A big iniBuilds update has just arrived hours ahead of the FSExpo produce announcements. In it we learn what they are up to with the A380, how their scenery development is coming along, and we get a tease of a future product: the Global 6000.

How’s the Super Jumbo doing?

The latest major airliner project is taking shape at iniBuilds with development of the A380 now in full swing. A full development report talks about the various features of the aircraft including a rebuilt EFB system with a new structure, full support for the latest CFD flight model system improvements in MSFS 2024, support for Engine Alliance GP7200 and Rolls-Royce Trent 900 powered variants, a comprehensive systems model including ECAM, fly-by-write modeling, step climbs, and more.

Support will be built in for various third party systems including Hoppie, SayIntentions, NaviGraph, SimBrief and support for CPDLC and ACARS functionality.

There’s also the usual mentions of detailed soundscape, complex interiors with systems management, as well as the ability to do multi-jet-bridge interactions with supported scenery.

You can see some of the cockpit details in this video.

There’s another video featuring the interior and the rear staircase.

Global 6000 teased

If you’re wondering what iniBuilds plans to do after the launch of the A380, it sounds like they are gearing up to do some business jets and the teaser image, featuring the registration HB-JFX points to a Swiss owned Bombardier Global 6000.

To date, most business jets have been more regionally oriented offerings and we’ve not yet gotten into the truly intercontinental business jet market. Certainly nothing in the Bombardier Global range… until now. Should be interesting.

Scenery news: London City, Dubai, more

iniBuilds is maintaining their characteristically busy scenery development process with lots of recent releases including Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Zakynthos Airport and London City Airport.

Coming soon is Chicago O’Hare International Airport (KORD) with plenty of details paid to the interior and exterior of one of the busiest airports in the world.

Meanwhile, Dubai International Airport is receiving a V2 upgrade which they will be making available for free.

Rather than being a simple refresh, our goal with V2 is to revisit one of our most popular airports and bring it up to the standards of our latest-generation scenery projects. This includes improvements across modelling, texturing, interiors, ground detail, airport infrastructure and overall visual fidelity, whilst taking full advantage of the latest optimisation techniques available within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

More visually detailed and with better performance is the goal that iniBuilds has set out and thanks to some of the technology improvements in 2024 that does seem possible.

The developer is also, as mentioned in the A380 segment, planning to tackle multiple jet bridges at once.

This feature will be free to all iniBuilds customers who own an iniBuilds airport. So how will the jetways work? It’s simple – they are built into the airport package and should work just like the current default jetways do. No additional software needs to be installed or run outside the simulator, and all aircraft that are compatible with the default jetways should work with the new jetways. We even expect to make this feature available to Xbox and PlayStation users of our sceneries.

Should be interesting.

Read iniBuilds full report here!