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No, from my understanding, BlueBird will be adding a sensitivity slider to the EFB. See my comment above.

BlueBird is adding a sensitivity slider in the EFB in their next patch: https://discord.com/channels/1123990664934346753/1123990665567666259/1564774615752908811 I think what they won't change is the "pitch sensitivity" in the flight model. If their real life 757 pilots are saying the flight model is correct, then it doesn't make sense to change the flight model. But the sensitivity slider in the EFB that is coming in the next patch, should help a lot of people adjust the sensitivity of their joystick/yoke better.

That's interesting. This real life 757 pilot says BlueBird got the flight model right, and that the real life 757 is actually a twitchy plane. Ok, I need to see more feedback from real life 757 pilots, but this is certainly relevant feedback,

I think you and @LRBS should join the BlueBird Discord channel, and when they enable the Discord channel again, and give some feedback to the BlueBird team on the flight model, since you both have experience with the real 757. The BlueBird Discord channel is currently locked, because there was a lot of people angry when they couldn't release it on Friday, October 23rd. But now that it has been released, I think it's very likely they will unlock the Discord channel sometime over the next two weeks to allow discussion again. Their Discord channels is: https://discord.com/invite/bluebirdsim

My understanding is the sounds were composed by Boris:

So how does the freeware add-ons for MSFS compare to P3D, XP, and even FSX?

From XP72:

Wow, approval of the manual from Jon B, our resident real life 787 pilot at Avsim, that is pretty good! Hopefully, the actual add-on will turn out good as well.

Just a warning, the manual is like 200 MB. I clicked on it and it automatically downloaded, and I saw that it's 200 MB in size. So don't click on this link if you don't want to trigger a huge download on your device. The manual is here (only click on this link if you are prepared for the 200 MB download): https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1123990665567666259/1559699279352832072/BlueBird_757_Master_Manual_v1.00.pdf?ex=6ad006a6&is=6aceb526&hm=7da6d0dca494ffb03867381edac31b25e9a6347e98f99601b9de80442a421598& I got this link from this Reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/1x5fz1l/bluebird_has_released_a_357page_boeing_757_manual/

I wonder if iniBulids will target the business jet market in MSFS, because they see it as the next area where they can make a profit. Almost all the modern Boeings and Airbus are covered in MSFS, so there isn't much more space there to grow further. They can do version 2s of their current airliners, which is what they are doing for the A350.

I just saw this update too. If this Vector 787 is good, it will be a watershed moment for flight simulation, because there is no high fidelity 787 at the moment. My understanding is that the Quality Wings 787 was only medium fidelity, so if Vector exceeds Quality Wings, it will become the best 787 add-on for a flight sim.

For the Boeing lineup, a 767 makes the most sense for iniBuilds, because Bluebird would probably be 3 years away from releasing a 767. That's more than enough time for iniBuilds to beat Bluebird to releasing a 767. For the 787, Vector is supposed to release the 787 by the end of this year. Even if Vector is delayed and end up releasing the 787 in the first half of 2027, I don't think iniBuilds can beat Vector to releasing a 787. Plus, if the Vector 787 ends up being high fidelity, that's even more difficult for iniBulds to beat, so iniBuilds would end up potentially losing money on a 787 project. It may also be the 747, but it typically takes PMDG 2 to 3 years to come out with the next Boeing airliner, and given PMDG released the last variant of the 777 some time ago and they have been working on the 747 since then, it's possible that the 747 from PMDG may be released next year, or at the latest, probably the first half of 2028, so that's not much time for iniBuilds to release the 747, if they want to beat PMDG. Now the one plane that iniBuilds could do quietly and get to the market first is the Q400. At the rate Majestic are going at, it's probably at least another 2 years before Majestic releases their Q400 for MSFS. And I think I am being charitable when I say at least 2 years. If there is an MSFS 2028 (this is unknown at this point, I'm just saying "if" there is), and MSFS 2028 actually came out, Majestic would be so far behind, especially if they have been coding for MSFS 2020 🤣

As Jorg said at 1:18:53, they are working on the clouds but can't show their work yet. From the tone of Jorg's voice, I get that it's a major project and overhaul. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up in MSFS 2028 (or whatever the next version of MSFS is).

Just submitted a weather question! Thanks for posting this link!

Yes, I am starting to think that all the major new features we are requesting, including improvements to the weather, may end up appearing in MSFS 2028 (or whatever the next version is). Working Title has done an AAU for MSFS 2024, and of course the 707 was redone and made much better, but aside from that, I don't think there have been major feature inclusions since MSFS 2024 was launched (maybe I missed a few plane enhancements or plane additions though). I thought they would start to include major new features again after SU4, or SU5, when MSFS 2024 had become much more stable, but we're moving into SU7 and it's mainly been bug fixes, with small feature enhancements being added (but no major feature enhancements, aside from AAU).