Milviz King Air 350i VC Work In Progress

[hairyspin]

The Milviz King Air is now available in pre-release version, aka beta release. If you buy it, for $50, you get an unfinished, incomplete model. Having bought the beta you can no doubt register your copy with the developers and get updates up to and including the retail release when it's ready.

You may find features you'd like missing for now: whether a weather radar is to be implemented I have no idea, I don't work for Milviz.

[Daveroo]

Reading through this thread reminds me of the difference between chronological age - and developmental age
...sometimes the gulf is vast

lol well said sir!!

[n4gix]

The Milviz King Air is now available in pre-release version, aka beta release.

Technically Tom, as it is not yet "feature complete" we refer to it as an alpha. The reality is however that it is 98.6% feature complete.

Hopefully within the next two weeks I will be compiling the first actual 'beta version', which after some sanity checks performed by out in-house beta team can then be sent out to all current pre-release customers for a through shakedown.

[alehead]

Bill,

how are things going with that beta version? It would be nice for us pre-release customers to get our hands on too

Andrew

[TeiscoDelRay]

Because they let out updates rarely instead of a little at a time has kept me from purchasing this plane. They could let out smaller, more frequent updates to keep the buyer happy but for some reason they would rather not.

[gman5250]

If I may, I would offer my perspective on this thread.

I've had the plane from early on, and have been continually in the loop, receiving updates as they became available. Overall I have found the plane to be more than satisfactory and completely flyable.
Visually, she is as much or more than I would expect from any add on and up to par with any other Milviz product.
Technically, the small items like prop blurs, spinners or sound sets were temporary concessions allowed any WIP project. Each update brought improvement along the way.

The plane, in its current state of development, is complete enough for me to enjoy. Having purchased the model at the beta price point, with the understanding that one accepts the terms of the purchase agreement, I am quite content to allow the development team to continue at the pace suited to the development process.

To be honest, if I were not occasionally reminded that this were a beta project I would think that I am flying a RTM package. Any improvements upon that would simply be icing on the cake.

IMHO

[n4gix]

Thanks, ********...

As it happens, the reason for us not releasing any 'update' recently is simply because everything that is being programmed and finalized for the actual 'Beta' version is tightly integrated.

This means that until all the bits and bobs are integrated, any 'update' would effectively render the aircraft unusable, which is something we think no one would like!

[alehead]

My apologies, there was no intention to stir up a hornet nest. My sentiments gman. I was just wondering what the current state of play was, given Bill's post around a month ago. There was no hidden agenda. Looking forward to the next release to see what is new and improved

A


Andrew Entwistle

[griphos]

This is the challenge of early release. Perhaps impossible to keep everyone happy. I, for one, prefer less frequent updates, for instance. I just dislike constantly updating a product.

I finally bought this plane yesterday. Figured it is getting pretty close to a final package. Should have time to try her out after work today. Looking forward to it.

[snow_white]

Any more news on this. Bought it long ago, but havent heard much lately.

[wapanomi]

That's WISP : Work In Slow Progress...

There are news on the forum and the facebook page, I think. They made a deep recoding, and they obviously take that seriously. But it's long, indeed.