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[BritAbroad]

For some time, we have had a policy of not adding aircraft to the game until they have entered production. Before the aircraft enters production, the publicly available statistics are often little more than advertising spiel, pipe dreams by the manufacturers and wishlists from the airlines. They are also nearly always lacking some of the critical data that we need: TSFC is always tricky to find or to accurately calculate.

I have always been against "improvising" missing data - it seemed sensible to try and avoid the inevitable backwards and forwards of bug reports and complaints about the aircraft because somebody has found a more favourable "source" about an aircraft that doesn't actually exist yet. This policy has been knocking around since a time when most games were either "dateless" (year 1, year 2, year 3, etc) or running between 1980 and 2015, and so it was accepted to a point.

Now that we have games that run much later, there has been more interest in these kinds of aircraft. With that in mind, we are rethinking our aircraft addition policy. Aircraft that are currently in development may well be included in the game, if certain conditions are met. These conditions are that:

• The aircraft is officially offered on the market, preferably with some firm orders being made
• The aircraft has a relatively sound Entry-into-Service date
• Sufficient published and reputable data is available, and missing pieces can be calculated with relative accuracy.

All "futuristic" aircraft additions or data changes require special approval by myself and/or Yuxi, as all data and calculations will be subject to greater scrutiny, in the interests of fairness.



As part of this, I am now happy to announce that the Boeing 737MAX and Airbus A320NEO will soon be available in the game - a big thank you to Northern, for collating a good chunk of reputable data. I will also be reviewing the "Rejected Aircraft Requests Log" shortly, and I may well approve certain aircraft that were previously rejected under the old policy, so there is no need to start re-request them.

[Nexus8]

I look forward to seeing the aircraft in game

[zakariae]

how about the 777X. It has been offered in the market and the date of entry and first flight have been announced. first flight around 2017 and first airline delivery 2020. maybe add them as well.    

[BritAbroad]

how about the 777X. It has been offered in the market and the date of entry and first flight have been announced. first flight around 2017 and first airline delivery 2020. maybe add them as well.    

 

It is on the To-Do list

 

http://www.airline-e...uture-aircraft/

[BritAbroad]

This is rather shiny.

 

I can't think of a non-rude way to ask if the policy on cessnas/bizjets has been laxed to allow low priority approval of similar types. That's my asking, it's not intended rudely, but I can't phrase it as such that it doesn't sound so. [Actually, given data required, I wonder if presumably easily available pdfs of pilots manuals, etc, could provide it - since they probably give you a fuel burn calculation etc.]

 

That is something that is still under consideration. One step at a time!

[Duck]

Thanks Brit for clearing this up. Maybe now we will have less people spamming about the Max and Neo.....

Edit: Especially since they've been added....

[mxax-ai]

The new A330?

Isn't even announced by airbus.

[Thatflyerguy]

sorry to revive such an ancient thread, but this is so interesting to look back on the max, both neos, the 777x still not in production...