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Tom and Cameron are working as quick as they can to get all the final cross checks done on installer and package sanity. Shouldn't be too much longer. Thanks for your patience and excitement.

LOL, thanks for keeping the spirit up guy's. Cam and Tom er sweatting like crazy to get things up ASAP. They've been up for like 737 hours now without sleep.

Seems like none of you spotted this new video, enjoy watching it while mashing F5

I've not painted in years so I started with an easy Australian Air Express.

But they are prepared for the release.. right XD I see how they are prepared

I was always wondering why do people stay overnight in front of apple stores to get a lazy phone on release day. And now I am doing the same for this plane. At least i can wait at home and dont need to buy camping equipment. :-)

I have a hard copy and a digital copy of the 737 and 757. They are great books and the author is a great guy too. He will reply to emails and if you buy the book from him he will autograph it for you. They have digital versions that work great on an ipad. Mike Ray the author is a retired United Captain. http://www.utem.com/shop/index.php?l=product_list&c=5

My congratulations to the whole team on the conclusion of a truly epic journey. I remember when in April 2011, the whole IXEG team was in Frankfurt to fly the Lufthansa Full Flight Sim and they came over for dinner afterwards. Jörg (of vasFMC fame) and me treated the IXEG team to german bread and sausages, french cheese and asparagus salad. It was an unforgettable dinner full of tech and plane talk, and of course bragging about what our add-ons can do. That was roughly one month before the CRJ first came out. At that dinner table, they projected the IXEG 737 to be released "soon after the CRJ". Little did they know what lay ahead of them. So here we are, five years later, finally about to put the chocks under the wheels after an epic long-haul flight. Well done, guys, and congratulations on pulling this off. Philipp

Here are some of the liveries I've made so far. More to come! easyJet airBaltic ALAS Uruguay GOL - X-Plane.org link - X-Pilot link Aviolet - X-Plane.org / X-Pilot Kenya Airways - X-Plane.org / X-Pilot Air Contractors Ireland - X-Plane.org / X-Pilot

Captains, After six years of development the IXEG 737 Classic has been cleared to land! We're officially announcing Saturday, April 23, 2016 as the release date. Thanks to @froogle for also visiting the office to share his enthusiasm of the product and putting a mix on our traditional way of announcing releases! You're awesome, dude! There's been a lot of discussion over the last few years showcasing what to expect from this product, so we won't go too far into that, but I would like to provide a little bit more information for you... Release time: When we make announcements like this we make every attempt to get the product out close to midnight time the day of release. This means for some it may be Friday night if you are located in the USA. I cannot provide an exact time, but I would anticipate a release window between 12am-2am EST. Pricing: We will be announcing price (as we always do) once the product page is up and running. More details about the product as a whole will be there too. Liveries: There will be 20 liveries included upon release. They are: Air Berlin Air France Air Italy America West British Airways Condor Delta Retro Iberia IXEG Jet2 Linjeflyg Lufthansa Lufthansa Retro Norwegian SAS Southwest New Transaero United (tulip) US Air Varig We will be including a paint kit at release time. I want to caution people about attempting to make this thread about livery requests. Within a very short period of time I can promise you will see many free liveries out there on the various download libraries, so don't panic if you're initial request is not present in the above list! Manuals: The package will come with quite a bit of documentation, but we don't want this aircraft to be intimidating. Yes, it's definitely a study level simulation, but the included tutorials come in PDF and video form. While there's a lot to learn, we've made it as interactive and fun as possible for you. Reading big FCOMs can get rather boring to a lot of people, so we hope you enjoy this! We also recommend Mike Rays 737 handbook as a compliment to this product. His book is excellent and works quite nicely as a follow along guide for this product! Server load: I have noted a number of folks concerned about whether we can handle the initial demand. At X-Aviation, we have had some rather big releases in recent time and come to know what to expect pretty well with releases like this. The IXEG 737 release will be no different, and the installer will detect your location and balance the server loads appropriately. We anticipate a very smooth (and fast) experience for our customers. A lot of time is invested from our side to ensure you have a good experience with this! More than anything, and on behalf of @tkyler, @Litjan, @Morten, @Nils, @Ben Russell and myself, we want to say thank you for your continued interest, support, and motivation to keep going on this journey. It's been a long time coming, and our excitement is at an all-time high this week. None of this would be possible with you guys, our fans. Now, plan your routes, sit back, and light up those X-Plane skies with the 737 Classic this weekend! We know you guys will do us proud...you always do! Cheers! Cameron Where is all began years ago...

lol isn't the variety of humanity great. there is one thing we had to learn a long time ago: use Google translator as we have to do so many times ... cheers

Gruss aus Irland!

Fair enough! I went with Easyjet to minimise likely adjustments... Then finished it, and moved on to KLM

Lol. This could mean anything with a name like timetraveler

Actually...Cameron himself told me 8am my time (and he knows where I live) the latest. But I'm not holding it against him..but just to set the record straight

I agree, I'm just hitting F5 once every two minutes now

...the next thought in my head was "OMG, I'm banned for reloading the page to many times!"

To be honest, the store never went down, and still seems to be going strong. Probably diverted X-Pilot resources to cope

Here at x-aviation purchasing queue, the atmosphere is palpable People from all around the world are in a state of anxiety Some even resorting to the affliction we call Refresheritis In sever cases this terrible affliction can cause uncontrollable hits on the F5 keyboard button A guy reporting from Germany going by the name of flymia has succumbed to this horrid affliction Poor guy will soon start going hyper soon we suspect Guys afflicted should call 08000 1234 5432 and ask for Silvia

Good morning guys! Just woke up here in Germany and I'm waiting for Cameron clicking the "Release product" button

How I'm spending my wait - hopefully this can be out relatively soon after release (if I can pull myself out of the flight deck to finish it! )

yes i did... and performance has improved.... thumbs up for smp...

I am sure there are thousands of us. I try not to do it more than once every few minutes though.... haha.

Soooooo close now. Minutes away. In the last six years, over 3 million minutes have passed. :-)

I have updated the list in post no. 1 of this thread to todays status. While mostly removing things, I had to add that the PROGRESS page didn´t quite make it into 1.0. I also considered adding: a totally bug-free experience with no soft-crashes as something that will NOT be in 1.0. While we worked hard to find as many faults as possible, we are fully prepared to receive a flurry of reports (both real and due to lack of understanding) over the next few days. We will be hear to listen, help, catalogue and fix them - and it is our goal to get an update to fix any critical problems to you VERY swiftly. Happy landings, everyone, Jan

They didn't unlock it because it's not fully finished. There is just a low res version in there. What you can do to walk through it and set views is open the window, go as far as you can out the window, close the window, and now you're free to go around .

easyJet - IXEG B737-300 View File What an aircraft! Since I was beaten to KLM, I'll publish this Easyjet livery first. Enjoy! The aircraft - X-Aviation Visit jettodesigns.co.uk for more of my creations, or read my blog on flight training at CTC Aviation! Thanks for downloading! Comments and constructive criticism are appreciated. Remember to subscribe for updates! Submitter jiggyb2 Submitted 04/23/2016 Category Heavy Metal Livery For Click Here For Aircraft X-Plane Version(s)

Amazing plane, nothing like anything i have virtually flown to date! (eham-EDDF)

@cmbaviator It's explained here: http://airlinerperformance.net/installation/

Well i'm 21miles ish from EGBB if any brits in da house ! Sunny Staffordshire, clouds are white n fluffy at approx 5k North to South breeze estimated 2knts

Greetings from kitchen it's 04:30 p.m. now in Shanghai and I am preparing for my dinner

Koool!

Let's hope that this was a little test and they release it in the next minutes

It was. For a second.

Brave to go for all those curves without having the object to check they work! The 737 handbook is great if you want to know EVERY TINY DETAIL of the real 737, plus how you'd fly it for a type rating. lots of common emergency talk (e.g. V1 cuts) and flow explanations, with nice diagrams to help. Take a look at the pictures on this store for an idea.

finishing the CES livery for 737C and eagerly waiting for check-out

Firstly, it was only the forum that went down, not the actual shop site. Secondly, if you stopped panicking and hitting "Refresh" every few seconds that would be fab. If enough people do it, it's not different to a DDOS attack.

When I got the "403 Forbidden"-message here on the forum I thought they had to shut the forum down for a short while to handle the load on the store

Wow....

I've woken up now, drink in hand, doing work in the background... no going back to bed for me!

While we're all waiting...anyone download the updated SMP? I did a quick to/landing and I noticed a nice increase in frame rate...from 40-60 to 60-80 LIRF, cloudy conditions JAR-A320. Not too shabby!

We have already made our technical decisions and we stand by them. We work for the majority. What you feel personally is not what we experience to be the majority desire or path of least resistance and best overall customer experience. I respect that many people do prefer a simple archive. You should respect that many more people simply want to run an installer, click five buttons and play their game.

It's certainly in better shape than the VATSIM CTP website!

Pemature clickiness is curable Cure is, logoff and sleep Tony

Just got an email sent from Navigraph about the IXEG 737 being released Today. Thumbs up to @Cameron and team for this kind of planning and integration from launch!

As a bonus here is today if you want to see if you can stay on schedule 2016-04-22 WN616 Nashville (BNA) Baltimore (BWI) 20:40 CDT 20:47 23:20 EDT Landed 23:09 2016-04-22 WN616 Dallas (DAL) Nashville (BNA) 18:15 CDT 18:43 19:55 CDT Landed 20:18 2016-04-22 WN616 Raleigh-Durham (RDU) Dallas (DAL) 15:45 EDT 16:19 17:40 CDT Landed 17:48 2016-04-22 WN616 Orlando (MCO) Raleigh-Durham (RDU) 13:35 EDT 13:44 15:10 EDT Landed 15:13 2016-04-22 WN616 Austin (AUS) Orlando (MCO) 09:30 CDT 09:31 13:00 EDT Landed 12:51 2016-04-22 WN616 Houston (HOU) Austin (AUS) 08:05 CDT 08:03 08:55 CDT Landed 08:38

Thanks sundog! Really appreciating your proactive responses, fixes and enhancements.

The nerd level in this thread is comforting, in that I'm not (too) crazy. I have over 1700 skydives and was worrying i maybe got a little too exited about a simulated plane

Everyone needs to show there support and purchase this product this is a great thing for x-plane, they need to be supported I Wish them great success

I'm staring at him right now. He ages. A lot. I can see myself in one of them at least. We all certainly do go way back. For those unaware, I started the X-Plane Freeware Project back in December of 1999. Morten came on as on of the first members on the team and has been a nagging ache in my life ever since!