12 minutes ago, RNAVV19R said:

Very exciting news.

The aircraft must be pretty far into development if it's set to release this year.

I thought flightfactor were doing one for xp12 too ?

I also thought horizon were doing a V2 version on the HS 787 ?

3 hours ago, P_7878 said:

also later picked up a coffee mug from the gift shop, with a Dreamliner picture on it, that's still around being used as a Pen/Pencil holder by my youngsters.

When the 747 fleet got shut down and I was moved to the 787 to cheer myself up and get motivated I went on an aviation website and  bought myself a 787 lanyard, a carbon effect 787 pen , and a plastic 787 desktop model ……it didn’t work 😂

3 hours ago, P_7878 said:

but we'll see how it stands up to the (high) standards of @jon b

Probably better than the real jet, it’s always got technical snags !

1 hour ago, jon b said:

When the 747 fleet got shut down and I was moved to the 787 to cheer myself up and get motivated I went on an aviation website and  bought myself a 787 lanyard, a carbon effect 787 pen , and a plastic 787 desktop model ……it didn’t work 😂

Probably better than the real jet, it’s always got technical snags !

...🙂...

I recall the lithium-ion battery incidents might have started not long after I had put to my Dreamliner coffee mug to use.

Regarding desktop models, a funny thing happened to me in the Seattle Airport Security line, when I was returning from Seattle back to Chicago. Pressed for time, I drove directly from Everett to Seattle–Tacoma airport.

In my hurry, I'd left a (gift shop) metal model of the 747-8 in my carry-on luggage, and the metal detector went wild (it was around the years when aviation security had just tightened significantly compared to our previous era). So, they singled me out, made me open my carry-on and someone there held the tiny 747 in his hands, and our conversations went as follows:

"What's this?"

"A model airplane, I picked up from a visit today to the Boeing factory but forgot to pack into my check-in luggage."

"What airplane is it?"

"This is a Boeing 747."

"Can you be more specific?"

"This one is a -8 variant of the 747."

I don't recall much after that, but the security agent probably determined that I was one of those amateur aviation enthusiasts that often visit Seattle, without any bad intentions, and stopped the interrogation, so, I made it to the gate on time.

As sceptical as we simmers always are, this is very exciting news 🙂 I really wish you all the best with development and look forward to the product release. 

Just a year of development for something like this?

Sounds sketchy. But while I'm sekptical I also remain an optimistic attitude and hope they took some inspiration from the other team with the mythological bird creature in its name and build something remarkabe in secrecy.

 

I will however wait with my decison and verdict until streamers like BlackBox711 who flew the 789 until he retired a couple of months ago, get their hands on it and evaluate it.

Because he never gives recommendations to buy something and just presents what he sees and then invites his viewers to consider for themselves if that is worth a purchase.

7 hours ago, Noel said:

But maybe, like remodeling a home, it's more difficult than starting from scratch.

3D modeling is time consuming and expensive ... textures are handcrafted to wrap on geometric primitives and can take a lot of fine tuning to get them to look right.  Unless MS/Asobo make the source modeling files available to this developer (Vector Studio), they would have to start from scratch.

I think a better option would be to buy the 3D modeling source from Quality Wings (which maybe what happened, who knows), get that into 3DSMax and update as needed.

As far as Vector-sim.com ... protected owner hosted by GoDaddy.  There is a company called Vector Simulations from Czech Republic that did some work for Train Sim World but no idea if it's the same company.  

Still looking forward to a new 787 release.

There is more information on who Ellie from Vector is. Ellie posted at the official MSFS forum today: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/u/ellsgaming/activity

Buf if you look af Ellie's posting history, she formally represented iniBuilds in the past. So when Vector says their team is made up of flightsim employees from other projects and other well known companies, at least with Ellie, there seems to be some credibility there.

Now if Ellie left iniBuilds for this startup, it must have been alluring enough to leave a stable job with iniBuilds for the startup. Whoever the head of Vector is, they had enough pull to convince an iniBuilds employee to join their team.

Edit: A330 Driver posted a Youtube video and he did a lot of digging on Ellie. According to A330 Driver, Ellie is with Gaya, so Gaya could be involved with this 787 in some capacity. A330 Driver is also speculating Gaya is working with PMDG on their 747.

Edited February 28Feb 28 by abrams_tank

I'm in a wait an see on this project. Hope it is not just hope and hype. Sounds too good too quick to me from what they published so far.  We will see.

Edited February 28Feb 28 by JBDB-MD80

Ok good to hear you'll get my money if it's at least QW level.

10 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

There is more information on who Ellie from Vector is. Ellie posted at the official MSFS forum today: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/u/ellsgaming/activity

Buf if you look af Ellie's posting history, she formally represented iniBuilds in the past. So when Vector says their team is made up of flightsim employees from other projects and other well known companies, at least with Ellie, there seems to be some credibility there.

Now if Ellie left iniBuilds for this startup, it must have been alluring enough to leave a stable job with iniBuilds for the startup. Whoever the head of Vector is, they had enough pull to convince an iniBuilds employee to join their team.

Edit: A330 Driver posted a Youtube video and he did a lot of digging on Ellie. According to A330 Driver, Ellie is with Gaya, so Gaya could be involved with this 787 in some capacity. A330 Driver is also speculating Gaya is working with PMDG on their 747.

Interesting rumors…maybe this (hitherto unknown) Ellie might come to the rescue of us 787 lovers. 

In contrast, I recall, Corey Ford and Ernie Alston were already household (FSX) names, before they developed 757/787.

I particularly used to like that FSBUILD flight planner program by Ernie Alston.

11 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

There is more information on who Ellie from Vector is. Ellie posted at the official MSFS forum today: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/u/ellsgaming/activity

Buf if you look af Ellie's posting history, she formally represented iniBuilds in the past. So when Vector says their team is made up of flightsim employees from other projects and other well known companies, at least with Ellie, there seems to be some credibility there.

Now if Ellie left iniBuilds for this startup, it must have been alluring enough to leave a stable job with iniBuilds for the startup. Whoever the head of Vector is, they had enough pull to convince an iniBuilds employee to join their team.

Edit: A330 Driver posted a Youtube video and he did a lot of digging on Ellie. According to A330 Driver, Ellie is with Gaya, so Gaya could be involved with this 787 in some capacity. A330 Driver is also speculating Gaya is working with PMDG on their 747.

 

There was a photo on Gaya's new website of them working on a 747 cockpit and the file name mentioned PMDG. I think they have removed it now as I can't find it again but yeah.

 

Edit: Found it on a Discord server: 

Edited February 28Feb 28 by Zangoose

14 hours ago, Farlis said:

Just a year of development for something like this?

Sounds sketchy.

Exactly my thoughts. Also Marketplace release... I'm very sceptical. None the less, I hope they can pull it off and surprise me in a positive way.

I'm definitely looking forward to the 787. Interesting how Qantas apparently deliberated for quite a while between using the 787 and A350 for the SYD-LHR and SYD-JFK nonstops. I still like to fly those ultra long hauls, but definitely cheating. I avoid all the sid's, stars, airspace closures, and only use Great Circle Mapper and Earth Nullschool Wind Atlas to plot a few waypoints along the way and off I go. Not getting into the background but on the surface it must be incredibly annoying for the airlines to deal with so many airspace restrictions, enroute diversions and such. The SYD-LHR nonstop is supposed to be commencing soon, but seems like a very tough one to plan. SYD-JFK would seem a bit more flexible regarding routing.

Edited February 28Feb 28 by Antipodeslonghaul

2 hours ago, Zangoose said:

 

There was a photo on Gaya's new website of them working on a 747 cockpit and the file name mentioned PMDG. I think they have removed it now as I can't find it again but yeah.

 

Edit: Found it on a Discord server: 

Lol, nice find. Well, now we know Gaya is involved in the PMDG 747 project 🤣

Where did anyone get the idea that this aircraft will only be in development for one year? The statement regarding a release in 2026 almost certainly means that it has been in development for a long time up to this point.