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It's good to see some professional developers supporting this as well. Emerald and GotFriends have listed some of their freeware stuff. I'll be uploading any new scenery there too, rather than on that other site from now on.

For me, it's one of the best (subjective) feeling aircraft in the sim right now. I don't have IRL experience in anything larger than a Kingair, but this one just feels right, more so after the latest update. These days I limit myself to flying BKSQ, A2A and FSW ... and this one. Never liked the HJet. But to answer your question, a good solid aircraft on the ground, air and during the transition between the two. I quite enjoy the take-off sequence in particular. For what's it's worth, definitely recommended.

Curious. Mind telling us what those "septic" and "tasty" business jets are?

These are a FlightsimWARE aircraft, not FSReborn. FSW also sell through their own store (unlike FSR). And yeah, not buying anything FSR either, marketplace-only being a major factor.

The standby vac works off the engine manifold, and obviously the pressure there will change with your throttle. So yeah, that's a feature 😎. Mine said "Vacuum Pump Partial" as well, but there was no vacuum, so not sure what the difference to a full failure would look like.

They have different hand-crafted airports and POIs in them, so you'll want both.

To add to Ron and Bernard's experience, I generally disable the fault system, but decided to leave it on rate 1x for my "taking her home" trip (12,000 nm from Wiley Post to Tasmania, via the Aleutians, non-GPS). Last night I flew from Juneau to Valdez and I was nearing my destination when I noticed a little red light had come on in my peripheral vision; "Instrument Source - Pump Inop Warning" it said. Ah! Having watched Nick's promotional videos, I remembered him demonstrating the standby vacuum source. But being in VMC I decided to wait and see. And sure enough, a few minutes later the attitude gyro started to wobble, and then fully tumble. Time to turn on the standby vacuum source for a scud run into Valdez! Very enjoyable I must say, but I'm a bit peeved about having a 2,000 hour MTBF item fail in a 20 hour old aircraft. Luckily Valdez has a super efficient shop and fixed it in no time, at no cost. I had a couple of other failures already; the courtesy light and the baggage compartment light, both with much lower MTBFs. On a side note, why is most of the SE Alaska coast covered in snow in the middle of August, with temps well above freezing? Rhetorical 🤔

They're not rocks, they're "cars". Some pretty bad PG around there!

So why aren't Microsoft/Asobo doing that? Or maybe they are, and the result you can see is the default scenery?

I started messing around with the SDK back in 2022, creating a few simple airport enhancements ... i.e. placing an object or two. I'm now at a stage where I could create quite complex airports from scratch, if I wanted, including custom models. But if I had to rely on a bunch of AI slop back then, I don't think I'd ever gotten off the ground 🤣 For anyone interested, the MSFS SDK reference includes detailed (yet easily followed) tutorials on how to do all that and more: https://docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/html/7_Samples_Tutorials/Tutorials/Creating_Or_Replacing_An_Airport.htm

Pretty sure you can place "SimObjects" (as opposed to "Scenery" objects) using Simconnect. That's how AI traffic gets injected. No reason a SimObject can't be static, and it wouldn't surprise me that this is how they add the FBO. Utilities like WAMA and Campout do that as well. Having said that, I have no answer to the OP, other than to say it shouldn't be that hard for someone who knows their way around Simconnect.

"Enjoy lifelike realism and visual fidelity through 40 areas of interest..." First shot of the video: a bunch of roos among giant cardon cacti in front of Uluru/Ayers Rock! Anyone guess what's wrong with that? A few of shots in: a crocodile in the "Murray Valley National Park"? Ok, I've seen enough. Speaking of realism, you may want to check out my fix for Australia's salt/dry lakes ... unless you want to go boating in central Oz. https://flightsim.to/addon/27376/australian-salt-lakes-fix

I'm really looking forward to those adjustable rudder pedals. They will be really neat since right now they're crammed right up against the wall under my desk. I wouldn't mind an extra inch or two of leg room.

You can always sign up for the $1 Xbox Game Pass for 10 days (which includes the PC version of 2024). That's what I did, to satisfy my curiosity. Then I went back to enjoy what I have with 2020. And for the record, 2024 performs way worse on my system (i7-9700K, RX6700XT, 64GB RAM, 4K) while 2020 runs just fine at a fixed 30fps at similar settings. I have to scale my display to 50% with 2024 to account for the graphic "improvements" (like trees, which admittedly are nice, and the displacement mapping ground textures, which are just fake anyway).

How do these kind of topics ("what we know will be released") always turn into "I wish somebody would make a <insert your favorite a/c>"? Rhetorical question, no need to reply...