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The Final Update for the CRJ-200 for X-Plane - Time to look forward!


philipp

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Hi folks,

looking back on a year that has been a tremendous success for the CRJ-200 team we now feel that it can't get any better. Having designed one of the best planes for X-Plane, we now feel that we should be embracing other platforms as well, and bring the level of quality you all love to them.

Therefore, we decided to discontinue development of the CRJ-200 for X-Plane and port our aircraft to Microsoft Flight.

Microsoft Flight is an emerging simulator which has seen a tremendous growth in user base during the last month. We all know the platform is lacking high-quality aircraft. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for developers like us. Also, Microsoft Flight has a number of advantages over X-Plane that make aircraft development a lot simpler for us.

For example, as Microsoft Flight is only for Windows, we don't need to develop and test for multiple platforms, which cuts our development times in half.

Also, Microsoft Flight is much better for us because it only has limited scenery. That means we don't need a world-wide navigation database and we don't care for the correct approach procedures in Timbuktu any longer.

The missing global scenery also allows us to ignore those pesky details of 64bit compatibility, because with the Hawai scenery, Flight will never run out of memory in 32bit.

And finally, Microsoft Flight has much friendlier users than X-Plane. For Microsoft Flight users we don't need to implement complex functions like an FMS, because they don't even know such things exist. So they will never whine about functions that don't work like in the real plane.

As you can see, going to Microsoft Flight is a big step in the right direction for developers. We tried to resist the temptation for a long time, but now we feel X-Plane is not going to cut it anymore. Seriously, compare this scenery http://download.aila.../mflight/10.jpg to this http://www.x-plane.c...20FA-22A_55.jpg !!!

So we say "thank you" to all X-Plane pilots who supported the development of the CRJ-200 for X-Plane. We hope to see you in the skies over Hawai in Microsoft Flight.

Cheers,

Philipp

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