13 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

maybe Echo 19

The sounds are echo

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by Tuskin38

18 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

I didn't get any great pictures but I was at the Synaptic A220 booth at FSExpo today for about 15 min just listening to the developers. Both were very relaxed and they seemed very talented. It's funny people think this thing is vaporware but they were doing two demos (for people to try - I didn't dare because I don't fly airlines much haha). The state of the product looked very complete to my eyes! The avionics looked absolutely phenomenal. I did poke my head up really close to their demo monitors a few times. They captured the whine of the A220 nicely as well - I can't remember who is doing the sounds - maybe Echo 19? It could just be Synaptic themselves too.

I was curious about the ini partnership so I asked them - ini is basically their publisher but ini also did the textures. Everything else is done by Synaptic Simulations.

I will absolutely be getting this - mostly because I love unique avionics but also because of how cool the two main devs seemed to be at the booth. They are well aware people have been waiting for years for this hehe. They didn't give any release date hints. But looking at the state of the product I'd say this year for sure.

edit: Oh and one more connection with ini - this is speculation on my part - but the Global 6000 bizjet teaser from ini seems very plausible since the A220 share's avionics with the Global 6000 (Proline Fusion). We desperately need a long range bizjet!!

Really appreciate you stopping by and saying hello, Ryan!

18 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

I didn't get any great pictures but I was at the Synaptic A220 booth at FSExpo today for about 15 min just listening to the developers. Both were very relaxed and they seemed very talented. It's funny people think this thing is vaporware but they were doing two demos (for people to try - I didn't dare because I don't fly airlines much haha). The state of the product looked very complete to my eyes! The avionics looked absolutely phenomenal. I did poke my head up really close to their demo monitors a few times. They captured the whine of the A220 nicely as well - I can't remember who is doing the sounds - maybe Echo 19? It could just be Synaptic themselves too.

I was curious about the ini partnership so I asked them - ini is basically their publisher but ini also did the textures. Everything else is done by Synaptic Simulations.

I will absolutely be getting this - mostly because I love unique avionics but also because of how cool the two main devs seemed to be at the booth. They are well aware people have been waiting for years for this hehe. They didn't give any release date hints. But looking at the state of the product I'd say this year for sure.

edit: Oh and one more connection with ini - this is speculation on my part - but the Global 6000 bizjet teaser from ini seems very plausible since the A220 share's avionics with the Global 6000 (Proline Fusion). We desperately need a long range bizjet!!

Thanks for that first hand update!

The addon sounded like it was heading in the right direction the last time a hands on trade show demo was given, and the devs were quite forthright even back then. Glad to see they’re progressing.

This one will be a skip for me - the BBJ1 meets all my airliner aspirations, and considering the performance.

I’m not even sure I’ll go for the iB Global as “all” you get is a bit higher speed and alt. I just don’t aspire to flights over 1-2 hours, and if I want to go high and fast, I have the TMS YF-23 and SuperCruise 😎

35 minutes ago, UrgentSiesta said:

This one will be a skip for me - the BBJ1 meets all my airliner aspirations, and considering the performance.

Synaptic is planning on doing the 220 ACJ later as a free update if you want a more private/business version.

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by Tuskin38

1 hour ago, IniSteve said:

Really appreciate you stopping by and saying hello, Ryan!

Absolutely, as I said the booth was really friendly and even though I didn't attempt to fly it, many of the people I watched fly it really enjoyed it!

And now please, more info on your Global LOL!

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by ryanbatc

59 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Synaptic is planning on doing the 220 ACJ later as a free update if you want a more private/business version.

That’s great to know - thanks! 🙏

for me, tho, it’s just more about limiting the number of nav suites I have to deal with.

I basically reserve my memory banks for DCS aircraft 😁🤙

Between the LearJet and Gx000 aircraft, I’m Pretty set