Thranda Design has today announced through the x-plane.org forum that they and Carenado have split and are no longer working together.

In summary, Dan Klaue of Thranda Design said the high rate at which Carenado aim to produce aircraft was the driving factor behind the decision, leaving the two companies to go in their own directions in August of this year.

"Production wasn't going fast enough for Carenado, and the initiation to terminate our collaboration came from Carenado," said Dan Klaue.

"Attempts were made to negotiate further collaborations, but in the end, we decided to split completely on amicable terms.

"For us at Thranda, we felt that we had a lot of loose ends that we hadn't been able to get around to spending time on, because of the frantic rate of production and demanding schedule set on us by Carenado, so we decided to split ways completely, with the idea of seeing where each of our brands would land in the public's eye, and giving us as Thranda a chance to recover, and ramp up production on some projects we've been wanting to work on for a long time."

Carenado has released ten aircraft this year for X-Plane 11 - this number, of course, excludes those released for Prepar3D and FSX.

All-in-all, Thranda Design assisted Carenado in producing 70 products over a period of nine years.

"We wish Carenado great success in X-Plane, and we are proud of having been part in helping Carenado establish a foothold in the X-plane market," continued Dan.

"At Thranda, we're still open to explore certain future collaboration models, for instance, where we provide add-ons to Carenado's planes, enhancing their value in some capacity, maybe through expansion packs.

"However, these considerations won't be worked out in any further detail until we have the sense that we are caught up on all the things that have been neglected over the past 9 years.

"A few of the things we've been wanting to work on for a long time is a more robust beta-tester infrastructure, the capacity to publish demo versions of our planes, auto-updater integration, and better support for sim pit hardware.

"These things are in the works, and we are making good progress on them, so things are looking good.

"We're also encouraged by the feedback of the Kodiak v2.0 release, and are looking forward to dedicating more time on our own products under the Thranda brand."

Thranda Design has been a partner of Just Flight for some time; Just Flight's aircraft have existed in X-Plane 11 because of Thranda's assistance in converting the aircraft to the platform.

"Thranda's collaboration with Just Flight is looking really good, and with them, we have had the chance to explore and develop some of these systems optimized for larger number of products, which I believe will greatly enhance the end-user experience for the range of products we're involved with, including better support, quicker update turnaround times, less confusing and more user-friendly updates, etc.

"We appreciate all the support from the community we have been getting, and look forward to Thranda's future in X-plane."

V2 of Thranda Design's Quest Kodiak G1000 was released last month, with a Reality Expansion Pack courtesy of SimCoders also announced.

On Carenado's side, the company released the G1000 variant of the Cessna C208B Grand Caravan EX only yesterday.

Threshold contacted Carenado, but the developer declined to comment on the situation.