The developer Just Flight has shared another development update covering their Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 aircraft series for Microsoft Flight Simulator. This development update mostly covers the systems that we will be able to find in this add-on once it is released.
The team has been relatively quiet since the FSWeekend that occurred in Lelystad in March. In the development post, Just Flight mentions that a major shift is happening from development and beta testing to finishing other details, such as operations and EFB manuals, support page, and pre-release videos. These notes that the aircraft is coming quite soon to our virtual hangars.
A new beta build with systems has been pushed to the testing team, and marks the final testing stage of this aircraft series. The Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 now behave correctly from 35 feet after take off, all the way down to minimums, correctly maintaining altitude constraints and other RNAV navigation situations. With such stability ensured, the team now aims to break the aircraft as much as possible, to find bugs and eliminate them upon initial release. Once that is finished, a release date is going to be revealed.
Not only are the navigation systems being tested, but the team tweaks auto braking system and improves breaking effectiveness of this narrow-body aircraft series. This has been fine-tuned based on the aircraft’s real-world documentation.
The Just Flight team has also shared some more screenshots of the aircraft, in which we can see the passenger cabin in its full glory, as well as the cockpit. In the cockpit, we may find close-ups of details on the autopilot panel, the radio panel, as well as the navigation display and attitude indicator. The CDU has been partially shown as well.
For now, that is all the Just Flight team has prepared for us regarding the Fokker 70 and 100. In the meantime, you can read more articles here about this aircraft series, and with the current state of the project, we may get some more information soon.
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