10 minutes ago, Cognita said:

Yes, the A350 will complete a standard, normal operations flight just fine. It reminds me of the old P3D era Aerosoft buses, designed for straightforward normal operations. For those who are not well acquainted with the systems the flight will be just fine and at this level of fidelity the A350 is actually a great aircraft. But if you have a good deal of familiarity with the systems you start to notice things that just do not quite work as they should or are missing. And if you are looking for high fidelity systems, systems that are actually responding to and changing based on external conditions like weather and the operation of the individual components of each system and their interaction with other systems then the A350 misses the mark. Its systems seem to be fully scripted and not organic and fluid. There is nothing wrong with that in and of itself; but for me the price they charged was way too high for this medium-level fidelity -- it was overhyped and underdelivered.  I think it is a good plane in general and I can see people getting a lot of enjoyment out of it. But for me, and maybe others like me, who are really interested in the systems, who read the technical manuals and follow the mechanics and technicians that work on these, it is just not there, yet.

Maybe you should spend a few hundred thousand dollars on a real simulator instead of $89 for a A350 toy and $150 for 2024 Sim. Perhaps then you'll get all the realistic systems and weather responses you're looking for. But for what I paid for, I'm getting one hell of a bang for my $$ and much enjoyment along with it.

 

52 minutes ago, Bigmack said:

Maybe you should spend a few hundred thousand dollars on a real simulator instead of $89 for a A350 toy and $150 for 2024 Sim. Perhaps then you'll get all the realistic systems and weather responses you're looking for. But for what I paid for, I'm getting one hell of a bang for my $$ and much enjoyment along with it.

 

I haven't seen even close to the same level of praise for iB's Airbuses as I have for Fenix or FSL, which are both significantly less expensive

Nor the same as for Leonardo's Mad Dog, which is just about the same price.

For $89, it should be ranked as study level and receiving the same accolades as other Hi Fi add-ons

7 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

I'm not an expert in A350 functions, but as a casual flier I've not seen anything aircraft breaking.

That's not the kind of bugs that the aircraft is plagued by. Casual flying is and has been possible since release, barring the WASM crashes that had been ironed out after about the 6th update.

It's the systems modelling that is not up to par. Stall protection not working for example. Lots of small stuff that the casual flyer won't notice but that keep on being reported on their forums. The list is long.

2 hours ago, Bigmack said:

Maybe you should spend a few hundred thousand dollars on a real simulator instead of $89 for a A350 toy and $150 for 2024 Sim. Perhaps then you'll get all the realistic systems and weather responses you're looking for. But for what I paid for, I'm getting one hell of a bang for my $$ and much enjoyment along with it.

 

You keep building the same strawman argument. 

Competitors have released add ons with more accurate and complete systems modelling in that price range. And Ini has to hold up to that standard in that price range.

And they don't.

Edited June 29, 2025Jun 29 by Farlis

2 hours ago, Bigmack said:

Maybe you should spend a few hundred thousand dollars on a real simulator instead of $89 for a A350 toy and $150 for 2024 Sim. Perhaps then you'll get all the realistic systems and weather responses you're looking for. But for what I paid for, I'm getting one hell of a bang for my $$ and much enjoyment along with it.

 

You are comparing items in different categories mate 😉 For less than $89 other developers do better, that is more realistic aircrafts for MSFS (same category of simulation).

On 6/28/2025 at 3:28 AM, regis9 said:

Yeah I don't get it.  The aircraft flies great for me, but I guess it's a matter of different people's systems and some specific situations.

Overall though, I can't imagine complaining about a dev that is clearly continuing to improve their product.

There's no real secret for this, most people just tend to put all settings on "ULTRA" forcing the hardware to its limits in many cases. Lots of addons, lots of high resolution airports, 4K... it just won't work.

Properly configure your simulator, be humble with your settings, just set to ULTRA or even HIGH what REALLY needs to be there (spoiler alert: most things don't) and enjoy low VRAM usage plus over 100fps all the time for a great experience.

 

On the A350 side, and while i'm way more interested on the A343 than this ULR version, i think they made the aircraft justice. They keep updating it and it's overall an incredible experience, one of the best addons we have for MSFS. They're doing a far better job at it than "old school" developers such as PMDG which seem to be stuck in P3D days, struggling to deal with newer technology and dealing with a far wider crowd.

Kudos to INI for bringing us these jewels, A300, A310 (even if left in the dust now - shame on you Microsoft!), A350 and now the A340 apparently. Blue skies ahead!

1 hour ago, Nuno Pinto said:

They're doing a far better job at it than "old school" developers such as PMDG which seem to be stuck in P3D days, struggling to deal with newer technology and dealing with a far wider crowd.

Depends on what aspects you look at. 

PMDG has extremely well optimized performance and systems modelling. 

What they lack is modern interfacing. 

2 hours ago, Farlis said:

Depends on what aspects you look at. 

PMDG has extremely well optimized performance and systems modelling. 

What they lack is modern interfacing. 

Yeah that's fair. Maybe because they have their code in C++ which compiles to very optimized machine code nowadays. Most other addons run WASM which is not too close in performance even in its AoT format within MSFS.

As for the interfacing, on the human side of things they did try to hire Mathijs for some interfacing but we all know how that is going 

6 hours ago, Nuno Pinto said:

There's no real secret for this, most people just tend to put all settings on "ULTRA" forcing the hardware to its limits in many cases. Lots of addons, lots of high resolution airports, 4K... it just won't work.

Properly configure your simulator, be humble with your settings, just set to ULTRA or even HIGH what REALLY needs to be there (spoiler alert: most things don't) and enjoy low VRAM usage plus over 100fps all the time for a great experience.

 

On the A350 side, and while i'm way more interested on the A343 than this ULR version, i think they made the aircraft justice. They keep updating it and it's overall an incredible experience, one of the best addons we have for MSFS. They're doing a far better job at it than "old school" developers such as PMDG which seem to be stuck in P3D days, struggling to deal with newer technology and dealing with a far wider crowd.

Kudos to INI for bringing us these jewels, A300, A310 (even if left in the dust now - shame on you Microsoft!), A350 and now the A340 apparently. Blue skies ahead!

Just last week I was completing a 7 hour flight in the A-300.  Tried to change the landing RWY.  Cockpit completely froze.  Airplane was flying but nothing in the cockpit would respond.  Had to exit to desktop.

And the A-310 is even worse.  Not good examples in my opinion. 

32 minutes ago, Dreamflight767 said:

Just last week I was completing a 7 hour flight in the A-300.  Tried to change the landing RWY.  Cockpit completely froze.  Airplane was flying but nothing in the cockpit would respond.  Had to exit to desktop.

And the A-310 is even worse.  Not good examples in my opinion. 

Can't help there, it just doesn't happen to me and i've flown the A310 a LOT in MSFS. Not anymore because the MSFS2024 version is a mess (i'd blame microsoft on this, not inibuilds), but no complaints on the 300 or 350 of which i have the native 2024 versions.

Edited June 29, 2025Jun 29 by Nuno Pinto

On 6/28/2025 at 3:39 PM, btacon said:

Bending the knee to customer sentiment and feedback.  Ini does listen it seems.

-B

....except when the customers want MSFS 2020 versions of their latest airports. Oops, did I say that out loud? 

Edited June 29, 2025Jun 29 by Christopher Low

9 hours ago, Farlis said:

That's not the kind of bugs that the aircraft is plagued by. Casual flying is and has been possible since release, barring the WASM crashes that had been ironed out after about the 6th update.

It's the systems modelling that is not up to par. Stall protection not working for example. Lots of small stuff that the casual flyer won't notice but that keep on being reported on their forums. The list is long.

You keep building the same strawman argument. 

Competitors have released add ons with more accurate and complete systems modelling in that price range. And Ini has to hold up to that standard in that price range.

And they don't.

And If they modelled every system possible in the 350, you folks will still find something to complain about. "Oh I'm getting low frames, Oh my vram usage is too high, Oh I'm so word not allowed that I still live in my mother's Basement.  I fly the IFly Max8, Maddog, PMDG 777's and Fenix Buses. And they all are great, and their performance is no different flying on my system as any Ini aircraft. I paid $89 for it and will be happy to do it again when they release their A340. Jut their support and updates alone justifies the cost. I guess there's no pleasing some folks.

Edited June 29, 2025Jun 29 by Bigmack

On 6/28/2025 at 7:42 AM, Tuskin38 said:

They also paused development on future packs because of this.

Yup great job folks, you complained so hard that you put them out of business on an entirely new type of DLC.

Not mandatory, just a plus, a neat little easter egg for the people that like flying from the back.

If you've ever modeled anything in Blender or painted an object, you know that there was considerable work that went into them, but the reactionary community demands "FREE FREE FREE!" in the Discord so they cave.

Ridiculous. Anyone who contributed to this should be ashamed of their childish behavior. I don't dictate how you spend your money and you don't get to either. Don't like the $14 organic cream cheese at the grocery store? Don't buy it, but why ban it?

17 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

....except when the customers want MSFS 2020 versions of their latest airports. word not allowed, did I say that out loud? 

Dude, 2020 is coming to an end. It was a great sim, now it's time to move on. All developers are going to move on eventually.

25 minutes ago, Bigmack said:

And If they modelled every system possible in the 350, you folks will still find something to complain about. "Oh I'm getting low frames, Oh my vram usage is too high, Oh I'm so word not allowed that I still live in my mother's Basement.  I fly the IFly Max8, Maddog, PMDG 777's and Fenix Buses. And they all are great, and their performance is no different flying on my system as any Ini aircraft. I paid $89 for it and will be happy to do it again when they release their A340. Jut their support and updates alone justifies the cost. I guess there's no pleasing some folks.

Still buildings further strawmen.

Todos buscan algo diferente en un simulador; el 350 es más que suficiente para quienes no son tan exigentes. Otros, como yo, buscamos mayor profundidad en sistemas, modelos de vuelo y procedimientos, y este avión no es para nosotros. Lo bueno es que hay opciones.