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To reiterate here again, since I was just thinking about this very thing this morning....we will probably issue some kind of press statement as we get closer as to what we do and don't have. We want it all of course, but have to draw the line. The FMC is definitely the last major system to get in place, specifically the VNAV performance / calculations. We are well into them and will be entering a calibration phase shortly. We believe it is one of the more full-features FMS systems available, though it won't be 100%. What has been left out are rarely used features....we do want to put them in just the same asap. Jan has guided the feature set based on his experiences so what we have left out are not deal killers. We are focusing on flexibility and reliability for normal operations for the initial release. We are leaving out the more detailed "eye candy" and bells and whistles for the initial release, mostly with regards to animations and small detail 3D. For example, no cargo hold, a basic cabin, no animating doors, no voice-over flight attendants, no passenger sound-pack, no flight attendant panel, etc. We have put all our efforts into what goes on forward of the cockpit door. The rest of that stuff is easy, but takes back-burner status to the systems and operation from the perspective of the left seat. After the initial release, we will continue to refine the product and get all that cool stuff in not long afterwards. -tkyler

For 76 million dollars you can have a beta tomorrow morning . Cheers, Jan

Completely remodeled my JFK airport!

Hi everybody, As a 3ds Max user, I am seriously thinking about switching to Blender, especially after the introduction of the new user interface. Blender seems to be the 3d modelling tool for X-Plane and more are less all export scrips are written for Blender, as far as I know. After checking out Blender's functionality, I find it amazing that one is getting such a piece of software for free. Even better, because I don't like to pay the anual subscription for my Max software anymore. So I bought myself a Blender 2.5 training DVD, which is extremly good. However, it is in german, so probably not useful for a lot of you guys. But after searching for more training material on the internet, I came across a very neat internet page, where they offer free Blender 2.5 training and the videos are very nice. All people new to Blender or are thinking about learning Blender will find it very helpful. I just wanted to share the link, so you can have a look yourself. http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html Also, for the people who are already familiar with Blender and/or Blender 2.5, here is a very nice car modelling tutorial. Car modelling is basically as complex as aicraft modelling, so the techniques can directly transfered to aicraft. So here is is and probably more useful stuff on the site. http://www.blendercookie.com/2009/12/05/modeling-a-porsche-911-gt3-rs-part-01/ Enjoy! Best regards, Pete

Hey Cameron, thanks for giving me the opportunity to express and to react to my thoughts and opinions on this topic. Best wishes from me to you and your team as well. You might want to sweeten my holidays with the release of your great product? Never mind, just kidding. Take your time to amaze us all Best regards and wishes, BaBene

Hey BaBene, Thanks for all your coherent commentary in this, and best wishes going into the holidays!

Hi, I've never looked into using the Aerosoft AIRAC and personally buy a monthly subscription from Navigraph now and then. Until now I never really had problems with Navigraphs AIRACS and the LIDO Charts are realy awesome. That being said, I'm perfectly fine of switchting to Aerosoft AIRAC Cycles. But as already mentioned I'm used to subscribe on a monthly basis to navigraph, It's far more expensive than a yearly subscribtion but also far more flexible I really would appreciate Navigraph support in the future though There is also another thing I wanted to talk about: Let me get this off first before commenting to your post: I'm really amazed of how you deal with the community, you seem to be really interested in the opinions of your customers, and your activity (both you and cameron) in this thread is amazing. I will buy the IXEG B733 no matter which platform and AIRAC support it ships with. And now for the comment on your post: You are generalizing here a lot. My favorite platform of choice for the past years is linux, mainly used for developing and work though. And I'm quite offended by your statement above. From my personal point of view the great majority of linux users do not demand for linux support, hell, most of them don't even ask for support cause they don't care or are aware that most companies won't put the effort in supporting linux due to the facts you already mentioned. There is however a small minority, as in all communities, of linux users or "wannabe linux users" who are trolling the community forums demanding linux support. Those are the people you are erroneously thinking do represent the linux community/users, cause those are the only people you are hearing from. The only thing you are doing with your post is feeding those trolls, and maybe offend a few nice linux users while doing so. I'd love to have linux support for the IXEG but I totally understand that it's not financially viable for a niche application like an aircraft addon and I totally accept running windows for my hobby though I honestly hate every bit of it (I couldn't survive without MSYS) I do however accept your apologies since I think I've been swept up by your prejudices But due to the fact that you opened Pandora's box here, and since I'm a developer too (actually I'm not, but I am forced to write a shitload of code in my phd) could you give me some insights what exactly is so time consuming in supporting linux? As far as I understand it you are going to support mac? Shouldn't be a great difference between mac and linux, though I admittedly never dealt with mac and addon developement for X-Plane. Sure, libraries tend to change a lot. But if you're using a library in your application that is not platform exclusive (e.g. closed source) you are dealing with the same problem for every platform. There are also a lot of quality libraries and developers that do try their best to keep backwards compatibility. You also don't need to include every library change into your final application, just stick with a version and occasionally include security or stability patches for that version. Just ship the libraries with your application (shared or statically linked, if the license allows you to do so) as you would do in windows. You don't need to struggle with libraries supplied by distro packages. That's the way I'm used to develop my application, and it works quite well. Steam for example ships a great deal of libraries, which should be rather stable (from a versioning point of view). Deploying on windows is the hard part for me (Though it is a numerical application, so this might be a completely different topic). I don't want to give you advises I just want to understand what the difficulties are, since, as I already mentioned, am not a addon, mac or windows developer Keep up the great development and community work! Best regards, BaBene

That was it! Now the option is available. And as a bonus... everything looks even more awesome! Thanks!

Here are two comparison shots, the first one from the cockpit of the IXEG 737, the second one from the cockpit of the default 747-400. Location is EDDM. As Cameron said, your mileage will vary, according to system properties, but this should give you an idea... Cheers, Jan

Good Morning Community, so i have a Quest! Is the AirFMC ( ipad-app) with the 737CL FMC compatible and it works? thx

Yes, please do. At some point, decisions need to be made and packages need to be wrapped up. I've been a staunch X-Plane advocate for the past few years and have been quite vocal about it. Never have I been so depressed than of late, as looking for a great simulation of an airliner has been fruitless. Lots of pretty flyers but most are lame ducks that are all missing one important aspect or another. Incomplete studies at best. I sincerely hope your offering will put an end to my quest ( sung to the tune of "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"), the sooner the better. Lest I transgress and fall to the dark side...please don't let that happen.