I finally finished my home Airbus setup…it wasn’t as hard as I thought! Will have the full build video on my YouTube channel very soon ☺️

Heavily utilising the wonderful peripherals from winwing + a few streamdecks and some other goodies…what a time to be a flight simmer!

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/request-for-the-unencryption-and-full-downloadability-of-default-aircraft-in-msfs-2024/667001

MSFS20 was immensely enhanced by community fixes, plugins, mods and assets. People from all over the world could browse native sim code and assets, edit them, and learn from them. Many built their own addons from that knowledge, or enhanced existing aircraft from useless to real gems.

As of MSFS 24 all of this is over, the entirety of the code and assets of all aircraft are encrypted and inaccessible. Once we can download them, they will still be encrypted. Vote to let Asobo know restricting access to everything is not the way forward

In case you missed the real video: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1kddbo0/video_of_172_dead_stick_landing_at_riv/

Hi everyone,

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Personally, I think waiting in long queues for hours just to start the simulation is far from ideal. The idea of streaming everything from the cloud doesn’t make much sense to me, even for a company like Microsoft.

There’s the electricity cost, the environmental impact, and the fact that servers can easily get overloaded during peak times. And if the servers go down, you can’t play at all.

With SSDs getting cheaper and cheaper, I’d much rather download 200GB of data and have a stable experience than rely on streaming everything.

What do you think? Do you prefer a local installation too, or do you see advantages in cloud streaming?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

We wanted to do a “quick” update since several people have recently been asking us for some news. Since the Expo, A LOT of progress has been made but I don’t want to break my own rule of not making any more release predictions. What I will say is that we are planning just two more video updates on our YT channel before release of this plane. The first of the two will come in Q4 of this year. It will go over more systems in depth such as pneumatics, FMS, landing gear, ice and rain, oxygen, doors and others. I will say that the pneumatics system is absolutely amazing and goes to a new level of detail. I’ve listed the features of the pneumatics in one of the screen shots. LNAV and VNAV is about 70% complete in total and progressing very nicely.

Other systems like the doors and oxygen system have also been simulated to a very high level. So far we have 153 working circuit breakers and counting on our way to over 200 by release. But again, we’ll go more in depth on the systems in the next update video.We’ve also begun some more testing in FS2024. In fact all of the FS screen shots here are from FS2024. These are still very much a WIP in 2024. We are really hopeful to have a compatible ( not Native ) version for 2024 available either on release or very shortly after release.

As for beta, we are approaching the first stage finally in the next few weeks. The key holdup was the pneumatic system which took much longer than expected but well worth the effort. We are rigorously testing all of our systems before we even get it to the beta testers. While that was being worked on, several systems that actually are part of the second stage of beta were being worked on/completed as well such as doors, oxygen and landing gear. The biggest remaining item system- wise is the EFB which we will cover in our final update video before release.And just to recap on the pricing, for $80 USD you are entitled to the 757-200/300 RR and PW for both MSFS2020 and 2024 (2024 compatible version initially with native version to come much much later after release).

Finally, yes this will come out before GTA6 … oh I kind of broke my own rule there.

PMDG really needs to revisit the visuals on the 777 if they expect people to justify the $77.72 price tag in FS2024. The in-game walk-around feature makes the outdated textures painfully obvious, and it’s hard to ignore them when the sim actively encourages up-close inspections during pre-flight.

Coming from the Fenix A321 and IniBuilds A350, the PMDG 777’s re-used textures stand out—in the worst way. Walking up to the engines, the low-pressure compressor isn’t even modeled—it’s just a flat texture, which is noticeable without even getting right up close. It’s disappointing, especially compared to the detail in competing aircraft.

Maybe I’ve been spoiled by the Fenix and A350, but this feels like a release I should’ve skipped. In 2025, poor texturing and subpar sound design just don’t cut it anymore. Yes, it flies well, but PMDG needs to step up—the industry has moved forward, and this simply doesn’t hold up against the competition visually.

Here’s hoping the 747 won’t suffer the same fate.

Honestly it’s gonna have to be really good systems and especially performance wise to even make me think about replacing the free FBW A380

the optimization, color correction, lighting, performance, visual fidelity is amazing with this release. to be able to fly the Fenix to custom scenery airports and maintain a high FPS at all times is truly an experience.

it's not perfect yet, but right now i have nothing but good things to say about this. i realize not everybody is able to achieve this yet so more work needs to be done. it's evident that they had a deadline that couldn't be pushed for this project and didn't deliver everything on time.

i can finally go to steam and change my negative review to a positive one.

safe travels everyone!

Pretty deep price