Microsoft Flight Simulator Aerosoft Aircraft - A330 Preview

[Fuschl 1]

 To what extent can we expect Shared cockpit, in FSX and P3D this was a great experience with Aerosoft products. Are such features also planned, possibly with an update?

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

2 hours ago, Thomas Shepherd said:

Any photos with all the pax doors / cargo doors open? Dunno why but would love to see it haha

 

Sure.

 

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15 minutes ago, Fuschl said:

 To what extent can we expect Shared cockpit, in FSX and P3D this was a great experience with Aerosoft products. Are such features also planned, possibly with an update?

 

Yes, we feel very very strong about that. An airliner is flown with two people. Trying to fly it on your own is simply unrealistic, no matter how exquisite the aircraft is. There is no such thing as an airline pilot flying an aircraft, there is a crew flying an aircraft.

 

It is how untested water in MSFS and not available on release.  We will work on it but only release it when we have cross-platform compatibility, so PC. Xbox and Cloud.

[Svend Loggerhead 136]

If only MSFS had shared cockpit built-in, I’ve always had problems with YourControls being glitchy.

[Ramp_air 401]

26 minutes ago, Mathijs Kok said:

 

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I'm amazed by the details of the cargo I feel like I'm going back to my years at the airport when I unload the cargo congratulations to your team I can't wait

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

1 minute ago, Svend Loggerhead said:

If only MSFS had shared cockpit built-in, I’ve always had problems with YourControls being glitchy.

 

I truly believe a generic solution will never work for more complex aircraft.  Just things like Control Priority / Priority Takeover Button and handling of Dual Stick Input is massively complex and not just a matter of sending variables.

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

2 minutes ago, Pilotefr said:

I'm amazed by the details of the hold I feel like I'm going back to my years at the airport when I unload the holds congratulations to your team I can't wait

 

Now that is a crappy job that should be paid way more than it now is.  On your knees pushing expensive suitcases around. I did it for a day when I was 18. People told me I had to find a job where I could use my mind and not my hands.  Guess where I ended up...

[YAG 194]

31 minutes ago, Mathijs Kok said:

 

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Amazing but, I feel like the landing gear suspension is a bit higher that the real images I saw.

[priestley9 0]

34 minutes ago, Mathijs Kok said:

 

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Corr She's looking close  

[Leonardo Meschini 18]

for the ignorant how but would it be possible to know what the 42 that Mathijs had given us some time ago referred to? lol

[Ramp_air 401]

8 minutes ago, Mathijs Kok said:

 

Now that is a crappy job that should be paid way more than it now is.  On your knees pushing expensive suitcases around. I did it for a day when I was 18. People told me I had to find a job where I could use my mind and not my hands.  Guess where I ended up...

oh yes you started there? ... you have landed in the right place now.... yes it was really hard work on your knees to load the luggage in the holds but I prefer to load with a loader lol I even had the pushback training it was good memory

[SimWare 729]

13 minutes ago, Leonardo Meschini said:

for the ignorant how but would it be possible to know what the 42 that Mathijs had given us some time ago referred to? lol

Here you go :

https://news.mit.edu/2019/answer-life-universe-and-everything-sum-three-cubes-mathematics-0910#:~:text=The number 42 is especially,the Universe%2C and Everything.”

 

 

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

23 minutes ago, YAG said:

Amazing but, I feel like the landing gear suspension is a bit higher that the real images I saw.

 

You did see the cargo holds are empty, right? Tanks as well. Say 285.000 lb. Now add cargo, humans, and fuel and you can get up to 534,000 lb!   That is almost double the empty aircraft. The A330 is a remarkably efficient aircraft. And believe me, you see that in the suspension. 

 

What was the weight of the aircraft you saw in your pictures? 

 

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

20 minutes ago, SimWare said:

Here you go :

https://news.mit.edu/2019/answer-life-universe-and-everything-sum-three-cubes-mathematics-0910#:~:text=The number 42 is especially,the Universe%2C and Everything.”

 

 

 

Or better, ChatGPT:
 

"42" is a reference to a number in Douglas Adams' book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." In the book, a group of hyper-intelligent beings build a supercomputer named Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. After seven and a half million years, Deep Thought reveals that the answer is 42, but it cannot provide the question that led to that answer. The number has since become a popular cultural reference, often used to represent an answer that is obscure or difficult to understand.

 

And believe me "obscure or difficult" does apply. 

 

 

[Svend Loggerhead 136]

How do you see your relationship with other payware developers such as PMDG or Fenix? Do you see them as competition, or just other people trying to make MSFS a better sim?

[Ramp_air 401]

5 minutes ago, Mathijs Kok said:

 

You did see the cargo holds are empty, right? Tanks as well. Say 285.000 lb. Now add cargo, humans, and fuel and you can get up to 534,000 lb!   That is almost double the empty aircraft. The A330 is a remarkably efficient aircraft. And believe me, you see that in the suspension. 

 

What was the weight of the aircraft you saw in your pictures? 

 

it's really well done very realistic I was going to tell you how did you do that Mathijs lol we can see that the plane is empty

[msfs 8]

Well done Mr.Kok. Will the A330 come with the old CRT/EIS1 screens and standby instrument configurations?

[Thomas Delaney 12]

will there be liveries on the marketplace for xbox like there is for the a320 a310 787 and 747. I really want to see an aer lingus (new and old) but i haven’t seen that listed anywhere and i fly on xbox so it’s not that easy to get 3rd party liveries

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

26 minutes ago, Svend Loggerhead said:

How do you see your relationship with other payware developers such as PMDG or Fenix? Do you see them as competition, or just other people trying to make MSFS a better sim?

 

Always hard to reply to this, but general comments can be made. These comments are mine and do not reflect what Aerosoft as a company thinks.

 

PMDG and Aerosoft are close, we always have been because we handled their boxed releases. RSR (Robert Randazzo) and I exchange emails weekly and when I run into a problem I will never hesitate to ask him for assistance. For example, when we wanted to pause on TOD we did not know how to do that and knew they had some solution so they shared that with us. We also discuss the general market, and when we meet we fight over who buys who beer. 

 

With other companies like Carenado, we have very solid connections. We have been doing business to many many years and there is mutual respect,  Same with the great people at the FBW. They know they can ask me for anything and I will do all I can to help them. Super nice people. 

 

Fenix is a bit different as they came out of the left field. I never had contact with them. As they are in a very different market them where we want to be there is not as much overlap as you might think. We want to the latest generation of aircraft while they are locked to older generations, are locked on the PC platform, while we know the commercial value of Xbox and Cloud (like PMDG does).  We also sell more than just one or more aircraft, we sell airports, tools, and area coverage (like the North Sea) so one of my main tasks is to make sure our A330 does not eat up all resources. It would be easy to add a lot of detail to the A330, but that would eat up FPS you need to show a fantastic airport like Brussels. Just a different mindset.

 

Overall, most people think there is a lot of serious competition, while in reality there is not a lot. Most of the companies are just nice people we can talk to. There are outliers who have done booboos, nicked stuff, do stuff we feel is not good for the general hobby and tried to make money on freeware. They are out of this friendly circle. 

 

Basically, it does not pay for me to be in a fight with anybody. It only makes my job for Aerosoft harder. So we (I) always seek common ground. Avoid doing the same thing. We are not afraid of competing, we have got a very solid sales channel with 13 shops, marketplace etc and in the end that is what really matters. Most devs who we represent need to sell good to make the next product. What people often do not realize is that there is a whole market they do not see. We sell stuff for professional customers (from the US Navy to Thales), work on professional training tools, and sell models for movies and TV series.  So if you see us do an airport that has been released by somebody else, it might be because it is just a spin-off of another project. I think in 90% of cases our version is better though!

 

Again, these are MY thought and might not reflect those of Aerosoft.  however, I love working for Aerosoft because they share these principles. We all work together to enhance this hobby. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

36 minutes ago, msfs said:

Well done Mr.Kok. Will the A330 come with the old CRT/EIS1 screens and standby instrument configurations?

 

No way, never.  All our aircraft are always as modern as we can make it.

Sorry.

[cabr6n 1]

Stunning bird you got there, how optimized is it for the lower pc's 

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

14 minutes ago, Thomas Delaney said:

will there be liveries on the marketplace for xbox like there is for the a320 a310 787 and 747. I really want to see an aer lingus (new and old) but i haven’t seen that listed anywhere and i fly on xbox so it’s not that easy to get 3rd party liveries

 

That is not for us to decide. We do not deliver additional liveries because it is hard to compete with the many talented repainters using our painkit. 

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

Just now, cabr6n said:

Stunning bird you got there, how optimized is it for the lower pc's 

 

It is made to work on Xbox and FSCloud. So it is HIGHLY optimized.

 

However, until we are done it is not possible to test. I promise the specs on the product page will be honest. Not like 'it will work if you make all scenery look like FS2004'.

 

 

[Thomas Delaney 12]

1 minute ago, Mathijs Kok said:

That is not for us to decide. We do not deliver additional liveries because it is hard to compete with the many talented repainters using our painkit. 

thank you! i think i phrased my question wrong. i meant would you be ok with for example 4simmers releasing an a330 livery pack on the marketplace or would you be against that like captain sim is.

[Ramp_air 401]

@Mathijs KokI wanted to ask you in the paint list he had the corsair f-hsky I wanted to know if we could see it in the picture thank you Mathijs