I’ll first say I’ll agree, that permission is probably good to seek out, but for an aircraft company to withhold permission even for payware seems like bad marketing to me. Sims arent in their business plan. And I doubt even the most popular sim models make enough to equate the sale of one real plane. But the exposure, how many pilots and future customers get started in simming? It’s free advertising, and at the very least, free exposure. If I were in that marketing dept I would hand a developer every bit of information I could to make the in game representation as good as it could be.