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I thought I'd give you all a quick update on progress with the PMDG MD-11 for FS9, and the simultaneous FSX update.

Currently, we are projecting a release that will definitely take place during 2008, and most likely take place before Christmas. At least- this is according to our current progress rate, and of course could change if we run into something unexpected during final testing!

We have issued BETA 3 to our testers, and we project BETA 4 to go to them on Monday. We'll be testing a release candidate by late next week, so the wrap up to release is coming pretty quickly.

We hit what was virtually a complete standstill for nearly six weeks while Vin and Michael worked to try and resolve shortcomings in the Virtual Cockpit within FS9. Specifically, we were forced to eliminate the dimmable lighting from the FS9 VC because the antiquated export tools at our disposal for FS9 simple wouldn't convert a project that included all that extra feature load. We have found a good middle ground with the back lighting and the panel flood lighting that, when we finish tuning, will look very nice- and indeed looks significantly better than the original PMDG 737 or the 747-400 for FS9...

We decided to invest a significant amount of time into researching if there were other techniques we could use to bring the dimming into FS9- but it simply FS9 simply couldn't handle a model of that complexity. (So no- there will not be wing views... we are using all the polys and vertexes in the VC where we anticipate most customers will spend their time!)

Pete is busy converting all 75+ liveries from FSX to FS9 standards- and I'll be spending my weekend building those installers. You can anticipate that we'll start making the liveries available for download once the beta team has had a chance to test drive them and make sure they work.

In the mean- time, we have been monitoring feedback on the FSX MD-11 that was released two months ago, and this has caused us to find/fix a few items in the MD-11 that are applied to both the FS9 and FSX. Our plan right now is to release an update for the FSX airplane virtually simultaneously with the release of the FS9 version. This update will not add significant new functionality- but it will correct a few items that we've run across that were noteworthy.

Our development plan is to add some new features and further updates to both the FS9 and FSX versions in/around April 2009...

Okay- I think that covers most of the details for tonight- I hope you are all having a nice weekend and I'll bring you more information as soon as I have it!

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