Mathijs Kok

While I do like the C-119, I seriously doubt it was a commercial success on any simulator. These kinds of projects are always a labor of love. Mathijs Kok PMDG

Ben, how would that work when the aircraft is released for consoles and cloud? Mathijs

Sounds pretty realistic to me.

But David, at the same time, it is really hard for a developer to support themselves if they spend serious time on a platform that brings them no additional sales. The two platforms are really different at the moment, and making a product compatible with both platforms means adhering to FS2020 standards and leveraging FS2024's backward compatibility. That means missing out on some features and problematic memory management. FS2020 is a fine simulator, but commercially, it is dead as a Norwegian Blue Parrot.

Careful with copyrighted documents on a server, you could bring Aerosoft serious problems.

. most SU4, I was on SU5 beta in the A340 . As far as I know, all set to Low turbulence . No Chaseplane as far as I know . Certainly not FSRealistic . It's longer than 24 hours ago, so no go on that.

Tom, thanks for the feedback. I doubt, however, that the issue you linked from the MS forum is in play here. That topic is about in-cloud turbulence after all. Yesterday I was at a local meeting where 2 people flew the 340, and the others (5) flew PMDG 777. All real weather, no weather addons. The 777 bounced along nicely, but the A340S were on rails. Not a single burp. As Microsoft does not seem to be planning to change the weather API any time soon, is Tolis planning to bring the flight model into the simulator so it reacts to the environment?

Yeah... A long time ago I worked on getting a totally outdated game released as freeware. One of the contracts was for the music; the rightsholder got $.50 per sale and was willing to convert that to a single-payment license for $ 5,000. Clearly, that did not happen, but it shows how complex these things are. Opening the code to insert copyright-free music would cost at least triple that amount. Mathijs Kok PMDG

The fact that a product is out of date does not mean the contracts that are involved are invalid. It will take a serious effort to make all these contracts go away. That takes time and money; nobody is going to do that. Just will not happen.

I was the project manager for this project, and all development and work on it were stopped 6 years ago. So I am pretty sure there will be no update. However, if you feel this issue warrants a refund, this might not be the right product for you. Mathijs Kok Now at PMDG

Mmmm... that is not what I heard from WINCTRL during my biweekly call with them.

Pitskiracer, there are two parties involved in this, why do you put the blame on Aerosoft? Have you, for example, asked Winctrl why they do not support this aircraft? It might very well be they did not have time, or little interest. Mathijs Kok PMDG

So you want the dev team to hold any new files they have that fix issues on their own systems until ALL known issues are solved? So, no updates for many many months, and then one new build?

Why do you expect AI to do better than the support from Cedric (the person who handles this for Aerosoft)?

Impressive as always, Christian.

But if the stakeholders do not want to discuss that, things stop.

Indeed, even though I was involved with getting PFPX to Aerosoft and loved it for many years, I think people are beating a dead horse. Chances of this getting moved to freeware are next to zero.

Keep in mind, they just might not be able to share certain things. Products like this use a lot of licensed material, so you are not allowed to make freeware.

That decision was one of the hundreds that you make when managing a product release and update. To the best of my knowledge, you are the only person who has ever had an issue with that specific decision. Next to the fact that all P3D development has been completely halted many years ago (5 years) I think you will just have to come to terms with that fact. Mathijs Kok PMDG

Did you try to follow the tutorial? It is pretty good! Mathijs Kok PMDG

These sounds were set to silence because customers did not like them much. Mathijs Kok (ex Project Manager for this product) PMDG

Dagger, there is some mention of this in the manual. Have you checked those?

Manuals.... Manuals.... Its all there.

The Twin Otter was sold to Microsoft and is now part of the default aircraft. Mathijs Kok PMDG

Have you checked the manual? I think I mentioned it in there. Mathijs Kok PMDG