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Yeah, I think we should stay civil. A little skepticism is fine though, until some trustable and impartial live streamers get a hold of it and live stream it to the public, or even better, the product is released to the public for sale. Having said that, I think it's okay to give this team the benefit of the doubt for the time being. I remember when the community was very skeptical about the Synaptic team and their announcement of the A220. It's true that the original announcement of the Synaptic A220 was freeware and not commercial, which they later changed. It's also true that Synaptic had to pair up with iniBuilds for the 3D model. But I think it was just the same few developers at the original announcement of the A220, that were there when it was finally released. More or less, the same few developers were able to complete what they set out to do, albeit they did have to change it to a commercial project, and pair up with iniBuilds for the 3D model. It doesn't seem like these ATC projects require a very large team. From my understanding, the BeyondATC team and Say Intentions team aren't that big of a development team either. And these days with AI, you can get a lot of development done with fewer developers, because AI can churn out so much code - the human developer is just supervising AI. If ACE was claiming they were going to make another flight simulator that is better than MSFS - then I would be pretty skeptical. But making another ATC program is very doable with a small team, especially in the age of AI were AI does most of the coding. So I think we should wait for an actual demo, but I wouldn't dismiss this project outright. The people that dismissed Synaptic, well, it turns out that MSFS has a decent A220 now, courtesy of the Synaptic team. And if you check out the developers of the Synaptic team, they are very young adults now, but when they started, I think they were just teenagers, lol.

Here is the update from the Vector team, on their 787 entering Alpha testing: https://vector-sim.com/VECTOR-789-ALPHA/ This second half of 2026 looks to be amazing for MSFS if you love airliners. The Synaptic A220 was just released. And then the iniBuilds A380 and Bluebird 757 should come next. And if everything goes to plan, Vector plans to release this 787 by the end of this year.

Yeah, Microsoft's strategy now is to deploy their games across multiple platforms. I think their support will be quite good on XBox and PS5, it's a nice additional source of revenue for them.

Once this comes out, and the Synaptic A220 and Vector 787 are also released, for major Boeing and Airbus airliners, we're mainly missing the Boeing 747 and Boeing 767, if you want at least a medium fidelity level (ie. IniBuilds) modern Boeing or Airbus airliner in MSFS.

Avsim has character restrictions on the title, but I would have preferred a full title that emphasized a new market for MSFS developers of high fidelity airliners. So the question was whether high fidelity airliners would work on the Playstation 5. But PMDG has confirmed today that their 737 and 777 are now available on the PS5 marketplace for MSFS: https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/general-discussion-news-and-announcements/402293-14jul26-737-fleet-update-bastille-day-wasm-issues-and-some-other-bits-for-you-this-week This is huge news for MSFS developers of high fidelity airliners because it opens yet another whole new market for them to make money from. Obviously, airliners like the Fenix who use an external process, won't work on the Playstation 5. But if the developers keep the design to what PMDG is doing, you can actually have a high fidelity airliner on the Playstation 5. Ultimately, this is great for the overall health of MSFS. I can guarantee you, when new companies like Vector pop up, they are thinking of the total revenue and profit they can earn from MSFS, across all platforms. This may entice more companies like Vector to pop up out of nowhere, if they know that they can earn yet more revenue from a third platform, which is the Playstation 5. And of course, for current developers of MSFS of high fidelity airliners, it provides a nice revenue and profit boost for them as well, if their add-on works on both the XBox and Playstation 5. I honestly look forward to more new developers like Vector popping up, if they realize that not only can they make good money from MSFS on PC and XBox, but they can make good money from MSFS from Playstation 5 as well!

Does anybody know how good SimWorks Studio airliners are? Can SimWorks Studio match the fidelity of Majestic?

Majestic is super slow, especially if you compare them against iniBuilds. They first announced the Q400 for MSFS in 2020 but they were waiting on SDK improvements first. So I guess it's been 6 years since their announcement? From the coding perspective, they said that they are "updating systems functionality in the flight deck." They didn't say more than that, but the logic for the Q400 systems code is already done if they are just porting over the logic from their P3D code. It's a matter of integrating their systems logic code with the MSFS SDK. If I were to guess, I think the Q400 from Majestic will be released by 2028, so within another 2 years. 2 years is still a long time when compared to the speed of iniBuilds, but for Majestic, I am going to guess that they are probably at the 75% completion mark of their project?

Pinging @micstatic , you might want to read about this update, since this is your most anticipated plane for MSFS 👍

Did you turn off Dynamic Settings?

Majestic already responded back in February, so about 4 months ago: https://msfsaddons.com/2026/02/25/majestic-says-dash-8-q400-systems-are-ready-but-the-3d-cockpit-is-holding-up-testing/ So there is comms from Majestic, it's just not frequent.

I saw this post on Reddit and people in that thread are already speculating that Miltech might be working on a Dash 8 for MSFS: Is there any more context on this? On Youtube, I was looking for the FSExpo live stream where Miltech was doing their presentation, but I can't find the recording of the livestream where Miltech was doing their presentation. Can anybody that was at FSExpo, or who watched the livestream, and who watched Miltech's presentation give more context on what Miltech said when they showed this slide?

Just saw this in a Reddit thread:

Choosing the rignt simulator to develop for matters a lot. Like if Vector decided to do this project on P3D or XP, they would probably lose a lot of money. Vector is calculating that the market for MSFS is big enough, that they can earn a nice profit in the end, despite the fact that they have to pay for the salaries of their larger team.

Yeah, I agree with you. I also think iniBuilds may release version 2.0 of their planes eventually, where version 2.0 is a higher fidelity “study level” version, and sell this to the market again, when all the Airbus and Boeing planes have been completed in MSFS. It’s another way for them to make another round of sales.

So Rhodiumcode started this project 3 years ago. Inibuilds made rhe A350 announcement for MSFS in December of 2023. So Rhodiumcode probably started work on the A350 before any credible developer had announced they were working on it. The Boeing 737, 747, and 777 had always been covered by PMDG any all the developers know that it's hard to beat PMDG in a race - plus, knowing PMDG will come out with these planes eventually, some customers may hold off their purchase of another competing product, until PMDG released these Boeing models. This left the 757, 767, and 787. Back in 2023, it wasn't for certain that Qualitywings had given up their work on the 787. And Bluebird Simulations had announced they would do the 757, 767, and 787. So when Rhodiumcode decided what airliner to do 3 years ago, the A350 made a lot of sense, as no known credible for profit developer was known to be developing it.

You can probably go on their Discord channel and give them feedback on how they can improve on the exterior model? Some people in the Youtube channel commented the nose looked a bit off, so I hope they took the feedback to figure out how to improve the model.

It would have to offer much more than iniBuilds for people to buy it. They are going to have to do a much higher fidelity level A350, something like a "study level" A350, for people to buy it. I guess it would need to be something like PMDG or FSLabs level?

I didn't see that thread. In any case, the video was just posted today, so the video trailer is new news. This video trailer is the first tangible evidence of their work. Maybe one of the mods can change the thread title to "RhodiumCode posts first trailer of their A350 today" to separate this thread from the other one.

Hi all. So not much news has been made about this, but there is yet another new group that is developing an airliner for MSFS and this time, it's the A350. So they just released their first trailer of their work on Youtube: This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable. Now I want to be a bit cautious on this news. At the end of the day, when they release this A350, the product will speak for itself. A lot of people were cynical about Fenix before they released their A320, and in hindsight, they were wrong. Many people in the flight sim community consider the Fenix A320 to be the best airliner ever made for a flight sim, especially with all the latest updates. Having said that, this team seems much smaller than the Vector team, and they are still looking for someone to help them with sounds. Also, in the Youtube chat during the video, various people pointed out the nose looks a little off, so this is something they will need to improve on. According to their Reddit post, they have been working on this A350 for 3 years now. I will just link their initial Reddit post when they made the announcement so you can judge for yourself: There was also a post in Reddit in the last week, by a random user (so someone not on their dev team), who pasted information from RhodiumCode's Discord server, to Reddit, that gave more information about the project: RhodiumCode will be competing directly against iniBuild's A350. The fidelity would have to be much better than the iniBuilds A350 for RhodiumCode to sell enough copies. My own impression after reading their Reddit posts and watching the video is that their team doesn't seem to be as solid as the Vector 787 team. Vector seems to have a much larger team, and the PR person for Vector, Ellie, worked at Orbx and iniBuilds before, so they managed to poach her onto their team. Plus Vector was able to earn the trust of FSElite, who wrote an article for them and presented them at the recent FSWeekend, so that tells me that FSElite considered Vector to be a serious company. That's not to say RhodiumCode isn't a serious company - but they don't have an established person like Ellie on their team, and they don't have a reputable person or reputable organization like FSElite going to bat for them, so it's much harder to tell, versus Vector (but despite having all this, the Vector 787 could also turn out to be disappointing, we won't know until it's finally released). However, at the end of the day, let the product speak for itself. When RhodiumCode releases their A350 we will know how good it is (this assuming that they can release it and it doesn't end up as abandonware).

Here is the update that Bluebird Simulations posted on Reddit. They entered phase 2 of their beta testing. The last phase of beta testing is phase 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/1sym9ck/bluebird_757_update_weve_entered_stage_2_and_our/

If you are using an Nvidia card, make sure the Nvidia app isn't overwriting your settings. The Nvidia app can set the graphics settings for your game, such that when you change the graphics settings inside your game, and you exit the game and reload it, any graphics settings changes you made will be overwritten by the Nvidia app.

Make sure you turn off Dynamic Settings. Dynamic Settings is on be default. If it is on, MSFS 2024 will try to preserve the target frame per second (FPS) that you have set. But in order the preserve the FPS you have set, it will tank the graphics, including making everything blurry, so that you can keep your target FPS. The disadvantage of turning Dynamic Settings off is that your FPS may go lower, and you may even encounter stutters, but your ground textures and the terrain won't be blurry anymore. But if you are stuttering after you have turned Dynamic Settings off, it's an indication that you graphics settings you have set, is too high for the hardware that you have.

It doesn't look like SU5 will release this week then, if another beta update was just released today.

Thank you, it's very useful and objective feedback Aamir, on how the API can be improved! Hope that @MattNischan and @SeedyL can take this information in, as it is coming from the head of Fenix himself!