8 minutes ago, Nuno Pinto said:

Great, marketplace only during a "few months". Thank you Microsoft, whatever you put your finger on definitely gets noticed. In a BAD way.

Christ.

Why are you solely blaming Microsoft? For all we know it was (also) ini’s idea

i don’t think it has been said either way 

Edited October 3, 2025Oct 3 by Tuskin38

1 minute ago, Tuskin38 said:

Why are you blaming Microsoft? For all we know it was ini’s idea

i don’t think it has been said either way 

From their discord. Not much has been revealed obviously but it's in there somewhere buried deep into the hundreds of complaints that followed.

18 minutes ago, Aviator_2024 said:

Looking at the Pre-release youtube footage of flight simmers flying it, the Sounds are horrible, rehashed from A350. It feels like a A340 Skin rather than built from ground up

It’s possible they haven’t finished hooking up the new sounds yet

3 hours ago, dzmitry said:

I just wonder about three things: how performance-heavy will it be on the system? How often will it WASM-crash? How much simrate accelleration does it support? I'd love to fly ini's airbuses but these three things hold me off...

Just dipped into one of the live streams - EFB shows 4x max, like the A350. I don't understand why they limit it to that citing these ridiculous "there's no computer strong enough to run it at more than 4x" reason. With SU4 Beta, even the A350 performs well in terms of FPS. I can get it up to 8x/16x and it runs just fine via the sim key command but the fuel burn stays at 4x.

Raised it on their forums and they were going to "pass it on". Nothing will ever happen of course. At least PMDG get it right, their sim rate implementation is the best there is and I can use 8x/16x without any issues - which in my opinion is crucial if you want to sell me a long haul aircraft. I simply don't have time to fly for 3-4 hours at at time, which is what you get doing a 12 hrs flight with 4x.

36 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

It’s confirmed that you will be able to transfer your purchase to the ini manager once the exclusivity is up

Ok this changes things. I’ll definitely will be getting it since I will be able to abandon the marketplace as soon as possible

25 minutes ago, Nuno Pinto said:

On discord, there is at least one person who is still waiting for months for that to happen with some other addon. It's not a quick nor easy process it seems. I'd rather just wait even if it is way way up on my airliner preference.

Considering ini is directly partnered with Microsoft here, I imagine they've worked out something easier/quick.

50 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

That’s for performance reasons. Nothing to do with reused code. Displays in MSFS are still expensive on performance. Plus apparently it’s very rarely used by pilots anyways.

It's one of those things, and the price will determine how I feel about it. If it's more the same, or more expensive than, say, the PMDG 777LR ($50USD), my tolerance for these things declines. Sure, it's not used much and I doubt I'd use it. But on a paid add-on, it's a strike against from the start. If something obvious like that is missing, what else is?

Now if it comes in much less sure. 

They claim the price will not change from store to the manager. So whoever buys it in the store, will eventually get it transferred to the IniManager (even if it takes a year or something). Also from Discord.

19 minutes ago, BrammyH said:

If it's more the same, or more expensive than, say, the PMDG 777LR ($50USD), my tolerance for these things declines.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was priced the same as the A350.

2 hours ago, Nuno Pinto said:

They claim the price will not change from store to the manager. So whoever buys it in the store, will eventually get it transferred to the IniManager (even if it takes a year or something). Also from Discord.

Nuno,

I own the 350 and I am very glad with my purchase.

It's a shame that TAP no longer has it's 5 GPU 340 in the fleet, but HiFly has one, so I'll do my best to get an HiFly livery 🙂

9H-SUN Hi Fly Malta Airbus A340-312 Photo by Ilya Deineko - Kazakhstan Spotting Club | ID 1826745 | Planespotters.net

Edited October 3, 2025Oct 3 by jcomm

That Gatwick landing at the end of the preview vid looked like it was filmed at 9FPS... Didn't do the 340, Gatwick or 24 any favors with that approach and landing.  😞  

As always, great eye candy with ini though.  It looks amazing.   But then again CaptainSim's models always looked great too LOL 

53 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Nuno,

I own the 350 and I am very glad with my purchase.

It's a shame that TAP no longer has it's 5 GPU 340 in the fleet, but HiFly has one, so I'll do my best to get an HiFly livery 🙂

9H-SUN Hi Fly Malta Airbus A340-312 Photo by Ilya Deineko - Kazakhstan Spotting Club | ID 1826745 | Planespotters.net

It's a lovely aircraft, can't wait to get my hands on it, but.... yeah i'll just wait for the IniManager version, i just don't deal with marketplace stuff.

3 hours ago, Speedbird 217 said:

Just dipped into one of the live streams - EFB shows 4x max, like the A350. I don't understand why they limit it to that citing these ridiculous "there's no computer strong enough to run it at more than 4x" reason. With SU4 Beta, even the A350 performs well in terms of FPS. I can get it up to 8x/16x and it runs just fine via the sim key command but the fuel burn stays at 4x.

Raised it on their forums and they were going to "pass it on". Nothing will ever happen of course. At least PMDG get it right, their sim rate implementation is the best there is and I can use 8x/16x without any issues - which in my opinion is crucial if you want to sell me a long haul aircraft. I simply don't have time to fly for 3-4 hours at at time, which is what you get doing a 12 hrs flight with 4x.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I plan my flights for the time I have available.  If I have only an hour to fly, I plan a short hop flight.  I have never once used a 2X, 4X, 8X feature to get to my destination quicker.

I will get after it comes out of the Marketplace Exclusive phase and if the reports on it's fidelity are promising. But not sooner.

One thing to consider why it's in the marketplace: career compatibility.

I think funny enough the 4x time acceleration limit kinda killed it for me. It's supposed to be a long-haul plane but I just don't see myself having anywhere enough time to even do short trips in this thing. But maybe that's a more of a me problem.