2 hours ago, carlanthony24 said:

What a surprise maybe because his company didn’t but many others do. Anything Emi says take with a pinch of salt.

That was explained various times after emi made the comment, why Mathijs chose that response as an answer in the thread is beyond me.

18 hours ago, psolk said:

I don't know that a company producing ABC planes opposed to B planes would get that contract.  ABC Airbus, Boeing, Concorde   Although I don't think there would be an issue with Concorde to be fair

I would think aircraft diversity would be a safer development path … more places to go with it … I think the A320 recently surpassed the 737 as most popular (aka most delivered aircraft world wide).

Text based system of ATC communication is 1000X better than garbled gibberish barked at one in a very noisy environment.  With AI, response could also be very succinct with no room for error in understanding at least.  The ICAO phonetic alphabet should have been made obsolete decades ago.

I am curious, why so many want to fly the 2nd most popular aircraft (737) or even the 1st most popular aircraft the A320?  Not being critical, just curious what the draw is to both of these aircraft … is it because they are most commonly used?  Easiest to fly?  You’ve flown on them?  You fly them?

3 minutes ago, SayAgain said:

I would think aircraft diversity would be a safer development path … more places to go with it … I think the A320 recently surpassed the 737 as most popular (aka most delivered aircraft world wide).

And how would that have helped them with Boeing as I was referring to in my post?  No idea how that's relevant to a Boeing contract. 

6 minutes ago, psolk said:

And how would that have helped them with Boeing as I was referring to in my post?

Because they wouldn’t need a Boeing contract if they diversified.  Point is, talented development group, experiment and find more revenue options.  PMDG experimented with the DC-6 and it didn’t work for the ROI.  I don’t know why they opted for the DC-6 as it’s never been high on the demand list … perhaps this experiment pushed them away from more diversity?  DC-6 was just not a  popular choice.

17 minutes ago, SayAgain said:

Because they wouldn’t need a Boeing contract if they diversified.  Point is, talented development group, experiment and find more revenue options.  PMDG experimented with the DC-6 and it didn’t work for the ROI.  I don’t know why they opted for the DC-6 as it’s never been high on the demand list … perhaps this experiment pushed them away from more diversity?  DC-6 was just not a  popular choice.

They wanted to learn the MSFS platform and be able to make the switch from P3D. The DC6 is both simple enough to not need as much dev resources, but also complex enough to cover a lot of ground in terms of SDK. The XP version of DC6 existed for the same reason.

That was something Robert said in an interview a while back. 

52 minutes ago, SayAgain said:

Because they wouldn’t need a Boeing contract if they diversified.  Point is, talented development group, experiment and find more revenue options.  PMDG experimented with the DC-6 and it didn’t work for the ROI.  I don’t know why they opted for the DC-6 as it’s never been high on the demand list … perhaps this experiment pushed them away from more diversity?  DC-6 was just not a  popular choice.

The Boeing contract is a commercial revenue option...  Probably the best any sim developer could hope for.  I'm sorry, I can't follow your logic on this one.  So do Airbus to gain more revenue and not get the Boeing contract?  Yep, I do not follow. 

As for the DC-6 well

Because RSR used to fly a DC-3, they even flew it over the Atlantic for D-Day ceremonies if I remember correctly.  That family of aircraft is personal to him...  That's why... 

Edit:  Found the source 

https://www.panam.org/inspirations/dc-3-tabitha-may

Of the planes from the USA, two Pan Am DC-3s were represented in the flight -- Historic Flight Foundation's Pan American Airways, N877MG & Robert Randazzo's Clipper Tabitha May.  Here is an exciting video of their departure in the D-Day Squadron for their journey across the English Channel on June 5th, 2019.

 

 

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3 hours ago, B777ER said:

They probably gave up after Boris released his. Typical RSR, announce and never deliver.

Part of me wonders if they ended up trying out Boris' sound set and are trying to redo some of their updated sound sets to be more competitive. I do wonder how many people they have working on these sound sets. Whoever it is, are they trying to juggle the 777, 747's, and 737s?

3 minutes ago, Kevin_28 said:

Part of me wonders if they ended up trying out Boris' sound set and are trying to redo some of their updated sound sets to be more competitive. I do wonder how many people they have working on these sound sets. Whoever it is, are they trying to juggle the 777, 747's, and 737s?

I think it's one guy.

1 hour ago, SayAgain said:

  PMDG experimented with the DC-6 and it didn’t work for the ROI.  I don’t know why they opted for the DC-6 as it’s never been high on the demand list … perhaps this experiment pushed them away from more diversity?  DC-6 was just not a  popular choice.

Where do you get this stuff from?

According to Randazzo himself the MSFS version of the DC-6 outsold the entire combined sales of the FSX, P3D and XP versions within hours of it's release....

in RSR's language, it means the first half of next year

2 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

According to Randazzo himself the MSFS version of the DC-6 outsold the entire combined sales of the FSX, P3D and XP versions within hours of its release....

I wasn’t referencing other platforms outside of MSFS 2020/24 … in context of MSFS only relative to their PMDG 777 and 737.

Looks like we need some more cheese with all of the w.....well anyway.  😀

737's I heard there is a small "coffee-priced" upgrade fee? I just wish they'd put some focus on the DC-6. Hopefully we get a native 2024 version of the dc-6 because it's worked through most of the SU4 beta. 

9 hours ago, Sonosusto said:

Looks like we need some more cheese with all of the w.....well anyway.  😀

737's I heard there is a small "coffee-priced" upgrade fee? I just wish they'd put some focus on the DC-6. Hopefully we get a native 2024 version of the dc-6 because it's worked through most of the SU4 beta. 

Keep in mind the guys over at PMDG are having only the finest and (unfortunately) most expensive coffee at around 30 USD each cup.
Wouldn't be surprised if the 737 was finished weeks ago but RSR is holding it back to justify a higher price because they have to 'completely re-design everything and that's taking thousands of hours', you know?

2 hours ago, Konterhalbe said:

most expensive coffee at around 30 USD each cup.

Definitely NOT the most expensive, Black Ivory about $50/cup. 🙂  ... oh and it is very good.

4 hours ago, Konterhalbe said:

Wouldn't be surprised if the 737 was finished weeks ago but RSR is holding it back to justify a higher price because they have to 'completely re-design everything and that's taking thousands of hours', you know?

So you really think everything is done but they just aren't releasing it so they can lie to charge a higher price?  

My goodness, between this comment and the comment that they should have done Airbusses to sacrifice the Boeing contract for revenue I really do have to chuckle and shake my head sometimes... 

 

Edited November 14, 2025Nov 14 by psolk