I hopped over to Aerosoft’s forums today to see the progress on the CRJ, and Mathijs stated something that caught my eye:
“The people at Asobo are incredibly talented and helpful, so we’ll get there. And it will be stunning.”
I can get impatient with the lack of study-level aircraft in the sim at the moment, along with other issues, but I don’t often see developers making statements like this.
I wonder how long it will take before we start to see some of this “stunning” in the sim?
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to be stunned.
I’m content now, happy with many of the addon airports cropping up and the improvements in the 32N and CJ4, but I’m ready for more.
How do you want to be stunned?
That gives me hope that we’ll start to see big improvements in the not-too-distant future.
Sorry to disappoint you but I doubt the Aerosoft CRJ will be study level.
From what I understand it´s pretty much a port from P3D with improved graphics, and it was far from study level for that platform.
I would think for the majority does it really have to be study level? I would be more than happy with airliners that give a fair amount of complexity, but does not have to have every single system fully operational.
That being said, they do need to have s AP system that works, (we’re still far away from that at present, even after the latest update) and for immersion, ATC needs to work or be far more realistic. Again after yesterdays update, ATC still asking you to climb to 13k on approach ?? AP on the A320, still doing it’s own thing and wandering off on it’s own.
I don’t know about the majority, but I suppose it’s a fair assumption. The problem is you disenfranchise those that do want every system to work as it does in the real aircraft. That might not be a huge issue for smaller aircraft, but for larger airliners, it’s a big deal.
Glad to know it´s not a port. As for the systems, I hope they´ve put more work into it than the P3D version. Just from watching youtube videos I was put off from purchasing it as several things were way off.
Totally agree with you. I didn´t fly the CRJ in P3D or checked out any videos, but I flew the AS Airbus and it really wasn´t a comparision to PMDG f.e . But I am still pretty hyped about this airplane and I think AS will increase the level of immersion, cause their competitors and also free dev´s, like the awesome FBW guys, are showing what´s possible!
Wouldn’t a study level aircraft be more appropriate to come from Airbus/Boeing certified flight simulator manufacturers? Like something like this? https://pacificsimulators.com/airbus-simulators/
I always think home flight simulator developers are always gonna be complex enough but never will have exactly everything set up.
Aerosoft doesn’t make study lvl aircrafts, never did. In a recent podcast on Threshold they even admited that they wanna make products for more casual audience, because they can make much more money. Their aircrafts look nice, but don’t expect something even close to study lvl. By the time their a320 comes out, Flybywire freeware mod is gonna be far more advanced than their version.
As said - Aerosoft is also “just” a company that has to make money. Don´t expect too much, they will deliver, but on a basic level. They know how to create hype and high expectations.
Mathijs Kok said quite a lot of things in the stream and tbh to me they sounded like lots of excuses. The aircraft will cater for casual gamers, have no modelled cabin and be built around limitations. The only positive thing I remember was that it will be less expensive than expected, because they expect to sell much larger volumes.
My feeling is that this will be very similar to the default airliners in MSFS.
I have a few rationals for this forecast:
It’s Aerosoft and they usually don’t produce very advanced aircrafts.
They are sitting on top of a gold mine, the first airliner released for MSFS is going to have a lot of buyers just because there’s nothing else to buy or try. As an example I personally hate the CRJ and if they release it today I will instantly buy it.
I did not mean no study level aircraft, both should be included. But i hope some devs will release a functional airliner, at x amount, then a study level version to satisfiy the guys that want the real as can be experiance.
As someone who has far more experience than I ever will once wrote, there are a lot of things that home simulators do that the Level D simulators don’t. There are also flight simulators that have no screen at all, that are still a simulator of flight, by any definition.
I’m quite optimistic. I think MSFS has a lot of capability for modern fully functional airliners if I understand what many developers are saying. The only thing holding this back is the SDK (which is getting more and more advanced) and time needed to rebuild these airliners from scratch.
Aerosoft and “study-level” is an oxymoron. They produce addons for daily normal operations, nothing that has any serious system depth and what’s there is mostly not even modelled correctly.
I used the AS bus for a while because it was cheap and did the trick until FSL got up to snuff. The FSL bird was one of my favorites. PMDG too.
At this point, I’ll be happy with a tubeliner that’s functional. The 32N is fine, but I really am a Boeing guy at heart. However, the 220 would be nice, or an EMB now that we have some decent small-city airports to fly in and out of too:-)
