747 Classic Progress
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@simeonwilbury Sorry, nothing to show or report back on at the moment. As soon as there is we'll bring it to you. Thanks for your patience.
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@gabe777 Surprisingly enough the VC-25 didn't enter service until 20 years after the 747, back in 1990, so Bush Sr. was the first prez to get a ride in the queen of the skies.
@Voice-of-Reason any info on what is being worked on? Systems, rework of model, both?
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No news whatsover for a loooong time...kinda lost hope for this one.
And i got this feeling that the reason why is that they ditched P3D for a MSFS only release.Brgds,
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I think the Classic is niche.... O3D is slowly becoming niche.... makes financial sense I guess.
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@belgiantiger_2 That's not the reason but nice try. The reason as we have explained previously is because the projects lost its way and progress was painfully slow. We've now brought a new developer and new expertise onto the project but it's meant a lot of coding has has to be redone or reworked so just at the moment it's a lot of grunt work getting done meaning we're unable to give a precise update. Thanks for your patience.
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I have been waiting for this for a very long time and its very sad that is still not out. I am glad that a new team is working on it but it really should have been out years ago. Time to just get it done, simplify as much as possible and get it out ASAP. At this point I would be happy if you just did the minimum to get the CLS 747-200 working in V5.
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Nope, no simplification please. These things take time to develop & I'm more than happy to wait for a thorough systems simulation rather than anything rushed.
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@simeonwilbury I agree with this, they can take as long as they need as long as they make it work near flawlessly and fix all the issues with the exterior model.
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Better to have something good today than have something perfect never. And they will have to charge so much to cover the costs that nobody will be able to afford it. As it is the only choices I see for V5 is PMDG which is too complex and very very expensive, and the old FSX default so for now that is what I am stuck using.
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@joefremont PMDG is what I use currently, excellent aircraft and well worth the money.
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@joefremont to be frank, provided all the systems listed are properly implemented, and the exterior model is fixed, I would gladly pay a ~$120 price tag for this aircraft. I hope others would be in agreement.
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Am having so much fun flying the recently released “other” 747-200 in X-Plane. Really looking forward to being able to fly this one in P3dv4.5, especially being able to use time acceleration across the pond.
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I hope they dont abandon the P3d version of this like they did the F28 after all the disappointment and delays
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The situation with the F28, as we have explained before, was not that we abandoned it for P3D; it is that the public very quickly abandoned P3D for MSFS. The F28 was not that far along the systems development cycle and so it would have been commercial folly to invest a huge amount of development time in continuing to produce a product for a simulator with a very small potential market.
747 is a very different kettle of fish. It has been a complete aircraft in P3D for quite some time and the delays on it have been down to a change in systems development team when it was nearing completion. It makes more sense to complete the aircraft for P3D and then re-develop for MSFS, rather than start again from scratch in MSFS. -
Just looking to see if there’s any possible updates, and if some blatant model errors(omnipresent left upper deck door, missing upper deck door windows, wing slat shape, engine models) are being rectified, and a bit more information on included things, like if there will be a 2 or 3 autopilot option, or just 3 now, if there will be a tape gauge option for the cockpit, and what variants of the engines will be available. Specifically what JT9D variants for the -100 and -200, I’ve seen some screenshots show the JT9D-7R4G2, but I was curious if the actual modeled variant would be a more common variant, like the -7J or -7Q.
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@noob21 Now that are making good progress with the systems coding again, the entire project is currently going through a review and upgrade process to bring everything up to the latest standards and to ensure that the visual detail and accuracy matches the study-level depth of those systems. Once we've finished that review, early next year, then we'll be sure to update you all here on those upgrades and improvements, including new screenshot and video previews.
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@martyn Alright then, I’ll await those updates patiently. If there’s any need for references or scrutiny on the model, I’d be happy to help, though I can’t claim any REAL experience with the 747 sadly, just enthusiasm and a fair bit of learned knowledge from the internet and visual references.
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@martyn said in 747 Classic Progress:
@noob21 Now that are making good progress with the systems coding again, the entire project is currently going through a review and upgrade process to bring everything up to the latest standards and to ensure that the visual detail and accuracy matches the study-level depth of those systems. Once we've finished that review, early next year, then we'll be sure to update you all here on those upgrades and improvements, including new screenshot and video previews.
Looking forward to seeing the Previews!
