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We will have a 'Welcome to the A300' video published before release, where you can find out more on features and differences. Thanks for all the positive comments!

Hello all, and we hope you are enjoying the iniBuilds Winter Wonderland special event so far! If you haven't heard about it yet - let us explain! Each day we release new products or have super sales (that are only available for 24hrs) 🥳 A warm welcome to Day 2 - The official trailer of the iniBuilds A300-600R Airliner for Microsoft Flight Simulator, given the product's soon arrival to the iniBuilds store! Not only do we have a fantastic trailer to showcase, but an update on the project, some cool new features not previously showcased and some screenshots of the near-to final product as we undergo a rigorous beta testing process! We hope you are excited after watching the official trailer, and hope the information below will get you even more excited 😉 Over the past few weeks the team have been extensively testing and refining some of the features launching in this product and we have finalized what will be available on the Day 1 Launch of this product which we will cover a bit later! 🔥 However, given the busy year we have had at iniBuilds and some of the cool announcements and products yet to come for the main Winter Wonderland event 😉 we have a revised outlook from when we last updated you in the summer where we went through specific elements of the product including some of the artwork - highly recommend you read that first to learn more about the product here. Updated schedule for the project: Version 1.0 product release before the end of 2023 - features list below 😉 🥳 Stage 1 - Hotfix sometime in January 2024. We will submit the iniBuilds A300-600 for PC and an optimized Xbox version in January too. Stage 2 - Pratt & Whitney Engine variant added free of charge along with full CPDLC/ACARS simulation (the modern radio unit option) and another host of bug fixes and improvements - target is Q1 2024. Stage 3 - EPIC Mod variant (paid expansion) sometime late 2024. We hope that provides some clarity to the schedule previously communicated, so let's jump into the features and some of the latest images of the aircraft that you can expect in the next few days! 😍 Version 1.0 Features List Authentic Systems Detailed custom FMS with SIDs, STARs, SEC flight plan, custom VNAV and LNAV, altitude and speed constraints and holds Independent FMS with state-of-the-art high-resolution cockpit displays Custom system rendition including bespoke hydraulic, electrical, pressurisation and fuel operation including unique A300-600R trim tank functionality Cautions and warnings triggered by poor maintenance Realistic RNAV and autoland capability modelled Unique behavioural characteristics of the A300-600R simulated throughout each system for the most excellent immersive experience Extensively tuned flight model to capture A300-600R characteristics including accurate performance; landing and takeoff behaviour Accurate rendition of General Electric GE CF6-80C2A1 [Pratt and Whitney PW4158 variant engine coming soon!] Custom maintenance functions: Engine oil levels, APU oil level, Hydraulic fluid level, wheel brake wear and tire wear Outstanding Visual Fidelity New and optimized PBR textures up to 8K quality. With performance texture packs available for lower-end systems via iniManager. A reworked cockpit 3D model and new exterior of the A300-600R (Passenger) and A300-600RF (Freighter) variants. A plethora of Easter eggs and eye candy associated with maintenance options and other abnormal situations. (brake wear indicators, fueling panel, openable APU cowling, openable engine cowlings [GE ONLY], APU Mechanic, visible tire wear, RAT, reactive windshield rain) Realistic door arming simulation with emergency slides modelled on passenger variant only. A contemporary set of realistic and fictional liveries courtesy of the iniBuilds Painting Team available for free. Immersive sounds: Authentic WWise soundset with full 3D environment using recordings from the real aircraft Advanced implementation of sound environments for the exterior, cabin, and cockpit, creating an immersive audio experience. Authentically modelled the CF6s "Buzzsaw" sound dynamically balanced depending on N1 Additional features: Pre-set cargo loads with visual models (racing team charter, horse stable transport, cargo transport, aero parts, humanitarian charter, postal freight) Basic iniBuilds ground handling set (freighter stairs, chocks, ground power unit) Feature-rich onboard Electronic Flight Bag (EFB); including Navigraph and SimBrief integration, performance calculators and load manager Panel State functionality The most critical and important feature of all: Fally Blocks! Please note the PW, IDC (CPDLC/ACARS functionality) will come in an update and is not present on launch V1. This project has been a labor of love and we hope it shows in some of these images! What a beauty 😍 We hope this gets you excited for the next few days! Enjoy the rest of the iniBuilds Winter Wonderland event whilst we prep introduction videos, liveries and the store page! ✍️❤️

🌴iniBuilds Palm Springs 🌴 - Your gateway to desert bliss! 🌵 🥳 Firstly, many thanks to all of you who supported us on iniBuilds Southampton (EGHI) which released for Microsoft Flight Simulator last month! You can see the store page for this scenery here! As mentioned in our last update, we are working on a larger JFK update for performance. Initial testing is showcasing good results, but we do not wish to rush this.. We note a small portion of you are still frustrated, but we are trying to balance one of the most detailed mega-hubs in the sim in an already resource intensive location. 🤞once this new update is out, it will perform a lot better for some of you! 🥳 Since our last update we have also commenced updates on all sceneries in our portfolio - some larger, some smaller with KOKC v1.03 now available, EGHI v1.01 now available, and numerous sceneries now on Xbox or PC via the Microsoft Marketplace! We are working through all the projects and you should see updates being released on these in the next few months. Be sure you have the latest iniManager installed. Now to today's announcement - iniBuilds Palm Springs for Microsoft Flight Simulator! 🥳 Palm Springs International airport, covers 940 acres with two runways and is 2 miles east of downtown Palm Springs, California, USA. The airport is key in California serving close to 3 million passengers in 2022! The airport is served by all major US carriers, boasting services to the East and West Coast, with an international presence from Canadian carriers such as Westjet and Air Canada. In 2011, the airport was rated number 3 as one of the most stress-free travel airport's in the USA and we can see why! 😉 After clearing security, passengers leave the main building via the automatic doors and enter the open-air courtyard, which contains a full-service restaurant, coffee shop, and multiple sets of restrooms! Who wouldn't be relaxed in this atmosphere! In our version all of these areas have been faithfully re-created to the highest detail with all walkways and outdoor areas modelled. 🌵 This level of detail also extends to other key areas of the airport such as the landside, jetways, terminals and bizjet areas! You can see this in the selection of images below 🎉 A key point of interest, in the vicinity of the airfield is the San Gorgonio Pass wind farm which we have faithfully modelled and animated, for that extra level of immersion when departing or arriving into the airport! 🍃 🛫 Key features: Hand crafted ground poly, textures with crisp, bespoke texture sets (Runways, aprons, paths, roads) True-to-life airport land side recreation with custom ground decals, signposts, vegetation, parking barriers and more Accurately modelled and positioned dynamic airport lighting Highly detailed models of all airport buildings, objects and surroundings Bespoke taxi signage as it is in the real world Up to date airport layout reflecting the current, real-world location Fully modelled local POI's and surrounding buildings including San Gorgonio Pass wind farm! Level of Detail (LOD) optimisation for every model to encourage the best performance possible Use of the latest MSFS SDK features to allow for the best optimisation and performance possible GSX profile included Full iniManager compatibility to configure your scenery for the best possible performance for your system Media will be showcasing this scenery from this Wednesday 18th October with release next Friday 20th October with the price of this scenery being £14.99 GBP excl. VAT. We hope you enjoy this product and the updates coming across the iniBuilds scenery portfolio - let us know your comments as always and be sure to follow all of our socials! Many thanks and have an awesome weekend! 🍹 iniBuilds team ❤️

iniBuilds Southampton - Where History meets the sea! 🌊 🏗️ Welcome to today's new scenery project announcement and mini project update from our scenery team! It was only a few weeks ago we released one of our most popular sceneries to date - iniBuilds Honolulu International Airport 🌴. It was a great project, and we are super thankful to all of you who supported us on that project; but also participated in our humanitarian efforts for the Hawaii Wildfire crises whereby we donated 10% of all revenue in the first month to the American Red Cross. ❤️ We have made numerous updates to a whole host of sceneries in the past few weeks and are currently working on a large, significant update to JFK, to support users on certain PC configurations on performance. This should also have a positive impact to those on Xbox. Without further delay, we are super excited to announce iniBuilds Southampton Airport! 🌊 🏗️. Southampton Airport (ICAO: EGHI) is an international airport located in the south of the UK! A focus city for BA Cityflyer today, the airport has had a varied history going back to 1910, and held great significance in the World Wars. 🛫 Today, the airport serves over 700,000 passengers a year with a wide variety of regional and international carriers from British Airways to destinations in France and Spain to airlines such as KLM flying to Amsterdam. There are also extensive operations to the Channel Islands with numerous carriers such as Aurigny and Blue Islands! 🌊 Perfect to take the ATR out on some short hops 😉 We have gone into extreme detail into this scenery and you can see that we have covered a lot of detail in all areas of the airport. When we teased this scenery last week; people questioned why we selected this airport? iniBuilds is a global team, with our staff coming from all over the world but our Head of Scenery Development and a few staff actually have Southampton as their local airport! So you could say its our scenery team's local airport 😉 Features list: Hand crafted ground poly, textures with crisp, bespoke texture sets (Runways, aprons, paths, roads) True-to-life airport land side recreation with custom ground decals, signposts, vegetation, parking barriers and more Accurately modelled and positioned dynamic airport lighting Highly detailed models of all airport buildings, objects and surroundings Bespoke taxi signage as it is in the real world Up to date airport layout reflecting the current, real-world location Fully modelled local POI's and surrounding buildings including Mercedes Garage, HSBC building, Premier Inn & Southampton Station. Level of Detail (LOD) optimisation for every model to encourage the best performance possible Use of the latest MSFS SDK features to allow for the best optimisation and performance possible Full iniManager compatibility to configure your scenery for the best possible performance for your system Custom GSX profile included Latest airport configuration including newly re-surfaced and extended runway that opened just this week! 😉 We hope you like what you see and for our customers in the UK / local area, hope we did your local airport justice! 😉 Media will be showcasing this scenery from this Wednesday with release this Friday 29th September with the price of this scenery being £12.99 GBP excl. VAT. I leave you with our trailer for the product, and please do let us know what you think of this scenery in the comments! Many thanks, iniBuilds team ❤️

Just to add LAX should be way worse than HNL!

Aloha Honolulu - the Paradise of the Pacific! 🌴🌊🥳 iniBuilds Summer Surprises Day 5, brings you all a fantastic, highly requested scenery - Honolulu International Airport! 🎉 Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, commonly known as Honolulu International Airport (PHNL) offers many nonstop flights to many places in North America, Asia and Oceania. The FAA categorizes this airport as a large-hub primary commercial service facility, with significant commercial and military flight traffic! Being the hub of Hawaiian airlines, the airport attracts many of the largest airlines of the world such as United, Southwest, American, Korean and Qantas! Some of the busies routes stretch as far as Manila - Philippines or Osaka - Japan to many cities in the mainland United states such as Las Vegas, San Francisco or Los Angeles! ✈️ This airport is fantastic for those who wish to fly long-haul, or short/medium haul ops to the mainland United States, Canada or the other Hawaiian islands! 🌴 The airport had over 18 million passengers pass through in 2022! Features list: Hand crafted ground poly, textures with crisp, bespoke texture sets (Runways, aprons, paths, roads) True-to-life airport land side recreation with custom ground decals, signposts, vegetation, parking barriers and more Accurately modelled and positioned dynamic airport lighting Highly detailed models of all airport buildings, objects and surroundings Bespoke taxi signage as it is in the real world Up to date airport layout reflecting the current, real-world location Custom built jetways with realistic variations using PBR texturing and animations, including gate number toppers Fully modelled Cultural Garden, along with custom buildings with unique artwork that adorn the buildings Level of Detail (LOD) optimisation for every model to encourage the best performance possible Use of the latest MSFS SDK features to allow for the best optimisation and performance possible Custom static aircraft Full iniManager compatibility to configure your scenery for the best possible performance for your system Custom GSX profile included made by the amazing RW Profiles - some more news on that on Friday 1 Sept 😉 A bit like we did with other scenery announcements, let's walkthrough some of the cool features of this airport. Starting with the above image, whilst not being a 1st line asset, we wanted to provide an authentic experience to this airport and this is a super prominent building along the airport boundary! Most airports we have made, have usually been full commercial airports, but for those who love military bases; you are in luck! Honolulu International Airport, shares runways with Hickam Air Force Base which has been fully modelled! Hickam is a USAF installation, and is home to the 15th Wing and 67 partner units including Headquarters of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), Hawaii Air National Guard and the 154th Wing (154 WG) of the Hawaii Air National Guard. The Air Mobility Command's 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing (515 AMOW) provides tactical and strategic airlift within the Pacific region. The details transcend throughout the whole airport; and we have ensured all cargo areas are fully modelled! From custom GSE to a fully modelled landside, this is truly a fantastic airport, that you should add to your collection! 🥳 As mentioned above in the features list, we have also fully modelled the Cultural Garden that sits in the interior of the terminal walkways; and do not worry - the intense vegetation can be switched off via iniManager, for those on lower end systems. Now, to probably the most important part of this announcement! 🙂❤️ 10% of all revenue in the first month, will be going to the American Red Cross for the Hawaii Wildfire crises that have affected thousands of people. Like the Turkey Earthquake disaster, at iniBuilds, we want to support humanitarian efforts as much as we can around the world and do our part for society beyond flight simulation. If you would like to donate directly to supporting this effort; you can do so here 😊 https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii.html In usual iniBuilds scenery fashion; I leave you with the iniBuilds Honolulu International Airport trailer! Rest assured any bugs that present themselves, will be swiftly fixed in a patch! 🙂 Many thanks iniBuilds Team! 🙂

Some good news - they have sent us a new version, and we will upload this by next week. 🙂

Can you post a picture please?

Hello! 🙂 We will pass this to Fly2High, the developer of this scenery. Thanks for your feedback.

We always do our best to make products that are performant.

v2.2.1 of the iniManager has been released (For Windows & MacOS). This update contains minor performance improvements. This update will be downloaded automatically when you launch the app or you can manually download it here. v2.2.1 Minor performance improvements