The name on the canopy frame can also be altered as desired. This has also now been addressed, as you can see in the images pilot helmets can be customized, flight suit patches likewise, the pilot’s visor can be raised and the oxygen mask removed as required. One of the most often requested additions was the ability to add AMRAAM missiles to the wing-tip rails – this has now been completed and the models updated to match.Ī further request was for customizable pilots. “This week was spent incorporating some changes as requested by users, as well as adding further enhancements to the F-16s in preparation for their launch next month. Work is on track for a release in December, and a trailer should come soon. Next comes SC Design and its F-16 Fighting Falcon. A modern FMC, modelled and textured to emulate the original INS, that will be more familiar to most users and is already part of the simulator’s core code, is a sensible compromise in what will already be a very complex airplane.” This has been done because to custom-code Concorde’s original INS system would take many, many further months of development time, would result in a much higher product cost, and yet would only be used by the tiny number of people who are insisting upon it. On a final note, a very small number of observers have decried the inclusion of a modern FMC in the cockpit. I hope next week to have a more up-to-date spec sheet for the aircraft. There will be more of them over the coming weeks, but there is of course a huge amount still to do so much of the work will involve coding and animation rather than new details to share on the visuals.
#Pmdg 737 update update
While I’m on the subject, updates of all my aircraft are on hold until at least after Sim Update 7, as there is little point in sending them only for new sim updates to break them before they’re even released.įor now, enjoy the WIP images of Concorde and her flight deck. I’m hoping that the waiting times come down soon, as the MS team are working hard and have hired new help to try to bring the backlog down.
The MSFS Marketplace is currently suffering appalling waiting times, as much as four months, so there really is no way for me to pin a date on the Marketplace and Xbox version at this time. The last thing I want to do is spoil a user’s flight halfway across the Atlantic because they forgot to operate a switch, but at the same time having all this detail just be cosmetic seems like an awful waste of polygons to me.įor those of you hankering for accurate release dates, it’s now looking likely that Concorde will first launch with Just Flight in early February, 2022. I’m spending quite a lot of time making notes about how Concorde’s different systems worked, in order to try to figure out how much to make operational and what effect might occur if the user should fail to operate those systems correctly. As I mentioned last week, while this rendition of Concorde isn’t intended to be “study level”, the sheer volume of instrumentation and functionality present in the flight deck means that it will be significantly more complex than any of my other aircraft to date, including the original Concorde I built for FSX and Prepar3D.
#Pmdg 737 update full
I have been able to complete most of the modelling and am now texturing everything in full PBR, which really does bring the aircraft flight deck to life in MSFS.įrom an animation perspective, every single dial, button, switch and knob is alive in this version of Concorde, meaning that there will be a huge amount of work involved in both deciding how much of that will have a function in the simulator, and then tying them all together in a cohesive way. “This week has been spent entirely on the engineer’s station, which is a huge job to undertake and has understandably been all-consuming for some time now.
We also hear that the predicted release window is early February 2022. Next is DC Design, which offered a development update on its upcoming Concorde, alongside plenty of new screenshots.
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