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I think you’ve got it bang on here. Although interest in our hobby has grown significantly since the release of MSFS (along with a much bigger market for addons) sometimes it’s easy to forget how niche it still is, especially for high fidelity addons. The teams working on these projects simply aren’t going to have the resources of major studios and yes some bugs are to be expected in early releases. Frankly I find it incredible that there are devs willing to put in a huge amount of time upfront before ever getting a product to market and generating any revenue. Ultimately, though I was on the fence given the early feedback, my curiosity got the better of me and I made the purchase. Glad I did, there’s certainly areas for improvement, but I’m 2/2 in having issue free, enjoyable flights. Side note, try taking the Sports /VIP Delta version with 72 pax capacity for a run, lots of fun in this (IRL) overpowered aircraft! I just went screaming out of MDW on a short hop up to Winnipeg.

I’m a bit torn on this one… from what I’m reading it’s moved from an instant buy to more uncertain if/when I’ll buy.

Seems a good example of why devs should stick with established stores all the way through instead of forcing people to their website.

That would be a fun departure in the 757.

Well shoot, long home from work on the Canadian east coast and I figured I'd be flying this tonight. Hopefully it releases soon.

One issue I came across is not being able to select a runway on the departure or arrival performance screens in the EFB. Clicking on the runway entry did nothing.

Hopefully the Q200/Q300 is a huge success for them and they are enticed to do the Q400 next.

Pretty excited for this one, lots of great regional and remote flying opportunities with the Dash 8, even if it’s not a Q400. Air Nova and Air Atlantic used to fly a bunch of short, 30 minutes or shorter routes with these in my neck of the woods that aren’t flown any longer…hope they are included in the repaints.

I think for me it’s because I can’t really identify with a business jet. Have never been on one, probably never will. Airliners for me fill the spot. Having said that, this sounds like a cool project and may get added to my hangar of quality business jets that I don’t fly often enough 😁

The auto frame generation mode is great, between that and 6x FG I’m staying largely at 120fps without wasting extra resources going beyond my monitor’s refresh rate. A nice set and forget feature.

Has anyone bought the airport that can share any impressions?

Honestly, with the pace that other Boeing addons are being developed at (including, but not just PMDG), there's a chance for INI to beat some to market. A 737-200 also comes to mind.

The Winwing one is certainly an upgrade, but I’ll always caution people to have eyes wide open on how bad your experience with that company can be if something goes wrong. It’s a good experience until it’s not. A sample of threads from the hardware forum here:

I hadn’t bothered upgrading my 2020 purchase until this was announced, made sense to pay the small fee to get v2 for “free”.

I’m sure this will be well done, but I do have to wonder why another biz jet ahead of the long awaited and in development E145. I can’t imagine this was much easier to do the systems modelling on etc.

I flew it for the first time in ages today with the update. Very nice flight, no issues. Whether it’s worth picking up depends on what you want. I’m not sure if there’s a discount / upgrade path from v1 to v2, but it is fun to fly.

Wow that could be a huge improvement if it turns out to be accurate.

The default airport building textures are immersion killers for sure. It’s odd, I would think that would be relatively easy for Asobo to improve on. They can be generic, be could be a much more feasible generic that would suit most GA airfields at least. I do remember running msfs2020 all generic in the early days before we had addons and was so blown away by it that I could look past the deficiencies. I was also flying almost only GA then, exploring this new wonderful virtual world while waiting for Airliners and their airports to develop.

Any idea if these updates have made it to the marketplace? I think that’s where I bought this one.

This is my view exactly. I have no problem paying extra for the service when it’s warranted, but not as a standing monthly fee regardless of how much I do or don’t use it. Summer simming is relatively rare for me unless it’s raining out, I try to spend as much of our short summers outdoors as possible.

Awesome! I believe I called Kennedy Steve back on the original announcement thread 😀 I look forward to learning more.

Wow I completely forgot this was in development, will look forward to first impressions.

It really is. I flew YYZ-YXE last night and performance was great, right inline with other detailed addons. Hopefully they can figure out why it’s so poor for some people.

I do recall during the 2024 total eclipse people were able to see the effects, though if I recall correctly you don’t get the cool corona effect visually, I think it’s more just the light level dropping and you see a chunk of the sun missing.

Enjoy! I’m having a lot of fun with it and I hope you do too.