Microsoft Flight Simulator Aerosoft Aircraft - A330 Preview

[Sven Telljohann 500]

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[Ramp_air 401]

thank you very much these are very nice pictures

[Ramp_air 401]

@Mathijs KokI wanted to know the beta test last how long? just to get an idea how it goes and tester they have a roadmap to follow? thank you for the answer

[YAG 194]

27 minutes ago, Pilotefr said:

@Mathijs KokI wanted to know the beta test last how long? just to get an idea how it goes and tester they have a roadmap to follow? thank you for the answer

I remember he said 3 weeks until it goes to external beta testers in the podcast.

[TimJB 23]

They estimate without any guarantees 1-4 months if no big problem show up

[Benutzer 40]

Will the A330 have a functional FMGC?

[Pilotecke 27]

vor einer Stunde schrieb BaxterChico:

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Awesome pictures! Thank you!

[YAG 194]

35 minutes ago, TimJB said:

They estimate without any guarantees 1-4 months if no big problem show up

I mean until external beta not release which I think is no less than 2 months away.

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

3 hours ago, Jonas K said:

Wow stunning shot, so you are now in Beta and thats great. Does that mean everything is finished and gets now fully tested or are there things like FMC still missing?

 

I wish everything would be ready.  But at this moment we need to get a good overview of what works and what does not. For that I rather ask beta testers then have the devs test things. We all know how long it can take to load a new aircraft. 

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

1 hour ago, Benutzer said:

Will the A330 have a functional FMGC?

 

Of course.

[sparrow0610 17]

You haven't given a definite answer about the pw series of engines before. Is there any change to this plan yet?
I don't live in an English-speaking country and I used a translator, so the sentences can be awkward.

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

49 minutes ago, sparrow0610 said:

You haven't given a definite answer about the pw series of engines before. Is there any change to this plan yet?
I don't live in an English-speaking country and I used a translator, so the sentences can be awkward.

 

Very simple, at this moment we do not do any statements on any follow-up project. Sorry.

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

One good thing about starting a beta is that you get some nice imagery. Please note I have told testers not to share images of the flight deck at this moment as there is a lot of tweaking needed.

 

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1 hour ago, Mathijs Kok said:

One good thing about starting a beta is that you get some nice imagery. Please note I have told testers not to share images of the flight deck at this moment as there is a lot of tweaking needed.

 

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Do click on the images, they are pretty large.

 

 

In the head-on image of the eurowings aircraft, it looks like the wing on the left is raised at the tip whereas the wing on the right is lowered. Is this a known bug/an angle thing, or is it meant to be like this?

[Sven Telljohann 500]

vor 9 Minuten schrieb SoarandSkor:

In the head-on image of the eurowings aircraft, it looks like the wing on the left is raised at the tip whereas the wing on the right is lowered. Is this a known bug/an angle thing, or is it meant to be like this?

I turned the camera a bit on the pictures. So everything ok

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

It has been a serious time since I did a 'Friday evening post with a glass of wine' but let me give it a shot.

 

So it is Friday evening 19:16, I got a bottle of rather nice red open and as my wife is still on vacation I can play the Talking Heads (Remain in Light) as loud as I want. It has been a stressful week. And things will not get easier until we release. 

 

This week we moved from pure development and showing our code only to pilot friends to showing it to a larger group of people. People who are not pilots.  Not really customers (that is in a later stage of the beta) but still, we show our cards for the first time. Some people call that beta. I do not buy the whole alpha/beta/release candidate idea because I feel a product like this, where the dev team is so close to customers is far more fluid. A release is just a point, the product does not stop developing. The key is to get that point right. And let me tell you, you never get that right. The life of a project manager sucks balls. Pity me.

 

Talking Heads finished.  Spend some time looking at my records and decided on "In the Wee SmallHours"
by Sinatra. I am an audiophile and I know that album is perfect for my fully analog setup.
 

So, we are in the beta stage. Normally that means you have all parts of the product ready and are testing.  Not the case with this project at this moment. But we need to know where we are, what works and what does not. With that information, we can decide where to focus our scarce resources. 

 

Modeling, texturing, and almost all animations are solid. No worries about that.  In fact, Stefan and Anne are already working on the next bus. 

Flight modeling, Engine modeling, and FADEC were massive issues, but we are 99% sure we can get within 3% of correct behavior. Any pilot will tell you that is fine as one airframe differs from another. Having two engines on one aircraft that differ by 3% is fine. Don't be mistaken, 3% is pretty much state-of-the-art. 

Manuals and E-manual are more or less okay. The PDF manuals will be fine and available on release, the E-manual which is one of the highlights of the project as we want to get even beginners to be able to fly the A330 will be available but will need to be updated with the latest changes in code.

Autopilot still needs work but is basically not very complex. It flies the route, does a cool ILS intercept, and lands fine.

Systems are more or less okay. This is one area where you can spend another 20 years because where the real aircraft just has to display what is happening, we need to model why it happens. So when a computer decides the cabin needs to be heated a bit, a system will divert heat from an engine to a heat exchanger and feed the warmed air to the cabin. That means the engine will be affected, the electrical system will be involved and that means the generators will need to provide a bit more power. And that drops the thrust of the engine. See the complexity? We have a whopping lot of that code running because of some professional spin-offs of the bus projects. It's there and somewhere in Germany, a developer is crying because no customer will ever see it. 

EFB, we are very proud of the EFB.  and while we need some tweaks, all is well. Navigraph, NavDataPro, weather, runway data, simbrief integration, are all working. I just love to be able to update the weather data automatically before planning an arrival, The fact we incorporated our own sat imagery so you can be sure you are doing your taxi route okay.. cool.

 

Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue. Possibly the finest record ever made. Refilled my glass.

 

MCDU, LNAV, VNAV... That is where we have most work open. Logically as it is by far the most complex part of the aircraft. LNAV seems to work, VNAV not so much but we know what we need to do. 

ECAMS, loads of tweaks in fonts, placement, and things like that open (we had some bad luck in that part) but it is not code that affects flight.  Still one of my main worries now.

Marketplace. This is the work you need to do to get something on the Marketplace. Not only contracts but a whopping lot of things you have to add. Not complex but I still need a few days on that for sure.

Installer/Protection. With our own Aerosoft One system that is tried and tested (our DRM has not been hacked and has next to makes life for the customer easier (no need to enter any serial!s)) we are not worried about that at all. 

Support, they are fully included in the testing so they should know what they need.

Marketing. This department will be getting all information from me very soon.  They will invite streamers to have a look at the product before release and get the word out to websites and magazines.

Sales still have to make sure that all our associate sale channels get all the marketing data and on release the files.

 

We'll get there!

 

 

 

 

 

[NIT267 8]

1 minute ago, Mathijs Kok said:

It has been a serious time since I did a 'Friday evening post with a glass of wine' but let me give it a shot.

 

So it is Friday evening 19:16, I got a bottle of rather nice red open and as my wife is still on vacation I can play the Talking Heads (Remain in Light) as loud as I want. It has been a stressful week. And things will not get easier until we release. 

 

This week we moved from pure development and showing our code only to pilot friends to showing it to a larger group of people. People who are not pilots.  Not really customers (that is in a later stage of the beta) but still, we show our cards for the first time. Some people call that beta. I do not buy the whole alpha/beta/release candidate idea because I feel a product like this, where the dev team is so close to customers is far more fluid. A release is just a point, the product does not stop developing. The key is to get that point right. And let me tell you, you never get that right. The life of a project manager sucks balls. Pity me.

 

Talking Heads finished.  Spend some time looking at my records and decided on "In the Wee SmallHours"
by Sinatra. I am an audiophile and I know that album is perfect for my fully analog setup.
 

So, we are in the beta stage. Normally that means you have all parts of the product ready and are testing.  Not the case with this project at this moment. But we need to know where we are, what works and what does not. With that information, we can decide where to focus our scarce resources. 

 

Modeling, texturing, and almost all animations are solid. No worries about that.  In fact, Stefan and Anne are already working on the next bus. 

Flight modeling, Engine modeling, and FADEC were massive issues, but we are 99% sure we can get within 3% of correct behavior. Any pilot will tell you that is fine as one airframe differs from another. Having two engines on one aircraft that differ by 3% is fine. Don't be mistaken, 3% is pretty much state-of-the-art. 

Manuals and E-manual are more or less okay. The PDF manuals will be fine and available on release, the E-manual which is one of the highlights of the project as we want to get even beginners to be able to fly the A330 will be available but will need to be updated with the latest changes in code.

Autopilot still needs work but is basically not very complex. It flies the route, does a cool ILS intercept, and lands fine.

Systems are more or less okay. This is one area where you can spend another 20 years because where the real aircraft just has to display what is happening, we need to model why it happens. So when a computer decides the cabin needs to be heated a bit, a system will divert heat from an engine to a heat exchanger and feed the warmed air to the cabin. That means the engine will be affected, the electrical system will be involved and that means the generators will need to provide a bit more power. And that drops the thrust of the engine. See the complexity? We have a whopping lot of that code running because of some professional spin-offs of the bus projects. It's there and somewhere in Germany, a developer is crying because no customer will ever see it. 

EFB, we are very proud of the EFB.  and while we need some tweaks, all is well. Navigraph, NavDataPro, weather, runway data, simbrief integration, are all working. I just love to be able to update the weather data automatically before planning an arrival, The fact we incorporated our own sat imagery so you can be sure you are doing your taxi route okay.. cool.

 

Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue. Possibly the finest record ever made. Refilled my glass.

 

MCDU, LNAV, VNAV... That is where we have most work open. Logically as it is by far the most complex part of the aircraft. LNAV seems to work, VNAV not so much but we know what we need to do. 

ECAMS, loads of tweaks in fonts, placement, and things like that open (we had some bad luck in that part) but it is not code that affects flight.  Still one of my main worries now.

Marketplace. This is the work you need to do to get something on the Marketplace. Not only contracts but a whopping lot of things you have to add. Not complex but I still need a few days on that for sure.

Installer/Protection. With our own Aerosoft One system that is tried and tested (our DRM has not been hacked and has next to makes life for the customer easier (no need to enter any serial!s)) we are not worried about that at all. 

Support, they are fully included in the testing so they should know what they need.

Marketing. This department will be getting all information from me very soon.  They will invite streamers to have a look at the product before release and get the word out to websites and magazines.

Sales still have to make sure that all our associate sale channels get all the marketing data and on release the files.

 

We'll get there!

 

 

 

 

 

Many thanks to the devs and you for putting in all your hard work! Looking forward to flying this bird from day one!

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6 hours ago, BaxterChico said:

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Will appreciate wing views

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2 hours ago, Mathijs Kok said:

One good thing about starting a beta is that you get some nice imagery. Please note I have told testers not to share images of the flight deck at this moment as there is a lot of tweaking needed.

 

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I’d like to point at the picture from the front of the plane if you look closer. the right wing is bent down but the left one is bent up a little. bit I don’t know if this issue is in msfs because the same thing appears in the ini a310. Hope it get fixed.

[GermanSimPilot 33]

Good evening Mathijs,

right now i am listening "Blue in Green", lovely smooth jazz, thanks for sharing this

Also thank you for sharing the latest info regarding the A330. I wish you all the best and headache free time. For now i remain seated on glowing coals (german saying :D) and waiting for release.

[SimWare 729]

Wonderful World from Nine Horses now playing...

[Tadashimonster 2]

Will the Aerosoft A330 for MSFS will it work better with GSX Pro are you and Fs dream team working to together?

[Aerofly Clips 23]

Am 4.4.2023 um 20:27 schrieb Mathijs Kok:

 

 

As I explained yesterday, we had an issue that influenced sound that we solved yesterday, so I think we can expect that soon.

Sorry for asking, but is the video coming in the next few days? Sorry, I'm just totally hyped for the plane

[RobbanS 2]

Awesome stuff!
Any chance of some shots of the external lighting?

[kobii 6]

8 hours ago, Mathijs Kok said:

One good thing about starting a beta is that you get some nice imagery. Please note I have told testers not to share images of the flight deck at this moment as there is a lot of tweaking needed.

 

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