feelThere ERJ v2 Nearing Release?

The feelThere folks keep teasing us with more screenshots and tidbits of information regarding the ERJ v2!

They have announced the initial livery list:

ERJ 135:

• Embraer house
• BMI
• Continental
• Luxair
• South African

ERJ 145:

• Embraer house
• KLM Excell
• US Airways Express
• United Express
• Andalus Lineas Aereas
• Alitalia Express

ERJ 145XR (XRJ):

• Embraer house

Pretty nice list so far, and no doubt the fine folks at McPhat are working on more. I for one would love to see an American Eagle livery, as I live near DFW Airport, where dozens of them take off and land every day. I know there are legal issues involved with a commercial enterprise doing any sort of American Airlines livery, so hopefully some talented painter out there will do one on his/her own soon.

Elsewhere, Vic commented that they are working hard to get both this and Map! v2 out by the end of the year. Given that there are only around 2 1/2 months left in 2009, I think there is a pretty strong chance we will be seeing the new ERJ pulling into our virtual hangars before long.

One rather interesting question that came up was whether Wilco would be handling distribution for feelThere on this one, as they had with nearly all of feelThere's add-on planes up through last year's E-Jets release. Vic from feelThere declined to comment on this. Given the lack of any sort of announcement on Wilco's site, I'm beginning to think that there may be a very good chance that somebody other than Wilco will be doing this one. feelThere self-released Map! after they put out their E-Jets product through Wilco, so the precedent exists that they may handle distribution on their own from now on. But who knows. Guess we will have to wait and see!