Teased a couple of years ago, iniBuilds has been quiet about their L-1011 TriStar project until today where they’ve done a big reveal and talked about all kinds of information for the project. They’ve also revealed a KDFW (Dallas-Fort Worth) scenery project and gone over some of the highlights of 2025. Let’s check it out.

The El-Ten-Eleven

iniBuilds have done the full reveal today with their L-1011 project. The Lockheed TriStar airliner was developed in the 1970s and was the company’s last civilian airliner project. The variant chosen for MSFS is the L1011-500 which was the last variant to come into service and was popular with Delta and British Airways.

The developers are producing this for MSFS 2024 only making use of the newer sims features and capabilities. The aircraft will have detailed systems, electrical, pneumatic and environmental as well as a custom coded triple-INS CIVA system with realistic operation. Optional GNS530 upgrade option will also be available. The aircraft will have a paper-styled EFB with SimBrief integration. The flight engineer panel will be functional with manual and automatic modes to manage the systems represented there.

iniBuilds have, rightly, been on the receiving end of critique around frame rate performance on several of their products and here they appear to be addressing that directly with notes on how they are working with performance in mind.

Visual quality is balanced with careful optimisation principles learned from our most recent product cycles. We use a mix of shared texture sheets, strict texture resolution rules, and smart LOD transitions that reduce VRAM memory usage without visible losses in quality.

Complex areas such as the Flight Engineer station, the cabin, and the landing gear assemblies have been built with performance in mind. These regions feature multi-stage LODs that retain visual accuracy close-up but scale down gracefully at distance.

Sounds are being provided by… Echo 19! Its been 48-hours and this sound developer has had two major reveals. Incredible! There’s a great video about how they captured authentic sounds off of an actual L-1011 for this.

KDFW, EGGP and a look back

The folks at iniBuilds have had a busy year. Releasing the A350, A340, F406, and the Spartan. In scenery, they re-released several MSFS 2020 projects and added airports like (ENSB) Svalbard Longyear, (FACT) Cape Town, (AT98) Wolf’s Fang and (EGGK) London Gatwick. They also did a scenery pack for (KPVD) Providence in connection with the expo.

They have revealed that their A340 project isn’t quite done as a free VIP executive variant for the A340 will come in January.

In the new year, the team are going to be doing some other interesting new scenery projects. People have been hoping for a good payware Dallas-Fort Worth airport scenery pack for quite a long time and it looks like iniBuilds Dallas Fort Worth (KDFW) Premium for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 might be the thing that they were looking for. The developer reports that they have been working on the project for months and have been busy modeling and applying their learned expertise on performance improvements to help make it work.

That’s not the only project as they are also doing their own rendition of the Liverpool John Lennon Airport (EGGP). The famous airport follows their efforts for Manchester and Leeds Bradford covering other northern UK destinations.

Read the scenery development overview here and check out their aircraft development overview here.