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I found a good one here that is pretty straight forward without all the BS noise we get from other live steamers with flybys and switching a million views a min. He shows you how he operates the aircraft while going through the setup, covers the EFB and to take a short flight and shows you the manuals as well.

The way I see it, FF will not have made their announcement for (in this case) the 757 v3 aircraft well into next year or beyond at the rate they went through with the testing of the 777v2. The testing for the 787 v1 may not happen until mid year after we see the A350 which I think won't be slated for alpha testing until at least the begin of next year 2027 if we we're to estimate their time table correctly. Bluebird aircraft is built and running now. If we are to believe that they are actually going to do this, what they may do is follow a roadmap of constructing the Xplane version based on what they already done with modification that are sim specific. They built their own flight model which they are already ahead of the game. If they were looking to make the aircraft for birth sims, they would leave themselves a pathway to making that happen. In that case I can see BB 757 out a lot sooner than FF at this stage due to its working design already in place. FF 757 V3 will be base their development on what they are doing for the B787 while building it from the ground up which is not finish since the A350 is their top priority. Of course we are bases this on speculation that this will happen even though we have not receive an official announcement from Bluebird yet. Although it doesn't hurt to be hopeful. 😊

Flight factor will bring a new version of its 757 sometime in the future that will most likely get built from the ground up to be inline with their new release 777, 787. Bluebird 757 will bring those feature that are not in the current FF757 to us a lot sooners, given how fast they are able to port their aircraft. But it is good news to hear given how popular this aircraft is among its users.

This video was just put out by the developers of the plugin that convers ever detail. The ground service covers quite a lot as a freeware that puts these plugin into payware quality and it only beta. Here is background of this plugin https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/102141-gs4xp%C2%A9%E2%84%A2/?page=2&tab=comments

Considering where we have been in hoping to see this aircraft get develop, I am considering getting it not only because I would like to have the aircraft but to support the developer if nothing else.

Here is the reason from their discord: SASL Service Outage Notice Due to the current PHP security situation, we are temporarily suspending all SASL services. This includes aircraft activations, developer protection services, the SASL admin panel, and our support ticket system. Important: Products that are already activated will continue to work normally during this outage. We are actively working to resolve the situation and will restore all services as soon as it is safe to do so. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding. FlightFactor Team <:FF:745949491148095558> @everyone Here is the update: SASL Services Restored We are pleased to announce that all SASL services are back online, including aircraft activations, developer protection services, and the SASL admin panel. Please note: Our support ticket system remains temporarily unavailable. We will publish a separate announcement as soon as it is back online. Thank you for bearing with us while we worked to restore these services. FlightFactor Team <:FF:745949491148095558> @everyone You should be able to downloaded it.

That might be true but there are other possibility like Just Flight announcements of their version A300B4 buses that will eat into inibuilds lead in that area that might force them to get back to their roots of what made them who they are.

Absolutely!!!! I will say this, that their X-plane 11 was the best from A300 up the A310 and Beluga. The effort put into the development of those aircraft along with introducing the way loading affecting the take off (especially in the Beluga) and painstaking detail that show in loading that on the FF777 freighter comes close, the introduction of the EFB flight plan loading with fully functional ACARS and CPDLC with the print out, the care you must give in following procedure made those aircraft very attractive. Now those things are everywhere that we taken for granted. They really demonstrated a lot of passion and pride at the time that you see in their demo's and tutorials that I would like to see return in a new X plane aircraft from inibuilds.

Yes I saw and it is beg news indeed. They have been busy rolling to more goodies for X plane.

Wow I didn't see that statement but what a great turn around. They finally are taken X plane and its marketplace seriously by seeing the writing on the wall. I guess you don't have to have a majority in the market place to keep the 3D development focus. You just have to have enough people interested in your sim and there are plenty who are interested in X plane.

Here is the video on how to install and use the MTK.

If anyone is looking for the very scenic Island of Mykonos, here it is. https://fselite.net/content/skydom-releases-mykonos-airport-and-surrounding-island-scenery-for-xp12/ You can pick this up at the Xplane.org store or Simmarket.

Well it appears he is being too speculative in his review vs looking at the actual presentation as well as the interview with Ben at the FSExpo. I thought I had miss something when they posted Stephen review link on the org.

I saw this on the org, a nice overview of the X plane 12 presentation was given by Stephen of "Xplane review". It really goes into depth over the graphic portion who some on here are wondering what's next. He explains it all in this link below. https://xplanereviews.com/forums/topic/19018-x-plane-12-saint-paul-minnesota-flightsim-expo-2026/

Toliss has started the round of update of the Airbus series starting with eh A320neo. https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/348030-toliss-a320-updated-to-v131/ "Hi everyone! the wait is over - we are starting our next round of updates with the A320neo and ceo. This is one of the biggest updates we have done for the A320 since its initial release. The update considers feedback from the community, from our professional customers and incorporates a lot of the new features that we developped throughout our MSFS adventure. Here are the highlights of this update: - Completely reworked EFB with a unified interface - Integrated Navigraph maps and charts (with fallback to OpenStreetMap if you don't have a Navigraph subscription) - Simbrief OFP integration in the EFB - Higher display resolutions for improved clarity and realism - New inflight option to skip directly to any cruise waypoint - Support for SayIntentions CPDLC - Support of IVAO ATIS requests through the Hoppie network - Improved FLEX computations for greater accuracy In addition, V1.3.1 includes a large number of improvements and bug fixes to ensure an overall smooth user experience. You can get the update via Skunkcrafts and it will be available for direct download from the stores shortly! For a detailled list of changes, change the A320 official announcements thread: https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/285577-a320neo-official-announcements-thread/#findComment-3039512 Enjoy! GK"

No one from LR has mention of an XP13. I far as we seen through the roadmaps that includes scenery improvements are happening during the XP 12 run.

I do my best to support the developers as much as I can. But I also find it important to join their discord as well. It is the best place where you can make your voice heard on the things you may want. The feature request I think is very value in letting them know through voting for the feature that were requested as well as letting them know the platform/OS you are interest in seeing support.

Release Date: May 21, 2026 ATCThe calculation of the estimated radio strength will no longer cause a crash Graphics EngineA warning is now shown at startup if the user has a Raptor Lake CPU with unstable microcode Fixed a memory leak when running on macOS Implemented various fixes to improve stability VRThe G-loaded camera now works again in VR mode (XPD-18131) Yoke manipulators will latch/unlatch correctly again (XPD-18142) Fixed a camera issue in VR when changing aircraft while using real-world weather (XPD-18082) Improved the alignment of Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 controllers (XPD-18134) On Apple Vision Pro, the virtual hand mesh is now hidden when visionOS shows your real arm through passthrough, so you no longer see a virtual hand stacked on top of your real one (XPD-18107) Refreshed the VR radial menu with dedicated icons for the MR sub-buttons and adjusted spacing for a consistent layout across all sub-menus Hand Tracking, VRS, and Mixed Reality capability warnings in VR Settings now use a clearer, more visible badge style consistent with other warnings on the page WeatherFixed a memory leak in the real-weather downloader SDKXPLMPluginReload will no longer cause a reload loop (XPD-18139) Temporarily removed threading checks for XPLMGetNthPlugin, XPLMReloadPlugins, and XPLMIsFeatureEnabled to avoid breaking existing plugins; these checks will be re-enabled in the next major release https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-4-3-release-notes/

This announcement came in on the org that the 732 TwinJet will come in the first have of June, just around the corner. Below is the developer announcement. https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/346917-announcement-flyjsim-732-twinjet-v4-for-x-plane-12-coming-first-half-of-june/ "What's New: 🔧 XP12 Flight Dynamics — Revamped for X-Plane 12's simulation engine 📡 Advanced Avionics — Swappable digital 833Hz radios, new digital ADF panel 📻 Libradio Integration — Realistic radio range and signal behavior 🪨 Gravel Kit — Unprepared and remote strip operations 🔄 Custom SP-77 Autopilot & UNS-1 FMS — Fully custom systems with optional assisted modes for altitude capture and IAS hold 🖥️ MFD-640 Display — Weather radar, terrain display, moving map and nav data Pricing and upgrade path will be announced on release day. Follow the FlyJSim Discord for closer-to-launch updates."

Here is an update with more details in the new VR coming in XP 12.4.3 https://www.x-plane.com/2026/04/x-plane-12-4-3-early-preview-lets-talk-vr/

That would be interesting indeed. I wouldn't mind seeing some of my old aircraft in Dos like to F-19 and F 117. Didn't have the horsepower to run those back then. 🤣 But what I am most thrill about the re writing of VR which didn't get as much attention since come to XP12 and would like to see how they are able to improve performances. I like the idea that they bringing it to the Apple Vision Pro, gives me idea's about where I might like to go in the future. 😁

Possible other priorities may had gotten in the way. Remember, they roll out feature not in the order in which they are ready. Plus at the time 12.1 was not multithreading, things for flight modeling may have change since then and we might get to see those change through the upcoming road map. Well will have to see. 😊

Gust winds is not a singular function of just weather, Austin corrects gust winds by making adjustment to the flight model in X-plane use of first principle physics as well. He always trying to improve things in the flight model even if you think he is done. He is always discovering something else which what makes these update so interesting and something to look forward to.

😆 Well it's about time that somebody wants to take the time to properly demonstrate the use of these great tools that we all want the developers to continue support for X-plane.

The tutorial covers a lot of things that I was not aware of nor seen in this aircraft. What's nice is they are planning an expert tutorial for those who want have a deeper understanding of specific feature of the aircraft. It also mention a SELCAL feature coming later with a tutorial on that procedure. Looking forward.