Following a large amount of community speculation after content creators started teasing a new “Study Level” aircraft they were testing, Fenix Sim has broken the ice with today’s announcement through a live stream on Chewwy94’s channel.

The initial collaborative teasing from major streamers piqued the interest of the community, who as a collective, pieced together information through small bits of information, shared by many involved with the project. At the height of the hype-building, the aircraft was backed up by the streamers as a product that honourably bears the “Study Level” title, even surpassing FlightSimLab’s rendition of the European regional airliner.

The first hint shared was by Chewwy94, in the form of a short, but cryptic Tweet. Hints continued to trickle through on Twitter, with the following Tweet shown below, (which is a retweet of KatiePilot’s Tweet, also talking about a new “Study Level” aircraft coming to MFS.) 

The retweet was sent by Brandon Filer, a 3D artist and programmer, working within flight simulation, also hinting towards his involvement.

The community went on to connect the dot towards CyanidePlaysGames, a previous investor in Mettar Simulations, before withdrawing his support for the company. The streamer also made his own announcement today in his Discord server, hinting towards today’s announcement.

The teasers have culminated into today’s announcement on Chewwy’s live stream, which unveiled the Fenix Sim’s A320.

The Fenix Sim’s Airbus A320 CEO for Microsoft Flight Simulator is the latest high fidelity airliner for the platform, following the likes of the Aerosoft CRJ series, built from the ground up, the previews shared today are the result of multiple years of development by the large development and technical team.

The team claims that the aircraft is the “most comprehensive and complete A320 simulator available to desktop consumers”, showing their full belief in the quality of their rendition.

The 3D model of the aircraft has been built upon 3D scans of 5 different A320-family aircraft, bringing the “uttermost accuracy” to users.

Building upon the detailed modelling, Fenix Sim goes on to state that the aircraft will wear down with use and switches will begin to loosen, causing them to sit at different angles.

The developer has taken every care to make sure even small details are simulated with the display units in the cockpit with its distinctive poor off-axis picture quality of LCD screens, with the following being stated:

“Apart from just matching the resolution to the real A320, if you get up close and personal with one of the screens on the Fenix Sim A320 you will start seeing individual pixels instead of a single blurry texture. To top it all off, we absolutely had to simulate the horrible off-axis backlight bleed you get when not viewing the panels head on”

Also worked into the aircraft is a comprehensive failure system, featuring 170 unique faults that can be triggered by the user, on-demand. A full list of these failures is available to view in this document provided by the developer.

Further demonstrating the system depth of the aircraft, the team have modelled 280 circuit breakers, each individually modifiable. 

Addressing the price of the aircraft, the team shared that users can expect the aircraft to not be the “value of their left kidney” and be at a price that they “think you’ll be happy with”.

All of this wraps up what would be a rather monotonous Monday in flight simulation add-ons, to find more information and follow their development progress, visit their newly launched website.

The team’s Discord Server can also be joined to interact with the development team. For socials, Fenis also has an account, which you can follow for the developer’s latest progress: Twitter Profile.