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Aamir specifically said they are wrapping up now, all the bugs are fixed and it is just testing and integrating and that it will be weeks NOT months so that implies less than a month. Of course I might be wrong but we will see soon enough. In any case they seem to be building something extremely detailed, with stuff that not even A2A has attempted and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in MSFS. Did anyone notice the commnent about 16 pages worth of changelog JUST for the new avionics? And all that for a FREE upgrade, for an add-on that has been out for over a year! I really do hope their A319-321 sell well because they definitely deserve the money and recognition for such a huge achievement. I hope they stick around for a while in FS2024 and beyond.

End of February seems to be what they are implying, but they have been burnt before by giving estimates so this is purely my own personal understanding of what they have said in there over the last few weeks.

Even the statement that Asobo will provide what the Devs are asking for the WX interface in 2024 is speculation and we have no idea whether that will be again one of those things that the insane Fenix crew will build from scratch, fully custom and running independently.

They also promised a whole host of effects for the engine smoke when the SDK would add the particle effects and they never did anything about it or even mentioned it again, although the SDK has supported it for years now.

Yes, 100%. Just make sure you use 4k textures though, and not the 8k default.

The features & behaviours Aamir mentioned above I have only seen in Accusim aircraft and the fact we have them for a jet engine is amazing. Can't wait to blow up a few engines 🙂

One thing is for sure, they are working their @sses off. Someone from the team mentioned the manhours booked collectively for last month and it was in the tens of thousands. It's coming, but they won't say anything until they're ready to push the upload button. P.S. bear in mind these guys have not been paid after the initial release (which to be fair must have been extremely successful) so if you want to support the Fenix team for more add-ons in the future you have to buy the upcoming expansion packages for A319 and A321. I know it's a day one purchase for me personally.

So, PEBCAK then.

Finally no performance degradation after a 2 hour flight! Update was a huge pain in the @ss with all the files being corrupted but after reading the tip here on avsim to delete them from the folder and start over it went well without any further issues.

I thought both models were coming together until now so I also believe this is the only way to do this. Good on them for being transparent and best of luck with the release. I'd rather have a nice working plane than a buggy mess that was released before it was ready.

Easyjet is using single engine taxi almost always, both for departure where they start engine #1 halfway through taxi as well as for arrival where they almost instantly turn it off when it has cooled down and coast to the gate with only a single engine. I am not sure if they keep the APU on for that though or if they use crossbleed to start it, that is the question.

I just hope they come out with some other planes soon as I am absolutely not interested in a Comanche, and that's the only reason I haven't bought it yet. I used to fly their C182 in P3D and it pretty much spoilt any other GA regardless of size and speed for me as well. It was alive even within the P3D limitations so I can't wait to see what they do in MSFS.

Thanks for the link, I had it in my to do list but never had the time. It shouldn't crash though, there's a long list of serious bugs that hopefully will get fixed with the first update. I think the worst one is the engines dying when switching cross feed on and off.

Can anyone add a flight plan without the FMC crashing and taking all the avionics with it? It will either do weird stuff like add the same few waypoints ten different times adding tens of pages to the flight plan or it will just create a discontinuity which is not recoverable and the whole system goes haywire after that... It's a good enough plane and I have to say although it's not at Majestic Q400 levels of systems detail, it is much better than the old flight 1 ATR so I would definitely enjoy island hopping in it if I could get the FMC not to crash even once....

This is by far setting a new standard for all airliners in MSFS, payware included... The physics-enabled control surfaces are things that I miss even on Fenix for example or the shake of the cargo doors as they are moved upwards by pressurized actuators... If they bring all this work into the A380 I do not think I will be happy with anything else after that. Fingers crossed the performance is acceptable as creating this huge custom code is one thing, making it run as efficiently as possible is another. Best of luck to the FBW team, I knew there was going to be something special hidden there as they were silently working on the A380 but I never expected such detail and beauty.