MatthewS

Crikey! Great videos. He almost hits the side of the mountain in that landing @3:33 in video #2. Couldn't he have landed just a little further up the runway, he hand plenty of hill to help him stop.

Excellent work. If you want to impress the FS9/FSX converts then you need high quality textures (with normal maps). Flat boring textures just wont cut it anymore!

Please make the pilot to the proper scale (maybe a male of 5'10" height). It will look silly to have a kid sized pilot in the cockpit!

$65, must be April fools.

Looks great! Congrats

If you have to cull polygons can you please not do it from the Captains panel or glareshield? This is where the pilots view is most of the time and to be seeing "unsmooth" corners is really glaring! CLS did a great classic 747 for FSX but IMHO they wrecked the immersion somewhat by making the artifical horizon and glareshield corners not as smooth as they could have been. Please if you have to, borrow some polys from the engineers panel or fuse panel rather than pilots panel/glareshield. I'm begging you!

So nice! I can't wait to see these panels lit up at night. You planning on doing a old school Cathay livery? If so first flight for me will be Manila (RPLL) to HongKong (VHHH Kai-tak). http://www.airliners.net/photo/Cathay-Pacific-Airways/Boeing-747-267B/1168605/&sid=c25bc9ddd55b3550de1c87f236bd3374

What's the wingbox.... a "box" that is part of the fuselage and connects the two wings together

Yes, a little over sized ;D Rest is looking great!

+1 Much easier to "latch" onto the control and just drag the mouse. X-Plane has really got something here by making it a standard part of the sim. In FSX/FS9 its not a standard part of the sim and had to be custom programmed so only one developer even tried it and that was RealAir Simulations. What a joy to use that 3D cockpit especially when there's a little turbulence!

Cool video! Seems like the pilot was in a real rush to line up.

Looking really nice! Can't wait to see the cockpit shots. edit: Noticed there are mounts for wipers. Will the 747-200 feature moving wipers, visible from inside and outside the cockpit? That's a killer feature IMHO, not sure if they can actually clear the windscreen of rain, but how amazing it would be even to just see moving wipers! Little things like that really add to the level of immersion.

You can also find a XPlane forum over at AVSIM, I post there quite often. http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showforum=335 Posting in these other forums helps raise the awareness of the FSX/FS9 community (and hopefully developers too) to the happenings in the XPlane world!

I should have also asked, what about normal mapping? Would seem that any "state of the art" product needs to utilise bump mapping now-a-days, and maybe even in the cockpit!

That looks incredible! Are you planning to implement wing flex?

Excellent changes!

Excellent! Added to my sig over at AVSIM.

I just "smited" you 5 times on the same post and took your karma back to -1. Seems rather open to abuse and therefore a little pointless!

Beautiful work! Please keep the pictures coming because it is fascinating to watch the 747-200 take shape!

Yes you are alone! I will happily pay upto $75 USD for an addon with similar quality to PMDG 747/MD11 or LDS 767. These aircraft were "state of the art" when released and if the CRJ200 is as good then the vendors should expect similar success. I have a feeling that the CRJ200 will be a milestone product for XP that will encourage many FS9/FSX to take up XP.

Please consider releasing a "basic" version without the INS or detailed systems. That way we can purchase your product sooner and upgrade to the "advanced" version when it becomes available. 747-200 for XP, bring it on!

Fantastic! This is just what xplane needs, some top quality big iron! You need a beta tester? Sign me up!!!

Amazing!

Sounds like it wont be released for another year! You could release a basic and an advanced version. The basic could use default gauges and the advanced could use the custom gauges when your programmer has finished. You could allow users to upgrade from basic to advanced for the price difference. Everyone is happy then, you get revenue now, and users can upgrade to advanced when its done.

Looking good! Can you tell us what the 3 projects and contract work is? Maybe something for XP10?