Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Airsimmer A320 Basic Edition Released for FS9

More good news for sim pilots!

After a lengthy wait, Airsimmer has just rolled out the Airbus A320 Basic Edition for FS9! This looks like one sweet plane. I'm going to hold out for the FSX version, and I can see an eventual upgrade to the Advanced Edition in my future. This looks to be a PMDG-quality simulation of the A320. Really looking forward to this one -- I can't wait to give it a try!

The Basic Edition is very reasonably priced at US $39.99, while pricing for the upcoming Advanced Edition is US $89.99. It appears that there will be an upgrade path for Basic Edition customers to upgrade to the Advanced Edition without having to pay full price for it on top of the Basic Edition.

[EDIT: upgrade path to Advanced Edition is "still under consideration" at this point, according to this post.]

The download uses Flight 1's eCommerce wrapper and installer, although there is no mention of it up at the Flight 1 site yet. I suspect we will see something there soon. In the meantime, the Airsimmer folks have a link to the A320 download from their products page.

Combined with PMDG's upcoming 737 NG v2 due (hopefully) next year, it looks like these two add-ons will allow us realistically simulate most of the domestic fleets of most major airlines in the world today. Very cool.

Looks like we simmers are going to be in for a very merry holiday season this year!

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