Aerosoft has published their first A330 development update for 2024, stating their decision to shift the development effort to the upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, allowing them to “greatly expand the focus of the project.”

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Announced three years ago, in January 2021, their A330 project won’t be coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, as they have decided to focus on the upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 instead. Aerosoft will include multiple engine options, including a simultaneous release of the Neo and Ceo variants.

Mathijs Kok, Aerosoft’s former project manager, has made a statement in the Aerosoft forums, saying it’s a “puzzling statement” and a “surprising twist,” given they had recently tuned and tweaked the engine simulation and the new simulator might render all that work useless, leading to a full rework, and, potentially, further delays. “As there is no known release date of FS2024 and nobody knows how much adaptation will be needed, you end up with a project with no scheduled release date”, he completed.

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Their decision to release for MSFS 2024 leads to many questions because little is known about the sim’s innards, how the backward compatibility will work, and how much it could further complicate the development process.

There’s no release date or pricing yet, but Threshold will keep you informed on the matter!

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