4 hours ago, Nandengo12 said:

iniBuilds is developing projects as a standalone business. The Majestic posting specifically said they are working on this on the side, so regular job and family etc. get in the way. There's a big difference in development time between full and barely part time.

Makes me wonder how fast and effective they can support their aircraft once it has been released. My guess is that sooner or later a Sim Update will break something and Majestic will take years to fix it.

Yeah based on this I’d say we’ll be flying classic and military Dash 8’s long before the Q400.

TBH, I hope another enterprising dev (maybe one of the two working on Dash 8’s, maybe not) sees how far away Majestic is from completion, and how slow they’re working and comes to the realization they could get a Q400 to market sooner.

As with everything the last 20% takes 80% of the time ... in the meantime addons which release at 80% will do well while Majestic tries in vain to reach perfection.

6 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

Majestic is super slow, especially if you compare them against iniBuilds. They first announced the Q400 for MSFS in 2020 but they were waiting on SDK improvements first. So I guess it's been 6 years since their announcement?

From the coding perspective, they said that they are "updating systems functionality in the flight deck." They didn't say more than that, but the logic for the Q400 systems code is already done if they are just porting over the logic from their P3D code. It's a matter of integrating their systems logic code with the MSFS SDK.

If I were to guess, I think the Q400 from Majestic will be released by 2028, so within another 2 years. 2 years is still a long time when compared to the speed of iniBuilds, but for Majestic, I am going to guess that they are probably at the 75% completion mark of their project?

Big difference with having a small team and a job verses a big team pumping out products and quality lacking

1 hour ago, abrams_tank said:

Does anybody know how good SimWorks Studio airliners are? Can SimWorks Studio match the fidelity of Majestic?

Without knowing what Majestic can actually deliver in MSFS it's impossible to give an accurate answer but in P3D the product they delivered was absolutely top notch and intended as a true training tool.

SWS aren't (so far at least) in that league.

Edited Sunday at 01:33 PM5 days by Matchstick

SWS are also not making a Q400

In the days of P3D cottage industry style development worked ok and we were grateful for what we got.

In this current, much more mainstream mass market slow development will just get steamrolled, there’s big money at play now.

Even PMDG have been lucky that no one has poached the 747-400 in the intervening 6 years since MSFS reappeared.

Looks and sounds like a straight port from FSX/P3D. Back in the day that level of graphical detail and quality was acceptable, because it was also performance friendly. They will need to step up their game for MSFS 2024 considerably.

11 minutes ago, thepilot said:

Looks and sounds like a straight port from FSX/P3D. Back in the day that level of graphical detail and quality was acceptable, because it was also performance friendly. They will need to step up their game for MSFS 2024 considerably.

All of the images and video provided are a work in progress, and modeling on the flightdeck has not begun.

3 minutes ago, carlanthony24 said:

All of the images and video provided are a work in progress, and modeling on the flightdeck has not begun.

Seems like they just wanted to show something for the sake of showing...

Just now, thepilot said:

Seems like they just wanted to show something for the sake of showing...

You've been living under a rock people have been wanting to see something regardless developers cannot win. Wouldn't hurt to read the post they've put you wouldn't of needed to write the comment you did.

Edited Sunday at 03:00 PM5 days by carlanthony24

Another 6 years and we will see release candidate :(

8 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

Pinging @micstatic , you might want to read about this update, since this is your most anticipated plane for MSFS 👍

Saw it. But thanks. A quick reminder just how essential a third party sound pack is for this plane.

52 minutes ago, micstatic said:

Saw it. But thanks. A quick reminder just how essential a third party sound pack is for this plane.

Very much doubt a third party sound pack will be needed wasn't needed for P3D sounds were spot on.

54 minutes ago, carlanthony24 said:

Very much doubt a third party sound pack will be needed wasn't needed for P3D sounds were spot on.

There were two sound packs for p3d version. One for switches and such. Another for the rest. They were huge improvement