NZFF

News off the Aerosoft website.

PMDG are soon to release there first offering for X-plane.

The DC-6B

Worth getting X-plane for

Versions for FSX and P3D to follow

Saw that the other day. They been working on that model for years. It WAS supposed to initially be for FSX last I heard (2-3yrs back) so I was shocked to hear X-Plane got it. Weird but oh well...

I do have X-plane installed but have not looked at it, I would be very sure PMDG DC-6 would also be for FSX , I'd say after the weight there would a riot if not.

It WILL be for FSX and P3D but not for a few months. X-Plane is the release platform which is odd for a company that never really went there before. Given X-Planes phenomenal attention to flight dynamics, this should really be an interesting release

omitchell wrote:It WILL be for FSX and P3D but not for a few months. X-Plane is the release platform which is odd for a company that never really went there before. Given X-Planes phenomenal attention to flight dynamics, this should really be an interesting release

I think it's good they did it for xplane first then "port" to fsx.
I mean really it won't be a port. The model and textures will be a normal export from 3dsmax using the appropriate SDK. For the flight dynamics you run the model through plane maker for XP, and PMDG have their own oven for baking FSX flight dynamics.

By doing xplane first you can take advantages of any newer things xplane might have to offer technically. Having never read the aircraft documentation for xplane I don't know if there is anything.

I have xplane 10 but was never impressed by it. I might check this out when it's released. It'll certainly be more interesting to study and learn to fly then the 777

NZ255 wrote:I have xplane 10 but was never impressed by it.

YIP , not so strangely you said that, I thought it went back 3 maybe 4 generations off Flightsim , most the latest scenery in a word used 12 years ago , It looks like "NODDY LAND" , ... reason I have not spent any time with it, at first glance, I was not impressed after all the rave off the so call realistic flight dynamics .. you go to FSX's A2A products for that.