The community has been asking for a full fidelity 787 simulation that goes above and beyond the derivatives of the 787 available from MSFS 2024 today and it looks like Vector Simulations, newly arrived onto the scene, might be able to offer that. Their presentation at FSWeekend gives us some details of what they have planned.

Dreamliner on its way to MSFS 2024

Starting at 1 hour and 10 minutes during the second day of the FSWeekend event (live streamed by FSElite), the Vector Simulations presentation reveals that the new developer is a team of roughly 20 people. That group includes developers, artists, as well as people with real world 787 experience including maintainers.

The team is building a detailed maintenance system down to system schematics. That will mean failure modeling, detailed synoptics showing realistic behaviours when specific components fail, and so forth.

The team have also confirmed that they are intending to offer the three variants of the 787 – the -8, -9 and -10. Development has reportedly been ongoing for well over a year now and Vector Simulations say that they intend to offer the product by the end of 2026.

A spotlight video series will be coming out periodically throughout the year as we get towards release.

A website provided by the developer provides links to the Discord, Instagram, Facebook and X accounts.

Commentary

Vector Simulations is new on the scene as a group. Community skepticism on the aircraft, its systems depth, the ambitious release schedule and various other items is of course going to be going around.

Having been around for a while, I’m of course always going to be just a little hesitant when a new name arrives. We’ve had many before and will have many new names in the future and some of them will deliver on much desired products for simmers while others wont.

At one point in the not too distant past, an upstart developer reported that they would be offering an A320ceo simulation at extremely high fidelity levels – and Fenix Simulations is now one of the leaders in the industry. Will this be that story or one of the others? We’ll have to see but I’m cautiously optimistic that a large experienced team may well be able to make this happen. It’d be great if they did!