15 November 2023
In partnership with Thranda Design, we are proud to announce a new product line featuring our General Aviation aircraft fleet for X-Plane 12!
This brand-new line of aircraft are being developed natively for X-Plane 12 and will be modelled with a plethora of new features while also taking full advantage of everything X-Plane 12 has to offer.
We'll be working our way through all of our existing X-Plane 11 GA aircraft to upgrade them to this new standard and we plan to have the entire product line completed in the next 12-18 months. We'll be sure to keep you updated as we make progress!
The first aircraft of this new product line is the
Duchess Model 76, which should be ready to fly in the not too distant future. As you can see in the screenshots below and on the Duchess page, the biggest visual changes to these aircraft will be overhauled interior and exterior textures; these both now boast 8K resolution and incredible levels of detail, with crisp panel lines, accurate rippling of the skin and true-to-life weathering.
Our partners at Thranda Design are also implementing a large number of popular features from their own much-loved aircraft, including an EFB tablet, which removes the need for any pop-out windows that featured in previous version of the aircraft.
These new aircraft will also include 'Dynamic Liveries' that allow you to modify the colour schemes of two liveries almost in real time, and without reloading the flight! The wear and tear of the aircraft can also be adjusted using the tablet EFB so you can fine-tune the level of dirt and scratches to your personal taste.
On top of all this, six brand-new, high-quality 8K liveries are provided to really complete the exterior textures. Flight model improvements take full advantage of the new X-Plane 12 flight physics.
See the
Duchess Model 76 page for all the details of the new X-Plane 12 aircraft and some more screenshots.
We hope this announcement comes as good news to the X-Plane community and we're looking forward to continuing to develop aircraft for X-Plane 12 into the future.
