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It has been quite a long while since an update was posted but I am glad to announce that after quite a few months of work we are releasing v2 of the planes. This release will include an almost revamped Flightmodel with new airfoils and will also fix numerous bugs with the planes. There is some slight 3D uplift on the planes and we will also be releasing the A340-300, the A340-500 and the A340-600 HGW this time. I am planning to release it in the next few days as we get everything packed up and any new bugs are quickly squashed out. The 3D cockpit will not be released this time. I would also like to say that I am halting work on this project for the next 6-7 months due to school stuff. I hope all of you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed to work on these planes.

Hey Ruyjo, Your videos are very nice! Keep it up

Releasing the Airbus A330/A340 series completely and just getting on with the next one

OMG this is so awesome!! Normal aircraft flying motion, acceleration, braking, turning right, turning left, etc. All Landing lights, Taxi lights, Beacon lights, Nav-lights can be controlled separately. Is there any other add-on for X-Plane that can achieve this?

Hey Ola, Please post your Log.txt file. It could highlight what we are going for.

A340-600 doesn't have Beacon Reflections at all, only the light on top and I really like that better. And yes everything you are seeing on the A340-600 will be on the other planes as well

Let me see what I can do about that.

No, we still have a few weeks left.

We fixed it. Plus registering is not necessary to download the plane anymore.

The A340-600 has been released. You can get it here : http://thex-planepaintshop.webs.com/

Were you able to import this exact file before re-installing?

No, but it contains a very good 2D panel.

I have been extremely busy the past few days, but I am happy to say that the plane is entirely done. Just in case I am going to keep on testing for the next 3 days and see if there any more bugs. If all goes well expect a release in this week.

Goran any chance you can upload the screenshots to some other web hosting service than imageshack. All I get is a frog on ice EDIT: Thanks for changing that. It looks absolutely wonderful!

Remind me to find a shirt for DHL that is equivalent to this

You would be surprised that there was a time that a Boeing 737 used to fly there

Haha consider yourself lucky that this didn't happen before you released it. One week after developing for X-Plane, I lost a perfectly well built body, ate a bucket of ice cream everyday to calm myself down every time Blender was exporting something. My hair went down to my knees and I had such big eye bags that they charged me extra at the airport for them .

I wish Airbus would complete the B787 he was working on a few years ago

That was some expensive coffee

This has occurred to me before. It is a Video Card issue worth reporting to Laminar. As Tom has said change your drivers but going to the X-plane.com forums might help you out a lot.

Due to some new questions here are a few things I would like to point out clearly. My examinations start in a week, and these are one of the most important exams of my life. My college career depends on these and the entire month of May is not going to be spent working on the planes . A 3D cockpit is planned, I have the entire mesh with me, we are working on the textures but we hope to have it released by Mid-August at max. All of the planes will be released by the end of June at max. There is still a lot of work to do on the planes "even if they look good" doesn't mean that they are done. With that said I still need to do some heavy work on the A345 and the A342. The flightmodels are being fixed by Safeflight in the mean time. I had hoped to get into programming but with the release of the Integrated VasFMC soon I plan to get almost all of the Airbus stuff such as Autopilot, FMC, displays etc into the plane by June next year. If there are no compatability issues (since Gizmo is so awesome I don't think we will get to see that) I will use Gizmo for effects on the planes. The project is in no way cancelled, it is in sort of a hibernation until I am free. As you can see many screenshots of the planes have been released showcasing the new liveries we have planned for these aircraft. Please thank XPP for their efforts on them and as well on the Wing Textures. We are planning to re-do textures in many parts of the planes. I had promised a new 3D cabin back in the day but for that I will need to cut up the windows from the fuselage, which will really mess up the UV mapping and unless we go hard core into Re-UV mapping I am not inclined towards such an idea. However if it is okay with some people I can have the seats and the textures improved in the existing cabin. Lastly people please please please comment on the aircraft in the relevant threads and not my profile or by sending me a PM. If i was to give support using PMs we would get nowhere. If it something related to permissions or specific questions you can send me a PM.

Yeah I am surprised as well, they are still crappy and I still run on low rendering settings but anyhow it performs better than the old Nvidia's but I think the CPU might have a part to play in that. I hope to upgrade the Video card in a few months

CRJ WILL WORK!!!, Asus A42F Laptop, Core i3 2.20 GHz, Intel default video card, 3GB ram and windows 7

How obvious some things are yet people don't know them

Even though we are making jokes about the delays with this aircraft Im sure we also must thank Leading Edge for their immense work on this aircraft and bringing such a high detailed aircraft to X-Plane