Delving more deeply into the technical side of development than ever before, Ubaid Mussa of iniBuilds has uploaded a bunch of new information on the group's forthcoming A300 v1.1 update.

Available via the iniBuilds Forum, the group's CEO makes it clear that the 'lead technical team' has written this post, which is very much focused on performance - as the update is as a whole.

In regards to plugin usage, the team had this to say: "'Usage' is expressed in units of time that it takes for your PC to process all the code. The higher the value, the worse the usage is and vice versa. With a lower usage value, you PC is able to spend more time on running X-Plane which gives a higher in-sim."

Two sections which the A300 is most heavy are the 'flight loop' and a one called 'drawing'. The latter of these is a main area of improvement in the coming update, which pertains to the rendering of each screen - for example, the drawing of the PFD, NDs and EFB are all counted under this section.

It is further explained that updates v1.03 and v1.04 were about taking the first steps towards this larger leap in the forthcoming update - now, only systems that are required will be called on at any one time and in the developer's words, "not running in the background wasting usage."

The FMS has also seen a bit of an overhaul, as longer routes will no longer see a relative decrease in performance over short hops.

In terms of actual performance comparisons between the two versions, they appear to be quite substantial. In the more demanding passenger version of the A300, v1.1 gains a full 12fps over it's v1.0 cousin which is in cargo configuration (note that the passenger cabin subtracts 1-2fps from v1.1's total performance).

In another test, the difference sat at 25fps between versions.

"V1.0 to V1.1 on longer routes we are seeing up to a 100-200% reduction in usage and massive FPS boost. In the test case, FPS went from 28 to 53. On short routes, we are still seeing large improvements across the board. On average, 30-40% reduction can be expected which also gives a big boost. In our test case FPS went from 39 to 52."

Looking to the future, the next items on the group's to do list include the addition of WXR radar functionality, as well as compatibility with macOS and Active Sky XP.

Release of v1.1 also appears to be just around the corner. The update will include the addition of a free passenger expansion.