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.
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.