Microsoft Flight Simulator Aerosoft Aircraft - A330 Preview

[cptGio]

Fingers crossed for A321NEO 👀

[YAG]

1 hour ago, wingscatcher said:

I really hope that Aerosoft brings the A320 family to MSFS, we need some variance for the single aisle. I would love the A319, A320, A321 made by aerosoft, they were great in P3D and just by looking at the A330... these would definitely look so good in MSFS. Unfortunately, Fenix takes very long to even bring a new engine to the plane or a sharklet, I seriously dont count on any other aircraft from them any time soon.

You have fenix which is next level.

[YAG]

Interesting I wonder which. AircrAft they are making but I really hope it’s a long haul.

[hedgehog9780]

From viewpoint of business I would vote for A340, I think (not say) to release this aircraft could be much faster as it is an wide body airplane (a great base already established) and a huge gap would be filled by this step, as there has not been a well-flying A340 on the simulator market for a long time.
From viewpoint of community I would vote on A321 / A21N. I know, that there is some, but many many simmers would like to see it in his/her own sim hangar.

 

And I wonder if they would announce a version of the A350... but let's see  I would very-very happy with it.

[Jetti200]

 

11 hours ago, YAG said:

Interesting I wonder which. AircrAft they are making but I really hope it’s a long haul.

Yes, the most common of the short haulers are out now, so it's time to focus on the long haulers which they are.

 

Would absolutely not be interesting personally to hear that time is being spent on developing a high quality A319 when there's a really good A320 out already + a really good 737 NG for that matter. Although an A321 NEO could be interesting.

[Mitchercherry]

vor 31 Minuten schrieb Jettison:

 

Yes, the most common of the short haulers are out now, so it's time to focus on the long haulers which they are.

 

Would absolutely not be interesting personally to hear that time is being spent on developing a high quality A319 when there's a really good A320 out already + a really good 737 NG for that matter. Although an A321 NEO could be interesting.

Short Haulers are out now? Time to focus on Long Haulers? 
 

The many users and customers on the XBox say thank you for this Statement!

[Carl Järvholm MAGYe]

1 hour ago, Jettison said:

 

Yes, the most common of the short haulers are out now, so it's time to focus on the long haulers which they are.

 

Would absolutely not be interesting personally to hear that time is being spent on developing a high quality A319 when there's a really good A320 out already + a really good 737 NG for that matter. Although an A321 NEO could be interesting.

As stated, the xbox market is really hungry for a good 320 or 321. People usually underestimate this customer base, but I believe there is quite a bit of money to ve made on SOP aircraft for xbox.

[TomReborn]

All this commotion and it may not even be another aircraft - yet  may be a new Mega Airport (like Brussels), or a new Aerosoft utility, all we know is that it’s a project

[JackBeloff]

7 minutes ago, TomReborn said:

All this commotion and it may not even be another aircraft - yet  may be a new Mega Airport (like Brussels), or a new Aerosoft utility, all we know is that it’s a project

I doubt Mathijs would mention a new project in A330 forum if it was not an aircraft

[blanderrr]

Also I remember hearing them mention they like to have 2 aircraft in production (one of which is the a330, the other being as yet unannounced)

[P McF]

It's clearly going to be the A321 Neo

[Mathijs Kok]

On 5/23/2023 at 10:26 PM, JeffFromTheIRS said:

Fenix and Aerosoft target completely different audiences. Fenix is aiming at "study-level" simmers while Aerosoft generally markets towards people who want a product that's between the default aircraft fidelity and study-level.

 

Indeed.

 

However, access to the Marketplace, MSFS Cloud and Xbox are simply absolutely vital for us. It is a multiplatform simulation with a build-in store. If you can access all of that, your sales potential grows tremendously. No matter what your opinion is, every publisher knows you will always sell most of your copies there.  Believe me, the news that PMDG is getting close to release on Xbox is a big deal for them. You gain access to a few million new users.

[cwa alt]

1 hour ago, P McF said:

It's clearly going to be the A321 Neo

the a330 and a340-200/300 were developed simulationsly, just makes more sense imo

[Hendrik96]

I don't know if this was already asked but I cannot remember reading about it already: Does the FMGC support the secondary flight plan function?

[Trystan Dupre]

Can we have more pictures? :))

[AirbusA380-800]

Me after completing the 1000’s short/medium-haul flight with the 737/Fenix/ATR/CRJ and coming on this forum: 

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[Moo-Walk]

41 minutes ago, AirbusA380-800 said:

Me after completing the 1000’s short/medium-haul flight with the 737/Fenix/ATR/CRJ and coming on this forum: 

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fax lmao 

[Ramp_air]

it's normal when I drive my bus I have the impression of hearing the acceleration of the RR engine I really have to consult a doctor it becomes a disease 🤣

[D O]

vor 10 Stunden schrieb Mitchercherry:

Short Haulers are out now? Time to focus on Long Haulers? 
 

The many users and customers on the XBox say thank you for this Statement!

 

I feel you. Many "very serious" Simmers in the flight sim game cannot accept that there is a whole new customer base since MSFS was released. But as always. Great disruption will push the whole community forward as computing power increases and the market is getting bigger so more developers are coming into the branch. Looking forward to what will be the state of MSFS in 5 years or so - and I did start my flight sim "career" with FS98 -. What a time to be a flight simmer.

[D O]

vor 23 Stunden schrieb cptGio:

Fingers crossed for A321NEO 👀

An A340-200, -300, -500, -600 would make sense as Fuselage profile and Flight deck are quite similar with regard to the A330. If I where Aerosoft, this step would make sense to me. For the record: Just Flight did make an Airbus Long Haul collection bundle for FSX with both the A330/A340

 

OR

 

I am completely wrong and they will announce something else ^^

[De_smith17]

On 5/23/2023 at 12:48 PM, Mathijs Kok said:

 

The famous: 'What is it doing now?" 

 

But indeed. These days aircraft are software, like a Tesla.  Even though Tesla has some amazing engineering (their mega presses are still unmatched), the value is the software. You can only do so much to make an aircraft lighter, which costs a fortune and a half in production, while shaving off 0.05% in a climb profile by tweaking software will save airlines millions on all models. 

 

Not just Airbus....  getting real data for ANY modern airliner is near impossible. You might know how long it takes an aircraft to get to FL300, but you will not know what pitch and engine settings are optimal over the whole climb. 

I doubt the manufactures will even know the performance till they fly the tube with fins. Theoretical math and simulation will only get you so far to justify the developmental expense.

 

David

[Jetti200]

12 hours ago, Mitchercherry said:

Short Haulers are out now? Time to focus on Long Haulers? 
 

The many users and customers on the XBox say thank you for this Statement!

I was talking about the plane types, not what platform you can run them on.

[chinjh]

Too many narrowbody jets in msfs lineup for now would be happy if more focus is given on widebody aircrafts and some turboprops(Not GA). Not complaining but whatever Aerosoft or other devs have in plan, its entirely up to them.

[Capt Shark]

7 hours ago, D O said:

 

I feel you. Many "very serious" Simmers in the flight sim game cannot accept that there is a whole new customer base since MSFS was released. But as always. Great disruption will push the whole community forward as computing power increases and the market is getting bigger so more developers are coming into the branch. Looking forward to what will be the state of MSFS in 5 years or so - and I did start my flight sim "career" with FS98 -. What a time to be a flight simmer.

 

You're wrong, there.  Many so-called "very serious" simmers can care less about what platform you choose to fly MSFS in. They are more concerned with what they can achieve and high levels of immersion. Most of which is not achievable in XBox. We want to be able to import and integrate flight plans of Simbrief and to fully utilize Navigraph. Most love to fly real world routes including the actual zulu time it was flown. Most love to fly with Vatsim ATC with their friends and others in different parts of the world, with a lot of those pilots flying for virtual airlines or something similar. Conversely, some guys I know look down upon the XBoxers as ones who just love to fly in 3rd person and just take pictures of the nice scenery and terrain. Again, to each their own.  That goes for the XPlane guys as well. The majority of us do not care either way. We just want to have fun and fly High Fidelity Aircraft. If that cannot be provided, then the market will dictate it.  It always does. This community welcomes new comers on the new platforms. And for the record, I started my flight simming on an Apple IIe. I'm also a real world instrument rated pilot.

[RogePete]

vor 14 Stunden schrieb Mathijs Kok:

 

Indeed.

 

However, access to the Marketplace, MSFS Cloud and Xbox are simply absolutely vital for us. It is a multiplatform simulation with a build-in store. If you can access all of that, your sales potential grows tremendously. No matter what your opinion is, every publisher knows you will always sell most of your copies there.  Believe me, the news that PMDG is getting close to release on Xbox is a big deal for them. You gain access to a few million new users.

 

This is the paradox situation. I stopped buying on marketplace many months ago. On the one hand, I agree with the things you said, regarding the selling potentials on the MSFS marketplace. On the other hand, it has big disadvantages like the long time it takes until a product is updated and the encrypting of (for deep simmers) important files like BGLs (scenery) and aircraft.cfg (planes). This makes the marketplace unusable for me.