Over at their support forum at Avsim, Robert Randazzo of PMDG has announced that their “Secret Project #1” is not, as many expected, another modern airliner, but instead one from an earlier age – the Douglas DC-6B Cloudmaster.
According to this thread (which is at three pages and extending fast, predictably), while the DC-6B will be designed to have system depth, it won’t be aimed at directly competing with A2A Simulations‘ Accu-Sim lineup so there won’t be a failures module. Even without failures or a Heidi-a-like, however, this one will probably be a very popular choice.
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This is great news, coming from PMDG!
Agreed, great to see some of the old birds coming back!
I hope this one has a 2004 model. If so, I’m buying it.
DrBackJack I believe I read the model is FSX native so I would doubt that. It’s a pity, because I’d like to fly it in my GoldenWings install but unlike sceneries, aircraft for both versions aren’t so common.
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