary amount of work to achieve. We rebuilt and rewired the airplane in exactly the same way, just with slightly less tossing out ... This will be free for existing customers.
• Now, let's look a little closer. In the next couple of weeks, we will finally push a BFU (Big Fenix Update) - not every update is a BFU, but this one certainly is. In this update, we bring you the promised child, Baby Shark (the A319 Sharkies) - not just as a flight model, but of course we've had a bit of fun with this one and equipped the CFM variant as American Airlines have equipped theirs - with a bespoke B7 hotrod motor, bringing big power to you via XEM
• Next, we did the thing we didn't want to do. We spent months rebuilding portions of our display infrastructure (again) to support WXR. This was painful, but necessary - we don't see much movement on the horizon and we'd like you all to have the best experience possible even if that means a bit of compromise on our side. WXR will roll out with the next update!
• Then - FLARE and ground effect. We decided to pursue another principal in building this out as it is evident the current experience leaves something to be desired. We opted to rebuild the entire landing profile around data - but it's hard to quantify such things, in theory. Hence why it was not built this way in the first place. Fortunately with a bit of time and effort, we were able to analyse a few hundred thousand real A320 flights from the DFDR (digital flight data recorder) outputs, observe an aggregate sidestick deflection profile, and chart it against radio altimeter to build a generalised look at what it truly means to land an A320 from your touchpoint, the sidestick. Then we repeated it for the A319 and then, once again for the A321. After nearly 2 months of tuning both stick response and ground effect, we're able to say we have achieved a result we're happy charting out to you.
• In line with the above, we also observed with similar data some ways to improve the fly-by-wire tuning, response curves and damping - all have been adjusted, and in a departure from the norm, we will (with BFU) recommend a completely linear sensitivity on both pitch and roll, as is on the real aircraft. If your stick is lighter and/or you prefer the feel of more weight in a certain axis, feel free to go from there and tweak the setting - the fly-by-wire will handle it, but please give our recommendation a go as a starting point. Once you're all tuned up, do take a moment and let the fly-by-wire really work for you by handflying the airplane up to cruise. It's really cool to see the various inputs adapt to keep response feeling reasonably neutral the higher and faster you go.
• MSFS 2024 customers - this update brings us the first official compatibility patch. We have now rebuilt the project for 2024, harnessing the new Modular SimObject system and converting our library of over 700 liveries, too. Further, we've included full walk-around mode support, including new external panels you'll want to see and play with. All fully functional and hooked up to the systems. If you'd like to swing the gear doors open, feel free to walk over - unlatch the panel, and yoink the lever. Or if you want to open the cargo doors, you can do that yourself in walkaround mode now too.
   

Nice, I wonder if they'll beat FSL to the NEOs.

(Too bad it's not an A330, though)

5 minutes ago, thepilot said:

Nice, I wonder if they'll beat FSL to the NEOs.

Doesn’t matter to me. I know who’s NEO I’ll be waiting for! Well done Aamir, Dave and all the gang.

Amazing work and detail looking forward to the updates and of course the NEO.

FLARE is improved. I will wait for this update as i was scratching my head to this bouncing into space among strange things on touchdown.

Really nice update

Michael Moe